[rescue] OT: Games and workstations (was OT: Linux and USB on Intel)

[Andrew Weiss]

On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 01:09 PM, Jeffrey Nonken wrote:

> I use 1024x768 instead of a lower res because, not only do I find it 
> easier
> to see things, but I found once I got past a certain point that the 
> system
> was actually GAINING performance over lower resolutions. *boggle* Not 
> very
> much, and yes I know it could have been a fluke, but my tests got
> consistent results.
>
I actually found my machine (back when it was a Riva TNT 1) actually 
gained performance when I installed the high-definition graphics update 
to Half-Life... and they warned that it would be too much for older 
machines to handle.  I guess they did enough OpenGL optimizations that 
they outweighed the increase in performance spec required.

Andrew