Calculating minimum hardware requirements

[stefano5]

Hi Guys, are there any tools around that can tell me the minimum hardware requirements for newly developed peice of software?

Thanks

Stefan

[Kasracer]

Well I'm not sure if there is any software out there that does this (at least reliably). Typically you take the most intensive process your application can run and determine what kind of machine is required to do said processing.

For example if I'm writing a 3D game that makes heavy use of DirectX 10 then you'll need a DirectX 10 card, enough RAM to hold the temporary data (how much does it typically use?) and a powerful enough CPU to do the rest of the work.

If you wrote the application you should know how intensive it is and how much hardware you require as each piece of hardware does something specific so you need to look at how your application affects those pieces of hardware.

[stefano5]

Ok we'll im sure I can put together a sensible spec. Thanks