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New 8400, XPS gen 3 systems - can your systems play current games (Far Cry...)?
If you have one of these new systems with PCI express, and one of the
new radeon X800 video cards, could you please indicate whether your system is able to play current games (such as Far Cry, Doom 3, ...), without crashing, freezing, lock-ups. There are multiple ongoing threads in the Dell Support Forums by users complaining how they are unable to play games on their "gaming computers": - forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board?board.id=dim_video - forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board?board.id=game-gen Dell is saying little, and it is not clear at all how prevalent this problem is. |
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I have an 8400 with the following specs:
P4 3.0 1 GB DDR2 533 RAM 80GB and 160GB SATA drives 120GB USB 2.0 drive PCI Express X800 SE video Integrated audio DirectX 9.0c ATI 4.9 beta drivers optimized for Doom 3 Latest IIntel chipset driver. Clean install of XP Pro (SP2 RC2 slipstreamed) I can play Doom 3 for hours without crashing. "scooby" wrote in message om... If you have one of these new systems with PCI express, and one of the new radeon X800 video cards, could you please indicate whether your system is able to play current games (such as Far Cry, Doom 3, ...), without crashing, freezing, lock-ups. There are multiple ongoing threads in the Dell Support Forums by users complaining how they are unable to play games on their "gaming computers": - forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board?board.id=dim_video - forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board?board.id=game-gen Dell is saying little, and it is not clear at all how prevalent this problem is. |
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"WSZsr" wrote in message ... I have an 8400 with the following specs: P4 3.0 1 GB DDR2 533 RAM 80GB and 160GB SATA drives 120GB USB 2.0 drive PCI Express X800 SE video Integrated audio DirectX 9.0c ATI 4.9 beta drivers optimized for Doom 3 Latest IIntel chipset driver. Clean install of XP Pro (SP2 RC2 slipstreamed) I can play Doom 3 for hours without crashing. Does that mean your system *does* crash, but not for hours, or you're not aware of any problem? |
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Never a crash with the configuration I listed.
"The Social Outcast" wrote in message ... "WSZsr" wrote in message ... I have an 8400 with the following specs: P4 3.0 1 GB DDR2 533 RAM 80GB and 160GB SATA drives 120GB USB 2.0 drive PCI Express X800 SE video Integrated audio DirectX 9.0c ATI 4.9 beta drivers optimized for Doom 3 Latest IIntel chipset driver. Clean install of XP Pro (SP2 RC2 slipstreamed) I can play Doom 3 for hours without crashing. Does that mean your system *does* crash, but not for hours, or you're not aware of any problem? |
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