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Re: Unreal: First Impressions

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From: sopar...
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 00:00
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In article <6kh447$3tb$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
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>
> In article <356a4...@news.prismnet.com>,
>   "Darren Shea" <ds...@prismnet.com> wrote:
> >
> > As a side note - on my friend's P166 (non-MMX) with an S3 video card
> > running NT 4, Unreal was unplayable, with frame rates in the 1-8 fps
> > range in a 320x240 window. There may be some other issues involved, but
> > QII on the same machine, with the same resolution, is playable (15-20
> > fps).
>
> Can anyone tell me the minimum system requirements for Unreal ?
> Are Direct3D cards supported, e.g. RIVA 128 based cards (Diamond V330) ?
> Is OpenGL supported ?
> Do I need MMX or will plain vanilla Pentium (albeit slow) work too ?
> Any framerates for specific systems available ?
>
> Pjotr.
>
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Bare requirements: 2 meg video card, P166, 200 or so meg HD space.
If you have this system you will have to play 320x200, and VERY slowly, unless
you turn off LOTS of features.
MMX enables lots of cool sound effects without increasing frame rate.
D3D is not supported (yet?), so if you want to run harware accelerated, its
voodoo or nothing.
My system is a k6 233mmx, 32 megs of ram, diamond monster, awe 64, and with
just a couple tweaks runs smoothly at 640x480, and without a doubt the most
stunning visuals ever.  What tweaks did I make?  I posted them about 10 posts
up.

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Subject: Re: Unreal: First Impressions
Date: 1998/05/27
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