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Article #173737Re: Anyone using MX440SE
From: michael allen
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:02
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:02
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I ran unreal tournament 2003 on a kyro 2 at 1600 x 1200 with every thing maxed out and I was running it on an athlon 1.333ghz and unreal 2 ran quite happily on 800 x 600. it is possible. err, I don't know how as the mx range in 150% slower. Then again. I don't know how I got it running on mine. "goPostal" <agutgopostal@REMOVEhotmail.com> wrote in message news:smvQa.18978$J%2.1688988@news.alltel.net... > 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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