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  • Parhelia and Quake 4?

    Any chance that Quake 4 will be playable on a Parhelia? I hear it may be simmilar to doom3 but I never played doom3 on my PC.

  • #2
    Well, try the Doom III demo and get back to us. I'm sure you can play it, albeit it at like 800x600 with medium resolution.
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    • #3
      Originally posted by mmp121
      Well, try the Doom III demo and get back to us. I'm sure you can play it, albeit it at like 800x600 with medium resolution.
      that would be pushing it, personally. maybe on one of the newer P8x's, but not on the original or OEM P's. forget about a P650 or P750.

      lookie at this for an example.

      Quake 4 won't be worth playing on a P. you would be better off buying an XBox 360 or a new graphics card.
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      • #4
        Ouch!

        I played Doom III on my 9700 Pro and @ 1024x768 and it ran at like 50-60FPS, so I was assuming that even the Parhelia would be able to do 1/2 of that, 25-30 FPS, but I guess I am wrong. Maybe there have been driver updates for the Parhelia by Matrox. The review you point out says:

        Matrox's 107.00.089 drivers were used for Parhelia.


        I assume that there must be newer drivers out. But then again, I assumed P could handle Doom III.
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        • #5
          "I was impressed that Parhelia actually ran DOOM 3 without issue, but 22.6 frames per second at 640x480 is hardly playable."

          So it should be ok ... provided you can run it all in wireframe only
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          • #6
            Originally posted by |Mehen|
            "I was impressed that Parhelia actually ran DOOM 3 without issue, but 22.6 frames per second at 640x480 is hardly playable."

            So it should be ok ... provided you can run it all in wireframe only
            the optimizations made in recent graphics card drivers acctually improves performance when using textured polygons compared to a wireframe mode.

            disabling dynamic lighting would make far more of an improvement over anything else. it just ocmpletely kills the atmosphere of the game.
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            • #7
              Doom III (full version) performs not always absolutly smooth (except in small & empty corridors) but well playable here on P4x, using latest patch & driver. 1024x768 & medium detail, no AA or AF of course (and set the image anisotrophy from 2 to 1 & changed the normal compression in the config)...
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