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Article #93809Re: Doom3 with A64 X2 not what I hoped...
From: McGrandpa
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:45
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:45
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"Tom Meierjürgen @mehlbox.homeip.net>" <rashnu<spamblocker_remove> wrote in message news:5338984.oJBqoM0yzi@mehlbox.homeip.net... > Hi! > McGrandpa pinnte hier in alt.games.doom folgende Message: > >> >> Thanks, I'll be playing around with the settings. But not wanting to >> give >> up ultra quality. Monitor is limited to 1280x1024. >> McG. > Seems that either AGP or the Operating-Sys is the bottleneck. I'm running > Doom3 at 1600x1200 in ultra Quality on SuSE 9.3 x86_64 on an MSI K8N > Diamond with 1024 MB Dualchannel-RAM and AMD64 3500+ Venice-Core using a > MSI NX6600GT PCIE-Card with 128 MB RAM and my Framerates are between 54 > and > 60 FPS depending on which services run parallel in Background. > So i guess your low FPS depend either on AGP or on M$..... > > Cya, > Tom > -- > Die nichtkommerzielle Community für alles und jeden: > http://www.mehlbox-system.de Ok, will look at bottleneck items closely. Just reinstalled the whole system, fresh XP Pro, all drivers, software. I may not have had the XP A64 CPU driver installed when i ran that. Just found it on AMD's site. Also found that there are some settings in the nv control panel on the desktop that make a big difference in the game. Got lots of stuff to play with now :) McG.
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