Thanks to everyone who responded. Picked up 64 meg
last night and was only able to pump the system up to
96 because of the RAM already onboard. WHAT A
DIFFERENCE! No more hard disk thrashing after zoning
and I actually twisted three songs most of the night
in Lavastorm (When I wasn't stunned...)
Anyway, more system upgrades are now planned;-)
Tyunes of Rodcet Nife
Twistin' the night away...
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hho@... wrote:
> Yeah get RAM.
> I was playing on a:
> P166MMX (Runnning 2.5x75 => 187,5MHz)
> 96Mb of RAM
> 3dfx voodoo 1 card
> SB Live
> ISDN line (Playing from Denmark so I have a bit of
> latency)
>
> Particle density off.
> I started off with 32Mb of RAM but I upgraded it
> within the first week of beta4
> the game was totally unplayable, I remember taking
> falling damage from taking
> the lifts in Kelethin.
> After I added RAM I could keep up 3 songs by
> counting, since counting and
> reading/writing is hard to do at the same time I
> normally only did 2 songs.
>
> Now Ive upgraded to a:
> AMD Athlon 550MHz. (Running 605 at the moment..
> Should be able to do 750 when I
> get a GFD)
> 128Mb RAM
> ASUS Geforce V6800
> SBlive
> ISDN
> Particle density high (I suspect I will turn it down
> once I get enough of the
> flashy lights)
> Offcourse there is a world of difference (I only
> upgraded because of RoK) and I
> can keep 3 songs up with little effort..
>
> Well If I had your system I would get more RAM
> atleast up to 128Mb
> and then wait and see how good RoK will work..
>
> Musiker Silverdrum bard, 33th level, bertox
>
>
>
> >Message: 13
> > Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:50:54 -0500
> > From: "Sigma111" <sigma7@...>
> >Subject: Re: twisting troubles
> >
> >RAM RAM RAM...I played on a Viper v550
> >for a LOOOONG time. That isint a bad card at
> ALL...
> >the thing is that video card techjnology has jumped
> so far SO fast..
> >you can do a LOT worse than the v550.
> >
> >However, if you want to increase performance...RAM
> is teh WAY to go.
> >
> >after upgrading to 128MB from....32MB (ack!) my
> whole world changed.
> >
> >I used to eave the room to get drinks while
> zoning...now I zone in under
> >20 seconds usually ( well mabey a bit higher in
> some zones...)
> >
> >
> >RAM is good. Get RAM..:)
>
>
>
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