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Article #86164Re: Why does Doom3 see my machine as low quality?
From: Allan Martin
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 13:19
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 13:19
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"JK" <JK9821@netscape.net> wrote in message news:41157BEF.6CFC8A3@netscape.net... > "Why does Doom3 see my machine as low quality?" > > You don't have an Athlon 64 processor. You may be right. I bumped up the RAM to 1 GIG and it still auto configures as low quality. By the way the additional RAM did make a noticeable difference in game play. > > http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2149&p=7 > > > > > Allan Martin wrote: > > > When I auto configure my video setting on my Dell 8300 3.2 MGhz with 512 Meg > > RAM and an ATI 9800 PRO, Doom 3 sets it at Low Quality with a resoltution of > > 640x480. > > > > I manually set it to High Quality at a resoltion of 1280x1024 and the game > > looks and plays great. Is there a problem with the auto configure feature? >
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