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10 Jan 2003, 06:15
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Recommend a decent computer game.
It is 5:14am. I will be going out at 11am.
I need a new computer game (PC), I have notrhing to play and i'm getting bored.
My net connection is ****e so it needs to be somthing i can play for a while on one player.
I dont want another first person shooter.
I have a load of games but none that have been released in the last year or so.
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10 Jan 2003, 06:28
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Commander
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What types of games do you Prefer?
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10 Jan 2003, 06:30
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Well if you had a Macintosh I would recommend the Escape Velocity series by Ambrosia which is considered the best single player game series by both PC and Mac gamers alike. So much that Ambrosia finally caved in as in porting the latest EV (Escape Velocity Nova) to Windows.
But since your on a time limit I would recommend WarCraft III, it is a very nice game which has a very intricate Single Player mode, as well as skirmish if you want to play against comps offline. When you get a better connection, free access to Battle.net will be treasured. It is a Real-Time Strategy. That said, if you don't already have Grand Theft Auto 3 for your PC (and not your PS2) then you should get since Vice City wont be coming out for the computer.
Beyond that my last recommendation would be Star Wars Galaxies or Age of Mythology. Though that Impossible Creatures game coming out soon looks cool.
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10 Jan 2003, 07:20
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Happy
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Heros of Might and Magic IV or III... but IV is more interesting i think
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10 Jan 2003, 07:22
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Happy
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hi 
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10 Jan 2003, 07:25
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Happy
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i'm alright.. thinkin about goin to bed soon.. you?
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10 Jan 2003, 07:31
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Happy
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hehe
what movie?
tis 10:30pm here.. prolly won't go to bed til around 11. doctor's appt. around 11:30am, and school at 1pm :\
your day sounds more fun 
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10 Jan 2003, 07:39
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Happy
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awww.. lucky you :P
btw.. james bond was good (if you like girls, cars, and explosions :P)
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10 Jan 2003, 08:33
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Here's the games currently sitting in a stack by my computer:
WarCraft III
GTA III
Civ III: Play The World
Risk
Pharoh & Cleopatra
It's damn tough trying to play 5 games at once
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10 Jan 2003, 08:38
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pong3D...
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10 Jan 2003, 08:39
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Lonely analytic
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atari tennis (the 1979 version)
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10 Jan 2003, 20:02
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10 Jan 2003, 20:03
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Etherlords!
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10 Jan 2003, 20:14
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Quote:
Originally posted by Structural Integrity
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It's cool
But 11fps on an athlon 1800 is not cool, even if I do only have a voodoo 3 3000
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rubbernecken sightseeren keepen hands in das pockets. Relaxen und vatch
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10 Jan 2003, 20:19
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10 Jan 2003, 20:23
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[+] Templar
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Gothic 2
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10 Jan 2003, 20:39
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Quote:
Originally posted by Gayle28uk
It's cool
But 11fps on an athlon 1800 is not cool, even if I do only have a voodoo 3 3000
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It's the mirroring... it takes 2 extra render passes for each wall and 4 extra render passes for the ball (with texturing and lighting). That part is mainly hardware driven so if your card sucks, the framerate sucks.
I get 75 FPS on a GF2, and it's prolly more because that equals my monitor frequency (vsync is on).
I'm implementing a setup file as we speak to disable it.
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10 Jan 2003, 20:51
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Quote:
Originally posted by Structural Integrity
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It's the mirroring... it takes 2 extra render passes for each wall and 4 extra render passes for the ball (with texturing and lighting). That part is mainly hardware driven so if your card sucks, the framerate sucks.
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No, you HOPE it's hardware driven, The voodoo 3 doesn't have hardware T&L so it's all happening in software for me
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Das machine is nicht fur gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy
schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und corkenpoppen mit
spitzensparken. Ist nicht fur gewerken by das dummkopfen. Das
rubbernecken sightseeren keepen hands in das pockets. Relaxen und vatch
das blinkenlights!!!
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10 Jan 2003, 20:59
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Quote:
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No, you HOPE it's hardware driven, The voodoo 3 doesn't have hardware T&L so it's all happening in software for me
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Why does an XP1800+ have a voodoo3 in the first place? That's plain computer blasphemy (sp?)
