On 8/10/05, Leo Mauler [email protected] wrote:
I play crack-attack on a dual PII-450Mhz with a RADEON 7500 with 32MB RAM. The GPU is just fine but the CPU prevents the game from being played in its primary format. So here's another reason why crack-attack is good: crack-attack downgrades gracefully with the "--low" option. This makes the blocks a little less 3D but improves game performance on lower-end machines.
On that note, I have a question. I'm not a gamer, and I haven't played any FPS except Wolf3D and Quake and Halo one time, so I have next-to-no experience in configuring newer games. Have the developers ever thought of putting a Frame rate throttle on the engines? Really, if you are cranking out FPS faster than you can see them, why not throttle the system back and use the CPU power to handle the better effects? Setting a system max FPS of 30-60 FPS on a system capable of 120+ would give alot of extra horsepower back to the system to mkae all the goodies that much better.