Q3 w.intregrated card??

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Will Q3 platy using one of the integrated video cards?

Dave

 

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Behold and tremble! For Dave <brooksdj@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Will Q3 platy using one of the integrated video cards?
>
> Dave

Depends on the card. Unless it's one of the nViada nForce cards, I'd say
yes but very, very badly. It'll be unplayably slow; I know because I've
tried it. I hear good things about the nForce, but any other onboard
graphics, I suspect you can pretty much forget it. 🙁

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On 4/16/2004 6:09 AM EvilBill brightened our day with:

>Behold and tremble! For Dave <brooksdj@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Will Q3 platy using one of the integrated video cards?
>>
>>Dave
>>
>>
>
>Depends on the card. Unless it's one of the nViada nForce cards, I'd say
>yes but very, very badly. It'll be unplayably slow; I know because I've
>tried it. I hear good things about the nForce, but any other onboard
>graphics, I suspect you can pretty much forget it. 🙁
>
>
>
The nForce2 boards have the equivalent of the GeForce4 MX on them, which
will play Q3 fine. To get decent performance out of the video on
nForce2 boards you have to run the system memory in dual channel.
I was doing some work on a Compaq 2 GHz Celeron with onboard Intel
graphics and ran a Q3 demo, it choked (30 fps @ 1024). Which if its all
you can get, is playable (right EB?), but not very good.
The most common Pentium onboard video is by Intel Graphics, which you
should steer clear from, it's just not worth it for serious or even
casual (maybe beginner) gaming. ATI make the Radeon 9100 IGP which is
probably a bit faster than the nForce2 IGP and it's designed for Pentium
4 based motherboards, that'd be the way to go for P4s.
I don't know what the nForce3 boards will have, probably an FX5200
equivalent.

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Behold and tremble! For Inglo
<ingloogoo@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.xcc> wrote:
> On 4/16/2004 6:09 AM EvilBill brightened our day with:
>
>>
>> Depends on the card. Unless it's one of the nViada nForce cards, I'd
>> say yes but very, very badly. It'll be unplayably slow; I know
>> because I've tried it. I hear good things about the nForce, but any
>> other onboard graphics, I suspect you can pretty much forget it. 🙁
>>
> The nForce2 boards have the equivalent of the GeForce4 MX on them,
> which will play Q3 fine. To get decent performance out of the video
> on nForce2 boards you have to run the system memory in dual channel.
> I was doing some work on a Compaq 2 GHz Celeron with onboard Intel
> graphics and ran a Q3 demo, it choked (30 fps @ 1024). Which if its
> all you can get, is playable (right EB?), but not very good.

30 FPS is playable, yep; I should know, I played for a year or so with
about 15 FPS.

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well for me with them and it is well for them. I am a nhh-star, the
companion of a nhh-star, I become a nhh-star, and I will not suffer for
ever." EvilBill - http://www.evilbill.co.uk My Quake2 FTP site:
ftp://65.30.181.223/quake/EvilBill/