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Article #86141Re: Bummer
From: AAA
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 18:29
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 18:29
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"Allan Martin" <Intuit_Man@CPA.com> wrote in message news:AoNQc.19842$zc4.8503836@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net... > > "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. > For the cost of upgrading (just a video card) $450 + $55 (GAME). I will be able to buy a X-Box + the game in November. (Just 2.5 months away) And from what I read the game isn't that great, IMHO, very dark most of the time. Why buy a $450 card to look at a black screen? > > > > > >
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!internal1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!peer01.cox.net!cox.net!p01!fed1read06.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "AAA" <artform@yahoo.com> Newsgroups: alt.games.doom References: <ke77h0h8ekd6jq2jmsp3uj9v8a0jm72pki@4ax.com> <AoNQc.19842$zc4.8503836@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> Subject: Re: Bummer Lines: 41 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Message-ID: <Y5QQc.31729$sh.23839@fed1read06> Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:29:12 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.7.136.214 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: fed1read06 1091816952 68.7.136.214 (Fri, 06 Aug 2004 14:29:12 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 14:29:12 EDT Organization: Cox Communications MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit