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Re: Anyone using MX440SE

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From: goPostal
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:12
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Micro wrote:
>>> I am using an MX440 original version and unreal II waors good at
>>> 1024x768x32.
>>>
>>
>> There is no way that U2 runs that well at that res on that card.
>> Even a premium system and that card would limp along in the teens on
>> framerate.
>>
>>
>
> disagree
> I'm runing U2 on this card few weeks, and with 800x600x32 i havin no
> problems, fps never being lowet than 50 frames. Average is 65fps. On
> 1024x768x32 it is worse... but even then it never falls below 35fps.
> IMO 35fps it's enough good, to say "it works good".
> BTW, I noticed that if I change resolution several times, game cache
> is **MUCH** faster than at the begining! I don't understand this, but
> it is true... maybe this is becouse 800x600 is the best resolution
> for this card (it is) and U2 do not caching it properly first time.
> Who knows...

It's just not physically possible for this card to run U2 like you say
unless you have everything set to lowest (and even then......) I had this
card for a bit and it just doesn't have the gumption to do that. Even my
system was set up for gaming (stripped out XP, gig of RAM, background crap
removed) and it wouldn't run UT2003 without smearing and tearing on medium
settings, let alone even try to run U2 as unoptimized as it is.
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