🚀 go-pugleaf

don wasted my time on 5/24/2005 8:41 AM with the following:
> This is the most expensive game I ever bought. Cost me almost $1200.00!
> Here is what came in the box:
> 

Didn't you reuse anything?  Hardcore.


To benchmark in D3, just bring down the console (CTRL+ALT+TILDE or 
CTRL+ALT+[key left of 1]) and type "timedemo demo1"

However, you should run this once for a "warm-up," and then run it three 
times and take the average.  The timedemo is EXTREMELY inaccurate 
however.  I was getting 26fps guesses, and I maintain 40fps stably.

I also recommend reading TechSpot's tweak guide to get the max 
performance and detail out of that system you've got there (you might 
even be on Ultra already)

http://www.techspot.com/doom3/doom3.shtml

-- 
-SnoopJeDi

SnoopJeDi <snoopjediHOLDTHESPAM@comcast.net> wrote in 
news:nuGdneE32rErvw7fRVn-qQ@comcast.com:

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Thanks for the info. I will check out that tweak guide. I had as much fun 
tweaking q3 as playing and I bet I enjoy tweaking d3 too.
I let the game detect my hardware and it put me on high. I cranked up the 
aa to 8x and let her rip. Ran like a dream. Beautful. No slowdowns that I 
could notice (i was pretty busy shooting) and seemed very smooth.

Nope I didn't reuse a thing. Gave the old box to my daughter. Daddy needed 
a new toy!

don <bogus@nunsuch.net> wrote in
news:Xns96605D87695C6bogusnunsuchnet@130.81.64.196: 

> SnoopJeDi <snoopjediHOLDTHESPAM@comcast.net> wrote in 
> news:nuGdneE32rErvw7fRVn-qQ@comcast.com:
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Okay this can't be right. Sounds too high. Catalyst 5.5 drivers. Everything 
on I think.

1600x1200 high 8x aa - 103 fps

and

1600x1200 ultra 8x aa - 81 fps??

>>From what I have read this sound too high? I need to read up on this more 
and try again. I thought you needed a 512meg video card to run ultra?

On 5/24/2005 6:11 AM don brightened our day with:

>SnoopJeDi <snoopjediHOLDTHESPAM@comcast.net> wrote in 
>news:nuGdneE32rErvw7fRVn-qQ@comcast.com:
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>
>Thanks for the info. I will check out that tweak guide. I had as much fun 
>tweaking q3 as playing and I bet I enjoy tweaking d3 too.
>I let the game detect my hardware and it put me on high. I cranked up the 
>aa to 8x and let her rip. Ran like a dream. Beautful. No slowdowns that I 
>could notice (i was pretty busy shooting) and seemed very smooth.
>
>Nope I didn't reuse a thing. Gave the old box to my daughter. Daddy needed 
>a new toy!
>  
>
The whole tweaking thing just ain't what it used to be.  I remember 
altering one cvar here, one there, "hmmm how about r_subdivisions 20 
today", then timedemoing to see what kind of change there was.  All of 
that was necessary for a 333 MHz Celeron and a Voodoo 3.  These days all 
I want is to max everything out; tweaking used to be a desperate search 
to get games to run smoothly, now it's more like, "let's see what other 
bells and whistles I can get turned on in this thing".

-- 
"I don't feel tardy"

Steve ¤»Inglo«¤
www.inglostadt.com

Inglo <ioo@??.żżż> wrote in
news:GUGke.1047$rY6.871@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com: 
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> The whole tweaking thing just ain't what it used to be.  I remember 
> altering one cvar here, one there, "hmmm how about r_subdivisions 20 
> today", then timedemoing to see what kind of change there was.  All of
> that was necessary for a 333 MHz Celeron and a Voodoo 3.  These days
> all I want is to max everything out; tweaking used to be a desperate
> search to get games to run smoothly, now it's more like, "let's see
> what other bells and whistles I can get turned on in this thing".
> 
Inglo

Thanks to you and others in agq3 I was able to get q3 playable on a athlon 
550 and a tnt2m64. :) Ahhh those were the days......