I’ve never used Niran’s viewer, I can remember looking at it before and realising my PC didn’t really meet the recommended specs. I’ve read good things about it and I hear it’s good for photography and Machinima, hence why it’s a viewer that performs on a higher spec kit, some of the screenshots I’ve seen are beautiful, although it should be noted that beautiful screenshots can be achieved on other viewers too.
There’s nothing wrong with a viewer aimed at higher specs, the same as there’s nothing wrong with a viewer aimed at lower specs, indeed this is part ofthe beauty of third party viewer development. The current recommended specs for Niran’s viewer are:
CPU: Quad Core (3.000 mhz upwards)
GPU: NVidia Geforce GTX 460 and higher
RAM: 6GB
OS: Windows 7 64bit Edition
However it seems that Niran is thinking of jacking it all in because of an issue related to a Jira post by the looks of it. Niran’s post: How to effectively destroy Niran and the linked Jira Open-162 tell a tale of woe of someone who went to a lot of time and effort to analyse, report and propose fixes for an issue, only to be shrugged off in a very blunt manner.
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