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Descentman

2006-02-25, 10:25 pm

What are some of the advantages / disadvantages of XP with regards to D3?
(as I am also a 98SE'er)
Thanks.
D

"karx11erx" <karx11erx@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Superrat,
>
> changing AGP speed usually affects frame rates only very minimally, if
> at all, because it only determines the speed at which the gfx card can
> access computer main memory to store and read textures from there. If
> the gfx card's RAM is enough to hold all textures, it won't do that.
>
> If your question is about frame rate in Descent 3: Did you check your
> cmd line parameters for a -framecap parameter? Try '-framecap 0' or
> '-framecap 999' to get rid of frame rate limiting by D3.
>
> And do yourself a favor and by Windows XP. ;)
>
> karx11erx
>
> Superrat wrote:
>



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