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Less Might Be More
Quantum Skyline writes "Most of us are running on a newer Pentium 4/Athlon 64 box with lots of RAM and a 7200 RPM drive and a uber-sweet graphics card that pushes 100 FPS in Doom 3. Our parents are probably running an old Athlon 700 with half the RAM and a Rage128 videocard, and some think that's overkill while the parents think its not enough. Why debate this? DevHardware has an opinion piece on 'leaner computing' and the author thinks that less might be more." This reminds me of a modern desktop system I saw sitting in a store, running Windows XP just so that it could connect via a terminal to another server and run the store's application. It would seem that even an old VT100 would have sufficed, but someone was able to sell the store a full blown PC.
Lance Corporal Dominic Christopher Brown, age 19, was splattered to death during patrol in the name of the Bush family's oil war on Iraq. He graduated from high school one year ago and immediately joined the Marine Corps. He's now dead. All of that learning down the drain in order to tote around guns and fire them at Iraqis, keeping gasoline cheap for you. We mourn his death and the resulting loss to the nation.
- The United Goats
Goats United for Freedom
About The United States
The United States is located primarily on the North American continent between Canada and Mexico. Founded by extremist Christians, the country has adopted numerous laws that invade the private lives of its citizens. These laws have lead to problems such as sexual disfunctionality and racially-motivated selective enforcement. Despite the current administration's mantra against the dangers of WMDs, the United States is the only country to have ever dropped nuclear weaponry on an enemy. The United States gave Saddam Hussein chemical weapons and has funded Osama Bin Laden. Saddam Hussein has used chemical weapons against extremist Shi'ite muslims in Northern Iraq known as Ansar al-Islam. These extremists have an ideology similar to that of the corrupt Taliban of Afghanistan. The United States frequently uses chemicals such as tear gas against protestors who oppose the policies of its government and corporate leaders. The United States supports Israel, a government with extreme Jewish religious fundamentalist regulations. For example, it is illegal to flip a light switch on or off during one day of every week known as the Sabbath. The United States also supports Saudi Arabia, an evil kingdom founded on strict fundamentalist Muslim law known as Sharia. Its leaders do not allow non-Muslims to enter the country, and the empire is a known breeding ground for terrorism. The United States is perpetually ensnared in a tangle between the three axes of evil: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
About The United Goats
The United Goats is a loosely knit organization of ruminants. We see through the lies of religious leaders and Washington politicians and hope to expose the truth. We support the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness. We do not believe those goals have anything to do with the price of gasoline. We also support the work of the GNAA and Anti-Slash in exposing the failings of Slashdot's editorial staff.
im not talking about the ugly it colors . . . although those are ugly. . .
im sick of these stupid "Nothing for you to see here, please move along."
please fix yourself slashdot
>> I am a geek and I am looking for a useful life
Thank you for admitting it. Most are.
I have a KT880 chipset mobo, with 512MB of 400MHz ram at CL2, with an athlon xp mobile cpu running at 8.5x200 = 1.7GHz ( stock 14x100 geez). A Geforce fx5700le 128MB (stock 225/400) oc'ed to 475/475 (yes, that is more than twice the core clock. rock stable. at 500/500 doom3 crashes.)
WHY can't i run the timedemo demo1 usecache "benchmark" with:
projectile lights, shadows, turboshadows, ultrashadow, optimized shadows all set to 1
usecache, 128MB cache, etcetcetc
but without AF without AA without vsync (just to see what the card can do), 640x480
also i set the NV20 renderer path (because D3 autoselects ARB2 which looks like SHIT and is VARY SLOWAR) at over 26fps?!?! the hell? i always get 26 and it's not just that, it's that in action (imp throws fireball. i use projectile lights but even with that disabled i gain *1* fps more. and even that is debatable.) i can't get higher than 12!! this is ridiculous! i can play any other game i can remember off the top of my head at 1024x768 with 8xAF at 30fps *STEADY* with FULL FSCKING DETAIL (nfs:u, max payne2, painkiller, etc)
my friend has an 2800+ barton core (Stock)
on nF2U chipset
1GB of 333MHz CL2.5 mem dual channeled
Ti4200 64MB stock
and he gets 36fps with the same game settings as me?!?
oh and setting 4xAF on the timedemo benchmark lost me *2* fps (went from something like 25 to 23.3)
can the limit REALLY be the CPU?!?!
Can it be that doom3 detects my card as a 64M one? (wtf? even windows, which i don't trust to tell me the free space i have on my hard drive reports the vidmem correctly, and doom3 detects it wrong?) and WTF is with the 60Hz *monitor* refresh lock?!?! FUCK YOU carmack! my fucking eyes hurt! what does your physics engine tic (WTF?!? hardcoded timesteps!?!) have ANYTHING to do with the monitor refresh?! in EVERY SINGLE OTHER GAME i have played in my life on my pc i have either 100Hz (SVGA) or 120Hz (VGA) refresh rate! (IRRELEVANT what the fps are. i want a steady image.)
(p.s. latest drivers, blah blah win XP home DX9b no progs running )
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