[geRV]

Originally Posted by wintersforge

its me sleeping:

[img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.marley/Smilie/wtcslap.gif[/img]

[Stammer]

Anyway back on topic, Quake Wars and Quake 4 all use the D3 engine right?

[geRV]

Far as im aware theyre using enhanced versions of the d3 engine, quakewars has some new feature called megatexture. Think it basically lets them use one big texture for ground textures instead of a ton of smaller ones. It also lets them have large maps like bf2 but without the distance fogging effect that bf2 has.

Can grab the trailer of it here;

http://media.pc.ign.com/media/748/748377/vids_1.html


Looks amazing too.

better link here, http://www.doom3.alliancze.org/trailers ... kewars.zip Posted it a while back.

[Akuma]

I'm looking forward to Quake Wars far more than Quake 4.

[geRV]

Originally Posted by Akuma

I'm looking forward to Quake Wars far more than Quake 4.

Im not, that thing looks like it needs serious horsepower to run. Im hoping to have a new system ready for it. dance:

[Stammer]

Originally Posted by geRV

Im not, that thing looks like it needs serious horsepower to run. Im hoping to have a new system ready for it. dance:

Oh god, and you already have a great PC. I'm fucked. I agree with Akuma though, I'm looking more foward to Quake Wars then Quake 4, both look amazing in their own respects.

Edit: The thing that struck me as very nice were how smooth the animations were in the QW trailer.

[geRV]

My current system would be fine if ati would release an agp x1800xt varient, it was in their roadmap but has yet to be commented on. Pisses me off no end that to get a simple graphics upgrade i would have to buy a new mobo, and cpu THEN buy the gfx card. loney:

[Stammer]

Originally Posted by geRV

My current system would be fine if ati would release an agp x1800xt varient, it was in their roadmap but has yet to be commented on. Pisses me off no end that to get a simple graphics upgrade i would have to buy a new mobo, and cpu THEN buy the gfx card. loney:

The x1800xt is ed: , 512MB card. Thats impressive. I was looking over the benchmarks for it and it got 41FPS at 1600x1200 FSAA 4X and 8X for DOOM 3. I'm guessing it's only a PCI-E card and I'm assuming you have an Intel CPU socket 775?

[geRV]

My sockets a 478, intel brought out lga775 to replace it earlier this year. annoy:

The x1800xt fps in open gl games will be going up soon as well, ati are tweaking its memory management and its upto 36% faster in doom 3 at the minute with fsaa enabled.

[Pyro]

RTCW was cool.

[Akuma]

Originally Posted by geRV

My current system would be fine if ati would release an agp x1800xt varient, it was in their roadmap but has yet to be commented on. Pisses me off no end that to get a simple graphics upgrade i would have to buy a new mobo, and cpu THEN buy the gfx card. loney:

Just bite the bullet go PCIe.

I was used to be extremely pro-AGP but whatever, mobos aren't that expensive.

[geRV]

Originally Posted by Akuma

Just bite the bullet go PCIe.

I was used to be extremely pro-AGP but whatever, mobos aren't that expensive.

Mobo isn't but a mobo and cpu is spank:

[Akuma]

Oh yeah, I got to keep my s939. happy:



Edit: Even though I upgraded to a 3800+ X2 shortly after.

[geRV]

Originally Posted by Akuma

Oh yeah, I got to keep my s939. happy:



Edit: Even though I upgraded to a 3800+ X2 shortly after.

cuss:

Its possible to get a pci-e socket 478 board but its some little no name pos so fuck that. And fuck intel up the ass for switching sockets so frequently, switching bs just to sell more motherboards. annoy: cuss:

[yODa]

Originally Posted by Pyro

RTCW was cool.

imwithstupid: