If you ever wondered with what beginner indie developers make their amazing games…
Processor: Intel Atom D2500 1.86 GHz
RAM: 2 GB
Graphics card: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3600 Series
Processor: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2 GHz 4 cores
RAM: 8 GB
Graphics card: AMD R9 280X 2GB
I wait to open programs. If I drag folder to desktop, "Moving element (18MB)" pop-up appears, with damn loading bar. I wait close programs. It lags while scrolling in Word.
I wait a lot to open larger sprite in GameMaker. Talking about GameMaker, my current game is slowly becoming too good for this computer. It's starting to lag.
Like you would not believe.
Want.
How get?That's cute. I had a Intel Pentium 4 solo-core 1.6GHz with 1GB of DDR2 RAM and Nvidia GeForce 6000 or something about two years ago. My first game development PC was running on Pentium 3 800MHz.
Your pathetic starting computers made me feel a lot better about my pathetic starting computer. Thanks :P
The first computer I used for game development (almost ten years ago!) was a decent Windows XP computer (I don't remember the specs since I was so young I didn't understand them). But the first PC I got for my personal use was a wonderful Dell with Windows ME preinstalled (which means it was older than Windows XP), although it was later installed XP since ME wasn't very stable… or stable at all. I only remember that it had an HDD with less than 16GB. I don't know how much memory it had, but probably not too much.
A few months later I got a PC with 2GB RAM, 2.4-2,7GHz (I don't remember, actually) dual core processor, ATI Radeon 3000 and 64-bit Windows 7. You can just imagine how wonderful that PC felt compared to the previous one.*barfs*
Somebody needs to draft up a new reality TV show where contestants have to last out a week on pre-Pentium generation computers. It will be hilarious.
EDIT: For maximum effect, select people who absolutely live and breathe the "modern" internet experience, and give them Netscape Navigator.I know a fair bit about optimising particle effects. I was kind of obsessed with them for a couple of years