Hardware Guide for X3

[Doug Park]

Chief takes advantage of video card hardware to improve the speed of 3D rendering. The technology in video cards is always changing and to get the most speed we take advantage of technology as it becomes available.

While you will be able to use Chief on that hardware there are certain features that won't be available or will perform much worse than on more modern hardware.

If you do decide to buy a machine to run Chief look at the gaming machines. While it is possible to find really good deals on computers that will run Chief well, the lower cost machines often have video, CPU or other hardware that will limit the speed of the program quite severely.