For what it's worth I've been playing both Quake and UT and have been impressed with the smoothness of the play under all conditions. This goes for being online as well as single player games. I've seen no choppyness or stuttering at all. I'm using a Dell 400Mhz with 384MB. I have an old Voodoo 2 card installed along with an old Viper TNT2 with 16MB on it. Gerry On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Curtis Rey wrote:
My real problem is playing on line. I don't think its the connect since I have a very robust cable connection. I the single player game I stutters when I run into other bots in close proximity. I think it has to do with the rendering of other players - the more player the worst the stutter, this is especially true online when play againts other non-bot players. FPS will substantially drop, but it will pick up again when little or no player models are on screen. I also gets especially shaky in large maps. In small rooms and narrow hallways it's fine. That's why I was asking about some other's system specs - trying to figure out where the bottleneck is.
Cheers. Curtis
On Friday 01 June 2001 04:57 am, Mark Hounschell wrote:
Curtis Rey wrote:
Hi Ben, how are things? I plan on getting T2 soon. I was curious. I have an ABit BE6-II rev.2.0 with a 500MHz Celery and 160MB of PC100 ram with a GF2-MX (gainward-cardex model). What are you running? The reason I'm asking is that UT is very choppy at times and the net play is mediocre. I'm thinking of getting a 800+ P3-133 and 256-133 ram. I know that this will give me better performance, but if it only amounts to ~5% I may save my money and get and Athlon and DDR-ram. Any suggestions or thoughts?
P.S. The new NV: 1.0-1251 drivers give stunnig graphics but frame rate is about 1/2 speed compared to the x-769 drivers. Evil3D did a review and states they have diminished performance at the lower res (go figure), this has been my experience also.
On my box (1024X768) running "ssystem -bench" gave me about a 10fps increase over the 769 version. 600 athlon/TNT2.
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