Re: Why does Doom3 see my machine as low quality?

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From: JK
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 01:03

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"Why does Doom3 see my machine as low quality?"

You don't have an Athlon 64 processor.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2149&p=7




Allan Martin wrote:

> 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?

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