Re: Why does Doom3 see my machine as low quality?

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From: Raymond Martineau
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 00:56

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On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 16:33:01 GMT, "NuQ" <nuq@987sdf98sd.net> wrote:

>In news:d2OQc.20324$zc4.8611821@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net,
>Allan Martin <Intuit_Man@CPA.com> typed:

>Seems so.  It set mine too low also.  It may have set yours to low because
>of the 512 MB system RAM.  512MB on WinXP s barely getting by these days.

512 MB under Windows Xp is more than enough.  Currently, my commit charge
is only 170Mb, which is well below the limit.  Even when I do reach the
512MB limit, it is still easily playable as computers only really slow down
if the commit charge is 128Mb beyond the phyisical memory limit.

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