All Posts by Tordak

Originally posted by jairus

just the fanboys will be left playing AoC and WaR when Blizzard releases Wotlk. 

lol Maybe, but I feel the same can be said about WoW.

 No, they're not going to canel WAR,  the product and the player-base is there, ready and willing. 

  I agree with others that WoW is the game that will, finaly, feel a bit of a hit in subs.  Nothing drastic but X-mas just won't be the same for Blizzard as it has been, based solely on WoW.   They'll make up the financial loss between Wotlk xpac and Star'2.  But, they will be facing longterm competion and it will get worse as more releases hit the market from here on out.

 One bee sting is annoyance, multiples can be deadly.

 ..."This is not the begining of the end but it may be the end of the begining!"... - Winston Churchill

Originally posted by bluealien1

Originally posted by Elikal

Funny so many feel its a real RPG, when Funcom THEMTHELVES time and again said it as more an Online Counterstike-like game. Its more what people WANT to believe, heh.

Could you give me a link to where they said this.

@ OP 

 It's neither and it's a blend of both, at the same time. 

 It's not a classic MMORPG, due only to the combat system, and not a true MMOFPS(eventhough, there's the feel of twich'er game),  there's still classic MMORPG calculations running in the background determining hits/misses/damage and heal amounts based on your stats and feats.   

lol Drewg,  

  What are you trying to run - Dune2000 and Atari's greatest hits?  I thought I was pretty bad trying to see if Vista would still run LA's Rebellion, circa '96-'97, the only app that I have that won't run.  

 I've got 11 games installed and already played through the other 7 I have, + all the MMO's I've ever tried, + the 9 games I just sold back to EB/GS to pay off last little bit for the AoC CE, not 7 days ago. 

 Only two, took a single step more than the right click 'run as admin', which was 'run in xp service pack 2 mode'(on the 'exe' and burden of the second file the 'launcher', KoTOR 1 & 2.

 As for security, yeah there's better(Kaspersky is great), but I surf and still run the same online games as most of you, with no problems. 

EDIT-- Sorry, just can't leave this,yet.  Other than this thread, I've not heard of AoC taking 2.5gigs of ram.  The highest report, until then, was 1.8gigs(with an un-opimized client).  

 Since Vista, itself, will account for 1-1.5 gigs, due to ram pre-cahcing(-the attempt at lessoning the need for the use of the virtual pagefile system by loading your most used apps into memory, at every startup-) just running the desktop, with Aero. ---

 Then the game, that now, can exceed the 1.8gigs previously reported,  leaves you, simply, stressing your 3Gb of ram system, just  trying to play the game.  And, your now dependant on the virtual pagefile to get you through it.  

End result --  Your game will suffer, not do to the vid card or the cpu but because of the lack of ram, forcing the system to use the swapfile.  - 4GB's of ram is better than 3GB's and a 64bit OS, on a 64bit proc., runs really well, from POST on through.

 However,  I do believe the beta clients are running with a higher need of system resources, than the the retail client will need. 

 Why?  Because, they added the bugs for benefit of the stress testing on the servers, requiring more than what will be needed at release.

He is right about the older hardware, though.   It's Vista certified hardware for best performance.  

I ran Vista 32bit, on this very system, for over 6months before I made the switch.   I noticed an obvious improvement right from the start and I have had no issue since. 

 EDIT-- I don't use IE 64bit, though.  I'm running Norton 360 and it only does phising for the 32bit IE, it's not an issue to me, the only other thing that Norton 360 doesn't support in 64bit is weak password scans, everything else works perfect(firewall, virus scan, system scans).

Oh, and Vista 32bit seemed to run DX10 for me without an issue, in LoTRO. 

Peace',

  You can download and run CpuZ app that will (after a bit of a delay running a diagnostic) show you mainboard manufacturer and model number, among other things, so you can get your 64bit drivers from their site. 

 So there, is what I usually consider my biggest pain out of the way.  Ofcourse, cracking the case and peaking works just as well but If your like me and hate moving things after you have it all set up, it's the ticket.

I also found that when it came to my sound card it was best to just find and run the stand-alone driver without the other bonus app stuff.  <--This could be just me, though.

I agree with the 'exclusive' comment.  

I was just pointing out that AoC will infact have a 64bit client exe.   But, I still have only run up against 1 app from '96-'97 that won't run on the 64bit OS/X86 Program folder because of an old directX file that's not supported in vista's directX.   The others were just a matter of normal patching and right click 'run as admin' on the exe file.

Ummm, actually the game does have seperate .exe's  for the 32bit client and 64bit client, in the same install, at launch.

If your set with a 64 bit cpu, there's no real reason, at all, to run 32bit vista or xp for a that matter.  The 64bit OS is just that much more responsive, overall.  

Even with the hassle of downloading a fresh set of 64bit drivers for your system, it's a noticeable improvement.  Vista does a good enough job but not everything is as current as Win'update likes to think it is.  Sometimes, it tries to send you outdated drivers because the newer ones aren't WHQL signed.

