Optimal for me. Excellent. I still think those are ridiculous for a game.
What one has to realize about HL2 and Doom3 is that HL2 is all about graphical style and not about pushing the most polys. Doom3 does nothing BUT push polys like crazy and thus requires a whole lot more to look as impressive as possible and run smoothly. It\'s like Halo 2, a game that looks AMAZING, but also takes far less to run than the first Halo on xbox because they\'ve optimized the hardware to do things they never thought of before.