Poor performance / Minimum system specs

[Widget]

Win XP SP 3
CPU: AMD Athlon 4000+ (no idea of approx. clockspeed, I'm afraid)
RAM: 3Gb
GFX: NVidia GeForce GV-3D1 (effectively dual-GeForce 6600GT with 128Mb VRAM each)

Runs without issues most of the time, but occasionally freezes up for 1-2s before dropping back in. Never had a full hang and it's only ever stuttered when I start gathering large (600+) groups of seedlings.

Edit: After playing on some of the custom maps, it seems to stutter depending on the total number of seedlings. I've had it crop up when I've had a relatively small population but not within a short time after starting.

[nautillus]

Dyson slows down pretty badly on any of the big levels, so much that it takes a lot of patience to finish. But it is very playable at the beginning.

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo - 2.2 GHz
RAM: 4gb
GFX: Intel GMA X3100 (integrated)
Mac OS X 10.5.6

[Alex]

Whoops I edited your post by accident.

Dyson slows down pretty badly on any of the big levels, so much that it takes a lot of patience to finish. But it is very playable at the beginning.

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo - 2.2 GHz
RAM: 4gb
GFX: Intel GMA X3100 (integrated)
Mac OS X 10.5.6

Great, thanks for the info - Is it still very slow even when you're fully zoomed out or is it mostly when you're zoomed in?

[ShinseiTom]

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad - 3.2 GHz
Ram: 4GB (3 in XP)
GFX: 8800GT
Windows 7 x64 RC (or) XP Pro x86 SP3

Run perfectly until later-game, and that includes every custom map I have played.  When I have lots of seedlings (2000 and up), the game gets unbearably sluggish when issuing orders.
Noticed game only uses 1 core.  Is the game not multithreaded?

[nautillus]

Great, thanks for the info - Is it still very slow even when you're fully zoomed out or is it mostly when you're zoomed in?

It's actually much faster while I'm zoomed in -- zooming out slows it down.

[Kapyrna]

CPU: Core i7 920 2.67gHz quadcore (logically an octocore processor)
Mobo: Asus P6T SE
RAM: 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 1066mHz
GPU: 9400GT running one 1920x1080 on DVI and one 1440x900 on VGA (a GTX 285 is on the way for the 1080p monitor)
HDD: 80GB for system and utilities and a 1TB RAID1 array for personal files and programs
OS: Windows 7 RC

I've got a wireless G NIC for net access and a Creative Fatal1ty headset but no speakers.

Oh and I've unsurprisingly never had problems running v 1.20 on this machine  Never tried to see how many seedlings it takes to slow down though.  It positively shines in a shorter game where the most I get is 500 or so.

[Raptus]

Got 2GB ram
Vista
Onboard Graphics (because I am lame)
2GHZ dual core

Can not run menu screen.
Thats it, I run the screen, no buttons just flickering screen. Got into a level once, could see anything besides the sphere.
I've played games where this happens, I believe this means Dyson requires Vertex shading and HW transform and lighting.

[Alex]

Onboard graphics usually lack a whole load of really basic OpenGL extensions. Dyson actually doesn't require shaders, but does use vertex arrays which I'm told is Quake 3-era technology. It's a shame so many laptops don't come with slightly more powerful onboard graphics, but I guess cost is a factor. Dyson would run pretty slowly in OpenGL Immediate Mode, sadly.

[Alex]

I can't offer official support for Mac right now, sorry. The game doesn't check for Mac OS version - if you can install Mono then you should be able to get 1.20 running somehow - have a look at the Mac thread.

[stephen1341]

Ok I played the without problem on my laptop 2.0 ghz intel dual core, 4gb ram, ati 2600 hd 512mb video ram
However when I tried to install in play it on my moms computer it was unplayable. intel centrino 512 mhz, 768 mb ram, no video ram
My moms comp really really sucks though.

[velusip]

Digging up bones here in this old thread.  Still related:

Under normal conditions the game runs really smoothly until somewhere between 2000 and 3000 seeds (the easy waves seem to allow for this kind of massing, haha).  However, when tabbing out and back into the game the frame rate drops quite a lot.  I'm going to run a few more tests tonight to see if it has something to do with other programs I started while tabbed out, but  I think Ventrilo had a hand in this performance drop.  Could be a sound driver issue over anything else.

AMD Phenom 9850+ BE
3GiB DDR2 (800)
GTX 260 (55nm)
WinXP (SP3)
onboard Realtek sound, will plug in an M-Audio card later tonight for testing.

[DeeJay]

Downloaded the demo, played the skirmish arena mode ran flawlessly even when i zoomed all the way in.

Intel Core2Duo P7350 @ 2.00 GHz
2.00 GB RAM
GeForce 9400 M 256MB Shared VRAM
Vista Ultimate x86
It's a 13'' Aluminum Macbook by the way.

[Baja Boojum]

Do you think the latest version will work on my netbook?

Sorry I can't figure this out for myself, but I don't want to buy Eufloria if it isn't going to work well on my netbook.  I did try Dyson a year or so ago, but when it got to the upper levels it just stopped responding, or it was so slow it was unplayable.  I'm hoping the latest version will work on Windows 7, which is much faster than Vista on my machine.

Here are my specs:
HP 2133 Mini-Note
Windows 7 HP
VIA C7-M 1.2 GHz
2 GB RAM
VIA VN896 Chrome9 HC IGP

Thanks!

[Baja Boojum]

FYI:

I've now played through all the story levels and am in the dark matter mode.  Using a performance monitor during intensive levels I've seen the CPU run at 100% quite a bit of the time, but so far, so good.  Occasionally the display will become a little jerky near the end of a level with high numbers of objects and actions.  On a few similar occasions it freezes, but when this happens I've been able to go to Main Menu and use Resume to continue.  I don't use the music, and the only sound glitch is once in a while when an enemy tree explodes the sound crackles.

What seems to help is Full Screen mode, which apparently disables the Windows 7 Desktop Windows Manager, giving me some extra CPU. 

If it matters to anyone, I've stripped my processes and services down to a minimum, and I've set my Norton Internet Security to go into silent mode during full screen.  I wonder if this netbook would handle it as well with everything running.

[polppol]

(v2.02)
Win 7 Pro x64
Intel Core 2 Duo T7300
RAM 4GB DDR2
VGA ATI HD2400XT

fps greatter than 15
but always hang(Not responding and automatic exit) at almost the end of level 14  (due to 100% cpu use or when my cpu is load in high level)
i dont know why but i did't try 2.04 yet