Originally posted by DaJoKeR

I still love you sony. just alittle bit.

you came out with great games,like :Everquest,SWG,EQ2,planetside

But Then..after a few months of playing the games. you turned evil ! you only was thinking about yourself, Money always came up. and you were always Number 1 to you!

Even if i tryed to talk to you, you Hit me and called me names and said stop crying and start playing.

I was always there for you. even when times got bad. then when i was about to walk away you said you make it better.but never did. every time i walked out, you said stop heres another game. so i played it and had so much fun but then after a few months you just stomped on it and made it go down again like any other games you had.

I can't take it anymore Sony, you tell me lies and stole money from my poor old mother. and then you blamed it on your co-workers. i don't know why  i kept you around and went back to you so many times.maybe i used you too? maybe becuase you had such a big name and made me feel warm at night when i was playing with you.

But then what i found out .made me never to look back again.  i found out you were seeing other people.and thats not the part what hurt me the most.its the part that you acted the same with all of them and you never cared about them too.So you only think about yourself

You KNOW WHAT!!! I'm Leaveing you ..yes i am..I found someone else His Name is CONAN I hope he takes care of me how you used to.Good Bye

 

P.s. I'll always love you.becuase you give me so many games.But i hope you Burn in (coke cola)

Hahaha     Well done!!!!

Originally posted by XImpalerX

Originally posted by Tordak

Originally posted by Timberwolf0

Is it bad that I know that Tordak's avatar is hypnotic spectre from MTG?

 Lol, even I had no idea where it came from.  It was just a pic of an avatar dump site that I choose.  But, thanks for letting me know. 

 EDIT-- Haha!, apparantly my avatar can block a dragon.   Ah, who knew? .../shrug lol

    If i remeber right he is a 2/2 flying and when he damages an oppenet they lose a card :)

  My avatar choice seems to know no bounds.   It can fly(bonus) and it's well trained in PVP looting, lol. 

 Anyhow, games like Uncharted Waters Online, Emil Chronicle Online and Shin Megami Tensei: IMAGINE,  peeked my interest the moment SandCastle mentioned them.  I wish there were an english client. 

I believe she's running a true monster rig.   But, the video is among the best I've seen.    I can't wait to hear your thoughts and reasons for the 6month(atleast) wait to purchase the game.

Originally posted by Timberwolf0

Is it bad that I know that Tordak's avatar is hypnotic spectre from MTG?

 Lol, even I had no idea where it came from.  It was just a pic off of an avatar dump site that I choose.  But, thanks for letting me know. 

 EDIT-- Haha!, apparantly my avatar can block a dragon.   Ah, who knew? .../shrug lol

  Right on, thanks for the heads up.  

 Interesting point about the space/ground combat mixed with elements of. both. rpg and real time type combat. 

 It's to bad that the past dev's teams who worked on the STO idea thought this impossible/impractical and would be far to expensive to accomplish.

Originally posted by E1io

 BioWare knows what they are doing when it comes to making something: Mass Effect, Kotor(Knights of the Old Republic for those who don't know), Neverwinter Nights.

 

 In all honesty, I'm not worried. I trust BioWare in their endeavor.

  I  have to agree with this completely.   I'm not a fan of console gaming but even Jade Empire has to be mentioned when talking about Bioware, great fun.  It's just solid, well worth the box price, entertainment from this company.

 I hope it's a SW:O or KoTRO:O  but Bioware has had my loyalty like none other.   I'd be totally suprised if they made a pile of dung but I'd still have to buy it and try it out. 

@ Thread Title

  They are all over at my place, in Atlantic Canada.   We've over-run my and three other surrounding towns, so far, and more are on the way. 

  We're haveing the most knarly and wickedly outrageous Block Part-EH Evah!!! ...and it's not stopping until the end of time!

AoC 

 The rest are(will be) great games but I'm tired of high fantasy and need a couple years away from it to be able to appreciate it again. 

  Even after AoC, I'll be done with sword and shield MMO's for awhile.  Sci-fi is my #1 passion in entertainment.  I'm not worried about the lack of sci-fi, at this very minute, and believe many sci-fi MMO's are in the works for the next few years.

I'm thinking low settings.   I've been reading that the game uses 1.5-.1.8Gb's of ram to run.  This doesn't leave much for your OS and the OS comes first in priority.

 If you can up the ram even by a single Gb you may be able to play medium settings but 2Gb's(4Gb's total) would be better even on a 32bit OS(would show 3.2-3.5Gb's installed).

EDIT-- Pent D !!  Sorry, I was used to seeing threads about P4's.   Medium, add the ram and med/high-high.

  Conform but don't convert. 

 It's the same thing for me, pre-NGE SWG was the longest time spent and most enjoyable MMO, to date.   I'll try out anything new to see if I can get that satisfaction from a game but it hasn't happened. 

 My hopes, atm, rest on Earthrise and for the sake of conformity AoC will be my pass-time until Earthrise's release.   .../crossfingers -- no vapourware whammies