What do you develop your games on?

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#1

Hello everyone!

A fun and very interesting question, I got a little curious over.
What kind of equipment do you use when you program? And it is the same machine that you are playing in?

I use an Macbook Air 13 "and it is the same machine I play on but I also play other games on the Xbox one.

* Edit: more info about my computer if any one wants to know *

  • OS: MacOS 10.9.2
  • CPU: Intel i5-4250 1.30GHz
  • Memory: 4GB
  • GPU: Intel HD Graphics 5000 1024MB
  • Resolution: 1440x900

(Sorry for my English i’m from Sweden)

#2

You actually play games on mac? applauds

What is funny is that you didn’t say anything about your specs. You just said the dimensions of your screen. My screen dimensions at home are like this small square screen with 1280x1024 res and I have no idea what size in inches that would be.

Today I turned into a pro programmer and I got like 22 inch monitor at work. It is also a mac… I h8 macs… Godddd… Maybe it will change once I use one for a while.

#3

Sorry! no need to be rude, I thought i would be a fun question if any one else then me was bored, and yes i play on my mac, i don’t play heavy performance game like Battlefield 4 or games like that, i play games like CS GO or Starbound that is not so heavy in performance.

I hated Mac until recently when i got tired on my gaming desktop that was crashing all the time so i bought a Mac and now i love it, it is so comfortable writing code on.

#4

A relatively ancient 5.5yr old system:
Win 7-64bit
i7 2.6Ghz
Nvidia Gtx280 with 1GB
A couple of modestly sized monitors 1900x1200 or thereabouts.
Half a terabyte of SSD

It still seems to run pretty nicely so I’m sticking with it till it explodes.

Cas :slight_smile:

#5

An old PC from 2007 with

  • Intel Core2Duo 2.8 GHz
  • ASUS nVidia GeForce 210 GPU with 1GB
  • Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit
  • Ubuntu 13.10 AMD64
  • Mac OSX Mavericks 10.9.2

And also I test them on my Lenovo G400s laptop.

#6

Your English is fine! Your choice of hardware however is shocking :stuck_out_tongue:

#7

haha, you are not the first to say that! I know Mac is not the most popular hardware out there but I think it is a really nice to develop on =)

#8

Since my gfx card melted:

Paper Notebook:

  • Display Size: 155x215mm
  • Processor: Spiral Binding
  • Resolution: 4mm Square Grid
  • Memory: 80 Pages
  • Input: Ballpoint Pen - Blue (with cap)
#9

Win7 64 bit (down graded from 8.1)
AMD Phenom II x6 2.80GHz
4 GB ram
Nvidia GTX 650 Ti 1 GB ram
(24in acer 1920 x 1080) x 2

#10

i5 4670 @ 3.4GHz
8gb RAM
MSI 7870 2gb GHz Edition
23" Acer IPS monitor
Windows 8.1
1tb Seagate Barracuda @ 7200rpm

I built it for gaming but it’s also quite proficient at developing.

#11

3 systems:

2008 laptop, 2GHz pentium dual core, radeon 3450, win32

2008 ex-office desktop, 1.8GHz pentium dual core, nvidia GT430, linux, win64

2014 asus tablet, quad core!!! (Android, and yes I do develop on it)

Here is system 1 and 2 compared: http://www.headline-benchmark.com/results/3677eb3e-3179-4682-bb86-f6b36bdcbde7

Here is system 1 and 3 compared: http://www.headline-benchmark.com/results/70b9b57a-7e82-41b8-b0c8-780ced87dfe0

…shameless plug for my benchmark app :slight_smile:

#12

Only because i’m curious, are you develop on the tablet or are you running tests on the tablet?

#13

Develop on the tablet… I use AIDE :slight_smile:

#14

Why are we doing these threads again?

http://www.java-gaming.org/topics/what-s-your-rig/32403/view.html
http://www.java-gaming.org/topics/what-s-your-dev-rig/26633/view.html

We might as well just have weekly mega-threads regarding this now. ಠ_ಠ

  • Jev
#15

Ya, there is a poit where it gets really boring.

#16

It’s like a TV commercial does not matter how much you hate it, it will come back here. :smiley:

#17

I haven’t watched TV since Firefly was cancelled.

Wow that was over 10 years ago.

#18

Or here’s an idea… you just couldn’t comment in the threads if you don’t like them…

I haven’t had cable in forever. Just Netflix. Working out good so far!

#19

#20

Quite honestly, that’s how I envisioned your computer desk to look :slight_smile: That’s hilarious.