TheMuffinMan on 6/12/2003 at 04:21
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Originally posted by alkene It STILL doesn’t run that great under DirectX. It requires a disproportionately powerful card (i.e. a Geforce 1) to get acceptable framerates. OpenGL is better, but was very buggy. It wasn’t until a third party (Mesa or something?) came along and made an OpenGL patch – of course this didn’t happen until MUCH later after release.
On Voodoo cards the game ran buttery smooth.
Of course any current hardware has NO problems with DX1.
I remember "borrowing" some files from a UT installation that seemed to fix the problem quite nicely. It wasn't a huge deal, and was fixed fairly quickly after release. Knowing the basic technical issues involved, DX1 was a relatively simple fix. It remains to be seen whether DX2 will have a similar "magic bullet" patch.
CPLHicks39 on 7/12/2003 at 08:19
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Originally posted by Retischal Actually, my comment about the patch was not the point I was trying to make, instead I was saying that EIDOS was probably responsible for pressurising / forcing Ion Storm for an early release. For their "profit margins".
An extra two months would have made a world of difference both on the product quality end and the poor business decision end. While I would have happily waited an additional few months so that DXIW could have been tweaked too perfection (I like the core design, sue me), it would also have meant releasing after the holiday season. For Eidos's intents and purposes it was more important to get it out the door early and were I an Eidos exec I'd probably make the same decision. It's just unfortunate that the game had to suffer because of it.
