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Bat wrote:

LLEVIATHANN wrote:

I had to give up on Unreal. It won't play right...too fast. Started U2 [..].

I never had a problem with speed. Were you using D3D with vsync enabled?

Dual-Core Optimizer...Check!

MOAR RANTING...
Installed, rather tried to install Google Earth Sat. The install failed with some weird error message. Did a reboot to try agian and BAM! The fraking thing stalled and wouldn't boot into anything no normal, no safe mode, nothing. Gah! Not again! I thought my hardware and software issues were done. Things were working so well. Xp's recover couldn't even fix it. Once agian a fresh XP install was done yesterday.

Unreal and UT do the same thing. The best I can explain it is it plays in bursts. A few seconds of really fast followed by a one second pause...rinse, repeat. Like it loads and plays, loads and plays. No smoothness at all.

D3D, check. Vsync...nope. I normally have it off because my monitor's refresh rate is at 120. Way above the FPS I have most games config'd to. But yeah with U/UT they would be running much faster than 120FPS. I'll try that....once I get the POS..err PC back to operational state.

Bat wrote:

It boggles my mind that my years-delayed upgrade box might be operational and stable before yours stops asploding.

That's the frustrating part. Here my first home built, water cooled rig is still happily humm'n along. The kids have it now. Never a problem. Ever. This one I could kick to the curb.

EDIT

This is where the Mac rules. You blow an OS install. No problem, reinstall and everything else still works. BUT NOOOOO not XP. Blow your registry and you're smurfed. I'm getting real tired of reinstalling apps. Apps that are there but won't work because it's a new registry.

Last edited by LLEVIATHANN (2008-03-06 1:33 pm)

LLEVIATHANN wrote:

MOAR RANTING...

Are you sure your RAM is OK. What you are describing sounds like a bad RAM stick to me. Suggest you get one of those RAM stress testing utilities (I know no names) and let it run for 24 hours and see what happens.

DoctorB wrote:

LLEVIATHANN wrote:

MOAR RANTING...

Are you sure your RAM is OK.

Pretty sure it's ok. All my blow ups have happened during some software adventure and have only corrupted the OS. The first & second times was because UT3 was crashing so much it killed the OS. This last time was during a Google Earth install. Up to that point things had been running good.

I do however think I have a bad SATA port or bus. Which may have been the root of all this evil.

*groans*
Has anyone yet heard any new info on UT3 for Mac?  MacSoft has 2 days before their "spring 2008" deadline is up, and I haven't heard smurf in too long.  I'm really tempted to go buy the CE edition of the PC version, install Win in Boot Camp and start fragging that way.  I'd just really prefer to run it natively in Leopard and not have to reboot just to play my $30 copy of UT3 CE on Win.

I so desperately need updates on the Mac version.

Do you think they'll still bother after what a bomb this game was?  (Something I don't really understand...I tried the demo and it's great fun.  I heard lots of nitpicking about the menu system, but I heard the same with UT2003-4 and it didn't seem that bad to me.)

I'm seeing nothing nowhere.  I guess I'll just have to install Red Faction and continue to wait patiently.

Maybe soon now that the 360 version is done.

Well, I don't see anything anywhere about a Mac version. Last I see on Ryan's blog is from 10/07, before the PC game came out, and it sold around as many copies as a Mac hit. A Mac version might then sell, what, 5,000 copies?.. I think at this point I'd advise anyone who can to Boot Camp it. Seems that the Mac version has been quietly cancelled, whether it's ever admitted or not. It'll just disappear and be forgotten.

Get in and play while people still are playing.

Maybe somewhere down the road, if it's economical, 2-3 games might be released in Anthology form. Wouldn't hold my breath,but who knows. Not unlikely Ryan's already working on GoW 2 &/or other things.

Sorry Cee and anyone else who won't/can't Boot Camp. Sometimes the cookiee crumbles.

Anything's possible, and I'm sure something UE3 will at some point. There are many licensees of the engine. The delay, low PC sales, lack of any word at this point etc., tho, are ominous.

Eventually UE3 games will begin coming over. That's one of the reasons I think an anthology/shovelware of some kind is still possible at some point, when the engine and OSX are both more mature.

The PS3 version uses OpenGL, and UE3 is designed to be portable. I think it's actually more console-friendly than personal-computer-friendly at this point, but as to graphics APIs I wouldn't worry.

Apple OpenGL per se, or any particular implementation not to full, current industry standards, might be a concern. But Apple is a part of the Khronos Group, so it shouldn't be too awful. It might take a little longer to be ready for the demanding Ut3; for some time that was my main concern. But it's now really longer than it should be, and AFAIK UT3 has yet to get its DX10 code. Even GoW PC only uses it for FSAA, and the cardmakers have managed workarounds under DX9. Maybe there's a performance difference 9/10, I haven't heard.