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How do you determine your minimum requirements for your software? I'm at a loss to how this is done besides just running it on old hardware to see if it runs. Any ideas?
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Posted 01 August 2006 - 02:32 PM
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I usually just run it on old hardware and see if it will run. I use that as my minimum requirements. I'm betting there is a better way though.
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Posted 02 August 2006 - 04:35 PM
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I doubt the big companies do it that way, but now that I think about it, I have no idea how they do it. Somebody find out and post.
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Posted 03 August 2006 - 04:06 PM
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I would try running it in VMWare with various resource settings after running some benchmarks on memory usage, and resource usage.
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Posted 04 August 2006 - 02:54 PM
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Good idea Winged. Using that method you can use different operating systems and resources.
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Posted 05 August 2006 - 05:05 PM
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Maybe the big companies use VMWare, I mean, they have the people and resources to do it. I think another hard thing is finding out the recommended requirements.
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Posted 07 August 2006 - 02:52 PM
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I always view "minimum requirements" as "playable but with most of the eye-candy turned off", whereas "recomended requirements" is "no slowdown with everything turned on".
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Posted 09 August 2006 - 03:23 PM
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I use the equivelent of the kernel memory. For example I complile the code then run the application then using Windows Task Manager I measure the amount of memory it uses in Kernel and Physical. Then I do try all functions (commands) on the application and use the highest memory recorded. That would be the minimum amount of memory required.
