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On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 03:12:47 GMT, "McGrandpa"
<McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> wrote:

>
><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. 
>
Can the game(s) get the second core to run?  Most games run the CPU as
a single thread unless they've cooked up something on the PC side.
6800 runs parallel.  Still, sounds sweet.  I looked at Dell's 3.8, all
dressed up, about $3,700.  I've already got three dells, 2.8, 2.6 and
a 400mhz running smoothwall firewall.