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News for Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:23:33 +0000

A new article regarding why the DOOM 3 Mac port performs poorly

by Wester | Permalink

Arstechnica have up an article up regarding the DOOM 3 Mac OS X port's poor performance, regardless of 4 months of intense optimization, even on the best dual 2 GHz CPU / ATi Radeon X800 256MB / 2.5GB of RAM featuring G5 system setup (meaning, in that case, average frame-rates that trail the Windows version's performance even when compared to budget PCs). Here's a bit:
"'The truth to Doom 3 OS X performance is that there isn't one magic low hanging fruit optimization that will fix it. Engineers at Aspyr/id/Apple/ATI/nvidia haven't 'overlooked' something, or just blown off an easy fix for some reason. We held the game for over 4 months purely for optimization, its not like it was rushed out for a certain date,' she wrote."

For the rest of the insight and opinions on the matter give the complete article a read.



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