In article <4fendvF1ikfh5U1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Benjamin Gawert <bgawert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> * Greg Buchner:
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> >> Dual 1.25GHz processors. My Mac meets all of the other requirements.
I
> >> know it won't have all the bells and whistles but is it still
> >> playable? Thanks.
> >
> > Don't have it to test out, but having two processors doesn't help in
> > games ****ted from Windows generally. They don't program for multiple
> > processors.
>
> That's nonsense. Quake 4 definitely sup****ts SMP (even Quake 2 did that
> already), and there are several other Windows games that are at least
> partially multithreaded and thus sup****t SMP.
That's why I said "generally". I don't know in all cases, but I have a
couple of ****ts from windows games that even though they have multiple
threads, only hit the upper 90's for percentage of use on my dual G4.
Most notable for me was Neverwinter Nights.
Greg B.
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