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Evening Reading

by Steve Gibson, Jul 05, 2002 6:47pm PDT
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By some miracle, my home network has joined this century as I went crazy and spent $30 on getting a 100mbit switch to connect machines together. The woman transfering all that porn around on the network that she burns to CDs and sells at middle schools finally got to me.  Hope everyone is enjoying their lengthy holiday weekend in the US. We're certainly taking advantage of it over here relaxing. No progress on any projects! Yeah! Here's some stuff:

- Snakehead fish found in Maryland - Russia wants people on mars - Spam is killing us all - Some more on those drug cartels and technology - War on terror technology - Search engines are ruling the world - Stock market shot up today for once
Lastly, Men In Black 2 review - meh! Felt like going through the motions without any real cohesion. A few good parts in there but a completely forgettable experience. I give it a 6.3321. It'll entertain you for an evening but I'd suggest seeing Minority Report a second time instead.



















  • "recommended system" as specified for a game, is not very usefull as long as it isn't specified:
    - what framerate to expect, and if that framerate is minimum, maximum or average. (i'd want to know minimum)
    - at what quality setting it can produce that framerate.

    I don't care what the performance is during favorable conditions.

    For sure, hardly any game can run at at least a minimum acceptable framerate, while at default quality settings, on the recommended system.

    Also for sure most games fall far below that with any add-ons.

    What specs would one need to run RTCW 64 client multiplayer on Tram or Market, at default quality, consistently at acceptable framerates? Extreme conditions perhaps but within official capabilities of the game.

    My 1.1GHz Celeron / GF2gts regularly gets down to 10fps, while using reduced quality settings.

    So i guess a 4 GHz P4 with an overclocked GF4Ti4600 might be able to keep fps at or above 40.
    But not at full quality settings: fast sky, low geometry, no bulletmarks, no brass, picmip 1, 16 bit textures.

    So i say: the specs should be more specific.

    While such a machine would actually be far above the originaly recommended system specs.
    There probably is no PC which can run the game at full quality and good fps, in the game situation i described.