Tribes2 ---- YES!!!!!
Well, I got Tribes2 today and I am very, very impress with Loki's latest game. After installing various Wintendo games over the last couple weeks..I can safely say this was the easiest game I have installed. After it put the loki updater and uninstaller onto the system..it then did the base install. When it finished with this it fired off the updater and updated my install to the newest patch level. This IS slick. If Loki could get more deals like this..and bring out games of this caliber EVERTIME..man..I'm sold. BTW..it doesn't come in a box...ehhehe...it comes in a DVD case. Save the trees and look cool too. The Windows games never come in anything but a crappy box..Q3A metal tin and no this. Rock! Regards, -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.
Hi Ben, how are things? I plan on getting T2 soon. I was curious. I have an ABit BE6-II rev.2.0 with a 500MHz Celery and 160MB of PC100 ram with a GF2-MX (gainward-cardex model). What are you running? The reason I'm asking is that UT is very choppy at times and the net play is mediocre. I'm thinking of getting a 800+ P3-133 and 256-133 ram. I know that this will give me better performance, but if it only amounts to ~5% I may save my money and get and Athlon and DDR-ram. Any suggestions or thoughts? P.S. The new NV: 1.0-1251 drivers give stunnig graphics but frame rate is about 1/2 speed compared to the x-769 drivers. Evil3D did a review and states they have diminished performance at the lower res (go figure), this has been my experience also. Cheers. Curtis :) On Friday 01 June 2001 12:34 am, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Well, I got Tribes2 today and I am very, very impress with Loki's latest game. After installing various Wintendo games over the last couple weeks..I can safely say this was the easiest game I have installed. After it put the loki updater and uninstaller onto the system..it then did the base install. When it finished with this it fired off the updater and updated my install to the newest patch level. This IS slick.
If Loki could get more deals like this..and bring out games of this caliber EVERTIME..man..I'm sold.
BTW..it doesn't come in a box...ehhehe...it comes in a DVD case. Save the trees and look cool too. The Windows games never come in anything but a crappy box..Q3A metal tin and no this. Rock!
Regards,
Curtis Rey wrote:
Hi Ben, how are things? I plan on getting T2 soon. I was curious. I have an ABit BE6-II rev.2.0 with a 500MHz Celery and 160MB of PC100 ram with a GF2-MX (gainward-cardex model). What are you running? The reason I'm asking is that UT is very choppy at times and the net play is mediocre. I'm thinking of getting a 800+ P3-133 and 256-133 ram. I know that this will give me better performance, but if it only amounts to ~5% I may save my money and get and Athlon and DDR-ram. Any suggestions or thoughts?
P.S. The new NV: 1.0-1251 drivers give stunnig graphics but frame rate is about 1/2 speed compared to the x-769 drivers. Evil3D did a review and states they have diminished performance at the lower res (go figure), this has been my experience also.
On my box (1024X768) running "ssystem -bench" gave me about a 10fps increase over the 769 version. 600 athlon/TNT2. -- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com
My real problem is playing on line. I don't think its the connect since I have a very robust cable connection. I the single player game I stutters when I run into other bots in close proximity. I think it has to do with the rendering of other players - the more player the worst the stutter, this is especially true online when play againts other non-bot players. FPS will substantially drop, but it will pick up again when little or no player models are on screen. I also gets especially shaky in large maps. In small rooms and narrow hallways it's fine. That's why I was asking about some other's system specs - trying to figure out where the bottleneck is. Cheers. Curtis On Friday 01 June 2001 04:57 am, Mark Hounschell wrote:
Curtis Rey wrote:
Hi Ben, how are things? I plan on getting T2 soon. I was curious. I have an ABit BE6-II rev.2.0 with a 500MHz Celery and 160MB of PC100 ram with a GF2-MX (gainward-cardex model). What are you running? The reason I'm asking is that UT is very choppy at times and the net play is mediocre. I'm thinking of getting a 800+ P3-133 and 256-133 ram. I know that this will give me better performance, but if it only amounts to ~5% I may save my money and get and Athlon and DDR-ram. Any suggestions or thoughts?