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10 Jan 2003, 21:01
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Quote:
Originally posted by Structural Integrity
Why does an XP1800+ have a voodoo3 in the first place? That's plain computer blasphemy (sp?)
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Cos I don't really play games but I do need the processor power
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Das machine is nicht fur gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy
schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und corkenpoppen mit
spitzensparken. Ist nicht fur gewerken by das dummkopfen. Das
rubbernecken sightseeren keepen hands in das pockets. Relaxen und vatch
das blinkenlights!!!
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10 Jan 2003, 21:34
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Quote:
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11 Jan 2003, 01:10
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The Twilight of the Gods
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Civ 2
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11 Jan 2003, 01:16
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nethack or morrowind
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11 Jan 2003, 01:35
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11 Jan 2003, 01:39
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In fond memory of SB
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Quote:
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That's bloody good, SI!
60fps on a AMD Duron 1300, bye the way. (geForce 2 64Mb)
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11 Jan 2003, 01:58
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Quote:
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11 Jan 2003, 02:12
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11 Jan 2003, 02:15
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i only get 3 fps in 3d pong
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11 Jan 2003, 02:29
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Thats really coming on S/I.
One thing - when I click to 'serve' the 'bat' allways moves off to one side. Is this intentional or is it misreading where the mouse is (I position it in the center of the 'bat')?
75fps, window maximised with res @ 1152x864, 32bit colour btw - thats on a GeForce3 Ti200.
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11 Jan 2003, 02:29
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The Twilight of the Gods
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11 Jan 2003, 02:36
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3 fps on a geforce 2, athlon 1800 maximised wtf
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11 Jan 2003, 02:37
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The Twilight of the Gods
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What are you talking about now?
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11 Jan 2003, 02:41
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Born Sinful
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Quote:
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3 fps on a geforce 2, athlon 1800 maximised wtf
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You've been had - open your case and you'll probably find an S3 Virge with go-faster stripes and a large spoiler stuck on it.
On a serious note, I have no idea what the hell is up with it. Are you still running on the crappy drivers that windows installs by default, or some proper nVidia ones?
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11 Jan 2003, 02:44
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Quote:
Originally posted by Nodrog
3 fps on a geforce 2, athlon 1800 maximised wtf
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New pc?
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11 Jan 2003, 10:13
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I get 1-5 fps on Athlon 1000, GeForce 4 MX, 512 Megs of Ram.
It looks nice though, I just can't play it.
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11 Jan 2003, 10:29
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Quote:
Originally posted by Scoot951
Here's the games currently sitting in a stack by my computer:
WarCraft III
GTA III
Civ III: Play The World
Risk
Pharoh & Cleopatra
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replace Risk with Medieval:Total War and remove Civ III
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11 Jan 2003, 11:42
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WTF?
1-5 fps is kinda impossible... even if gayle gets 11 fps with a voodoo 3.
I asked around a bit and found out that the Voodoo doesn't support a hardware stencil buffer, which is used for the mirroring. So that part is software calculated.
Nod, do you have a gf2 TI or MX ?
And try not to maximize it... perhaps that's a holdback...
I'm asking around to see what it could be...
Mrl: see sig for my project...
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11 Jan 2003, 12:00
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heh i got a fps of 86 on a p4 2.8ghz and a geforce 4 128mb
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11 Jan 2003, 12:02
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does it run with OpenGL or Direct 3D? I'll try and fiddle around in my display setting to see if I can find what the problem is
edit: nevermind, I change everything and still get an average 3fps
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11 Jan 2003, 12:19
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Rawr rawr
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Quote:
Originally posted by LHC
does it run with OpenGL or Direct 3D? I'll try and fiddle around in my display setting to see if I can find what the problem is
edit: nevermind, I change everything and still get an average 3fps
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OpenGL... can you check what the processor load is while running the app? And do you have XP?
Without vsync I come to 175 fps and only 5% processor load, so I don't know where the problem could be.
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My brother with his Pentium2 350 and exotic intel 8mb gfx card & windows Millenium manages to push 7-11 fps with a few applications running in the background....
this is odd to say the least
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11 Jan 2003, 13:49
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J to the C to the A G E
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My system resourses are at 58% free. With V-Sync off my framerate stays the same.
I'm running Win98 SE, perhaps that is the problem.
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11 Jan 2003, 16:21
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Quote:
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