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>"Erik E. Anderson" <erik...@spamfree.visi.com> wrote:

>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.

Get used to it...  It's not like the computer industry hasn't been on
this pace for a while now.

>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.

If you're running a P166 with no MMX you've got an OLD system.  You
can't even buy that CPU anymore.  Do you expect the gaming industry to
continue to write games for a market of 2-3 year old PC's when people
are spending $2,000++ on new P2/400mhz systems?  Hell no they're not
going to and it will probably not hurt sales much either.  At least I
HOPE it doesn't.  The game is awesome.

>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...

That may be the case but you're never going to see the kind of effects
like Unreal has if they have to write games for people with
P133/P166/etc.  

Take your game back and do yourself a favor...  Don't buy any more new
games because I'll guarantee you that Quake3, SIN, Half-Life, and Prey
will all run just as bad as Unreal did.  And if you want to see your
system really suffer, try Total Annihilation.  That game is a lot
harder to run than Unreal!

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

If that's the case then all you need to do is drop a K6/233 in your
board and you'll have twice the system you have now for under a
hundred bux.  My wife is running a P200MMX with 64MB EDO and an
original Monster 3D.  It runs just fine in 640x480.  Do yourself a
favor and upgrade your CPU.  

===[==Rob====-
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