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Re: Tron 2.0 - jerky behaviour

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From: Mangyrat
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 03:56
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ill never understand why some one buys a P4 2.66Ghz, 512Mb RAM, and puts a
low end video card like the gf 4 mx 440 in it.
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"Dom Robinson" <murphyisamuppet@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> It's not officially out until Sept 19th so I'm not expecting everyone to
have
> played this yet, but I was wondering if anyone could answer the question
as to
> why I'm getting jerkiness once per second?
>
> I have a Cybercom 1571PC with P4 2.66Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb GeForce4 MX440
> graphics, WinXP, and have even set the graphics elements to low detail but
> still this is happening. Is it just badly programmed in that case or is
the
> graphics card just not up to the job? It's very graphically intensive,
that's
> for sure.
>
> I previously used a PC with a similar spec, but a 128Mb ATI Radeon 9600TX
> graphics card, but the s-video output blew big chunks, but would that have
> been able to handle this game?
>
> TIA,
> -- 
>
> Dom Robinson   Gamertag: DVDfever      email: dom at dvdfever dot co dot
uk
> /* http://DVDfever.co.uk (editor)
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>   "Those who say they can, can, while those who say they can't, are
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From: "Mangyrat" <rat@mangyrat.com>
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