Quaker Equipment (Read 1,573 times)

[MARS^]

Hey,
I want to know which hardware you use for QL.

I think a good mouse makes such a big difference...I got one for 20€( ~28$/17£) [saitek cyborg mouse v2]
- not the best mouse, but I'm 16 and a better one is too expensive... EDIT: got a razer abyssus some weeks ago, awesome mouse :)

Sound: one of the most important things in QL.
I played with simple earphones(handy, walkman, whatever) for a very long time and when I play with them now, it's just terrible.
now I have a 50€ Sennheiser Headset (Sennheiser PC 151).
I love it.

Some weeks ago i bought a new mousepad. just a black mat[update: got a steelseries QcK+, HUGE mousepad]. but better than normal mousepads like this one:

My mouse doesn't work on colorfull mousepads very properly...
I used a simple cardboard a long time. An option, but not a very good one(sweat->wet->wavy->shiiiit!)

And now my computer(laptop): 450mb RAM, 1.7 GHz, 128mb Graphicscard...
My computer is very old, but QL works and i don't need a new one as long as QL works : D

so, which hardware do you use?
And can you recommend a good mouse (~ 40€/50$)?
I want a new one. With better configuration options(mouse speed).
I can only change between 2 mouse speeds...


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sorry for bad english and ridiculous sentence structure : D

[swampy]

My config is weird.

Macbook, 2.2 ghz, core 2 duo, 4 gigs ram

dual boots OSX and Win7 (QL played on Win7)

Logitech m305 wireless mouse (console tweaked in QL)

black mousepad

Sony MDR-NC7 headphones

Old mac keyboard

HP S2031 20" Diagonal HD Ready Widescreen LCD Monitor

[thewookster]

I've been thinking of dual booting windows 7 on my mac. Did you have any problems with it???

For QL i'm using the other half's laptop because I tried QL on the mac and it was unplayable.

4GB RAM
Intel Core 3.20 ghz
500GB HD
Win 7 64bit

Some Logitech wired mouse (Changing the mouse was the weirdest experience ever on QL everything felt wrong and took a few days playing to get back to some normality)
Dark Blue mouse mat
Just some random earphones
Standard laptop keyboard

[barbarossa]

keyboard: G15
mouse: G9 on Razer eXactMat (black hard hightech surface wearing out slowly now after a good time of use)
intel core2 quad 2.40 GHz
nv 9800GTX+
monitor speakers or good old (let me think, over 10 years now and still good) sony mdr-v150

[edit]
G25 is the wheel, G15 the keyboard ... blame drunk

[swampy]

May 12, 2011 4:15:47 GMT -6 thewookster said:

I've been thinking of dual booting windows 7 on my mac. Did you have any problems with it???

For QL i'm using the other half's laptop because I tried QL on the mac and it was unplayable.

4GB RAM
Intel Core 3.20 ghz
500GB HD
Win 7 64bit

Some Logitech wired mouse (Changing the mouse was the weirdest experience ever on QL everything felt wrong and took a few days playing to get back to some normality)
Dark Blue mouse mat
Just some random earphones
Standard laptop keyboard

If you only need Windows for QL.. Use XP.. less cpu usage. I need win7 because I run a dongle for cable TV so I can record shows using Windows Media Center. No OSX software..

[thewookster]

Well I have a spare win7 dvd with unused COA because I bought a desktop computer last year. But it wouldn't switch on so they came out and collected it and I got my money back and bought this laptop. But accidentally forgot to mention to the guy who picked it up it came with a windows 7 dvd.

I will give that a bash anyways if it works great, if not then heh ho I will just use XP

[swampy]

Keep this in mind when installing win7.. if your mac has over 4 gigs of ram and can run 64bit then install 64bit. win7 will only use 3.5 gigs of ram when installed as 32bit. I'm running it in 32bit..I turned down the graphics a lot, but it runs just fine. Also i found a lot of opensource software/freeware that works just fine. Some I use on the mac side.

The second thing I would point out is use bootcamp to make your partition only. Don't install the bootcamp drivers.. They are not always up to date. After install go out and update your audio/video drivers. Most things work out of the box after a Win7 install. I was pleased with that..

And you can d/l win versions of itunes and safari from apple.

[thewookster]

Apple iMac MC814B/A Desktop Computer,

Intel Core i5 3.1GHz,

4GB RAM,

1TB HD

27 Inch Monitor

So it should run the 64bit version with relative ease.

But I will remember what you said because that's my mission for tomorrow evening when the missus goes out.

You never know, I might get it going first time ;D

If not people might spot a flying mac going bye bye out the window ;D

I hope it works because I love using the mac.

[swampy]

sounds good..I've never had much of a problem installing win except maybe the sound drivers, but they were easy to find. Also I have the day off as boss is sick and as an experiment I'm downloading Ubuntu and will attempt to make a bootable flash drive (16 gig PNY). Just for fun..I'd like to see how the game runs in Linux..

the nice thing with bootcamp is if the win install goes bad..you can delete the partition and start again..

One thing you might want to do is find your mac install disk and run disc repair from it before making your bootcamp partition. It clears up a lot of bootcamp install problems, especially if you have been running the mac for awhile.

Go with 64 bit.. It will use all your ram.

[thewookster]

Thanks for the info.

Oooooh a day off. I'd love a day off.

I would pull a sickie, but kind of done that a couple of times last month

So out of spite I will continue to use there computers to play QL ;D

[cashier_]

I play on my Macbook pro. i use a logitech M510 mouse, and a Logitech G330 headset. im usin Mac OSX 10.5.8 ... one of these days i'll run 10.6

[hempshark]

tried to play on mac, can't setup proper mouse speed and acc, same settings on win all is perfect )) %&ck mac )) a play on windows )))

[sc0rpi]

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(Running a dual boot on linux's Ubuntu 11.04)

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(2 GPU's in SLI setting for better performance)

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[Marcer]

I run Asus P8P67Pro with 4GB DDR3 Kingston Hyperx overclocked to 1800Mhz. Processor is Corei5-2500K 3.3 Ghz overclocked permanently to 4.5Ghz flying with Scythe Mugen Rev b. The hard disk is WD Caviar Black@7500, SATAIII with 64MB cache. GFX is handled by PNY GeForce GTX460 XLR 8 Enthusiast Edition (slightly OC'ed vs stock), I also have a Sapphire Theatrix TV card installed(this way I sold my TV as it was pretty useless), SoundBlaster Audigy zs and ofc everything is powered by CoolerMaster's Ultimate model with 800W max output. The system is Win7 32bit Professional.
All in all a very basic rig, but handles everything just fine. Guess being an IT professional pays off sometimes

I use old Dell 23" LCD with TN(twisted nematic) matrix and Logitech g9x mouse along with wireless Logitech K340 keyboard. Audio is handled by 2.1 Logitech x-230, a very very decent audio speakers for their price. If I need audio directly into my ear I use Sennheiser's HD465 headphones. Not the best the Senn has but they do the work.

[downlink]

I play on a laptop Running Win Vista.

Memory : 1024MB DDR2 RAM
Hard Drive : 160GB
Optical Drive : Super Multi DVD+RW
15.4" widescreen delay

I Use a £7.99 microsoft mini mouse, not for gaming or anything, just a compact mouse, its very sensitive. mousemat : any surface lol
and blackberry earphones, BUT, my earphones are on surround sound setting. LOL

thts my epic gaming rig fail