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  1. August 31st, 2000 07:44 AM #1
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    Will Quake 3 Arena run on this computer?

    * AMD K6-2 500MHz CPU
    * 96MB PC100 SDRAM
    * Diamond Multimedia Stealth III S540 Video Card
    (S3 Savage4 16MB AGP-2X)
    * Creative Sound Blaster PCI128 Sound Card

    First of all; how will this system perform as is, and what about if I add a 3DFX Voodoo II 12MB PCI Card?

    PLEASE NOTE: The Stealth III video card cannot have a Voodoo II piggybacked onto it, So I would use this S3 Savage3D 8MB AGP-2X I have, but I'd guess it wouldn't make a difference.

    Thanks in advance.
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  2. August 31st, 2000 10:42 AM #2
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    Q3A is very nVidia friendly. I wouldn't worry about installing a Voodoo card just for Q3A.
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  3. August 31st, 2000 11:58 AM #3
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    I wanted the Voodoo II for other things as well.......

    But this doesn't answer my question...
    Will quake 3 run on this PC at 400x300 or higher with a decent frame rate
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  4. August 31st, 2000 12:02 PM #4
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    You should get decent framerates at 640x480; q3 uses s3's compressed textures format. Try downloading the demo and see how it runs.
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  5. August 31st, 2000 12:03 PM #5
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    You should be able to run it fine at 640x480 and most effects up, i don't know much about your graphics card though, that may hold you back, instead of getting a voodoo 2, you could get a v3 2K, and sell your other graphics cards, then you would get good performance out of Q3.

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  6. August 31st, 2000 10:56 PM #6
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    Where can I download the Q3A demo?
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  7. August 31st, 2000 11:12 PM #7
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    Why does this sound like a vandammage topic?
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  8. September 1st, 2000 01:27 AM #8
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    see your card in this list n' how it will perform: http://www.q3center.com/technology/

    download the demo from here: http://www.gamepro.com/gpw/downloads...NNEL=Downloads

    benchmarks: http://www.q3center.com/benchmarks/
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    Maybe i'll change name to "FPSQuestioner" or something like that.
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  11. September 3rd, 2000 09:59 AM #11
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    Q3A ran suprisingly well!!

    I dont believe in 32bit color for games, who needs more than 16bit (65 thousand) colors for games anyway.

    800x600x16 all effects/quality on high: runs well (definatly more than 20FPS).

    I am currently running it at 640x480x16 and loving it.
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