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I just bought Unreal II
« on: September 30, 2003 06:54 am CDT »
It's a whole lot of pretty, but the engine isn't very efficient. I hope it'll be updated to UT2003's engine build when the XMP patch comes out...

Anyone else own this game? Is the beginning of Hell a framerate killer for you as well? (Imagine up to 1000 rendered snowflakes + A very detailed outdoor area...)

I look forward to beating the game by this weekend... I'll tell you what I think
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« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2003 06:56 am CDT »
I played it on a GF3 Ti500 no problem.  Very good game.
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« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2003 06:58 am CDT »
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I played it on a GF3 Ti500 no problem.  Very good game.


Maybe I should turn down the graphics settings  :roll:

I'm running it on a 2.4 ghz Pentium 4 with 256 mb of ram, using a GeForce 4 MX(bleech!)...
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« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2003 07:02 pm CDT »
I was running on a 1.6GHz 1900+ (barely OC'd at all, only make it to 1.7GHz for a time).  The MX series of the GF4's are actually GF2 cores.
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« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2003 10:25 pm CDT »
right now my computer is a unsavory woman to me.. the stupid thing like shuts down when ever i try and open a game... lol or like watch a movie...
it's my video card i think.. but the stupid thing is making me go mad..
*start it up like 5 times*-FREEZZZ*
stupid thing lol...
I swear my video card wont except my mother board.. it's like my video card is gay and my motherboard is a dic....
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« Reply #5 on: October 1, 2003 08:23 pm CDT »
Yeah, the GF4 is just a DX7 rehash card.  

I played Unreal II on my Geforce3 (regular), it was a FPS hog, but not so bad at medium quality, 800x600.

On friday I'll be replacing it with a Gainward GeforceFX 5200 Pro (128mb) which I got for even more cheap, since a friend was replacing that with a 9700 Pro.

I need to find me a comparison sheet that has the FX 5200 pro and a GF3 included on it, so I can see the FPS difference.



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right now my computer is a bitinlarch to me.. the stupid thing like shuts down when ever i try and open a game... lol or like watch a movie...
it's my video card i think.. but the stupid thing is making me go mad..
*start it up like 5 times*-FREEZZZ*
stupid thing lol...
I swear my video card wont except my mother board.. it's like my video card is thought equivalent of the nonacceptance of homosexual tendencies publicly paraded in today's culture and my motherboard is a dic....


As for that, make sure that graphic acceloration is enabled.  That had me confused for a couple months when suddenly all my new games that used OpenGL and Direct3d started to now work.  Also, when in doubt, reformat.

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Jason dont pounce on me because I bought a nVidia card.  I just need something to hold me out on Halo, HL2, and Doom III til I can afford a 9600pro - 9800pro (or maybe save up and get the TX version, 12% performance increase!  :D )
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« Reply #6 on: October 2, 2003 02:00 am CDT »
I watched it on a top-o-tha-line system when it first came out and thought it was pretty boring and that the enemies were even more "janky" than Unreal 1... though Unreal 1 kicked major ass.

The all-glowing enemy fire, and the run back and fourth shooting guys pooring in at equal and manageable intervals from two sides (one you just cleared out) was repedative and boring, especailly when it consisted of the same 1 or 2 enemies who shot the same lame glowing ammo at you as the next one.  I guess I am saying that I'm not that impressed with the glowing pink/green/etc weapon bolts, and I'm not impressed with the repedative jaggy-looking environments.

Unreal one, though jaggy, had a lot of variation in every level, and that's what I think made it so much fun to play; almost every room looked unique and had you searching for cover while dodging shots, which U2 doesn't seem to have much of.  For example, the only levels I didn't really like in Unreal were Tarranauix Underground (spelling?!) and the ooze-filled rooms shortly after it.  Those levels were repedative, predictable and not very varried in their architecture (though some broken stuff and destroyable stuff made up for that a little bit.)

ANyhow... Some may enjoy it, but I was bored listening to that bot-lady talk about lame stuff, and bored with the level designs. :-)

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« Reply #7 on: October 2, 2003 06:57 am CDT »
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The all-glowing enemy fire, and the run back and fourth shooting guys pooring in at equal and manageable intervals from two sides (one you just cleared out) was repedative and boring, especailly when it consisted of the same 1 or 2 enemies who shot the same lame glowing ammo at you as the next one.  I guess I am saying that I'm not that impressed with the glowing pink/green/etc weapon bolts, and I'm not impressed with the repedative jaggy-looking environments.


Are you sure you bought Unreal II?  That doesn't sound anything like the game I played.   :?
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« Reply #8 on: October 2, 2003 08:36 am CDT »
I'm beginning to suspect Unreal II has a memory leak, takes longer to load levels as I run it for longer periods of time...
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« Reply #9 on: October 2, 2003 09:22 am CDT »
ok..but how do i enable it  :shock: im not sure how i do that.. from the mother board..or in windows..or hitting delete key then enableing it from there..
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« Reply #10 on: October 2, 2003 02:17 pm CDT »
Well... I don't know you see... I just did the first 3 "levels" I think and that kinda made the impression on me that I got.  I stopped on the level where the dude was talking from the security room over the speaker while you're fighting stuff running about... that guy majorly annoyed the crap out of me.

Also... I am not exactly sure as to what defines a level in that game... your main ship is kind of a boring ship/level... though some of the random crap was funny I was kinda just not all that impressed. :-/

But, to each his own. :-)
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« Reply #11 on: October 2, 2003 06:02 pm CDT »
Yeah man, the graphics kicked major ass.  Dunno what you're talking about.  Maybe if you played it at sub- 640x680, then yeah, but the Unreal II i played was very pretty (I really liked it how the water reflected the light.)
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« Reply #12 on: October 2, 2003 06:44 pm CDT »
He's talking about not liking the content, not the visuals (from what I gather).
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« Reply #13 on: October 2, 2003 08:12 pm CDT »
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...and I'm not impressed with the repedative jaggy-looking environments....

...Unreal one, though jaggy...


You need to adjust some settings on your graphics card if either of these are jaggy.  I belive Application mode on a nVidia card produces the sharpest quality, and I believe Radeon cards are similar (this card on this comp is a radeon, but im too lazy to check.)

Neither of these games are jaggy.  In the older version of Unreal (not the gold version), and "Advanced" mode was added, where you could choose to add true-curved surfaces, etc.  Makes it extremely pretty.  Do some experimenting.

Also, as for the glowing ammo, what would you expect from futuristic weapons?  We deserve to have our pretty glowing flashes and dazzling bolts!  Its what makes the modified engine really stand out!
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« Reply #14 on: October 3, 2003 12:17 am CDT »
Actually, both content and visuals.

Mostly the content was boring to me... but the visuals were just not very... stimulating either.  Even in the "smooth" mode it looked jaggy to me.... :-/  Of course, I play all my games on this old fuzzy-screened computer where as I did U2 at a friends house on a spankin' new LCD flat screen.

As for the shining bolts and stuff, I much rather prefer objects that have non-glowing characteristics, or have glow that's not so "look I am bright and flashy looking as I glow!" when they go by.

What I liked about Unreal was the variety of bullet, plasma, and rocketlike weapon types which all had unique uses (except that stupid shard-shooting gun... what a lame weapon that was... toough the shard idea was kinda neat.)

Anyway... as I said before; to each his own. ;-)
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