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Article #87560Re: mid-range cards giving you performance probs?
From: SLP
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:09
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:09
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"Inglo" <ingloogoo@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.xcc> wrote in message news:KM_Tc.3938$QJ3.2258@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com... > On 8/16/2004 12:25 AM \Ż`ˇ.¸biz¸.ˇ´Ż/ brightened our day with: > > Well homeopathy "helps" a lot of people too. When you do something that > should have no effect and say it improved your performance, without > providing any kind of objective evidence (which is nowhere, anywhere to > be seen with this unpaking stuff, no proof at all; just the judgment of > one of the game's developers that it's hogwash), then I'm going to go > one thinking its a placebo effect and telling people not to waste there > time doing it. > > -- > History shows again and again > How nature points up the folly of men > > Steve [Inglo] Before: The game was pretty much unplayable at 1024 x 768 / Medium Quality. It was constantly pausing for a few seconds at a time. After: It ran smoothly at 1024 x 768 / High Quality. That must be one hell of a placebo effect. SLP
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.cambrium.nl!news.cambrium.nl!nntp-peering.plus.net!ptn-nntp-feeder01.plus.net!ptn-nntp-spool02.plus.net!212.159.2.75.MISMATCH!ptn-nntp-spool01.plus.net!ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net!not-for-mail From: "SLP" <me@privacy.net> Newsgroups: alt.games.doom References: <411f681e$0$209$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> <xuPTc.3839$QJ3.739@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> <411fd2b1$0$205$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> <cfop2f$mcj$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au> <4120617e$0$209$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> <KM_Tc.3938$QJ3.2258@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> Subject: Re: mid-range cards giving you performance probs? Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:09:23 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4120b15a$0$523$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net> Organization: Customer of PlusNet plc (http://www.plus.net) NNTP-Posting-Host: d0f86338.ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net X-Trace: DXC=2_=aZ0Vh; m^<FQRKCaZH[Xigd3Y`7Rb; ^37XnI; [OUCTe6@LSCFVb?Tn911J[L:N5WUdc4AeYGO_U05]8<JDV@mY X-Complaints-To: abuse@plus.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit