I played doom3 on a athalon 2800+ with a radeon 9500pro and 1 gig of memory. Most of the game I was getting @ 25 FPS, a few time it did dip down into the high teens. This rig was my SP "gaming" rig at the time. It never went onto the internet so I had no anti-virus/firewall/inet apps running in the background. I allway keep my SP "gaming" rig just for gaming. I install winxp (sp1 only) then run the app xplite to remove all the fluff from the OS that I don't need to game, boom, 25-35 % increase in framerate off the bat. This is a good way to stretch out a SP gaming "rig" for a couple years at least.
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I played doom3 on a athalon 2800+ with a radeon 9500pro and 1 gig of memory. Most of the game I was getting @ 25 FPS, a few time it did dip down into the high teens. This rig was my SP "gaming" rig at the time. It never went onto the internet so I had no anti-virus/firewall/inet apps running in the background. I allway keep my SP "gaming" rig just for gaming. I install winxp (sp1 only) then run the app xplite to remove all the fluff from the OS that I don't need to game, boom, 25-35 % increase in framerate off the bat. This is a good way to stretch out a SP gaming "rig" for a couple years at least.