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On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 07:10:26 GMT, "McGrandpa"
<McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> wrote:

>
>"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+  :) 
>
Hey, McGrandpa, how are ya?  We did Doom 3 and Half-Life at about the
same time.  I'm playing quake 4 on a 2.8, 1gig, nvidia 6800 oc (256M).
Runs great, great game.  I tried ultra quality and it brought my $500
card to its knees.  Next level down runs just fine.  I agree, sounds
like this player needs a new video card if he/she wants to go
bigger/better.