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

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From: McGrandpa
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 16:18

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I've got a 3.0E prescott/800fsb 1 meg L2, 1 gig DDR400 at dual channel,
FX5900-128, XP Pro.  Doom3 auto configures to medium with 800x600.
McG.

Allan Martin wrote:
> "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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