SW or GL Quake: what minimal resolution we need nowadays ?

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[venomus]

Thing is even moderately high resolutions in SW will pwn slow processors. And let's face it, most computers running SW Quake out of necessity (i.e: no 3D acceleration at all) are unlikely to be running on anything much faster than a P2.
I don't think there's as much of a demand for high resolutions in SW Quake* as there is for being able to play at 320x200 on a £20 laptop.


*There may be a demand for easily reverting to the feel of SW Quake, e.g. turn off all the eye candy with one option (that includes all texture filtering).

[Quake Matt]

Yeah, I agree with Venomus - keep the 320x200 for the older machines, and for the classic Quake look!

For GL, however, I'd probably say 640x480 is the minimum.

[Sajt]

I much preferred software to hardware on my P2 233 MHz, and I always used 640x400 because it was smooth enough (and 640x480 was noticeably slower).

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