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Article #87635Re: How important is memory
From: Jon Atkinson
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 10:51
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 10:51
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Hello I started this thread yonks ago, and am surprised to see it still here. However, I would like to report that I put some more memory into my machine, increasing it from 512Mb to 768Mb and it does indeed run much better with no slow downs when monsters suddenly appear on screen. Thanks Jon. "thumper" <thumper@magpage.com> wrote in message news:8kufi0hdcuhjdf3hkt35m9raophr2fd4r6@4ax.com... > On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 01:20:59 +0100, "EvilBill" <evilbill25@freeuk.com> > wrote: > >>What! Why is Michael-NC <NoAddress@desolate.com> here?? All these >>interruptions are enough to make one insane!! >>> "EvilBill" <evilbill25@freeuk.com> wrote in message >>> news:2onleuFcrbdvU1@uni-berlin.de... >>>> What! Why is Michael-NC <NoAddress@desolate.com> here?? All these >>>> interruptions are enough to make one insane!! >>>>> >>>>> The _level_ is loaded into memory and the _size_ of the level is >>>>> what matters. 2GB is way overkill. What game do you think utilizes >>>>> 2 GB's of ram? >>>> >>>> Next year's ones. >>> >>> Maybe 5 years from now. No publisher will release a game that won't >>> play on most people's machines. >>> >> >>Heh, next year many people will probably *have* 2 gigs of RAM > > Probably be the minimum standard for video RAM by then. :-) >
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From: "Jon Atkinson" <jra505@totalise.co.uk> Newsgroups: alt.games.doom References: <411fc8c0$1_1@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com> <xUQTc.807$3O3.561@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> <M7RTc.171527$wH4.11130870@twister.southeast.rr.com> <2onleuFcrbdvU1@uni-berlin.de> <q9PVc.17$eu1.16640@twister.southeast.rr.com> <2oq778Fd3blfU2@uni-berlin.de> <8kufi0hdcuhjdf3hkt35m9raophr2fd4r6@4ax.com> Subject: Re: How important is memory Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 11:51:31 +0100 Lines: 41 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Message-ID: <4131bd6b_1@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com> X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.44.255.200 NNTP-Posting-Host: mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com X-Trace: 29 Aug 2004 12:26:37 +0100, mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.cambrium.nl!news.cambrium.nl!feeder1.essentkabel.com!seanews2.seabone.net!tiscali!newsfeed2.ip.tiscali.net!mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com!mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit