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<Diver@home> wrote in message news:435dd145.5420234@news.giganews.com...
> 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.

X300 just won't do it.
I'm playing several of the 'big' games and my rig is doing just fine with 
them.
The 'old' one is a P4 3.0E, 2 gigs.  This one is an X2 4800+, 2 gigs and 
6800GT 256 meg.  Q4 is lookin good!   Can't wait to see some of the old Q2 
CTF maps for it :)
McG.