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Re: Quake 4...some tips.

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From: McGrandpa
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:25
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"Inglo" <ioo@??.żżż> wrote in message 
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> On 10/19/2005 6:50 PM McGrandpa brightened our day with:
>
>>>It's not Starforce at least.  I picked up F.E.A.R. and Quake4 today.  Got 
>>>the F.E.A.R. DVD and Q4 on 4CDs.  The friggin' F.E.A.R. director's 
>>>edition DVD, doesn't even come with a DVD case (granted it only costs $5 
>>>more than the regular version, so what do you expect, I expect at least a 
>>>jewel case).  Cardboard box and inside the DVD is in a paper sleeve, 
>>>that's so goddam cheap.  Q4 CD version, nice heavy quadruple deep DVD 
>>>type case with the 4 cds all on one spindle and a decent little booklet.
>>>Runs pretty good on my 6800 at 1024x768 and 2xAA.  Can't get all my 
>>>MX1000 buttons working yet in Quake4, first game I've had a problem with, 
>>>the Logitech software doesn't seem to recognize that Q4 is loaded.
>>>
>>>-- 
>>>
>>>Steve ¤ťIngloŤ¤
>>>www.inglostadt.com
>>>
>>
>>Way cool on Q4.  I'm gonna have to run by EbGames tomorrow after work and 
>>scarf it up :)  Batman Begins is also out, gotta get that too!  "does it 
>>come in black?"  Woohoo!
>>On the mx1000, you got profiles?
>>mcg.
>>
>>
> I think it was the XP firewall warning window loading in the background 
> causing the setpoint issue, all good now.
> Played through the first few levels of the SP campaign.  It's fun, so far 
> it reminds me a little of Star Wars: Republic Commando, which I loved.
> Here's some shots I've taken:
> http://www.inglostadt.com/q4.htm
> Screenshots just don't tell the tale though, there are some opneGL guys at 
> the nvnews forums who were playing around with offset mapping in Doom 3, 
> stuff that looked really cool, though not quite right because the textures 
> weren't done for it.  Q4 has it, and it's really cool.
> I've yet to fire up F.E.A.R. much yet, though I've played the demo and 
> thought it was lots of fun.  I think F.E.A.R. would be a good game to test 
> your X2 on, lots of physics and AI to strain the processor.
>
> -- 
>
> Steve ¤ťIngloŤ¤
> www.inglostadt.com

Looks like it may be a Big Game Day for me (let alone the Astros!).  Q4, 
FEAR.  Movies too.  I've heard some things about FEAR, but haven't even 
played the demo.  I hear it's Big too.  Well, I'll see soon enough :)
Pushing on the X2 in 32 bit processing mode is not hard to do.  Pushing on 
it in 64 bits?  HA!   Nothing's done that yet :)
Far Cry 64, as maxed out as I can get it.  1280x1024.  FR's over 100 most of 
the time.  Absolutely smooth and clean, not even one frame jerk, beautiful. 
but what's this?  NO drivers for any of the peripherals?!~#$   No x64 for a 
while yet :(
McG. 
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