Hey peeps, I had a quick question. I know everyone says the TR isn’t ment for gaming you really won’t get high FPS and all that blah blah blah. However, I have a home system that I game on (it’s a few years old), and gaming works great on it (Unreal Tournament, Counter Strike, Quake 3).

Here are it’s specs: Dell Dimension 8100, 1.4 Ghz, 256 Megs DDR ram, 40gb HD, 64 MB Geforce 2 graphics card, running Windows ME (YIKES! I know, I know)

Now when compared to the TR3AP2 (Which I want to get), the TR has 3x the amount of ram, a faster processor (when you convert the 1 gHZ M processor to P4 standards), The same type/speed Hard drive (5400 rpm 2mb cache), and similar graphics capabilities (except that the TR uses shared graphics with it’s memory from the gig of ram). Plus XP is better to game with.

So, wouldn’ t gaming on the TR be at least equal to the experience with my Dell, or even better :?:

The shared video on the TR is it’s worst enemy.
It’s hard to judge if one will be better then the other because there are other factors besides pure hardware, but if your happy with games on your old system you shouldn’t be too dissapointed with games on the TR…just stay away from the newer titles.

Erik

Did you see this?

http://www.siliconpopculture.com/sonytr/viewtopic.php?p=118#118

It should answer your question as some of the games you mentioned are benchmarked there. You can expect slightly higher scores since I tested with a 900Mhz Pentium M. So, you can tack on 2-3 fps maybe.

I think the TR hard disk is actually 4200rpm, but i don’t think that will have much effect on games, other than load times.