[PD] min hardware?

[marius schebella]

Hi,

as everybody else said, the cpu-load will grow with the complexity of 
your patches. If you have slow machines < 200 MHz you will probably not 
be able to do real time audio in 44,1 khz. but you could render audio 
with 22 khz or even 11khz. That is, if you dont have much graphical 
objects in your patches.
Let´s say you want to play all the help patches, then I think you should 
at least go for a Pentium >= 400 MHz.
For video and opengl processing you can also start with such a machine, 
but you will have to reduce the resolution and frame rate. (depends also 
  on the graphic card.

marius.


michael gardner schrieb:
> i'm new to Pd, and am really anxious to dig deep on it, but my laptop is
> fritzing out and needs repair. was considering using another machine
> temporarily... in ya'lls experience what's the minimum suggested hardware
> for Pd? would it run ok on an old pentium II? i'd like to just pick up an
> old machine at the goodwill or on ebay, but dont want to waste my time if Pd
> is CPU-intensive.
>  thanks!
> 
> 
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