Hardware survey

Because there are currently no recommended system specifications, I think we need a hardware survey so that people can decide for themselves if they can run Zero-K. Please post your rig here (as detailed as possible), all associated log files, the size and stage of the game, the engine it was tested on and some FPS values in different situations, I will put it all on a wiki page. I will start:

Intel i3 2100 3.1GHz dual core hyperthreaded
Seagate barracuda 1TB HDD 7200RPM
Corsair Vengeance 4GB DDR3 1333MHz CL9 RAM
Intel HD 2000
Xubuntu 12.10 32bit
Minimal settings with a few things turned back on at 1920x1080

AMD PhenomII x4 2,6 GHz
GForce 9800 512MB
16 GB DDR3 RAM 1333MHz
Win7 pro 64bit
1920x1200
Minimal settings, no lups, no shadows, no grounddecals, basic water, no shiny units etc

Performance is good (>30 fps) up until the lategame in big team games. Your typical Folsom Damn at 50 minutes still grinds down to ~4fps or worse.

AMD Phenom II X2 545 (3ghz, dual core)
4gb @1333hz, 2x1gb @1066hz in dual channel mode, all ddr3
ATI Radeon HD 5800, 1gb
Windows 7 x64
1680 * 1050
Mostly minimal/low settings, no fancy changes

~55-60fps at start, ~20 in mid-late game, not playing/watching games with super high metal

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 3.4Ghz
HDD: 200 GB Win7 partition, 1.5 TB 7200RPM SATA II
RAM: 8GB (4 x 2GB) Dual-Channel Kingston DDR2-800 / PC2-6400 (400Mhz) CL6
GPU: nVidia GeForce GT 430
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit / Windows 8 Professional 64-bit / Linux Mint Debian Edition x64

Always run on minimal settings with safe mode and hardware cursor. Borderless window 1280 x 1024. Never lags at all, even on SpeedMetal when others are lagging out. (Not in extreme circumstances, though.)

I used to have a GeForce 210. That normally got about half the FPS I get now.

quote: Why the heck would anyone need 16 GB ram?

I recently upgraded to 16 GB of memory after I found myself maxing out 8 GB on a regular basis. I do a lot of photography and video editing in my spare time, and Photoshop + Premier + 30 Chrome tabs would push me over the limit. The videos I am editing are high quality 1080p files that come off my DSLR at around 300 MB/minute.

Back in my university days I did a lot of complex finite element analysis and model rendering, and I could max out our shop's double quad core computer in terms of both CPU and memory, and it has 16 GB as well.

Anyways, on to my specs:
Intel i5 2500k OC'd to 4.0 Ghz (used to be 4.5 Ghz, but it has become increasingly unstable. I will probably have to replace soon.)
GTX 580
16 GB 1333 MHz memeory.
256 GB SSD system drive (OS + some key programs + whatever video I am editing).
1 TB 7200 RPM HDD for Photo + Video storage.
1 TB 7200 RPM HDD for my programs (Steam library alone is about 500 GB).

ZK on Ultra settings will run at ~240 FPS at the beginning of a game, and a huge mega game might slow down to as low as 20 FPS.

My previous computer:
Dell Latitude D820.
2.16 Ghz Core Duo CPU.
4 Ghz ram (unknown speed).
Nvidia Quadro NVS120 (basically a GeForce Go 7400 mobile).
200 GB 7200 RPM HDD.

It ran ZK on low settings at around 40 FPS at game start, dipping to as low as 1 FPS during mega games. There were only a handful of times that it was not able to keep up with Simulation, but when it happened I would begin to fall behind the rest of the players.

It actually ran surprisingly well on such an old computer (it was 6 years old last time I played on it). The key to running games that I should not be able to run:
Super clean system. I keep my system sterile with as little running in the background as possible.
Lower resolution than native monitor. I frequently played games at 1440x900 instead of 1920x1200.
Low settings.
OC'd the video card by about 20%. 3D mark showed an improvement of about 20% when I did this.

