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Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by Tim S, 19 Sep 2007.

  1. Orca

    Orca What's a Dremel?

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    Great review, glad I upgraded in time. Looks like I'll be playing this for a while.
     
  2. yuusou

    yuusou Multimodder

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    Bit-tech should have an uber low end rig like mine to test these out and just scare me by telling us how it performs.
     
  3. stevehp

    stevehp What's a Dremel?

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    "As the levels load a brief exposition is given by a disembodied voice accompanied by some very pretty watercolour pictures....."

    The voice is actually Alec Baldwin a good narrator if you ask me him or James Earl Jones both good in my opinion.
     
  4. perplekks45

    perplekks45 LIKE AN ANIMAL!

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    I just ran the in-game benchmark myself on the system in my sig (except GFX card @ stock) and here are my results:

    taken from fpsdata.txt:
    Code:
    Resolution: 1600*1200
    Detail Level: Very High
    Average fps: 29
    Min fps: 16
    Max fps: 56
    TotalFrames: 1474
    My settings:

    [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG]

    Screen of benchmark:

    [​IMG]

    Why are my results so much better with the same GFX card, the same amount of RAM and a (admittedly more powerful) CPU? Does WiC scale that much with CPU power?

    Anyways... I'm pretty pleased with the results. ;)
     
  5. capnPedro

    capnPedro Hacker. Maker. Engineer.

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    RTS games do tend to be quite CPU intensive (not flight sim levels but still....)
     
  6. kiwik

    kiwik What's a Dremel?

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    Am I the only one who prefers the normal Napalm/Tank Buster/Laser Guided Bomb to the OMGWTFBBQ Tactical Nukes?
     
  7. Bungle

    Bungle Rainbow Warrior

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    Nukes are for show , the rest are for pro.:D
     
  8. kenco_uk

    kenco_uk I unsuccessfully then tried again

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    It is out today, isn't it? Anyone got it yet?
     
  9. capnPedro

    capnPedro Hacker. Maker. Engineer.

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    Game pissed me off, so no. Even though it's £26 on their website, they want £34 for the privilege of letting them save on postage by buying in store. So I've just ordered online. I can't use the gift card I have, but oh well, it'll get spent eventually.

    In short; I should. But I don't. And whoever's in charge of Game's pricing should get a brick through his window. But they probably won't.
     
  10. Hells_Bliss

    Hells_Bliss What's a Dremel?

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    Are you sure that wasn't the collectors edition? 'cause that's about $60/£35



    heavy arty/toxic cloud/tank buster/carpet bombing/moab Cheesecake

    while nukes are okay, they're only really good if they're all packed together and even then there's too much collateral damage.
     
  11. capnPedro

    capnPedro Hacker. Maker. Engineer.

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    Got him to double check. Collector's edition is £40.
     
  12. Hells_Bliss

    Hells_Bliss What's a Dremel?

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    seems back asswards if you ask me. I pre-ordered online for 66 bucks, then canceled and got it at the store for 53 bucks......
     
  13. wyx087

    wyx087 Multimodder

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    set your 8800GTS to 550/800 and run the benchmark again.

    and tell me what you get, i'll show you what i get on my q6600 G0 @ 3.1Ghz, 2gig OCZ @ 777Mhz 4-4-4-12, BFG 8800GTS 320MB OC.
     
  14. perplekks45

    perplekks45 LIKE AN ANIMAL!

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    Done.

    Code:
    Resolution: 1600*1200
    Detail Level: Very High
    Average fps: 36
    Min fps: 18
    Max fps: 76
    TotalFrames: 1813
    [​IMG] [​IMG]
     
  15. wyx087

    wyx087 Multimodder

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    you've got 640MB right?

    my 320MB only managed this
    [​IMG]

    to test CPU, shouldn't we be running at lower settings? so to make it fare on my poor 320MB, im going to run at:

    btw, where did you get those text in code? i assume you didn't type it

    edit:
    1280x1024, Medium preset:
    [​IMG]
    1280x1024, High preset:
    [​IMG]
     
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  16. perplekks45

    perplekks45 LIKE AN ANIMAL!

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    I'll do some tests @ 1280 and low, med detail later or tomorrow.

    And that text in code is taken from fpsdata.txt found in the WiC save game folder. As far as I can tell it saves data of the last run benchmark and gets overwritten each time a new benchmark is run.
     
  17. perplekks45

    perplekks45 LIKE AN ANIMAL!

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    Ran those tests...

    800x600, very low detail, @ 513/792:

    [​IMG]

    1024, med, @ 513/792:

    [​IMG]

    1280, med, @ 513/792:

    [​IMG]

    1280, max, @ 513/792:

    [​IMG]

    1280, low, @ 550/800:

    [​IMG]

    1280, med @ 550/800:

    [​IMG]

    1280, high, @ 550/800:

    [​IMG]

    1600, max, @ 615/1050:

    [​IMG]
     
  18. Hamish

    Hamish What's a Dremel?

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    i finished the single player of this over the weekend, the only issue i had is that sitting in little circles drawn on the ground isnt that great a mechanic for the single player side of things
    its ok for multiplayer but i think for single player they could've changed it up a bit
    just a small niggle though, bloody good overal :cooldude:

    oh and i remember the benchmark in the mp beta would give me horrible fps numbers, way down in the 10's or so but it was totally playable in game :s
     
  19. Hells_Bliss

    Hells_Bliss What's a Dremel?

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    how do you run the ingame video test? I was looking for it last night but couldn't find it :(
     
  20. CardJoe

    CardJoe Freelance Journalist

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    Should just be in the options IIRC
     
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