UT2004

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 2:06 am

Dunno Vonk, hasn't taken me more than about 45 seconds for a map to load.

vonkaar · Post by **vonkaar** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 8:01 am

I get 21k+ 3dmarks(2001), higher if I don't mind my computer sounding like a hoover. My computer should be more than fine...
9800pro xt
AMD Barton running at 2.8Ghz... that's high.
1 Gig of Geil DDR at 436Mhz
Plenty of disk space... wtf is wrong?

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 12:53 pm

Is your hard drive 5400 rpm or something? My specs:
Athlon 1800
1 Gig SDRAM
7200 rpm 80 GB HDD
Geforce 4 Ti4200

Now that's not high by today standards but it plays pretty much any game smoothly still.

vonkaar · Post by **vonkaar** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 1:05 pm

It's a pair of 10k RPM SATA drives from hell... running in RAID0+1(I think... striping, no redundancy).

My connection is fast enough... it's business class DSL (1.5+/-). But... regardless, it's not downloading the map each time is it? It's mainly the onslaught maps that kills me... my screensaver (10 minutes) kicked in one time... the DM and CTF maps came up fairly quick... like, EQ-zoning times.

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 1:09 pm

All that shit should be stored on your hard drive. Maybe you did some small install and it's reading it off the disc each time? I have the DVD version, and no problems...your system should be kicking mines ass but I'm usually one of the first 3-4 people who start the game.

vonkaar · Post by **vonkaar** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 2:59 pm

I have the CD version... I really hope that this isn't the problem =/. The game starts up really slowly too... like, even getting into the cutscene where the alien shoots the mini gun all over... that takes a minute at least... from when I double click the UT2004 icon... 1 minute later, dude with gun.

bleh.

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 4:02 pm

Jesus, do you have a virus or something? Is it only this game? I just booted mine up to check how long it takes, took mine 8 seconds for the Nvidia logo to show up. Maybe try and defrag your harddrive, there's no way it should take that long.

vonkaar · Post by **vonkaar** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 4:44 pm

Haha... I say that to friends all the time... 'have you defragged in the last year?"

I'm not sure how long it's been... I'll try it =p

vonkaar · Post by **vonkaar** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 1:45 pm

It's a bit better after defrag... where have you been? You too Kalec, haven't seen you at all. Ciladan and I were in a LONG game (well, 4 hours is long for me) last night... way fun.

brinstar · Post by **brinstar** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 1:57 pm

ya i played the demo with ciladan last night, we ended up just driving all the vehicles around trying to get air or ram each other

they should make a spinoff game like the map we played (it's the one where you have to capture power nodes and then blow up the reactor or whatever) but instead of blowing up the enemy reactor core, the object is to score the most points by ramping off shit and running into opponents

i would SO buy it

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 2:54 pm

WoW beta. I'll play some tonight like midnight EST

Ciladan · Post by **Ciladan** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 3:27 pm

Ya vonk, that shit is addicting. I can't remember if our team won or not, I didn't even care lolz.

xKALECx · Post by **xKALECx** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 5:08 pm

I played for nearly 6 hours last night. I got on a Dallas server and had a great ping, so I never left. I'll try to look for you guys later tonight.

vonkaar · Post by **vonkaar** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 8:20 pm

Damn Kalec, we were on a Dallas server too =/. That pretty much all I play, unless Taxx is on and playing in Madagascar or something... bastard had me playing on a server with a 150 ping :depressed:

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Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 12:04 am

I'm in PA. That server I've been playing on I get pings in the 20-30 range.

vonkaar · Post by **vonkaar** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 3:29 pm

Can someone tell me wtf kind of key binding or whatever is needed to get those multi-hop turbo jumps that I see people doing? That is a completely unfair advantage in games like CTF...

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 5:35 pm

Where are you bastards? I just played for 5 hours and nobody came and played. I think I won like 8 straight games.

clark411 · Post by **clark411** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 6:08 pm

Sunday computer gamage starts around 7 PM or so for me. Weelah

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 6:17 pm

Sopranos come on at 9, i'll be on after that's over.

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 1:06 am

Is there something wrong with the stats server? It's not updating any of my stats...gayness.

Gaazy · Post by **Gaazy** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 2:00 am

damnit all to hell i cant connect to anything with just having the demo, and im a broke ass college student and i need the game !@@ sigh

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 1:24 pm

Trade in your old games.

xKALECx · Post by **xKALECx** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 9:19 pm

I've been trying to finish the single player game to unlock the other player models. Yes I'm a geek.

Ciladan · Post by **Ciladan** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 2:43 am

I've been busy so only had a chance to fit in a few late night games. New job should be starting up so not even that any more

xKALECx · Post by **xKALECx** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 4:32 am

BTW, beating single player doesnt unlock models. But I found another way 8)