Re: Bummer

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From: Allan Martin
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 15:24

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"I am Doomed" <Old_and_Tired_Doomer_Head@Doomered.org> wrote in message
news:ke77h0h8ekd6jq2jmsp3uj9v8a0jm72pki@4ax.com...
> I just concluded my present setup is just too old to handle doom3.  I
> got into the cheats.  The moment the graphics get heavy, doom3
> crashes.  Doom3 pushes the system beyond its capacity.  I have a three
> year old P4 Dell 1.8 Gig, 256 meg SDRAM, and a Nvidia GetForce 2 MX
> with 64 meg video card.  It is just to expensive to upgrade the card
> and RAM to handle the game.  I think it would be cheaper to wait until
> the game comes out on XBox.  The pc is just to old to spend that kind
> of money on.
>
> I just uninstalled doom3 from the pc.


Look on the bright side. If every new game was designed to play on older
machines the only game we would have to play would be pong.



>

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