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stu

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Right, I've noticed some of you going on about this, and Neocron has just crashed on me for about the 20th time today, so Im bored and fancy something different. What's it like? And is it still in beta, or retail?
 
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Scooba Da Bass

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Originally posted by stu
Right, I've noticed some of you going on about this, and Neocron has just crashed on me for about the 20th time today, so Im bored and fancy something different. What's it like? And is it still in beta, or retail?
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Currently demo only, but it's still the most fun I've had since the old days of AQ.

www.battlefield1942.ea.com for the details, grab the demo off the BW ftp then come and play with us.
 
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stu

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hm. Downloaded, installed... crashes. Looks like some sort of DX initiation error or something. Double click the icon, swaps to black for an instant, then dumps back to desktop, remnants of the window it attempted to create quickly disappearing. Ah well.

Summo you're not trying to tell the newbie that he's posted in the wrong forum now are you...? :)
 
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Summo

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Originally posted by stu
hm. Downloaded, installed... crashes. Looks like some sort of DX initiation error or something. Double click the icon, swaps to black for an instant, then dumps back to desktop, remnants of the window it attempted to create quickly disappearing. Ah well.

Summo you're not trying to tell the newbie that he's posted in the wrong forum now are you...? :)
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Heh. I tried to write it so it wouldn't sound like that. To show good faith I found this for you:
Q: Why does the demo crash to the desktop when I try to load the map?
A: This is caused by a bug where your video card accelerates vertex shaders in its drivers, to fix it go into your main demo folder then go into the settings folder, open up VideoDefault.con in WordPad and add the line renderer.hWProgramableTransformEnabled 0
to the end, save and exit, 90% of your crashing problems should be fixed.
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Come play!
 
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PR.

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Originally posted by stu
hm. Downloaded, installed... crashes. Looks like some sort of DX initiation error or something. Double click the icon, swaps to black for an instant, then dumps back to desktop, remnants of the window it attempted to create quickly disappearing. Ah well.

Summo you're not trying to tell the newbie that he's posted in the wrong forum now are you...? :)
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I had a problem like that with my Desktop machine, I installed the latest nvidia drivers and it now works ok...
 
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Sawtooth

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I get some whiny noise when i connecy...put me off. If they cant suss soundcards then its a bit crap.
 
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Wilier

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I installed it today, got it on the latest PC Zone dvd. I like it, but its very different. :)
 
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Hashmonster

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i want to play but the game has made me realise my machine is/becoming shit :(

arse. more spending of money on the cards
 
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~Lazarus~

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Originally posted by Sawtooth
I get some whiny noise when i connecy...put me off. .
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Wasnt that just Summo on the mic?;)
 
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stu

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Originally posted by Summo
Q: Why does the demo crash to the desktop when I try to load the map?
A: This is caused by a bug where your video card accelerates vertex shaders in its drivers, to fix it go into your main demo folder then go into the settings folder, open up VideoDefault.con in WordPad and add the line renderer.hWProgramableTransformEnabled 0
to the end, save and exit, 90% of your crashing problems should be fixed.
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Interesting. It's not when I load the map, but the entire app, but I'll try this out to see if it works. Don't think it's a driver issue, I'm using latest (30.82?) official detonators.

Seems to be a very flakey/particular bit of software w/r hardware requirements... sounds like half the people won't be able to play it when it's retail.

Does this mean I have to buy a BW subscription now then? :/

On a wider point - I need to set my graphics card up for an FPS again. I've changed all the settings to reflect the games I currently play (ie where frames per second are irrelevant, so max quality with everything). What sort of performance hit does Anistropic filtering (2x? 4x? 8x?) likely to give me? And am I ok leaving any sort of AA on? No Antialiasing looks hideous after getting used to 8x.
 
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xane

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As the game stands, the netcode is more likely to get you before your FPS ever becomes a problem.

Personally I'd set quality as high as you can and only start worrying about FPS when it becomes apparent.
 
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Hashmonster

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how playable does this look!

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right, so that big square is the enemy and that other square is where i've got to get too... :(
 
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throdgrain

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Originally posted by camazotz
As the game stands, the netcode is more likely to get you before your FPS ever becomes a problem.

Personally I'd set quality as high as you can and only start worrying about FPS when it becomes apparent.
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I got a good pc and it looks fine, but I cant stop lagging :(
 
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Summo

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Originally posted by stu
What sort of performance hit does Anistropic filtering (2x? 4x? 8x?) likely to give me? And am I ok leaving any sort of AA on? No Antialiasing looks hideous after getting used to 8x.
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Naff all. I have 4x AA forced on all the time now and there's no performance hit as this is entirely a GPU-side process. FPS is reliant on CPU more than the power of your graphics card. Provided your card is up to the job (and I'm sure it is), leave AA on.
 
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Nozzer

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Originally posted by Hashmonster
how playable does this look!

right, so that big square is the enemy and that other square is where i've got to get too... :(
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That looks like my Quake3, but with lower gamma.
 
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Hashmonster

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Originally posted by Summo
HASH SI TEYH W4LLH4CK!11!
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pfft, sounds like u can't hack (aha u see what i did there....:( ) my uber playing skills! :p

i kept running towards this void and it crashed my machine.... i give up :eek:
 
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Insane

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hmmm, image actually looks like an issue with DirectX* more than your graphics card drivers.

maybe re-install latest version of DirectX and see how it works? if not then only other thing i can say is invest in a Geforce card :)

* I was bored one day and tried to play a DirectX FPS game on an S3 Virge DX, using DirectX Hardware mode... :rolleyes:
 
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stu

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Tried Summo's fix, no joy, does the same thing. Wierd that DXDiag reports no problems etc. No doubt installing an older driver set will fix it, but I really can't be assed at the moment. Anyone else using a 4600 with 30.82s?
 
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Hashmonster

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directx thing is another avenue, is there a way of finding out what version of it i'm running in XP?

just been searching for version 8.1 (which i think is the latest one) but is only available for everything but XP! :rolleyes:
 
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Will

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I think it would just update in a Windows Update. Windows Update even offers me up to date drivers now.
 
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stu

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Well, I dunno what I did, but it's working now. ph34r my comp eng skillz.
 
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stu

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Hmmm... its a bit bloody laggy isn't it.

Anyway, according to "TerminatorX", I am a 'fukkin cheat fag lol'. I rulez.
 
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Summo

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Try the BW server, Stu. No lag whatsoever.

213.221.174.65:14567
 
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