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Article #87484Re: Doom3: 33.4 fps on my Athlon 1700
From: Michael-NC
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:37
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:37
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"Bob Robertson" <brobertson@aol.com> wrote in message news:411F8E8A.3070203@aol.com... > Opticreep wrote: > > My system: > > > > Athlon 1700 > > 512MB RAM > > GeForce4 Ti4200 128MB 4X AGP > > Windows XP > > > > Running Doom 3 on the lowest possible detail and resolution settings, > > my timedemo gives an average of 33.4 fps. > > > > Wow. > > > > I am shocked. My system specs barely meet the minimum requirements > > given by Id Software. And sure enough, the game looks playable on a > > minimum spec computer when using minimum detail settings. For the > > first time in ages, a game is released that was actually honest about > > the minimum specs for gameplay. > > > > kudos to Id Software. > How'd you get that kind of speed? On 800x600, medium detail my athlon > 2000 with ti4200/128 only gets 25fps (that's on the 2nd run - 1st run is > around 21) > > Bob He said he's running it at the lowest settings.
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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!atl-c02.usenetserver.com!c03.atl99!c01.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!cyclone.tampabay.rr.com!news-post.tampabay.rr.com!twister.southeast.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Michael-NC" <NoAddress@desolate.com> Newsgroups: alt.games.doom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action References: <9e1f277e.0408150318.6c662817@posting.google.com> <411F8E8A.3070203@aol.com> Subject: Re: Doom3: 33.4 fps on my Athlon 1700 Lines: 31 MIME-Version: 1.0 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: <o3OTc.258628$2o2.15248641@twister.southeast.rr.com> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:37:08 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.74.21.145 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.southeast.rr.com 1092595028 24.74.21.145 (Sun, 15 Aug 2004 14:37:08 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 14:37:08 EDT Organization: RoadRunner - Carolina Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit