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[bestatstats]

GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE !!!

I was somewhat angry that UBI made Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorow does NOT work on PIII-733 systems! Despite the fact that I have 384 MB of RAM and ATI 9600SE Video Card, I couldn't run it at all! I downloaded the demo version of the game, and it worked remarkably stable at the highest graphics level too!

I would like to say that I installed the demo version, copied Splintercell2.exe from the demo and overwrote the Splintercell2.exe of the full version of the game.

I was able to get the full version of the game to work well. Please note that I already have the graphics level maxed, and i am not getting any performance problems!!

It is disappoiting to prohibit use of the game and to greatly reduce the number of your customers, and most importantly disappoint the fans of UBI.

So, I say with full pride, I love my PIII 733 Computer, and I am also enjoying very much SC. Pandora Tomorow! :-)

[bestatstats]

GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE !!!

I was somewhat angry that UBI made Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorow does NOT work on PIII-733 systems! Despite the fact that I have 384 MB of RAM and ATI 9600SE Video Card, I couldn't run it at all! I downloaded the demo version of the game, and it worked remarkably stable at the highest graphics level too!

I would like to say that I installed the demo version, copied Splintercell2.exe from the demo and overwrote the Splintercell2.exe of the full version of the game.

I was able to get the full version of the game to work well. Please note that I already have the graphics level maxed, and i am not getting any performance problems!!

It is disappoiting to prohibit use of the game and to greatly reduce the number of your customers, and most importantly disappoint the fans of UBI.

So, I say with full pride, I love my PIII 733 Computer, and I am also enjoying very much SC. Pandora Tomorow! :-)

[Deisel23]

Do you play MP ?

[Netsurfer733]

Ahh the old 733-that's why I named myself as I have

[Chiz3]

i would LOVE to know how you can run it with 1024 x resolotion, with high, and get a constant 30 fps. i have a amd athlon 1800xp, 786 ddr, geforce fx5600 xt 256 mb, and play on lowest possible settings.

[Eron]

Short sighted, and you lack wisdom to say with such pride how you love your p3 733..

[Dreakon1313]

I am also confused, sure my video card sucks, but you have a Pentium 3 733 for gods sake! Why am I struggling for any kind of FPS on the lowest settings while someone with a $50 computer can play on the higher end settings with little to no performance hits. Ubi, you got some s'plainin to do...


Where's the patch?

[Suchey]

I would imagine hes full of it. I can see no way in the world he could play this game with no frame rate slowdown at the highest settings on 1024x768 using that ancient machine. MAYBE the framerate peaks at 30 when hes in a completely dark room with no light source, bbut I would even have a hard time believing that.

[XyZspineZyX]

[sarcasm]i'm disappointed too... SC-Pt wont work on my 486-2x66 [sarcasm]

If they make new games to work on computers 3 years old (i.e Pent 733)... the graphics will be like playing PONG !

[bestatstats]

Hello, All!

Much critcism over simple facts! First of all, to explain my case here is the configuration for my computer:

CPU Pentium III 733 MHz
Gigabyte Motherboard w/ Apollo 133 VIA Chipset
Asus ATI 9600SE 128 MB Video Card - Running at AGP 4X
384 MB RAM PC133
Maxtor 40 GB Hard Drive 7200 RPM
O/S: WINDOWS XP Professional SP1

Quite simply, and I kid you not, I bought UBI game, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, and the game at first issued a warning: "CPU Level is Below Minimum Requirement." But the game loaded, *All* graphics level set At Best, Filtering Mode Trilinear. The game had a very decent very stable performance.

If you have a doubt, I ask you to download the demo version of the game, grab its splintercell2.exe and put it ...\Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorow\Offline\System\
It will ask for CD3, you put it in, use even its iso image on a virtual drive (CloneCD or Nero) , and the game loads very smoothly :-)

For the guys who are wondering this is a big joke... I also invite you to read a little bit about Nvdia FX5200 or 5400 versus ATI Radeon 9600SE/XT/9800. For the comparable ones, namely, my Radeon 9600SE versus FX5200 (almost same shelf price! http://www.canadacomputers.com/video.html#gra) which is what I have and its counterpart of FX5200:

Model names ATI Radeon 9600 SE/TD FX5200 V9520TD
Video Memory 128 MB DDR 128MB DDR
Engine Clock 325MHz 250MHz <=== 100 MHz Slower!
RAMDAC 400MHz 350 MHz <=== 50 Mhz Slower!
Memory Clock 400MHz (200MHz DDR) 400MHz(200MHz DDR)

Full Specs. are taken from Asus:
http://usa.asus.com/products/vga/r9600se/overview.htm
http://usa.asus.com/products/vga/v9520td/overview.htm

Thats about it!!! I don't use special tweaks, or do anything out of the ordinary. To be more honest, the only game I had a problem with is Far Cry, which I could get it to work ONLY at "Normal" settings, or it wouls spend forever loading any level. Nevertheless, it worked and I already beat that game!

So, yes, I take pride in my Pentium-III Computer because it has so much potential
And for the disbelievers out there, use the exe file from the demo to launch the game from your virtual drive and see for yourself! As for the Multiplayer, I'll work on it and keep you updated!!

The only program that I use that may hardly pass as a tweak is Memory Turbo, which enables me to run Windows XP with 300 MB of free RAM (before I would only have 174 MB of RAM remaining out of 384). If you decide to use it, and I highly recommend it, tune your memory cache which I have it set for the following:

Minimum Cache Size:
60 MB || MAX. CACHE SIZE: 177 MB || Cache block size: 16384 || Asynch IO Buffer: 128K

It reduces your hard drive loading time significantly!