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These requirements translate to Low, Medium and High visual detail settings. With a machine that only meets the Minimum Requirements it's recommended to run the game in 640x480x16 resolution for best performance. Minimum Requirements: Recommended System: Generic requirements: New screenshots are also up here: http://www.3drealms.com/max/index.html This game is looking daaamned tasty, and I can hardly wait "Until it's done." |
| Iceman (ICQ #: 17128385) |
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Well I'm back, sorry for the lack of news updates, been going through some upgrades on my computer that wiped both my hard drives. Anywayz on with the news. I will be posting a review soon of a new case I picked up, the Antec 1030, been running the case for a week now and it definetly has seemed to drop all my temps by 5 or 6 degrees. I'm doing some mods to it also, just waiting for the parts to arrive then I will show it all to the world. A little something to go along with Marauder's "Office XP" rant. Ever wonder how you could totally disabled your operating system just by changing a few parts in your computer? Well wonder no more, Windows XP is coming and it will make all your worst nightmares come true, make sure you keeps the lights on this ones scary. How do you like your motherboard done? rare, medium rare or well done? Just set the dial and watch it cook :). Quite a strange Idea but neat none the less. On a sad note, well not really, Voodoo Extreme will be down for a few days, they seem to be updating their site and giving it a revamp. Woohoo now all the enjoyment of the BSOD can be seen on 64bit processors coming soon. Come on everyone join the fun. Here's a little rant going on over at the Mad Onion forums about wether or not 3dfx will be back, sad, very sad, I too use to think in such foolish ways but then I was shown the true ways of the force.... da I mean the "Geforce" :). More news later stay tuned... |
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Never mind. I WAS going to try the online rental thing, but it doesn't
support Windows 2000. Fools. Fools all. |
| Marauder (ICQ #: 12419781) |
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"Why did they do that? Here's what the help screen said: "Due to a significant change in your computer configuration from when Microsoft Office was installed and activated, some important information about your computer needs to be restored, and the product needs to be reactivated to continue to function properly." That sort of message would cause me to head down to Microsoft headquarters with my vendor appreciation bat. Argh. This is going to become an article or a rant, I can feel it right now, building up. Stupid MS.
More later. :) |
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| Marauder (ICQ #: 12419781) |
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The thing I like the most about this board is it's integrated sound chip. It's the most powerfull audio chip on the consumer market today, smoking Creative's cards hands down from the sounds of it. I LIKE, hell, I LOVE! when people kick Creative right in the ass with steel toed jackboots. One of my long time bitches about Creative has been the fact that (in my opinion) they haven't done anything of significance since the release of the SB Live!...... And even the Live! isn't all that impressive. They add reverb to sounds. Woo. Hoo. The Aureal cards, in my most humble opinion, were head and shoulder technologically above the Creative stuff. Regretably they never caught on, and Aureal followed the 3Dfx business plan of putting oneself out of said business. Maybe we'll finally see some inovation from the guys at VIA, Intel and Creative, out of survival instinct if nothing else. Face it, the chipset market and audio market have sucked ass for the longest time. Competition is excellent, and I can hardly wait to get my hands on one of these bad boys and test it out.
Marauder out. |
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And so I am sitting in front of my computer, in my boxers at this time of the day, slouching with a huge pile of pop cans next to me... My 20" fan blowing across me, listening to old C64 and Amiga MP3 remixes writing and talking with different people on ICQ. Could the world be a better place? It's hot as hell, so I don't really feel much like going outside, as my pasty gamer complexion burns to a crisp easily.
And now I shall go away for the long weekend. So long suckers! :) |
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| Marauder (ICQ #: 12419781) |
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Interestingly, shortly after I posted the news that my god damned computer had crashed during an interview (A motherboard swap seems to have fixed that particular issue... Wondering if my A7V doesn't really like the kinds of speeds I was subjecting it to..... 1.3 ghz and all.) I got a message from Penguinboy James asking me if I knew that I had talked to "THE" Hatch.... As in "THE WARBIRDS DEV GUY HATCH" Yes. I was aware of it. Since I'm always trying to get James arrested for something I immediately let Hatch know that he should start locking his doors at night and burning his trash. He has a fanboy. :)) Speaking of WWIIO, I played yesterday for 4 hours, had no crashes and only one disconnect. The new patch seems to have solved quite a number of annoying issues. Here's the list: ==================== -Fixed a joystick error culling bug that cut input from a device
that sent any errors through. We upped the amount of errors culled
to shut down the device and this should fix folks that "lost JS input"
after a bit of play. -Fixed a loading paradigm that held the connection validation segment
until the end of the initial loading cycle, as well as displayed NO
error message. This allowed a player to go through the lengthy loading
cycle and then fail on connect attempt with no feedback. Now the connect
will occur at the front of the cycle, and a player will know right
away if the attempt was a success. -Re-vamped settings.exe with 3 defaults. One for max performance, one for max visual, and one that is a "fence straddle" of the two giving decent performance as well as nicer graphic qualities. NOTE: Settings.exe is where you will gain the MOST PERFORMANCE INCREASES. SET IT TO PERFORMANCE FOR THE BEST FRAME RATES IN GAME. Although there are a lot of tweaks and changes in this version, your system specs and drivers may give you very different performance figures from others with the same settings. Again, your patience during the rocky rollout was instrumental in keeping the team motivated. Thank you for your support in making WWIIOL come to life! Woot! Framerates are way up as well. The game is now fun. :)
If anyone happens to care I've got some new artwork up on my personal site. Take a boo. Marauder out for the moment. |
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More later, Marauder out |
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| GezerMan (ICQ #: 12238291) |
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Hey all Marauder asked me to do a little review of GameSpy Arcade
for you guys since well I'm like the only one from the Fragtopia Team
that uses it. And I guess Dopper told me that I use it. Features Inculde in version 1.08c
With GameSpy Arcade you can do pretty much the same as GameSpy3d
but GameSpy Arcade has little bit more features than GameSpy 3D. And
one thing that I really like about it is that it supports Red Alert
2, though it's still in beta right now. GezerMan |
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| Marauder (ICQ #: 12419781) |
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Just got a nice letter from folks at WWII Online, talking a little bit about what happened with their launch, what they're working on ETC. It's a good read, click here to check it out. More later |
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| Marauder (ICQ #: 12419781) |
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I was typing like a mad man and... welll... MY STUPID COMPUTER RESET!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Hopefully he'll be nice and answer my email with more questions..... And if my computer survives this I'll post more news later. Marauder out. <It's hammer time!> |
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| Marauder (ICQ #: 12419781) |
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World War II online servers are finally running semi stable and the game is playable! It still needs one hell of a lot of work, and I certainly wouldn't be paying $10 USD per month to play it in it's current state.. but the pay period has been put on hold for the moment, so we can play for free.... And it really is a fun game. I'll shortly be posting some screenies and a quick review. Incidentally, never EVER allow Kingpin to fly any plane you're in. He got his licence from the captain..... Captain Crunch that is. :)) Marauder out. |
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| GezerMan (ICQ #: 12238291) |
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was just doing some reading on the fragtopia web site and I saw I think
here about how someone thinks that they can setup a BIG LAN Party in
2 weeks.. I think that's what it was.. Well I got one thing to say about
that HAHAHAHAHA and have fun!! I was the Network Administrator for Fragtopia
2000 and Fragtopia 2(001) and well you need more than just one person
to do that. I ran just the main file server that had the FTP, Web Server,
IRC Server and was in charge of all the IPs and Internet for staff and
planetquake.com
I think I played 1 game and that was by myself and playing against a
bot. Here's a run down of what I did and the times of my duties at Fragtopia
2(001). Thursday Night we got the Club Early so I went over and started
setting up the main servers. I started that around 6pm worked on that
till about 10pm. Stopped for a bit to do some other stuff. Woke up at
the curling club on Friday at 8am. Worked on the main server (note this
is only 1 computer) till about 8pm that night. Mostly all the little
problems were gone.. Sat. got at the club at 8am and didn't leave until
10pm that night. And Sunday really I didn't do that much. So what I'm
getting at is that you need more time to get everything setup and everything
running right. It took me about 1 week to get the main server up and
running with most of the problems fixed at home. But of course when
stuff starts running you are going to run into problems no matter what..
Even if you think your the KING of servers and NT or Linux. YOU WILL
RUN INTO PROBLEMS!! Trust me. Fragtopia is fun to run and help out and
it takes a lot of time to get it running.. Your first year will be the
worst but you learn from your mistakes. I did!! Thats all I have to say!! GezerMan going by now!! |
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| Marauder (ICQ #: 12419781) |
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I've bitched and complained multiple times about companies that release buggy software and companies that release games... that.. well... if it's multiplayer, your servers damned well better be able to handle the players you get on the first night of release. I finally, after many many months of waiting got my hands on WWII Online. It's the story of a man, a huge army and a manical plan to take over the free world. World War 2 in other words. After downloading a 75 meg patch (!!) on the day of release and starting to play it was all good. I logged in, created an account and started to play. I spawned as a German infantryman (I just like playing nazis for some reason, dunno why.) And rode a tank into battle, sitting on the fenders with another nazi, yacking. We came over the hill and saw a few of our tanks shelling town... we began the infantry assault, backed by our tanks and aircraft. I capped a biznatch french defender and then.. got disconnected..... I go back to the website and I get this... and it's been like that ever since. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......... I hope it's going to be a good game, despite it's current limitations.... and I hope to find out in a few days when they unscrew their servers... until then I'm just going to sit here and look disgruntled. Evidentaly there's a few other people annoyed.. Check out their forums. And here. And here's the letter from CRS explaning what the problem is. Marauder out.
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Finally got working on the
fragtopia followup for the cs community can download
fragtopia 2001 cs demos. There will be more added as we get them
together. I'd like to get the cs bracket we used in the tournament from
Dman so we can use that and you can just click whichever match bracket
you want to see. It will happen soon, just have patience. If you have
any demos from fragtopia, e-mail
me and let me get my hands on them for the website. Also UT demos
& Q3 demos should be up sometime soon as well. I "think"
d0zer & ill techniques were in charge of UT & pappy-r from planetquake
was doing Q3. I'll find out if they'll be posting demos of those events
or if someone else wants to gather them up. Just remember that we're
going to be busy getting all the photos, videos & demos together
& posting them for the next week or so. That means updates to gaming
news on this site might be slower than usual for a little bit longer. |
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| Marauder (ICQ #: 12419781) |
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Thanks to everyone who attended, you guys were a really great bunch, and some damned fine gamers. Thanks to all the staff who put this thing together and made it work. I'm proud to call you my friends. It was great working with you all again! Thanks to Pappy-R, Gizmo-Z, Will, Ash & Tippman from Planet Quake for a fine Quake III tourney. (And just being a cool buncha people!!) Thanks to our sponsors. Dlink and Startech provided us with some great networking equipment. The Dlink switches that were the backbone of the network gave most of the gamers sub 20 pings, and in the case of the Quake III 1 on 1's, we're talking about 3-9 ping on average. Absolutely phenominal. AMK Services, Startech, PC Tote, Mouse Skatez, Logitech Canada and Digital Extremes provided us with some great prizes for the players. Thanks guys! Sierra Canada came through and provided us with posters and CD holders for everyone at the party. It was great that no-one went home empty handed. They also provided us with Tshirts, Hats and software for our draws. Thanks guys. (We also snagged some cool interview footage with the Sierra rep. More on this later.) Dairy Queen provided 20% off coupons for all gamers. Thanks John! Rogers@home provided us with Internet connectivity and setup kits for prizes. Thanks Rob & Shirley-Ann! Well, that's about it. Some of the party pics are up here for your viewing pleasure. We'll have more and the demos as soon as we get them all collected. :) Thanks again guys. It was one hell of a party, and I look forward to it next year. (Oh god, it may kill me...... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz) Marauder out. |
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| Marauder (ICQ #: 12419781) |
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First off, since December our average is around 7,000 hits/month. Not bad for a site that before December was getting under 2,000 hits a month. We've officially been doing news on the site for a year this month. Before then it was just occasional updates on what was happening with the 2000 big party. Take a look at the old news archives to see what I'm talking about. As for making money at it: well, I have to confess that we make about a million times more than we did when we first started the site. Of course, we can all calculate what a million times nothing is. That's right. Nothing! FRAGtopia is actually paid for out of our own pockets. We've written over 800,000 words of news for FREE! Why? Well... I'm not sure actually, but considering the way the market for banner advertisement has been going it's a damned good thing I'd say. We're still here and many major sites aren't. We own our own web server for business use, and FRAGtopia sits on there. You might say we're sponsored by VAM Computers Inc, since that's who the server actually belongs to. (Kingpin and myself.) On the other hand, I'd pay to have the server up and running out of my own pocket if I had to. I like to write. I like to make comments on products and software. I like to post my opinion and see what other people think about it. I just plain enjoy doing this. It's not really a job (Like I said, I don't get a single red cent out of it.) it's a hobby, and one I really like. I also hate banner adverts and I think that has something to do with it. You'll notice that some of the latest reviews have little logos at the top. A "brought to you by:" thing. I guess that's a banner advert. Those are people who have been kind enough to give us product for our big LAN party this year. Least we can do to help them out is mention their company around the site. Those ads don't bug me, they're small and don't animate. (I HATE animated banners.) Anyhows, take a look at the Hit Meter if you care to. That's our hits, and we make no money. Would I "sell out" and start accepting banner adverts like everyone else? Well, there's no REAL reason for us to.. I mean, we don't NEED the money to support the site. On the other hand if someone drove a dumptruck full of money up to my place and offered it to me..... Welll...in the imortal words of Krusty the Klown "Oh god... I'm not made of stone!!!!" :) I'd love to get paid for writing, but it's not likely to ever happen. But! If you happen to have a spare dumptruck (Or even a wheelbarrow) full of money you want to throw at us... I'm open to negotiations. Marauder out. |
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