ETQW performance numbers @techspot.com

(EB) #1

http://www.techspot.com/article/67-quake-wars-performance/

The numbers begin on page2 of the story

(FireFly) #2

Having come from Bioshock and then Medal of Honor: Airborne (which completely blew me away), Enemy Territory: Quake Wars seems somewhat bland thus far.

This is a rather strange comment from the author: Bioshock is a Single player only game… I don’t think you can compare a sp game with a mp game…

Btw, I was surprised to see ( on page 6 ) that win xp performs better than vista :slight_smile:

(gloowa) #3

? isn’t this obvious that vista is not and won’t be good gaming platform for something like year? for me it becamed clear when i run it first after instalation - horror boot time, tons of ram eaten… i had problems running any game newer than Painkiller, on athlon 3800 + 2Gb ram + 512 graphic card. (i suppose it was caused by drivers (or lack of vista optimized ones))

we’ll see in a year, i think it will bo cool platform by then, but i will stick to XP anyway.

(ayatollah) #4

He is only refering to the graphics in that statement.

(EB) #5

Not to criticize the editor beyond a reasonable doubt but I would assume that most of us are ‘bigger’ PC-gaming enthusiasts than he. I see faults in his reports but I suppose that anyone can only be informed ‘so much’ about ‘so many things’.
If I were to grade his report like a school teacher, I suppose I would give it a
C. He is clearly uninformed and confused about the “span” and “Technical-Girth” of the gaming genre.

But then again, if one of us were to explain the details…then any normal reader would be confused to piss. So I suppose no one can ever win in a situation like this.

At least the numbers still stand. :smiley:

(Smooth) #6

? isn’t this obvious that vista is not and won’t be good gaming platform for something like year? for me it becamed clear when i run it first after instalation - horror boot time, tons of ram eaten… i had problems running any game newer than Painkiller, on athlon 3800 + 2Gb ram + 512 graphic card. (i suppose it was caused by drivers (or lack of vista optimized ones))

we’ll see in a year, i think it will bo cool platform by then, but i will stick to XP anyway.[/quote]

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/amd_nvidia_windows_vista_driver_performance_update/page3.asp

(gloowa) #7

i should have written that this what i talked about was few weeks after vista release (something like 2 or 3, openGL not supported at all W:ET = 6fps :/)
and nobody had good drivers. but drivers won’t change amount of ram and cpu OS was using just to display my desktop. and i didn’t liked new style :slight_smile:

(moonShield) #8

i should have written that this what i talked about was few weeks after vista release (something like 2 or 3, openGL not supported at all W:ET = 6fps :/)
and nobody had good drivers. but drivers won’t change amount of ram and cpu OS was using just to display my desktop. and i didn’t liked new style :)[/quote]

!? 6 FPS is a lot for Software Open GL… My Notebook ran Ultrono Arena with 0.001 FPS or smth :slight_smile:

(gloowa) #9

:lol: i still remember when i played et on radeon 7000… that was hardcore :smiley: only one map with stable 40 fps - et_headshot xD

(FireFly) #10

Yep, that was my point :smiley: : Bioshock contains small / narrow rooms filled with lots of eye candy like one would expect from a sp game… While Quake wars contains maps with large outdoor areas: ofcourse there is less eye candy in favour of higher fps…

So I still think it’s a strange statement from the author…

Although it is hard to fully evaluate the game on what I have seen so far, the demo has failed to impress me which is exactly what the Battlefield 2 demo achieved back in the day.

I think the author should have spend a little more time on the QW demo. I’ve played the BF2 demo and personally I wasn’t really impressed by it… But hey, that’s my opinion :fiesta:

(Dr_Tenma) #11

I saw it happen in Beta and now I’m seeing it happen on the ETQW demo… tons of people are dropping out of the game or writing it off as bad/bland/whatever very early on. I think everyone needs to spend more time on the demo.

No matter what the dev’s say about features to make it friendly for beginners, ETQW has a very hard learning curve in my opinion. It’s been 2 weeks, and I still see people playing Valley horribly (at the MCP escort I see 4 soldiers, 1 engineer and 6 snipers on GDF team for example). I shudder when I think of how long it will take for people to learn the 11 other maps.

As much as I love the game, I’m the first to say that it definitely lacks that spark for “mass appeal.” People looking for instant gratification and surface WOW-factor won’t catch on to the many nuances of the ETQW classes/gameplay.

Ahem, back to the topic of the thread… the game runs great on my midrange system and even my brother can play with his ancient Radeon 9800 pro. Interesting that the game tolerates old video cards better than weak processors.

(mortis) #12

It took 6+ months for ET1 to really get going…the newbs are a bit slow on the uptake…but it will hit it’s rhythm once people start taking care of business rather than running around randomly deathmatching…