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I am very interested in trying out the Unreal Development Kit for my own small to medium-sized hobby projects. I am wondering about the minimum hardware requirements.
I have a Vaio Z laptop with dual-core 2.4 GHZ CPU and 2 GB RAM, and graphics chip is GeForce 9300M GS.
Is it even practicable to run UDK on this hardware? Or do I need a "real" desktop PC?
user29116
Posted 2010-02-23T08:15:40.583
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From this link:
Q: What are the minimum requirements for UDK?
A: Here are the minimum and recommended requirements...
Minimum:
- Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
- 2.0+ GHz processor
- 2 GB system RAM
- SM3-compatible video card
- 3 GB free hard drive space
Recommended for Content Development:
- Windows Vista 64 SP2
- 2.0+ GHz multi-core processor
- 8 GB System RAM
- NVIDIA 8000 series or higher graphics card
- Plenty of HDD space
According to these specifications, your laptop meets the minimum requirements. It will be however a bit on the limit if you want to create your own content, as it will require more RAM.
Gnoupi
Posted 2010-02-23T08:15:40.583
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Not really suitable for SU because of it's "no gaming" clause (see the FAQ), but I'm not 100% sure it would be acceptable on SO either. – ChrisF – 2010-02-23T09:06:13.970
sorry I have no idea what you are talking about. SU? SO? – user29116 – 2010-02-23T09:55:50.427
1@ChrisF - the UDK is a development kit, it is not a game in itself. It is closer to an IDE than to an actual game. – Gnoupi – 2010-02-23T13:11:08.733
@gojira666 - ChrisF used shortcuts to refer to this site (Super User: SU) and our sister site dedicated to programming questions (Stack Overflow: SO). Super User has a policy on questions which should or should not be asked here (you can read about it in the FAQ: http://superuser.com/faq), and games are in the category of things which should not be asked about here. However, like I said in my previous comment, I don't think the UDK qualifies as a game, only a development tool.
– Gnoupi – 2010-02-23T13:13:38.247