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I'm more than a little disappointed in the performance I'm getting -  I
expected my machine to age a little more gracefully than this.

Plus, I'm FAR from convinced that UNREAL is the game that'll make me belch up
the cash for a P2. Quake2 is still silky smooth, Forsaken's pretty good, and
Lara Croft's, um, kneecaps look just fine. Plus, with a few more Q2-engine
games coming, I think I'll hold off and put UNREAL on the shelf.

Why does it suck? When I'm facing a wall 2 inches from my virtual face, things
move nice & smooth. But the second I turn around a face a room, an outdoor
area, or (worst of all) a moving enemy, I'm down to some abysmal frame rate
that I won't try to estimate (I DO know that it's really cruddy). Gaseous
effects, volumetric lighting, and 3d audio are indeed impressive, but even
after turning them off, the game moves WAY too jerk-illy. Maybe UNREAL wants
BOTH an MMX and a 3Dfx. Maybe it wants a P2 and a 3Dfx. But either of those
are beyond my budget at this time.

What REALLY gets me is how fast this jump happened. The last three games I've
purchased have been BattleZone, StarCraft and Army Men. All three of those
work just fine, and I'm WELL above the minimum requirements. In particular,
BattleZone's outdoor playfields, massive textures, and lens-flare lighting
effects look awesome. Now suddenly, I'm obselete (according to Epic
Megagames). I realize that the gaming industry ALWAYS pushes the envelope, but
this little stunt is bound to hurt sales of this game. At least, I HOPE it
does.

There's still a large market of wussy little <= 200MHz, non-MMX PC's in the
world, and we do enjoy games. Too bad I'm not part of Epic's target market
anymore. Too bad, that is, for them, since I'm taking my game back to the
store...

BTW: system specs are...
P166 (no MMX)
Monster 3D (the original)
64mb RAM

-EA

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Sean Barton wrote:

> Can anyone tell me if Unreal will run on my p133 with Pure3D?
>
> This system plays q2 just fine, and I was hoping I could play Unreal on it
> (don't have the cash yet for a PII).  I'm not too excited about paying for
> the game just to find out it won't work on my system.
>
> So how about it?  Anyone out there with a p133 that got the game working?
>
> Thanks,
> Sean