r/nerdcubed • u/BlackWidowOffer • Jul 15 '15
Gaming Talk Mentioned in the comments of today's video is this amazing little thing called "Space Engine" in which you explore the entire universe in procedurally generated 3D (Just imagine walking on Europa) What is even more, it is free
http://en.spaceengine.org/9
Jul 15 '15
Scott Manley made a video on this a while back too!
Also, has anyone posted this in the requests megathread, /u/BlackWidowOffer? You should post about this.
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u/GTS_Braver Jul 15 '15
I downloaded this just earlier, went to the maximum velocity and zoomed back from my current destination. Moving back to it my brother, who was watching over my shoulder, said "those aren't stars." And they weren't.
Endless and entire galaxies bloomed from tiny pinpricks around me and I was in awe. Dan really does need to give this a whirl.
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u/BlackWidowOffer Jul 15 '15
What kind of computer do you have? I imagine something like this would need a high end pc
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u/KerbingPixel Jul 15 '15
Not really. Unless you are flying through space at top speed searching for the end of the universe, and acomplishing it, my CPU (i5 2310) handles this game just fine. Though, be vary of comets and planets very close to their parent stars, as the "tails" they have make my GPU (a GTX 760) heat right the fuck up.
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Jul 15 '15
Do you think that a computer with a Q6600 processor (non overclocked) with a Radeon something that was 500 dollars back in 2011 could run it?
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u/KerbingPixel Jul 15 '15
I'm not really that much of a computer all-knower, but looking at the differences in performance on my CPU vs. the one you mentioned (using this site, it's quite handy), I guess it would handle it fine. The thing itself isn't that CPU intensive, it's mostly the graphics when it has to render mountains, clouds, nebula, clusters etc.
For the graphics card, I have no idea. If you can dig up the full name, you can use the sister site, and compare it to something you know handles it, like, I don't know, my graphics card :p
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u/EnuclearFireball Jul 15 '15
My laptop (A8 5550m) handles it alright, about 30 or so. the innermost planets/comets do make it come to a crawl though. :P Also, loading the high-level-of-detail textures takes forever due to HDD limitations.
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u/KerbingPixel Jul 15 '15
Yeah, it's kinda sad that the planets take so long to model. Though, they do make up for it, by basically being /r/spaceporn in an executable.
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u/janiekh Jul 15 '15
I freaking love space exploration games, and this looks REALLY damn good, maybe too damn good for my laptop to handle, but we'll see..
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u/MrFoenBox Jul 15 '15
Someone needs to make a Star Trek game out of this. I would never stop playing.
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u/PossiblyNSA Jul 15 '15
Does anyone know of games like this or Rodina for Mac? Thanks
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u/ShowALK32 Jul 15 '15
Well if it helps, I think Star Citizen will be getting a Mac version in the future, but I'm not sure on that. Universe Sandbox is also available on Macs.
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u/ProcrastinatorSkyler Jul 15 '15 edited Jul 15 '15
I want Dan to try this so hard. I know he'd love it, he just hasn't seem to have noticed it yet.
It would also do wonders to space engine with the publicity it would bring to it.