Paladin of the Pegasos
Posts: 1193 from 2003/2/24
From: Helsinki, Finland
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Does Dreamcast have virtual mem then? Quake 3 runs on it. All tougether, DC dosent have more than 26mb RAM etc. Maybe SegaOS got it?
Probably it's a mixture of a few things.
Most notably it probably uses less detailed models and less detailed textures to achieve lower RAM usage (and higher framerate) - in comparison the MorphOS version can have "full detail" (which can be lowered, but probably not as low as in the DC version)
Secondly, the Dreamcast version is a version ported specifically for Dreamcast, taking advantage of "how things work there", probably using custom format for data files aswell, optimized for available memory, containing lower details etc. Of course it might be possible to optimize / lower details of MorphOS version aswell, but I can't see the point becouse:
1)It runs just fine on Pegasos 1 & 2
2)Would anyone want to buy Efika to run "lowered detail version" of Quake 3? (I wonder if anyone has even tried to lower Q3 details to the lowest and see how much memory it really needs?)
3)The most important issue: Quake 3 sucks
