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Article #87638Re: How important is memory
From: Michael-NC
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 01:03
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 01:03
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"EvilBill" <evilbill25@freeuk.com> wrote in message news:2oq778Fd3blfU2@uni-berlin.de... > 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 > Not very likely. Game publishers aren't going to screw themselves. Even D3, the most hyped title in years runs on 384MB. It ain't gonna happen that fast.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.addix.net!news.glorb.com!newsfeed3.easynews.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!bigfeed2.bellsouth.net!news.bellsouth.net!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 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$eu1.16640@twister.southeast.rr.com> <2oq778Fd3blfU2@uni-berlin.de> Subject: Re: How important is memory Lines: 27 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Message-ID: <JhSVc.201145$tH1.10655990@twister.southeast.rr.com> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 01:03:37 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.74.21.145 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.southeast.rr.com 1093136617 24.74.21.145 (Sat, 21 Aug 2004 21:03:37 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 21:03:37 EDT Organization: RoadRunner - Carolina Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit