Will SoW run on my system?

[Dozer_EAF19]

I'm running a 1849 Charles Babbage difference engine. Will I get good FPS?

[winny]

Originally Posted by Dozer_EAF19

I'm running a 1849 Charles Babbage difference engine. Will I get good FPS?

No. Sadly the 1849 version (#1) just can't handle it. It should run fine on the Charles Babbage #2 though, if you can afford to upgrade.. Technology these days is running away with it's self.. tut.

[jameson]

If you can wind the handle fast enough it may work. Downside though, is your arms could fall off....

[AndyJWest]

What graphics card do you have?

I suspect if Babbage had known what his technology was going to ultimately be capable of, he'd have worked on something else instead:

Charles Babbage (somehow sucked through a wormhole into the 21st century, arrives in a darkened room, where a middle-aged man (MAM) sits at a keyboard):

"Good God Sir! What strange device is that?"

SimPilot (said middle aged man): "What the, who? Damn shrooms... I might as well see where this goes..."
(MAM being a fan of steampunk (and illicit drugs), is unfazed by Babbages sudden appearance)

MAM: "It's a computer, erm, a machine for thinking, sort of..."

Babbage: "A difference engine!. I see no gears"

MAM: "It's electronic..."

Babbage: "Damn Faraday been copying my ideas has he..."

MAM: "What? Erm, who, err..."

Babbage: "But what purpose do you use this device for?"

MAM: "Mostly, I browse the internet and play IL-2"

Babbage "Browse? Aisle two? Talk sense man!"

MAM: "No - eye ell two, an air combat simulator..."

Babbage: "You use it to have imaginary combat with the air?

MAM: "No, in the air. World War two. I fly a Focke Wulf 190 mostly..."

Babbage: "I'd appreciate if you moderated your language. I don't see how a wolf can fly, even if it is imaginary..."

At this point Babbage is sucked back down the wormhole to avoid further paradox, and abandons development of his Engine, thereby ensuring his ideas come to nothing until the mid 1940s...

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by jameson

If you can wind the handle fast enough it may work. Downside though, is your arms could fall off....

Hand Crank? Piffle! That is so early 1840's it silly! By use of the motive power of steam a modern calculating device (sparingly lubricated with the finest refined cetaceaious oil) should reach speed of up 1 Hertz!!!!!!!