will quakewars demo work with my specs?

[900donuts]

as the title says (see my signature below)

[Crafty Kisses]

as the title says (see my signature below)

Yes, on the low settings.

[900donuts]

have you actually ran it on a system as low as mine?

[Crafty Kisses]

have you actually ran it on a system as low as mine?

No, but you have good RAM, and a OK video card, it could probably run on the lowest setting.

[aidanr]

Nope, or at least it would be a slideshow
Minimum System Requirements
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 2.8 GHz or AMD(R) Athlon(TM) XP 2800+ processor (Pentium 4 3.0GHz or equivalent for Windows Vista)
Memory: 512MB RAM (768MB for Windows Vista)
Graphics card: 128MB NVIDIA(R) Geforce(TM) 5700 or ATI(TM) Radeon(TM) 9700 (full list of supported chipsets below)
Sound card: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Harddisk: 750MB of free hard drive space, plus 200MB for Windows swap file
Internet: Broadband connection and service required for full gameplay and downloads. Features may change without notice.

SUPPORTED VIDEO CHIPSETS

* NVIDIA GeforceFX Series (5700 or higher, not including 5700LE and 5700VE)
* NVIDIA Geforce 6 Series (6200 or higher) NVIDIA Geforce 7 Series (7300 or higher)
* NVIDIA Geforce 8 Series
* ATI Radeon 9700 or higher
* ATI Radeon X700 or higher
* ATI Radeon X1650 or higher

[Crafty Kisses]

Nope, or at least it would be a slideshow

Would that be a PowerPoint slideshow?

[900donuts]

i'm looking at the listed min required for linux (the one yous guys listed is for windows but the two look freakishly similar)

true my card has got muscle but its over a gen older than the min required card listed same goes for the processor. so i don't want to try it unless someone who beat the minimum requirements tells me otherwise

[oskar2000]

You can download the demo for linux from here:
http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/etqw/

I can only run it on the low settings and I have Geforce 7600GT. :(

[eljoeb]

I can run it on high with a geforce 6600 GT. Having a music player going in the back ground messes it up a bit. I would say the OP probably can't run it, the video card is a bit under spec and it would be chugalicious.

Why not just try it?

[900donuts]

ok i'll try it when i get home just one(actually 2) more questions

what is a likely worst case scenario should this not work? could it turn into a system breaker?

[eye208]

what is a likely worst case scenario should this not work? could it turn into a system breaker?
No, unless you run it as root. The worst thing that could happen (with any game) is a video driver lock-up, so you have to reset the computer. Nothing to worry about. But it's more likely the game will just refuse to start up.

[oskar2000]

I can run it on high with a geforce 6600 GT.

Really,
well, if I hadn't removed it already I would check the settings again... maybe I had antialiasing on full or something like that.