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<Diver@home> wrote in message news:435f0238.3073984@news.giganews.com...
> 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.

AFAIK, both cores are always running.  Just a matter of calling it.
McG.