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Article #98667Quake II requirements (was: HACX shareware has been released!)
From: Sparky
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 00:00
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On Sat, 11 Oct 1997, Stephen Friederichs wrote:
> Milez wrote:
> >
> > Quake 2 is a much prettier game than quake....but the doom lovers are
> > really gonna hate this one
> >
> > hexen2 needs a minimum of a p150 or 166 to get an acceptable fps and it
> > is preferrred that you have a 3dfx card...( i have one and get 30fps @
> > 640x480 and it looks better than regular 640x480)
> >
> > quake2 is gonna be a new engine...and i suspect that a person may need a
> > p200 for an acceptable game...it has much more colour and grfx
> > improvements and that means slower fps
> >
> > so to all out there who love quake...get ready for a another slamming
> > when quake2 comes out..
> my god i can't believe my p166 is out of date already!
>
News from the ID software programmers was that it would support a 133 in
good ole' QUake 1 300 by 320 mode.
The last few games that have killed alot of systems are these:
Mechwarrior Mercenaries 3dfx : Takes a P166, and you still get slowdown
Total Annihlation Plays on a P133 fine, if you are not in
major battle.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 Takes a P200 to truly get good FPS.
One of my biggest gripes is that software developers seem to LIE about min
requirements for software.
My example:
Command & Conquer:Red Alert
The box says P90 for windows 95. YEAH RIGHT!!!?!?!? Have fun watching
your tank crawl from one side of the screen to the other in about 2 minutes.
The REAL requirements are a P133 IMHO.
DOOM by ID
remember when DOOM was released back in the 386 days? You still had to
reduce the viewing size to about a couple centimeters, and you were
trying to smash in the TURBO button one more notch.
The TRUE requirements for DOOM back then was at least a 25MHZ 486SX.
Some companies are doing better, giving a MIN requirement and a
Recommended Requirement.
ALways go with Recommended, unless you are a patient man.
>
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Sparky
High School Mathematics/Computer Science Teacher
Arizona State University Educational Media Master's Student
Critically Aclaimed, Award Winning Command & Conquer General.
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From: Sparky <jere...@imap1.asu.edu> Subject: Quake II requirements (was: HACX shareware has been released!) Date: 1997/10/11 Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.971011171413.14077C-100000@email1.asu.edu> X-Deja-AN: 279601659 References: <61759d$htu$1@ultra.sonic.net> <343AEB23.F6957256@interaccess.com> <61j6d5$r0p@alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu> <343dc731.174662@nntp.netcomuk.co.uk> <61koo2$kgu$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <34478cf5.19538796@news.erols.com> <01bcd5fa$bdb30e60$42a04bd1@hp-pavilion> <34410E06.143B@nospam.v-wave.com> <34400E76.4C05@prodigy.net.nospam> X-Sender: jere...@email1.asu.edu Organization: Arizona State University Newsgroups: alt.binaries.doom,alt.binaries.games.quake,alt.games.apogee,alt.games.descent,alt.games.doom,alt.games.doom.ii,alt.games.duke3d,rec.games.computer.quake.misc,alt.games.upcoming-3d,rec.games.computer.doom.misc,rec.games.computer.doom.playing,rec.games.comp MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit