🚀 go-pugleaf

pfle...@scu.edu.au (Nightfox) writes:
>: 	I don't think I ever said that.  All I said was that if WC3 does not
>: run on the 486 at ALL (hey, maybe I won't be able to run the groovy SVGA flight
>: bits but the VGA engine still looks light years ahead of anything else out
>: there - and that includes Star Crusader - so I will want to play it on my 486)

>If you have a DX-50,

	Nope... and btw - is a DX-100 a dx-99 really (ie a DX4)?  In other
words, is it based on the DX33 or the DX25?


> Local bus video card,

	Nope... and again, for a 486 computer, WHICH is better? VLB or PCI?
And is it likely that when the 686 will be released they will bring out a
new chipset as they brought out the PCI for the Pentium chips?


> your set for SVGA graphics
>in dogfights where a capital ship is not present. The engine in the demo is
>unoptimized. I actually think the engine is date before Armada was released,
>so it unoptimized, as they admit in the readme file. So who knows how much
>faster it's going to be on final release?

	I think James the FAQ writer can really answer that - he's more in the
know than most of us here I suspect.


>: I will not buy the game, cause for me it is ridiculous to upgrade a machine for
>: just one game.
>I agree, my DX-50 is going be lasting me at least another 2 years,
>regardless of what OSI or any other company does.

	How long have you had it?  I hope you are right though... even though
games like Nascar are being released, at the moment it really does not worry
me since Nascar (I hear) cannot run fully on a P90 even.  Which reminds me:
what specs does EA's "US Navy Fighters" (or whatever) need?


>: uploaded... which reminds me: do the Kilrathi STILL look like puppets, or do
>: they actually have that "star trek aliens" feel to them?)

>They look okay in the demo. Their are only two scenes with them in the demo,
>and each scene lasts 5-10 seconds tops.

	Well, I FINALLY had a look at the demo too.  I was very impressed -
especially with the acting, it really did make me feel like watching the
trailer for a top new sci-fi movie... I especially liked Tolwyn's (McDowell)
and that other redhead-spiked-hair guy's (not Maniac, but the one who says in
point form something about not having R&R for so long) performances...
but I digress.  The Kilrathi looked better than I expected, but somehow those
"flat elongated lips" still remind me of those Dark Crystall muppets...  I
think there is still room for improvement (or is it too late?  How about
touching up with comp. graphics like they did in the Crow?).
	At least they remembered to keep the Emperor's bad eye. :-)


>: 	I guess all my whining is in the hopes of Origin making their code as
>: good as they did it on WC2 and NOT as bad as they did on Pacific Strike.

>Origin wouldn't agree, but I think Pacific Strike was the best thing that
>happened to Origin, and the consumer. It was a kick in the teeth they
>needed. I notice Both Bioforge and WOG have been pushed back to next year,
>more code optimizations perhaps? Afterall it can't take that long to through
>some speech into a game.

	If that is true, then perhaps the complaints of "people like me" have
not been in vain.  About Bio-forge though, is it REALLY possible to make a
game like that "totally interactive"?


>  If
>: WC3 is going to be the blockbuster everyone thinks it will, and maybe even
>: keeping in line with the "classic" status its 2 prequels achieved, I will buy
>: it.  Just as long as they don't expect me to buy a Pentium+ just to play the
>: game. :-)
>Origin have spent around about $4 million, I think they want this game to
>run fine on as many types of computers as possible.

	Within reason, I guess.  After running the demo on my DX33 ISA ET4000
Tseng labs card (yes, rather old by gaming standards), I found it quite
satisfactory... even though I could NEVER force-run the SVGA combat screens
no matter what key I had pressed (and yes I had preloaded my Vesa driver).
Is it some kind of ALT key combo, or will the program NOT run it cause it
exceeds some kind of "minimum SVGA requirement" value?
	By the way, did anyone have problems with their SB type card?  I think
my volume chip on the card went haywire after running the demo for the 1st time.

	And my MOST sincerest thanks to the person who uploaded the demo.  Quite
readily the best demo I have ever downloaded. :-)

								- Falcon