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Article #472Re: Hexen2 sucks
From: elizabeth chris
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 00:00
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Verna wrote: > > Also the demo version doesn't recognize the AMD proce3ssor as being a > Pentium class cpu. > Come on, guys. Ziff-Davis and the Computer Shopper have got us all smoked. Many of the AMD K6 and Cyrix 6x86 chips don't get recognized as pentium class cpu's because of the smaller FPU. The way that I understand it is, all of the business-type programs depend on the instruction stack more than the FPU, so the meat in the Cyrix and the K6 got put there. That way, they score really high in WinBench( a Ziff-Davis product ) and look really good in the Computer Shopper reviews (also a Ziff-Davis product). When I take a big spreadsheet home from work and use it on quattro, it SCREAMS! (I have a 6x86 w/ 16 meg ram. Not much.) If I play quake, now that's a different story. I am stuck with 320x200 for internet play, and I can't even run the Hexen II demo without getting "H2 caused an invalid page fault in module H2.exe at 014f:00423cbc" within five minutes. Yeah, I'm biased. But that still doesn't explain why you 233mmx guys are having a problem. You should be all over H2. (What was my point again?...) Chris
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