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"La Cima Rick" <rick@lacimatours.com> wrote in message 
news:1130117260.742798.242490@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Just installed Quake 4 and it runs really jerkey.  I'm running a Dell
> Dimension, P4, 3.4ghz...Radeon X300 PCI Video w/ 128mb, and running 1gb
> RAM.  Audio is a SB Audigy 2zs card.
>
> I'm having to run the game at 640X480 at "Low Quality" and with the
> weapons not showing, just to make it playable. (barely)
>
> Seems to me that the game should run better on my setup...any advice as
> to what I might do?
>
> Thanks...
>

Your X300 is your bottleneck.  Your CPU and ram are great.

I'm running a lowly (yuk yuk!) A64 at a measley 2.4 gHz, 2 gigs PC3200 in 
dual channel, 6800GT (AGP), onboard 8 channel audio and XP Pro SP2.  I have 
no benchmarks to offer, but running the game in the highest res my monitor 
AND Q4 supports, 1280x960-32 bits, I have everything cranked up with quality 
in High, not ultra (yet) and am seeing no slowdowns at all.  Be nice to have 
a benchmark demo.
I'm guessing that your mentioning 'PCI' is PCI express?

And I'm not just an AMD fanboi knocking your P4 either.  I have a P4 3.0E 
that does a great job.  It's just that my AMD64 is a lot faster even running 
2.4 ghz.  It's an X2 4800+  :)