Balrog on 14/9/2002 at 09:29
It looks wonderful, Frobber. I loved Hallucinations, even though it kept saying "buy a new pc, go on, buy one, buy one" and am really looking forward to Insurrection.
frobber on 14/9/2002 at 15:14
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Originally posted by Balrog It looks wonderful, Frobber. I loved Hallucinations, even though it kept saying "buy a new pc, go on, buy one, buy one" and am really looking forward to Insurrection. Not to worry. As I just wrote on the Eidos forum...
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I play it okay on my 600 MHz machine with a TNT2 card, but it starts out a little choppy, and the screen frame rate rarely gets better than 12-15 frames per second. So it should be playable on just about any reasonable PC.
It is not just screen complexity (fancy terrain) that slows things down. There is a whole lot of AI activity going on which I'm hearing makes a noticeable difference even on a 1.6 GHz machine with a GeForce 2 -- at least for the first few minutes before the "initial events" settle down.
So I'm just saying that if you are accustomed to running FMs with absolutely no jitter -- this mission may have a little slower frame rate than you might expect.
But there is nothing here that makes it unplayable on a "normal" PC -- I just want to make it clear that it may not always be the smoothest screens you have ever seen.
I'm recommending 600 MHz and TNT graphics as a minimum, and suggesting 1.0 GHz or faster with a TNT2 (better -- a GeForce 2+) graphics. Directx 8.1 seems to help a bit, too. And more than the minimum 128MB of RAM is a good idea. Nothing unreasonable, though.
Balrog on 14/9/2002 at 17:30
It should be fine on my old crate anyway, I'm looking forward to it. :)
zappenduster on 24/10/2020 at 16:25
After all those years here's an update for that impressing FM whitch now contains a german version:
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http://www.0815x.de/thief/FMs/Insur_v1h.zip) http://www.0815x.de/thief/FMs/Insur_v1h.zip
Thanks to Frobber for his permission and to SinisterShadow who made a language patch some years ago ... I only merged it into the ZIP for a more comfortable installation. :D
As always: Mirrors welcome. :)