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I beg to differ.. NT kernel fragments LESS than the 95/98 Kernel.Quote:
Originally posted by Zaei
A fresh install should do you good. How often do you Defrag? anything based on the NT kernal fragments pretty badly, and i usually need to defrag my win2k machine once to 4 times a month.
Z.
Your server is slow to download man :(
promotion..nice word for spam :rolleyes: ;)
ok i have downloaded the "game" but we we can not do nothing or it's me ? Where is the game!!! :)
It's just a demo of the engine. And no this is not spam, this is finding out how our months of developing, planning and creating the demo is recieved by the public. Sure there is no game but look at what we've created! :)
That's great! Thanks for the input Stickman! And the final will be a lot better, right now our forseeable goal for ToW (Multiplayer only) is late 2002.
Nice graphic is there a way that I can know what the FPS is ?
it should say it in the corner, believe the bottom right corner. I had between 30 and 60 fps.:)
Guess what: after a total of 13mb of downloads to get ToW to work, it gives me a bunch of errors whenever I try to run it (yes I used the .bat AND the shortcut):
"Device Creation Failed"
"E_UNKNOWN -------- Description: An unknown error occured!"
About 5 "IC"s
And then it crashes :D
Jotaf, System specs?
Run dxdiag (from the run menu on the start menu thing), and go and run the D3D tests.
Z.
Hum... P800... Windows98... Matrox Millenium G200... 128mb RAM... I guess that's all :)
That error also happened to me, though i thought the IC's where a joke ;) but I thought it was because i didnt install DX8.1. Maybe its my weak gfx card!!
Did you run the tests for D3D?
Z.
Lets say that I touch for 3 sec upkey and after 3 se the right arrow and than 3 sec the downarrow. When I stop touching all key I am still slidding for 2-3 sec :( why?
Its an input problem. Its like this. You push a key, and hold it. Everytime windows querys your keyboard for key presses, it sends the program a message. The program only processes a certain number of messages every time the game ticks, so all of those input messages pile up. I will be switching to DirectInput to alleviate this problem in the future.
Z.
Ok Thx you Z because I was woundering why it does that.
An other question, is that normal than I win all the time when I attack ?
Yep, that is intentional. The units you kill will respawn at another place, so you can kill them indefinately =).
Z.
oh I see why I was not able to win ... I see, so ... we can not finish the demo ?
I still cannot run the demo, and I know why... so can someone shoot me a screenshot of it?? plz? :)
I'll download it when I get home this evening.
12mb you say? Hmmm...
Better be worth it guys.... :)
which file should I be running? I was chatting to Sas online on Tuesday, but was having many many problems.
Whats the command line I should be using?
BTW Ben, which version of DX are you running?
I forget.
8.1 or 9beta I think.
I'll check when I get back. ToW requires 8.1 dunnit...
yuhuh, and its a good hour and a half download on a 56k modem...:(
I get 18mb an hour out of my connection. Maybe slightly more if it's put data (and not web surfing).
That places it at about 40 mins. ;)
Run the batch file, or change the shortcut so that it points to the file "divloader.exe" with the command line of "uidemo". SO if you unzipped it to c:\Demo:
Z.Code:c:\Demo\divloader.exe uidemo
I was visiting relatives so I haven't been able to tell anything that's been happening to you guys. Sorry about that. I can tell you this:
The game requires DX8.1. We haven't yet tested on DirectX 9 Beta Build. If that link doesn't work go like this:The quotes should be included.Code:RUN> "C:\ToW Demo\divloader.exe" uidemo
I'm sorry that this has happened to you all, I'm sure we can fit in a little "You need DX 8.1!" error next time. Anyway.... I hope you all get it to work. That's all I can think of right now!
Huh the problem is my graphics card... for some reason it gives me an error when DXDIAG says it's gonna use 3D acceleration... :confused:
Does it use Software for 3D games? If so, I'm not sure if it will work. I believe Zaei's made it so it supports only accelerators...
Thats why I should've gotten GeForce for chrismas!!! Oh who am I kidding, I dont celebrate chrismass! So is the next release gonna have ANY ALTERNATIVES?? or will it be another "anti-low-megahertz-sorus" type of demo? lol. I really wanted to try it out but I gotta admit, I dont have the best computer in the world, I would like to call it a "low-megahertz-sorus" type... as in a "DINOSOUR"!!!!
-MoMad
Well Cam, Zaeieieai - I've had a look...
Worked first time, which is always promising.
No crashes when playing around with it (though there isn't a great deal you can do).
I think the camera would benefit from being a little more free moving, the angle was wrong for me.
The framerate took a kicking when you had any effects on screen. As I couldn't generate many, I couldn't see a cumulative effect.
On my Athlon-700, 128mb, 32mb Riva TNT2 the framerate was about 30 normally, 25 with the context menu up, dropping to 12-14 when around the fire.
Right, some Q's:
1) When you select an action from the context menu you get the particle shower from the mouse pointer. Is this there merely to show it off or is it going to do that in the final release?
2) The context menu is rather large relative to the screen even though there's only two buttons on it. Is this going to change/be resized?
3) Is the speed of the game going to be changeable in the final release?
4) Cam, you tutted sighed and rolled your eyes when not everyone got the last release of Sentience working - hope you can see it from my viewpoint now? ;) Quite often the game doesn't work on peoples machines because they merely didn't follow the instructions/prerequisites....
5) When's the next release? :D
Me too! I mean not everybody has a 32MB Video Card!! I have a 4MB Video Card for crying out loud!!!!!!!!
Mines an 8 meg ATI Rage Pro, which barely supports 3D acceleration. Unfortunately, MS decided to scrap the hardware emulation rasterizer for D3D 8, so there very likely wont be a software renderer. Sorry guys, im just not up to the challenge... =(.
Arbiter:
The next demo will be all about the camara =).
As to the framerates... try moving a bit away from the system. The larger the particle on screen, the longer it takes to draw.
1. Just show off stuff, perhaps (or perhaps not =) in preparation for something bigger.
2. It will be resized to make it a bit more intuitive.
3. Perhaps. Its not something that I have thought of before.
4. Hey, it happens to the best of us.
5. Dunno, a while =P.
Z.
It worked, but it was buggy...
It ran very smooth, and looked great, though. :)
The text was covered in garbage... I've seen this in other games before, I think you need a new method for rendering text ;)
(Edit: I've only seen the text garbage in buggy. crappy games, though... so i don't think it's my Kyro2 Video Card. If you're using GDI to render the text, I can probably help you fix the problem... GDI is a pain.)
(Edit 2: Oh duh, I forgot... It won't let me rotate the camera. The mouse, and Del/Insert/Etc do nothing.)
(Edit 3: This time, the mouse let me rotate sideways. I must not have done something right the first time. BTW, there are problems with selecting units and such... if i select to attack a unit, and then to move to it, things go wacky after I attack it.
Also, I tried maximizing the window and it died ;_;)
Its a very good idea to make your own text class... Just like the sprite class, you need to have a text class that blits the text into the screen from a bitmap of each font :)
The text output is just a quick debug thing. It will be fully replaced in the final version.
There also is no Device Reset support at the moment (the maximizing thing). I am working on it.
Unit attacking is also a quick hack. I added it the day of release.
Z.
Hum, worked for me (the text), must be your scrappy feature-less Kyro2 :p
Heheh :)
Sorry, the only video cards on the market with more features than mine are Radeon 7500/8500 and GeForce3 cards, and they cost 2x as much as the original list price for mine... ;)
The Kyro doesn't have Hardware T&L and my GeForce2 does ;)
Hey guys come on!!!! If you are going to make a "full" game, you better think of the scrubbs that have "flinstones" computers :D Otherwise you will lose market because thats basically where the majority of game buyers are at.
-Just me 0.0002 cents??
MoMad
Why do you think it's a Pre-Alpha GUI Demo?
That's 4 things that should tell you it's not release ;)
Anyway, as I have just said it's not release quality at all. And Janus we know it's on your side not our game because only you are getting this error! So there :)
And it was a quick hack so it'll be fixed next time 'round.
hehe, no no...
I mean "on the next (demo) release"....
ill wait untill next round because I really want to see your game :D
I hear you did everything in VC and not in VB so I will tolerate all of the little "buggy-bugz" because I know how hard it is to get something started in VC. But in the End, everything should come together rightfully (if u know what i mean) :D You have my best wishes
I would have to say that most gamers have fairly decent video cards. I know for a fact that I have the worst video card out of all of the gamers that I know. In fact, most 3d games coming out are 3d accelerator only. It just takes far too long to put together your own engine these days.
And, of course, since we dont plan on selling this, capturing as much of the market as possible isnt exactly at the top of the list of priorities =).
Z.
Hehehe, I know what you mean!