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Any chance that Quake 4 will be playable on a Parhelia? I hear it may be simmilar to doom3 but I never played doom3 on my PC.
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Well, try the Doom III demo and get back to us. I'm sure you can play it, albeit it at like 800x600 with medium resolution.Go Bunny GO!
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that would be pushing it, personally. maybe on one of the newer P8x's, but not on the original or OEM P's. forget about a P650 or P750.Originally posted by mmp121
lookie at this for an example.
Quake 4 won't be worth playing on a P. you would be better off buying an XBox 360 or a new graphics card."And yet, after spending 20+ years trying to evolve the user interface into something better, what's the most powerful improvement Apple was able to make? They finally put a god damned shell back in." -jwz
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Ouch!
I played Doom III on my 9700 Pro and @ 1024x768 and it ran at like 50-60FPS, so I was assuming that even the Parhelia would be able to do 1/2 of that, 25-30 FPS, but I guess I am wrong. Maybe there have been driver updates for the Parhelia by Matrox. The review you point out says:
Matrox's 107.00.089 drivers were used for Parhelia.
I assume that there must be newer drivers out. But then again, I assumed P could handle Doom III.Go Bunny GO!
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"I was impressed that Parhelia actually ran DOOM 3 without issue, but 22.6 frames per second at 640x480 is hardly playable."
So it should be ok ... provided you can run it all in wireframe onlyQ9450 + TRUE, G.Skill 2x2GB DDR2, GTX 560, ASUS X48, 1TB WD Black, Windows 7 64-bit, LG M2762D-PM 27" + 17" LG 1752TX, Corsair HX620, Antec P182, Logitech G5 (Blue)
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the optimizations made in recent graphics card drivers acctually improves performance when using textured polygons compared to a wireframe mode.Originally posted by |Mehen|
disabling dynamic lighting would make far more of an improvement over anything else. it just ocmpletely kills the atmosphere of the game."And yet, after spending 20+ years trying to evolve the user interface into something better, what's the most powerful improvement Apple was able to make? They finally put a god damned shell back in." -jwz
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Doom III (full version) performs not always absolutly smooth (except in small & empty corridors) but well playable here on P4x, using latest patch & driver. 1024x768 & medium detail, no AA or AF of course (and set the image anisotrophy from 2 to 1 & changed the normal compression in the config)...P IV 3,06 Ghz, GA-8ihxp i850e, 512 MB PC-1066 RDRam, Parhelia 128 mb 8x, 40 + 60 gb IBM 7200 upm/2048 kb HD, Samtron 96 P 19", black icemat, Razer Boomslang 2100 krz-2 + mousebungee, Videologic sonic fury, Creative SoundworksComment
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