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Article #86146Re: Bummer
From: Stephen Gordon
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 09:35
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 09:35
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I am Doomed wrote: > 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. > You can just about get away with the ram if you have a reasonably recent video card, atm I'm playing with an fx5200 and only 256 meg ram, with a little detail tweaking it is quite playable on medium detail with bump mapping and shadows on. Level loads however are a bitch, as is any time you open a door and have to wait for textures to come from the swap file ;) -Steve
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!internal1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news1.optus.net.au!optus!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au!not-for-mail From: Stephen Gordon <s4054252@student.uq.edu.au> Newsgroups: alt.games.doom Subject: Re: Bummer Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 19:35:01 +1000 Organization: University of Queensland Lines: 20 Message-ID: <cf27n2$eeg$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au> References: <ke77h0h8ekd6jq2jmsp3uj9v8a0jm72pki@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: crc-c29-185.resnet.uq.edu.au Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au 1091871266 14800 203.100.29.185 (7 Aug 2004 09:34:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@uq.edu.au NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Aug 2004 09:34:26 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <ke77h0h8ekd6jq2jmsp3uj9v8a0jm72pki@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit