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7708 3200 news -1 Re: NVIDIA Linux driver update benchmark Dont get the newest one, its horrible 2d performance, get the second to last one, and make sure you have nvidia instead of nv in your XF86Config 2002-12-12 14:17:37 7693
7709 3203 news -1 Whew I am just so relieved it's not another shooter. And I am just slightly less relieved that it's not another real-time strategy. Here's to variety! 2002-12-12 14:43:26 0
7710 Vega Strike games 506 To large of a download <p>The game itself is ok, even so things like a in-game menu, starting at a base, not in space and other things which would guide the player into the game would be nice, but the biggest show stopper at the moment is the ~70MB download. Seriously this game doesn't look like a 70MB download, but more like a 5 or 10MB download. I would recomment to provide a striped down version of the game, with just the most essential data files, so that people don't have to download 70MB just to see that the game isn't really what they where looking for. </p><p> The spaceship models look pretty cheap, just a handfull of polygons, some more polygons and a bit less env-mapping would help here. The virtual cockpit currently is a bit jerky and completly black if not in sunlight, some smoothness and additional light could help here. </p><p> Using some custom binary format, instead of xml would also be a good way to reduce the size of the game data, even so the most part seems to be taken by more or less crappy textures. </p> 2002-12-12 15:32:59 0
7711 3203 news -1 Looks good Hmmm.... interesting. I like turn based stategy games, but I dont have much time to play, I hope it doesnt take hundreds and hundreds of hours to complete like the heroes of might and magic games. If its possible to complete the game in less than 50 hrs I'd give it a go... else I'd skip and spend those hours on something else. I, for one, would have hoped for another arcade/action shooter.<br><br> I guess my final judgement will have to wait till I try the demo. 2002-12-12 16:41:03 0
7712 3203 news 3 Re: Looks good <i>[...] I, for one, would have hoped for another arcade/action shooter. I guess my final judgement will have to wait till I try the demo.</i><p> Fair enough. I'd like to see more strategy games like this since there are more FPS games available than I have time to play seriously.<br> I believe (am afraid? :) this one's gonna eat a lot of my time. 2002-12-13 00:17:46 7711
7713 BabyChess games 3 First impression: nice! I have so far only played a few games against the Evaluator now. It was tearing me apart in midair when I allowed it to ponder for 5 seconds, but finally got it when I reduced that to a mere 2 seconds.<br> It looks very good, the pieces resize cleanly when resizing the window etc. If you're into chess, give it a try. <br> I might try it for playing on ICS, I really need more practice first though. 2002-12-13 00:29:42 0
7714 3200 news -1 Re: NVIDIA Linux driver update benchmark Actually I didn't notice any difference in 2D performance between the latest and the previous driver version on 1GHz+ machines. I guess it could make an impact when using slower CPUs, though... 2002-12-13 01:04:37 7708
7715 3203 news -1 Re: Looks Awesome I guessed this title, so I might be getting this for free (they had a contest). Sounds cool. 2002-12-13 01:42:29 7707
7716 3203 news -1 Re: Looks Awesome Just checked their site, I didn't win :(<br> oh well, I guess I'll have to buy it. 2002-12-13 01:43:58 7715
7717 Emilia Pinball games 3 Re: Great promising game Would it be too much if I asked you to click on the <i>Submit an update about this game</i> link, change the version number and click on Submit again? 2002-12-13 03:10:30 7514