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caustic:
PC games seem sluggish, and theres that classic stuttering while the hard drive crunches away slowing up the whole game. The reasons (that I know of) this happens, is down to, slow disk access (perhaps due to little hdd space, clogged registry, etc.) and also the fact that youre running windoze and all those tray apps. Added the fact that console games actually run at relatively low res, this is why pc games seem slow right?

So. Why not program a extremely low resource gaming environment that could be booted into instead of windows? With directX and drivers the only things required to be loaded. Wouldnt this make games so much smoother? Opinions.

Gooseberry Clock:
<SARCASM>Oh, and I suppose the Mac is perfect because it has no swap file.</SARCASM> And get this: if your Mac has 8MB and you use Virtual Memory to double it to 16, the swap file is 16MB, not 8. Does that suck or what? Mind you, things have probably changed since System 7.5.

foobar:
I say quake 1 is the best of the quake trilogy ... but that's my opinion, especially because of QuakeC, which allows people who don't understand C still make a nice lil' mod on their quake 1 game. It absolutely rocks. Also because of low latency, due to its age and few functions (no ducking, for example)

Go linux, go svgalib/X11 linuxquake.

Calum:

quote:Originally posted by Gooseberry Clock:
<SARCASM>Oh, and I suppose the Mac is perfect because it has no swap file.</SARCASM> And get this: if your Mac has 8MB and you use Virtual Memory to double it to 16, the swap file is 16MB, not 8. Does that suck or what? Mind you, things have probably changed since System 7.5.
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did anybody say mac?
fuck off back under your stone.
this is a sensible topic and the likes of you needn't come along and try to turn it into another pointless uninformed mac vs pc argument.   :mad:

[ April 08, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

psyjax:
I think it's even more telling of Goosebuny Cock's knowledge when he apparently has not touched a mac since system 7.5. Furthermore, his knoledge about even that old, outdated system's, memory management seems to be flawd as well.

Pathetic.

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