First post, by auron
test machine: piii 1100, 512 mb ram, kyro ii 64mb agp (newest beta drivers), sb live!, 98se with dx 9.0c
ut04 settings: 640x480x16, medium settings, most checkboxes enabled (except those that cause it to hardfreeze all the time, could be either detail textures or trilinear filtering)
performance: default rankin botmatch 15-30fps, dips down to 10fps and below in firefights. lowering the settings further doesnt help much, running with no bots barely helps anything, the t&l emulation thing in the driver seems totally useless as well (and at times seemed to cause freezes too just after loading the bots). yeah i know without t&l it won't be that great but is the cpu this weak for the game? there is a video on youtube with faster cpu and it runs it much better than this.
on a side note, is the live! card supposed to give any benefit in this game? i didn't use the hw sound option for this test but when i do, although i get reverb, all the sounds seem quite bugged.