Kinlaadare on 6/10/2002 at 14:05
if u wanna play the demo (or the game) on a nVidia card, DON'T use the 40.xx drivers, they are buggy... using the 30.82 solves the problem. For more info see the faq on the jowood's forum : (
http://forum.jowood.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=69)
edwardhuggett on 7/10/2002 at 15:41
The jerky / laggy screen bug is a fault with the demos exe - one of the programmers said on the JoWood forums. Its an older version or something and they are gonna release a small patch (2mb) to fix it. I think the 1.31 patch gets rid of it too.
When oh when is it going to get here. I hope it lives up to my expectations ..... I hope its a cross between the playability of Underworld and the atmosphere / cinematics of Lands of Lore. For some reason I found that series very atmospheric even though they didnt play too well.
Ive not bought morrowind and im not gonna either. I prefer smaller, more interesting locations like arx and underworld - at least i will feel i have got somewhere in a gaming session. Tho it does look very pretty, morrowind. But Gothic 2 looks better. :D
Hemebond on 8/10/2002 at 03:54
I am dumb-struck. I canbot believe that after all these problems, and with such aweful performance, people would still buy this game.
I have played the demo. I loved it. I baked a pie for crying out loud.
But there is no way I'd buy it. It ran like crap. Utter, crap. The GUI was clunky and slow. Character movement made me think he'd broken his legs.
It's consumerism like this that got Microsoft to where it is.
xman on 8/10/2002 at 18:13
Hemebond, did we play the same game?
I've played the French 1.131 version and it ran very well (and fast) on the most badly configured PC I've even seen (a friend's PC).
There were only a bunch of graphic glitches due to the fact that he should reinstall his whole system with better drivers but no problem about speed (he's got a P3@1GHz and a GeForce3 Ti200 = quite an average machine nowadays).
heretic on 9/10/2002 at 04:24
The most recent English version demo runs perfectly well (around 60FPS) for me with all details/features maxed. No slowdowns or hiccups. On the second go-through I did get a slight graphical glitch, my characters' face texture was missing during all of the cutscenes but the first. WinME, P4 1500, 512MB, GF4 w/ 30.82 drivers.
TazMan on 9/10/2002 at 20:52
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Originally posted by Hemebond I am dumb-struck. I canbot believe that after all these problems, and with such aweful performance, people would still buy this game.
I have played the demo. I loved it. I baked a pie for crying out loud.
But there is no way I'd buy it. It ran like crap. Utter, crap. The GUI was clunky and slow. Character movement made me think he'd broken his legs.
It's consumerism like this that got Microsoft to where it is. Hemebond, you must be playing th MARCH 2002 English
BETA Demo, NOT the OCTOBER 2002 English Demo.
Head bobbing is almost totally gone in the newer Demo.
Hemebond on 10/10/2002 at 00:16
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Originally posted by TazMan Hemebond, you must be playing th MARCH 2002 English BETA Demo, NOT the OCTOBER 2002 English Demo.
Head bobbing is almost totally gone in the newer Demo. Yes that is the demo I played. I've just downloaded the latest version and it seems a little smoother. Didn't play for very long though. And it wasn't the head-bobbing that bothered me. It was the movement itself.
I too got the blackout during the intro. I was 10 seconds away from killing the demo when it came right.
Still, I'll play through it again when I get home, just to see what's changed...
madmax559 on 10/10/2002 at 01:13
>I am dumb-struck. I canbot believe that after all these problems, and with such aweful >performance, people would still buy this game.
simple soln ....don't buy it :)
don't get taken in by the hype & wait & see what the reviews say & play the demo
& make up your own mind.....
ttlg is a heavily overhyped biased site :) with a few counter opinions thrown in
people are dumb so live with it :)
that being said i though the first demo was bad & said so as much early on
the new demo seems to be nice...i still don't care for the movement
but then i havent played it enough to make a firm judgement.....
either way you win....if its good & you buy it you will be entertained
if you don't then you didnt loose anything...
so relax & give the demo a try.....
;)
Shadowcat on 10/10/2002 at 12:02
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Originally posted by TazMan Yeah... I get the same cinimatic bug. Intro screen... guy throws arms up... screen goes black... audio works... screen comes back near end of cutscene. So I finally get to have a (very
very brief) look at Arx... (It's late and I really need to get some sleep). All I can say is it's very very purdy (nice bump-mapping!), and I haven't felt so excited about a game in a long time!
That cinematic bug... it switches from a 3D cutscene to a kind of 2D panning mural at that point, so perhaps you don't have the appropriate video codec or some other system settings required to view the mural animation? Hopefully the full version will come with all the required software!!
