On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 02:13:21 GMT, Dave <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 07:30:58 +1000, "Fred At Home"
><fredlly@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>You definitely have a problem. My AMD XP3200, ATI 9800XT system runs
>>1024x768 @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
in the timedemo and plays silk smooth.
>
>I think you must be using High Quality rather than Ultra Quality. As
>the other poster mentioned, it turns out Ultra is not intended for any
>card out today, though I still don't understand why the timedemo gave
>me 59 FPS. Anyway, I found this site:
>http://www2.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjQ0LDE3
>
>that gives the max playable settings for various hardware. Based on
>that page, I tried 1600x1200 at HQ, and got 41FPS, and it plays well.
>
>BTW, that's with no AA. When I set AA at 4X, my FPS went down to 7.
>Can't play it, but it's actually fun to watch the timedemo, because
>you see more detail when things move that slow.
I don't think there's much difference between low, medium and high
quality... I think it has to do with the amount texture compression. I
never seen any big difference.
But try 1024x768 at 2x AA and 4x performance AF. Since the rez is so
high it still looks pretty good.
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