Both the Mac and Linux versions run slower than the Windows version... mostly because the game's 3D engine was written for MS Direct3D... the Mac and Linux versions have been hacked to use OpenGL.
I wouldn't call it hacked - it's just that the engine is designed primarily with D3D in mind. Remember that the old builds of Unreal didn't really get fast unless you were running them on a 3dfx chipset - they were built for Glide. The OpenGL support is not hacked in just for Linux/Mac, either - you'll be able to select it as the renderer in the Windows version as well, just like the older Unreal engine games. It's not as heavily optimised as the D3D code, so on Windows it's basically a backup mechanism for D3D behaving like a bastard.
I then spent a couple of evenings on the net trying to find it. I had several files called GTA3.zip, and contained within them was a hockey game, an offroad game, and.. well I didn't recognize the name of it.
Godsdammit man, my mother can operate P2P software better than you can!
Here, let me help you learn the error of your ways (choose a pair): eMule and
ShareReactor
or
BitTorrent and SuprNova.
You can't be serious. There is NO comparison between UT2K4 and Quake 3. Q3 is old now. It uses small textures, low poly models, and also it doesn't handle outdoors areas for shit (MOH:AA artists had to tweak the PVS manually to get the game running decently).
I don't know, but I'd imagine that UT2K4 uses several thousand triangles per character. I do know that UT2K3 used 3 large textures (256x256 or 512x512, unsure again) per character (face, body, legs). And let's not mention the fact that UT uses a proper physics simulation - weren't Q3's phyiscs pretty much the same as Q1?
Right, except that some forms of copy protection on games require raw I/O access, which means being logged in as an admin. Couple that with the fact that some games don't like you using no-cd cracks (Battle.net, anyone?) and they're really putting the average user in a bind.
Maybe you have a good point, but at least the NRA would get some acknowledgement for raising a shitload of money for a hospital (from Penny Arcade post):
When this footage was aired, I learned something new: that the toys had been donated by a local catholic school, and were valued at nearly a thousand dollars. Understand this. A single bin of GBA SPs was worth four thousand dollars, and we had four such bins. That's above and beyond the seventy GameCubes the other twenty carts of toys, which at our best estimates come to around $175,000. Then there was a check for twenty-seven thousand.
Fallout: Tactics may have sold because of Fallout's pristinely good name (which it not only blemishes, but it drags through an ocean of shit in its disrespect for the founding masterpieces of the series).
Fallout Tactics may not have followed the Fallout universe well (or at all...) but the fact is that the team didn't want to make a Fallout game. They had a 2d game engine and had made some sort of scrolling shooter. Interplay didn't want the game, but liked the engine. So, they payed the team to make a Fallout game. What do you really expect to happen when the team originally had no intention of making a Fallout?
Check out the Fallout Tactics postmortem on Gamasutra.com
'Does anyone else see the irony/hypocracy in this with regards to the article? When windows breaks and we have to upgrade to fix it, we get annoyed. When smaller programs need to be fixed by future versions we just accept it.'
Except that Nero updates aren't really fixing anything - they're actually adding functionality. CD/DVD burners have advanced a lot, and you'll need to upgrade the software to use all of those dot-points you saw on the side of the box of your new hardware.
App updates like that just aren't the same as OS patches - you're not updating because you were given a sub-par product, you're updating because you want new features.
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Both the Mac and Linux versions run slower than the Windows version... mostly because the game's 3D engine was written for MS Direct3D... the Mac and Linux versions have been hacked to use OpenGL.
I wouldn't call it hacked - it's just that the engine is designed primarily with D3D in mind. Remember that the old builds of Unreal didn't really get fast unless you were running them on a 3dfx chipset - they were built for Glide. The OpenGL support is not hacked in just for Linux/Mac, either - you'll be able to select it as the renderer in the Windows version as well, just like the older Unreal engine games. It's not as heavily optimised as the D3D code, so on Windows it's basically a backup mechanism for D3D behaving like a bastard.
I then spent a couple of evenings on the net trying to find it. I had several files called GTA3.zip, and contained within them was a hockey game, an offroad game, and.. well I didn't recognize the name of it.
Godsdammit man, my mother can operate P2P software better than you can!
Here, let me help you learn the error of your ways (choose a pair):
eMule and ShareReactor or BitTorrent and SuprNova.
You can't be serious. There is NO comparison between UT2K4 and Quake 3. Q3 is old now. It uses small textures, low poly models, and also it doesn't handle outdoors areas for shit (MOH:AA artists had to tweak the PVS manually to get the game running decently).
I don't know, but I'd imagine that UT2K4 uses several thousand triangles per character. I do know that UT2K3 used 3 large textures (256x256 or 512x512, unsure again) per character (face, body, legs). And let's not mention the fact that UT uses a proper physics simulation - weren't Q3's phyiscs pretty much the same as Q1?
Right, except that some forms of copy protection on games require raw I/O access, which means being logged in as an admin. Couple that with the fact that some games don't like you using no-cd cracks (Battle.net, anyone?) and they're really putting the average user in a bind.
Maybe you have a good point, but at least the NRA would get some acknowledgement for raising a shitload of money for a hospital (from Penny Arcade post):
When this footage was aired, I learned something new: that the toys had been donated by a local catholic school, and were valued at nearly a thousand dollars. Understand this. A single bin of GBA SPs was worth four thousand dollars, and we had four such bins. That's above and beyond the seventy GameCubes the other twenty carts of toys, which at our best estimates come to around $175,000. Then there was a check for twenty-seven thousand.
Fallout: Tactics may have sold because of Fallout's pristinely good name (which it not only blemishes, but it drags through an ocean of shit in its disrespect for the founding masterpieces of the series).
Fallout Tactics may not have followed the Fallout universe well (or at all...) but the fact is that the team didn't want to make a Fallout game. They had a 2d game engine and had made some sort of scrolling shooter. Interplay didn't want the game, but liked the engine. So, they payed the team to make a Fallout game. What do you really expect to happen when the team originally had no intention of making a Fallout?
Check out the Fallout Tactics postmortem on Gamasutra.com
Fuck that job
Looks to me like you shouldn't be bashing other people's typing. Is your enter key stuck down by the drool produced in your rabid anti-MS state?
Except that Nero updates aren't really fixing anything - they're actually adding functionality. CD/DVD burners have advanced a lot, and you'll need to upgrade the software to use all of those dot-points you saw on the side of the box of your new hardware.
App updates like that just aren't the same as OS patches - you're not updating because you were given a sub-par product, you're updating because you want new features.