I'm quite sure Papyrus could produce a game that would whip the pants off
anything Hasbro puts out.
We should be thankful that they are trying to stay within technological
limits. Otherwise we would ALL have to get Pentium 3's/600's/256mb RAM with
32mb video cards to run the games with any decent frame rate. How many of us
can afford to do that?
-P.S. I can't wait to see all the threads when Hasbro does come out with their
games that complain about frame rates. Anyone want to take bets that if you
have a Pentium 2 350 or less you'll DEFINETLY have to turn off some detail
options to get good frame rates when Hasbro comes out with their games...?
-<Grin> Nanakofi......
On 15 Aug 1999 08:34:03 GMT,
On a PII-350, you have to turn off detail in Papyrus' GPL.
[shrug]
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Based on what?
Gp500 runs smooth as silk and its a hasbro game?
Why does hasbro mean high system requirements?
GPL, Nascar and other papys games needed systems that were way beyond the
normal pc at the time.
Any resonable answers appreiciated.
-ilmore
ah, here we go:
> I'm quite sure Papyrus could produce a game that would whip the pants off
>anything Hasbro puts out.
> We should be thankful that they are trying to stay within technological
>limits. Otherwise we would ALL have to get Pentium 3's/600's/256mb RAM with
>32mb video cards to run the games with any decent frame rate. How many of us
>can afford to do that?
Yes, aren't we lucky that Papy releases totally ***games just so that we
can play them..... but they could do a really good one if they wanted to,
they just don't wat to...haha
I have a P11 350 and I have to turn detail off for GPL, otherwise there is
minimal frame rate in situations were more than say 2 cars are displayed at
once!!!
>Yes, aren't we lucky that Papy releases totally ***games just so that we
>can play them..... but they could do a really good one if they wanted to,
>they just don't wat to...haha
What? Is this a joke?
I don't get it.
Mark
Reading, UK
All I need to see is the road and what isn't the road. That's all I can see in
GPL with 11 AI cars! <G> Oh and the tyre texture so I know when my wheels are
locked! :-)
Rob Swindells
3rd equal in Goldline Bearing FFord Championship (18 Points);
9 points behind Championship Leader (as of round 4 of 6)
"If you're a great driver, you will get through. It's not harder than any time
before." ~Martin Brundle
It was just a bit of sarcasm on my part:-)
I can, and I won't have any complaint about it. I am one of those who wants the
best simulation experience that can be had within reason. Right now a PIII 600 and
256mb's of ram is within reason. I'm currently running a couple of Celeron 464
systems with 128mb of ram becuse I am holding out for the next generation PIII
"coppermine" CPU. One of the Celery's is rendition V2200 for NROS and web browsing
and the other also has a Rendition V2000 plus SLI Voodoo2 for GPL and all other
games. I also have 2 older Pentium systems as well. One is an NT 4 server plus
internet gateway and the other is a test box for various OS experiments like
Windows 2000, Linux, BeOS etc. I guess I'm not exactly a normal PC user, huh?
Just make the sim Papy, I'll build a box that can run it.
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> I'm quite sure Papyrus could produce a game that would whip the pants off > anything Hasbro puts out. > We should be thankful that they are trying to stay within technological > limits. Otherwise we would ALL have to get Pentium 3's/600's/256mb RAM with > 32mb video cards to run the games with any decent frame rate. How many of us > can afford to do that? > -P.S. I can't wait to see all the threads when Hasbro does come out with their > games that complain about frame rates. Anyone want to take bets that if you > have a Pentium 2 350 or less you'll DEFINETLY have to turn off some detail > options to get good frame rates when Hasbro comes out with their games...? > -<Grin> Nanakofi......box that can run it.
Hear, Hear, It's ridiculous to think that the detail/physics/whatever
that are possible in a sim should be compromised (dumbed down) so that
people with less than "state of the art" equipment won't feel badly done by.
As long as it's possible to turn down detail/AI or something to get
respectable framerates on more modest gear, then the other end of the
envelope should be pushed for those of us who want to go there. If game
designers wrote to "the current standard" of hardware we wouldn't have the
vast improvements we've seen over the past years.
GPL has got me into a PIII 550 and V3 3000, and I want more!
Cheers..
Phillip
>It was just a bit of sarcasm on my part:-)
I see. Thanks for clearing that up. I always manage to miss sarcasm when
it's written down. I need to sharpen up a bit, I guess.
Cheers,
Mark
Reading, UK
