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Article #86159Re: Why does Doom3 see my machine as low quality?
From: NuQ
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 16:33
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 16:33
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In news:d2OQc.20324$zc4.8611821@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net, Allan Martin <Intuit_Man@CPA.com> typed: > When I auto configure my video setting on my Dell 8300 3.2 MGhz with > 512 Meg RAM and an ATI 9800 PRO, Doom 3 sets it at Low Quality with a > resoltution of 640x480. > > I manually set it to High Quality at a resoltion of 1280x1024 and the > game looks and plays great. Is there a problem with the auto > configure feature? Seems so. It set mine too low also. It may have set yours to low because of the 512 MB system RAM. 512MB on WinXP s barely getting by these days.
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