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NightCougar_37 · 2003-12-27 11:30 pm

Yeah CompUSA finally got it in. Still sad they didn't have Indy but oh well.

Kinda a lil disappointed with JA. I know Brad spent his time on this to get it ported before Christmas and we all should thank him for dedicating that much time and effort to it. But the original game itself feels a bit lacking.

Man who made the main menu screens for JA. They ugly. JKII was nice but JA looks like something to a game from the early 90s.

The character creation part is really limited. Would have been a nice feature if it would have been a little bit more developed. Right now its just mix and match 3 body parts thing and there really isnt hardly any body parts to choose from.

Even after the last two patches, i'm getting a lot of performance issues. The original 1.0 was unplayable on my iBook 900. The latest patch helped tremendously but i'm still gettin a lot of framerate issues and jumping around. Even in non complex areas. The game looks the same as JKII graphically. I can't find any reasons why its so stuttery at times. Kinda runs like JKII did on my Beige tower when it was @ 375Mhz.

Halo and Elite Force 2 even ran better on my iBook than JA does lol . But im sure that will change with time. Anyways, you guys with G5s better be loving it right now wink tongue .

Brad Oliver · 2003-12-28 10:52 am

Even after the last two patches, i'm getting a lot of performance issues. The original 1.0 was unplayable on my iBook 900. The latest patch helped tremendously but i'm still gettin a lot of framerate issues and jumping around. Even in non complex areas.

Can you give me a specific example of what framerates you're getting? Have you turned down the texture detail a notch or two? That makes a big difference on cards that are constrained for VRAM, like your iBook.

NightCougar_37 · 2003-12-28 8:12 pm

Yeah i've turned things down a bit. Medium is adequate for most play. But it really stutters a lot when you come up a lift. Or when a door opens. Seems theres some issues with audio too. Sometimes when it loads a new scene with ppl talking, it skips part of the talking.

Not sure exactly of all the specifics but it sure doesn't run as well or refined yet as JKII did. I'd hate to be someone on a 500Mhz system. Its gotta be bad.

Interesting tho, I tried it on my Beige Tower @ 917Mhz/Radeon 7200, and it runs about the same as the iBook. Usually the iBook runs about 2x as fast due to its faster bus and AGP graphics. But this time i'd say it wasn't all that much faster on the iBook. The tower did sputter sooner tho.

Brad Oliver · 2003-12-29 1:10 am

Yeah i've turned things down a bit. Medium is adequate for most play. But it really stutters a lot when you come up a lift. Or when a door opens. Seems theres some issues with audio too. Sometimes when it loads a new scene with ppl talking, it skips part of the talking.

If you turn on EAX audio, the audio stuttering will go away entirely.

NightCougar_37 · 2003-12-30 9:01 pm

Yeah, i'm using EAX now. It helps.

Just beat the game too, but theres a quirk in it. When Jaden rescues Rosh and it switches to Kyle fighting someone, I had the game pretty much lock up with the dark jedi killing Kyle, then just sitting there until I forced it to restart. Never really got a chance to see what happened in that cutscene there cause the next time I played thru it I just told it to skip to avoid running into a problem.

Seems that Kyle just walks around while the other guy slashes at him. Don't know if this is how the game was originally designed or not but it doesnt seem very realistic.

benwards · 2003-12-31 12:37 am

Well, thanks very much for the spoiler, NC. tongue

bird · 2003-12-31 1:01 am

No doubt. Thanks, NC. roll

Couldn't put a spoiler alert or some such? Jeez.

Mishura · 2003-12-31 6:35 pm

Ah dammit NC.. You ruined the game! I guess I'll just have to buy a different game now!! evil

Actually, I've beaten SP mode (in both light and dark endings) so its nothing.. I'm only buying JA now for the multiplayer, since thats the only reason I play JO now. What's gonna suck is that I'll have to spend ANOTHER YEAR playing as a n00b before I get good again. Either that or sever all meat/real life ties and just play JA, eat, maybe sleep, use bathroom, play JA, etc etc.. wink

Happy G · 2004-01-01 1:14 pm

Just got JA, installing now. Yippee!

NightCougar_37 · 2004-01-01 2:50 pm

You all would have read it anyways tongue .

Besides, it was the only way to mention what could be a lil bug in the game tongue . btw, Rosh is the most annoying lil *bleep* ever. Its actually hard not to want to kill him wink big_smile .

Happy G · 2004-01-01 2:57 pm

Oh man, I'm not happy.

Why is MP chat at the bottom ON TOP OF MY PLAYER? Distracting, annoying!

If I'm low on force I cant do a blue lunge? WTH?

16 bit low EVERYTHING I'm getting 20fps on a 1GHZ Ti 512RAM 64MB radeon 9000 on MP. Maybe it was the server, I dunno. I get 70-85 on jk2.

The double saber moves are, well, weird.I can't do a red dfa in single saber for the life of me.

bird · 2004-01-01 4:57 pm

I've got a bad feeling I'm not going to enjoy JK:A as much as JKII... . sad whaa

Happy G · 2004-01-01 5:15 pm

I'm not liking Sp either. All these jumpy cut scenes. Annoying sidekick dies if he jumps over the creek. WTH? Howlers are kinda dumb. Graphics kinda glitchy,maybe the card.

Then again i didn't like jk2 sp either.

I'll keep trying to like it.

NightCougar_37 · 2004-01-03 3:13 pm

You running X.2.8 or X.3, Happy?

I've heard X.3 has better OpenGL drivers but I don't have it to test. Sounds like your getting similar performance to what I get on my iBook 900/R7500. Cept i'm using 32bit and medium cause I refuse to deal with low everything. ATI's 16bit really sucks too.

What you can try to do is editing the cfg more. I was messing around in it and changed the weapons to simple 2D icons in single player. Not sure if I gained much performance from it but it does allow you to see any item, anywhere on the map at anytime big_smile . Just can be a lil ugly at times wink .

Happy G · 2004-01-03 3:36 pm

10.3.

Performance is particularly bad in one map. The one with a platform over lava, it laggs a bit. Even t 16 bit.

Most other maps do pretty well. But not as well as JK2.

Had a mini LAN party with my friend last night, and he took me to some cool JK3 servers. Melee is great (punching and kicking). I really liked the academy_beta_3 map. the admin was spawning as a rancor. That was a trip.

I'm getting more used to it, but I still miss the precision sabering styles of jk2. JK3 stances and moves are kind of corny IMO. Kind of too easy. Spinning eye candy moves. If you can hit left and right click at the same time, you are a master. Easy for noobs to kill you.

Still, there are definitely some redeeming features that are winning me over. But it is a different game.

NightCougar_37 · 2004-01-04 12:38 am

I tried that map over LAN today too. Tho it wasnt as bad as some of the other maps. I've noticed more and more nowdays with the most recent games, that tuning down textures or effects, barely helps performance. Bout the best thing you can do is turning it to 640x480 32bit w/ medium effects. Then pretty much deal with it cause switching to low everything doesnt really get you anywhere at times shrug .

mrchicken · 2004-01-07 2:01 am

Just an update on the demo. According to insidemacgames's interview with Aspyr, we should be getting the demo within a few weeks.

http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ID=8945

Leonard Nimoy · 2004-01-13 2:47 am

JA runs better than JKII on my computer... very smooth.

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