On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 16:03:31 +0300, Ruairi Newman <ruairi at tech-mad.org>
wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 14:29, Conor Wynne wrote:
> <snip>
>>>> Which is crap. You cannot game with 540 fps.
>> You need to be getting thousands, not hundreds.
>> Yeah, yeah. One word: Nethack ;)
Yeah, you could probably play Nethack at about 5 fps alright.
> Anyway, 540 FPS is about what used to get on my Radeon 7500-based
> chipset (before I installed a 2.6 kernel and broke it), and it was fine
> for playing Half-Life even under Wine.
How could 500 fps not be enough?
Do you gamers set your monitor vert refresh to thousands of time a
second? No, that would be silly.
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