My current system runs between 60-80 FPS, without any real issue until you hit crazy numbers of units

AMD FX-4100 Quad Core, 3.6 ghz
Seagate 250 holding the OS w/ WD 1TB USB External Holding the games files on it.
8 GB Ram DDR3
Win 7 X64
Medium Settings, 1440x900
Sapphire HD 6450, 1GB VRam

The computer that used to choke on Spring, but worked at 20 FPS from time to time

Intel Pentium D Single Core
2 GB Ram, DDR2
Radeon 1650X, 512 VRam
Windows 7 X32, although much of the play originally was on Windows XP SP3
Seagate 250GB

Laptop c2d 2.2 GHZ T5900
4GB ram
9600MGT

Everything on low. Biggest games tends to be unplayable. Playing below 10 FPS was casual. Below 5 FPS was very often too, playing below game speed(laging out) only in biggest games.

And now I got 4670K with 8GB ram with intel HD4600 on linux spring is unplayable(debian testing, mesa 9.1 but on windows sorta playable, but still much lower fps than with 9600MGT maybe because bugged drivers or something. Also I didint noticed any performance gains in games like skyrim and dark souls, but I didint tested much yet. Also I have old NVIDIA 7600GS will try that.

Razer Game Booster Diagnostics Report v1.0
Version: 3.7.0.11
Datum: 2013/07/20 21:14:31

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01 - Betriebssystem
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0101 - Betriebssystem : Windows 8 Pro with Media Center 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (9200.win8_gdr.130410-1505)
0102 - Sprache : German (Regional Setting: German)
0103 - BIOS : Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
0104 - Prozessor : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
0105 - Arbeitsspeicher : 8192MB RAM
0106 - Verfügbarer Arbeitsspeicher für BS: 8190MB RAM
0107 - Auslagerungsdatei : 9672MB used, 3809MB available
0108 - Windows-Ordner : C:\Windows
0109 - DirectX-Version : DirectX 11
0110 - DX-Einrichtungsparameter : Not found
0111 - Benutzerdefinierte DPI-Einstellung: Using System DPI
0112 - DPI-Einstellung des Systems: 96 DPI (100 percent)
0113 - DWM DPI Scaling : Disabled
0114 - DxDiag-Version : 6.02.9200.16384

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02 - Prozessor
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0201 - Titel : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz x4 ~2400MHz
0202 - Aktuelle Taktrate : 2400MHz

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03 - Grafikkarte
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0301 - Kartennname : AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
0302 - Hersteller : Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
0303 - Chip-Typ : AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x683D)
0304 - DAC-Typ : Internal DAC(400MHz)
0305 - Geräteschlüssel : Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_683D&SUBSYS_043B1043&REV_00
0306 - Grafikspeicher : 4095 MB
0307 - AdapterRAM : -2147483648 Byte
0308 - Aktueller Modus : 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)
0309 - Name des Monitors : BenQ E2200HD DVI
0310 - Name des Treibers : aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll
0311 - Treiberversion : 8.17.0010.1172
0312 - Treibersprache : English
0313 - DDI-Version : 11.1
0314 - Treibermodell : WDDM 1.2
0315 - Treiber-Beta : False
0316 - Treiber-Debug : False
0317 - Treiberdatum : 12/19/2012 22:08:04

HIGH up to ULTRA, good working except big team games; speedmetal almost unplayable

sorry, its german, but i hope you'll understand it :)

That will be enough now, I have enough to show how it would perform on most systems. Thank you everyone for helping.

My laptop: Dell XPS M1330, soon to be 5 years old.
Intel Core2 Duo T5800 @ 2,00GHz
nVidia GeForce 8400M GS
3 GB RAM
Windows Vista

1280x800, pretty much default settings (don't recall changing anything major).
Runs 1v1 (and probably 2v2) fine, everything else (even 2 people vs chicken) drops to 10 fps at 15 minutes and 4 fps at ~30 minutes (read: unplayable).
The GPU in this laptop has a pretty rough time, sitting behind the CPU in the cooling assembly: http://forum.notebookreview.com/dell-xps-studio-xps/266624-dell-xps-m1330-nvidia-geforce-8400m-gs-idle-temperature.html
(Haven't applied that fix, just found it right now). I have it sitting on a cooling pad, otherwise it would become too hot to touch within minutes, lol.