Erkki on 12/2/2001 at 03:03

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A week ago I bought ATI Radeon 64MB and now I can finally play Deus Ex in high detail (still 640x480 though, I have a poor CPU - celeron 300@450). In most places it runs ok, but it's still quite slow in some places. Sometimes it isn't even a very poly-rich scene where it stutters (is that the word?). Right now I'm near the Knights Templar Cathedral, and it's getting slow again.

I've heard (probably here) that Unreal Engine games run smoothly only on Voodoo cards. Is there no way that I can make it run normally (with high detail) on my Radeon? I've used the tweaks posted at (http://www.rage3d.com) www.rage3d.com

Some games that have more visual details run much faster than Deus Ex.

Erkki

Absynthe on 12/2/2001 at 05:44

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In all 3D games there are two primary bottlenecks. The 3D card and the CPU. Unreal based games have always required more CPU power than Quake base games. I suspect the Celeron is where your slow down may be coming from.

Another possibility is RAM. Though even Quake3 can live with 64meg of ram Unreal based games just don't give you the respect you deserve until you cough up 128meg.

Agent Monkeysee on 13/2/2001 at 03:17

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That sounds like the problem. I have a Pentium III 450 and upgraded from a Voodoo3 to a Voodoo5 while I was playing DX and I actually noticed very little performance increase. My bottleneck is the proc and since we have the same clock speed that's prolly your problem as well.

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Erkki on 14/2/2001 at 15:31

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Thanx for the info Bandit, I had heard this before but wasn't sure.

But UT actually runs ok on my PC (even when I didn't have the Radeon yet (had Rage Fury), I got 45-50 or more FPS and no slowdowns) although I'm not a big shooter fan so I haven't really played a lot. Got it for Thievery http://www.ttlg.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif
But I guess Deus Ex uses more CPU than UT?

Will the next generation Unreal engines be optimized for DirectX or OpenGL instead of Glide?

[This message has been edited by Erkki (edited February 14, 2001).]

BackDoorBandit on 14/2/2001 at 21:45

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This is kind of frustrating, because this is kind of common sense here guys. Don't you research (Read Preveiews, Reveiews, First-Looks, etc.) games before you play them?

If you did, then you would know that Deus Ex is based off the Unreal Engine......<u>NOT</u> the Unreal Tournament Engine. There is a huge difference between the two. It's like comparing the Quake 1 engine to the Quake 2 engine.

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