P.S. The new NV: 1.0-1251 drivers give stunnig graphics but frame rate is about 1/2 speed compared to the x-769 drivers. Evil3D did a review and states they have diminished performance at the lower res (go figure), this has been my experience also.
On my box (1024X768) running "ssystem -bench" gave me about a 10fps increase over the 769 version. 600 athlon/TNT2.
For what it's worth I've been playing both Quake and UT and have been impressed with the smoothness of the play under all conditions. This goes for being online as well as single player games. I've seen no choppyness or stuttering at all. I'm using a Dell 400Mhz with 384MB. I have an old Voodoo 2 card installed along with an old Viper TNT2 with 16MB on it. Gerry On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Curtis Rey wrote:
My real problem is playing on line. I don't think its the connect since I have a very robust cable connection. I the single player game I stutters when I run into other bots in close proximity. I think it has to do with the rendering of other players - the more player the worst the stutter, this is especially true online when play againts other non-bot players. FPS will substantially drop, but it will pick up again when little or no player models are on screen. I also gets especially shaky in large maps. In small rooms and narrow hallways it's fine. That's why I was asking about some other's system specs - trying to figure out where the bottleneck is.
Cheers. Curtis
On Friday 01 June 2001 04:57 am, Mark Hounschell wrote:
Curtis Rey wrote:
Hi Ben, how are things? I plan on getting T2 soon. I was curious. I have an ABit BE6-II rev.2.0 with a 500MHz Celery and 160MB of PC100 ram with a GF2-MX (gainward-cardex model). What are you running? The reason I'm asking is that UT is very choppy at times and the net play is mediocre. I'm thinking of getting a 800+ P3-133 and 256-133 ram. I know that this will give me better performance, but if it only amounts to ~5% I may save my money and get and Athlon and DDR-ram. Any suggestions or thoughts?
P.S. The new NV: 1.0-1251 drivers give stunnig graphics but frame rate is about 1/2 speed compared to the x-769 drivers. Evil3D did a review and states they have diminished performance at the lower res (go figure), this has been my experience also.
On my box (1024X768) running "ssystem -bench" gave me about a 10fps increase over the 769 version. 600 athlon/TNT2.
-- "The lyf so short, the craft so long to learne." Geoffrey Chaucer
Hello Ben! I'm sorry but I must disagree on some things you wrote down there... On Friday 01 June 2001 07:34, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Well, I got Tribes2 today and I am very, very impress with Loki's latest game.
That isn't LOKI's game. The game was made by Sierra (or Sierra's external developers), not by LOKI. What LOKI did was the "conversion", which mostly means creating a proper installation program, as 95 % other things stay intact. After installing various Wintendo games over the last couple
weeks..I can safely say this was the easiest game I have installed. After it put the loki updater and uninstaller onto the system..it then did the base install. When it finished with this it fired off the updater and updated my install to the newest patch level. This IS slick.
Just the same as in Wintendo, I presume...
If Loki could get more deals like this..and bring out games of this caliber EVERTIME..man..I'm sold.
I agree. If only more developers would be willing to five Loki the rights to do that, of course....
BTW..it doesn't come in a box...ehhehe...it comes in a DVD case. Save the trees and look cool too. The Windows games never come in anything but a crappy box..Q3A metal tin and no this. Rock!
I'm not calling this anything but a little lack of knowledge (indeed, Nobody's perfect). Since the publishers agreed on new packaging standard last year, the majority of _EUROPEAN_ games are packed in DVD Cases. However, America has and will always be something "special" [not ment in "bad" way, of course!], not all games are packed in DVD cases there. And yes, you will get mostly DVD-packed games in Europe. (however, there are still some imported USA boxes.... which is sometimes very good as not everyone likes the new "compact" packaging standard...).
Regards,
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