Special Announcement - Kickstarter

[notrealdan]

For many people, I would expect performance to be better in FGU vs FGC. Graphically, FGC runs quite badly on Intel GPUs (for reasons which have been discussed at length and are not correctable on the FGC engine). Intel GPUs are probably the most common GPUs out there. Once FG is not held back by the old engine, I expect it will really shine!

Clarification: It's not because Intel GPUs are under-powered for FG. FG is not very graphically intensive. The FGC graphics engine is based on DirectX 9 and the Intel GPUs are not optimized for something so old, and some graphical functions suffer noticeably because of this. In my experience, this is most noticeable when FGC is trying to draw a lot text, like a large story entry. Unity should eliminate that particular issue, as I understand it.

[Patou]

Any chance we are going to see more video spoilers before the Kickstarter?

[JohnD]

The only issue I can see is if people are using PC's older than Methuselah (in tech timeline terms) already and barely running FGC now ...

But I already questioned my players and out of 12 players (two groups), one of them has a 5yr old PC but he upgraded the video card last year and the lowest system RAM any of them has is 12GB. Most have 16, I have 32. I really don't see any of my players having any performance issues with Unity. If anything, the 64x architecture will mean better performance.

I have an old Dell laptop that was probably 5 years old when I bought it in 2007... that thing runs FG. I guess the one thing that could screw people up is the move to 64-bit if the DM starts sharing a huge amount of stuff and overwhelms those with old systems.

[Tyrannosaurus VeX]

I have an old Dell laptop that was probably 5 years old when I bought it in 2007... that thing runs FG. I guess the one thing that could screw people up is the move to 64-bit if the DM starts sharing a huge amount of stuff and overwhelms those with old systems.

But how much RAM does your 5yr old system have? I'm betting it's still around 8 to 16GB. That's really the limit with GMs sharing stuff (and internet speed of course).

[roshne]

Please consider offering a FGC Standard to a FGU Ultimate level of some sort.

[LordEntrails]

Please consider offering a FGC Standard to a FGU Ultimate level of some sort.

You can upgrade anytime before the end of the KS from FGC Standard to FGC Ultimate and then buy the FGU KS Rookie, or you can just buy the FGU KS Newcomer. Their is only a $5 difference between the two.

It doesn't make sens e for SW to make a third option that might be somewhere in cost between the two.

[Ampersandrew]

But how much RAM does your 5yr old system have? I'm betting it's still around 8 to 16GB. That's really the limit with GMs sharing stuff (and internet speed of course).

It's not 5 years old. It was 5 years old 12 years ago ...

Chances that a 17 year old laptop has 16GB or even 8 is I would say approaching nil. Memory was really expensive in 2002.

[Trenloe]

I have an old Dell laptop that was probably 5 years old when I bought it in 2007... that thing runs FG. I guess the one thing that could screw people up is the move to 64-bit if the DM starts sharing a huge amount of stuff and overwhelms those with old systems.

How much RAM do you have, and are you running a 64-bit operating system?

[JohnD]

On that old thing? It has 3 gb of ram. Takes 8 minutes to fully start from a cold boot. With FG I have to be really careful about tokens and sharing maps, but in a pinch it's doable. W7 64-bit.

[TVDinner]

Data point: 2005 hp G60 laptop, 4gig memory, intel T4300 64-bit, whatever intel mobile graphics junk they sold back then. I stuck an ssd in it, noticed an hdmi port, stuck a 1080p monitor on it. Boots fine, runs win 10, sees use as a FG client. FG runs great. I try not to share too much, I haven't run into clients exploding...yet....

Nothing wrong with that old laptop. 17 seconds from power on to login screen.