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Re: Only multplay?

#27
From: Matt McMahon
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 00:00
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I've been in SIN games where I have had absolutley no lag, and others were
complaining it was unplayable.... So it's definatly not an all or none type
server.


J�rg van der Vlies wrote in message ...
>
>Danny Broos schrieb in Nachricht <78c5vl$beh$1...@reader2.wxs.nl>...
>>
>>J�rg van der Vlies heeft geschreven in bericht ...
>>>
>>>Danny Broos schrieb in Nachricht <78aq0d$j14$1...@reader1.wxs.nl>...
>>>>You're right! When you can run it with this system, the graphics will
>look
>>>>like shit. Yeah even with a TNT. Never thought you would have to turn
>your
>>>>TNT in a 320x240 res, huh?
>>>>Use a pentium 350 for minimal (or a 300. THE 300A o/c to 450 :-))
>>>>128 Mb ram, a 32x cd-rom.
>>>>Maybe it isn't that it cannot be played on a slower pc, it would
slowdown
>>>>everything on the net for the guys who have a good pc!!
>>>This is not true! Quake uses a game engine which is independent of time.
>It
>>>all depends on the performance of the server. I and a few neighbours
tried
>>>it...someone had a 486-DX2-66 in the net and it did't harm our Pentium
>>>MMX-PCs
>>>
>>>J�rg
>>>
>>
>>
>>Oh, never knew that... So when some assholes try to run it with their 28k8
>>modems my ISDN won't be effected? So not like with some other games (good
>>example is SIN)
>Hmmmm, 28k8 is a little bit too slow. My experience I showed above was only
>proven on a 10MBit-Network. But I have got ISDN, too. And I didn't notice
>any side effects usually caused by slow connections...
>
>J�rg
>
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From: "Matt McMahon" <mcm...@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Only multplay?
Date: 1999/01/23
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