Quake 4
I tried the Quake 4 demo, conveniently available for Linux, earlier this week using my poor Dell Latitude C840, with a 2.0 GHz Pentium 4, 768MB of RAM and a 64MB NVidia GForce4 Go. Unfortunately, the game was barely playable, even at the lowest resolution and with various special efforts turned off. Of course, even had the game been playable, I’m not sure I’d be all that interested in playing it like that. When you play any game associated with id Software you want to do so at high resolution with all the bell and whistles. Otherwise, you’re missing all the reasons to play the game in the first place.
So, I guess Quake 4 will have to wait until I get around to dropping some cash on a new home machine. And given that my laptop is under warranty for another year still, I can’t see it happening anytime soon.
Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:07 Posted in Software
