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Article #81756Re: Tron 2.0 - jerky behaviour
From: Paul Woodsford
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 21:45
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 21:45
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The Demo Plays perfectly on my system, with my ADSL connection live, AVG & ZA free running as well as Weather Watch, System XP Home SP1, Gigabyte GA-81DX Intel 845 AGPset P4 1700Hz 640 SDram 40 G Western Digital HD 20 G OEM WD HD RealTek Ethernet card connected to 4 port Netgear DS104 Hub US Robotics SporsterFlash Modem Thomson Speedtouch 330 USB Modem CD/DVD player CD/CDr/CDrw SoundBlaster Live Card Geforce 4 MX460 64MBram Graphics 17" Samsung SyncMaster 753 DFX monitor USB Canoscan Scanner USB Canon S300 Printer I think there must be something up with your system! -- Paul Woodsford Remove ****NOSPAMPLEASE**** to Reply "Dom Robinson" <murphyisamuppet@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:MPG.19c1dfbb54b974bc9896aa@news.cis.dfn.de... > 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) > /* 940 DVDs, 259 games, 33 videos, 67 cinema films, 69 CDs, laserdiscs & news > /* star trek nemesis, bringing down the house, phone booth, human nature > "Those who say they can, can, while those who say they can't, are right." --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.515 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 01/09/2003
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!text1.nnrp.aus1!firehose2!nntp4!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news2.euro.net!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Paul Woodsford" <paul.woodsford****NOSPAMPLEASE****@virgin.net> Newsgroups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc References: <MPG.19c1dfbb54b974bc9896aa@news.cis.dfn.de> Subject: Re: Tron 2.0 - jerky behaviour Lines: 66 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: <7u76b.2352$Ve3.1416@newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 22:45:38 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.107.236.24 X-Complaints-To: abuse@virgin.net X-Trace: newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net 1062798339 81.107.236.24 (Fri, 05 Sep 2003 22:45:39 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 22:45:39 BST Organization: Virgin Net Usenet Service MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit