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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (68239)8/10/1999 12:58:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578921
 
Tench - RE: "Half-Life uses the Quake 2 engine, if I remember correctly. Why it does a whole lot better on Athlon than Quake 2 is beyond me."

Maybe that Half-Life demo is like the Crusher Quake 2 demo - very cpu dependent. What else would explain why the Athlon does so well?



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (68239)8/10/1999 9:33:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578921
 
Re: "Half-Life uses the Quake 2 engine, if I remember correctly. Why it does a whole lot better on Athlon than Quake 2 is beyond me."

Half Life has more triangles than Q2 (even though the engine is the same). Read Ace's Athlon review--it's the best one out there (haven't read Anand's yet) and it explains this issue exactly.

Back to "retirement". <gg>

Kevin


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