Topic on User talk:Masked Turk

Hi Masked Turk, can you take a look at the Template:SysReq please. I dislike how the GPU sections seems to take up more lines than it needs to. For example, http://i.imgur.com/8KdAj.png - the Video Card (GPU) only has a single line of text, but it's occupying x3. Can you take a look at it please?

Thanks, Andytizer

I believe this should now be fixed.

Amazing thanks :), looks much nicer now.

Can we simplify the SysReq template please?

Basically I would like the OSfamily_ to dictate the top row text (which can be only Windows, Mac or Linux), later I'd like to be able to link them to the relevant OS page.

What I don't like about the current implementation is the use of the suffixes _m _l.

I agree. When I saw how you chaps set out that template, I shivered a bit :P

I'll see what I can do.

Infact, Template:SysReq is utterly unnecessary... it just adds OSFamily... :/

You can already just use Template:SysReq_BaseTemplate and use the property_ tags without the os-specific suffixes.

{{SysReq_BaseTemplate
|OSfamily_ = Windows
|minOS_ = Windows XP SP3 
|recOS_ = Windows Vista SP2/Windows 7 
|minProc_ = Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.0Ghz Processor 
|recProc_ = 1.8 GHz Quad Core Processor 
|minRAM_ = 2 GB 
|recRAM_ = 4 GB
|minHD_ = 8 GB free 
|minGPU1_ = ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 
|minGPU2_ =  nVidia GeForce 7900 GS video card
|minGPU3_ = Core i3 integrated graphics 
|minVRAM_ = 256
|recGPU1_ = ATI 4800 or better video card 
|recGPU2_ = nVidia 9800 or better video card 
|recGPU3_ = 
|recVRAM_ = 512
|minAudio_ = DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card
|recAudio_ = 
|minCont_ = 
|recCont_ = 
|minOther_ = 
|recOther_ = 
}}

I've taken the liberty of adding the OS link to the template :P

When I started the site I didn't know much about templates. SysReq was implemented by an enterprising individual who created it, and just stuck ever since.

This implementation looks much better, I'll look at it in more depth later.

Well, I didn't actually change anything. It's just using the BaseTemplate's variables and cutting out the middle-man template, so there's no real difference apart from the lack of 'm' or 'l' or w/e :)

Thanks for looking at it for me anyway, I am getting the hang of this :).

Made a redirect: Template:System Requirements. Bit less clunky name :P

New one looks good, but can we make it collapsible?

It seems Andy the code for that earlier.

I've added it back in as a variable: |collapsable= collapsed [or] true [or] false

Ah, can we not force it universally as the template?

Also, I noticed that the vram defaults to adding MB to the end of the numbers put in there. Any chance we could remove that? People have been putting mb on the end by default, and some new games recommend 1gb of vram. Just a suggestion.

Now that the line height of a typical System Requirements table is 4-5 lines, I'd prefer to keep the table open, I think it looks nicer. What do you guys think. Andytizer (talk) 11:59, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

I kinda prefer the tables to be open in general, unless they're monolithic things that take up the whole page.

Newmansan - good idea, but what about people who haven't put a unit at the end? If there aren't many, fine, otherwise we'll have a bunch of articles with numbers but no units :P (you could always just specify 1000 [MB], of course)

Well, I imagine that most of the articles here still have the old system reqs template, which needed people to put in the mb/gb. And people will put in the mb/gb if the template in the sample article requires it.

I'm happy to do it. Andy?

I don't think we should suffix field with MB/GB. I think the Systems Requirements table should be as free text as possible to allow for new types of data in the future. The data is not machine interpretable so just a free text box where possible.

I'm thinking of the future when requirements go to multi-core GPUs or maybe they start measuring video cards in different ways.

Righto, sorted.