30 fps is all that is required for a smooth gaming experience. If you can consistently pull 30 fps, you've got nothing to worry about.
Perhaps you are to stupid to recognize that watching TV is completely different from playing games. 30fps are enough if I want to
look at it, but if you actually
play with 30fps you will lose against everybody except of other idiots who play like you!
Furthermore, I ran Quake 3 on a Rage 128 at 640x480 with medium/high detail and got a good 40 fps on the timedemo.
Perhaps you are not able to type 'cg_drawfps 1' in the console, otherwise you would have recognized the the timedemo gives you an
AVERAGE! If you could read, you would have seen what I posted:
Q3 on my PIII500 with ATI RAGE128 was not playable. I had ~35 FPS average with 14fps on some corners. Online-playing with 5 players in a room was impossible.
For imbeciles like you it seems necessary to explain that more detailed: I had 35fps
average, but there was a corner, IIRC it was in DM11, where I had
constant 14fps with the RAGE128! If someone comes around the corner shooting with a Plasmagun at you the frame rate is decreasing even more! Try to play with 10fps in this situation and then tell me that 35fps is enough!
But my guess is that you are so dumb you won´t even have recognized it!
No, 1024x768 was perfectly playable.
You must become cannon fodder if you play against skilled players with such weird settings.
You're a dumbass. No one needs anything more than a consistent 30 fps.
Well, because of the majority of hardcore gamers share my opinionabout FPS (and rip your ass if you play against them) it seems that
you are the dumbass.
They still make a profit on the game, genius.
Of course! Lots of folks will rush for this game because it will be the best you can buy!
Nevertheless, more important for id software is to sell the engine! What´s so hard to understand about that?
YES! That's what this whole argument is about! You actually expect us to believe that a leaked alpha is some sort of performance indication of the final product, even though it includes no optimized code at all.
Now it´s enough! Listen, man: I saw this game crawling along on a P4@2.13GHz w/ GF3ti200, as I mentioned before. It had 20fps the whole time, and when a monster appeared and you started shooting, it dropped to
2fps!
Only a person with no brain cells at all could expect the final version to be playable with this hardware!
Do you expect 20 times more frames from the final version? 20 times more?
And
you say I am a dumbass! Unbelievable!
But I can invite you to my RA3-server -> 134.130.48.237:27960
Come along with your fixed-30fps-config and I will show you what happens to people who play with such idiotic settings!