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"ScratchMonkey" <scratchmonkey.blacklist@sewingwitch.com> wrote in message 
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> "McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> wrote in
> news:CN%6f.19160$Bf7.4232@tornado.texas.rr.com:
>
>> 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.
>
> Essentially the same rig (DFI LANParty UT mobo) but with XP Pro 64, and 
> the
> PCIE 6800GT. I tried running at 1280x1024 in Ultra but it was too choppy. 
> I
> backed it down to High and things smoothed right out. Ultra probably needs
> a 7800 to get enough texture bandwidth, as it felt like texture lag, the
> kind of thing normally cured by looking around in all directions in a new
> level to force the textures to load.

Well, as the UpsetChaps guides and tweaks pages say, Ultra mode for Doom3 
and Quake4 are ideally suited for 512meg vid cards.  They said that the 
severe texture lag and/or thrashing would happen with 256 meg cards.  OR, if 
PCI-e actually *worked* then couldn't system ram be used for the video 
texture memory at full bandwidth?  I'm not sure at all how that is supposed 
to work.   I just know folks talk here in the ng's about this not being so 
big a thing, yet.
ALso, I did try XP Pro 64 with Far Cry 64 and that was really great.  but, 
there aren't enough 64 bit peripheral drivers out even now for me to just 
shift over.  So I didn't send in my XP Pro disk and keep X64  :-\
McG.