Anybody have the tweaked Creative Glide Wrapper ?

[PurpleHaze]

I have a tendency to help knock threads off topic. Seriously, I'll try to curb that.

[Elie]

Hey I just wanted to express my deep frustrations towards Epic and Unreal Tournament and the fact that they only supported Glide

I guess we're still on the topic of Unreal eh

Regards,
Elie

[IceStorm]

UT came out for Glide first because the Voodoo3 3000 came with a coupon for Unreal Tournament once it was released, as a promo for the card. Epic admitted as much somewhere (can't remember where).

I put back in my V2 SLI rig to play the demo. I was not aware of a decent GLide wrapper for Matrox cards. I'll try it on my G400 MAX tonight sometime.

As for the game itself, UT is awesome - and dare I say, better than Q3A. V2 SLI in 1024x768 is great.

As for the delay on other APIs, the only one I care about is the DirectX one, as the G400's D3D performance is pretty good. Epic's waiting on MS to release DX7 so they can release the D3D version of the demo. Apparently, they really don't want to release it prior to DX7.

I'll try it out on the G400, and I'll see if I can get the URLs to info I've posted here.


------------------
Primary System: PIII-540 (450@4.5x120), Soyo 6BA+ III, 256MB PC100 ECC SDRAM, G400 MAX in multi-monitor mode. V2 SLI rig. Two Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 900u monitors, 3Com 3C905, SoundBlaster Live!, Altec Lansing AC5 spkrs, 2nd Parallel Port, WD AC41800 18GB HD, WD AC310100 10GB HD, Toshiba SD-M1212 6x DVD-ROM, HP 8100i CD-RW, Epson Stylus Pro, Sharp JX-9400 LJ-II compatible, OptiUPS PowerES 650, MS SideWinder Precision Pro USB joystick, Logitech 3-button mouse, Mitsumi keyboard, Win98 SE, Belkin OmniCube 4-port KVM

Secondary System: PII-266, Asus P2B BIOS 1008, 128MB PC100 ECC SDRAM, Millennium II, 3Com 3C590, ADSL Modem 640kbit down/90kbit up, 3Com 3C509, Mylex BT-930 SCSI card, Seagate 2GB Hawk, NEC 6x CD-ROM, Linux distro S.u.S.E. 6.1 (IP Masquerade works!)

Tertiary System: DFI G568IPC Intel 430HX chipset, P200MMX, 96MB of non-parity RAM, Millennium II, Intel Pro/100+ client NIC, SoundBlaster 16 MCD, Fujitsu 3.5GB HD, WD 1.2GB HD, Creative Dxr3 DVD decoder card, Hitachi GD-2500 6x DVD-ROM, Win98 SE

All specs subject to change.



[This message has been edited by IceStorm (edited 09-20-1999).]

[PurpleHaze]

wow. that's some sig.

[Jorden]

Jealous, Ami??

[tish beta2]

Yes, think about when he must sign a check or something...



Well now... I always thought UT was to have it's 3d engine re-written, so it would adapt easier to OGL and D3D...
I was wrong. UT is just a faselift for Unreal with some xtra mods : /

-------------------
Whenever I need to ``get away,'' I just get away in my mind. I go to my imaginary spot, where the beach is perfect and the water is perfect and the weather is perfect. The only bad thing there are the flies. They're terrible!

[PurpleHaze]

Nah, that's ok. I really don't need a long floppy sig hanging out like that. Perfectly happy with mine being neat and well groomed.

Eh, I kinda liked Unreal but i'm kinda a ditz, so...

UT is downloadable? Everything going to these 'arenas' (q3) and 'tournaments'. I coulda sworn that Unreal worked on non-Glide cards even early on but i might be wrong.

[LrngToFly]

There will be a second, "full" UT demo released in the next few days- as soon as Microsoft officially releases DX7.

Speaking of "French or Quebecois maids", I called the Quebec tourism number about a year ago and talked to a French speaking woman. Her voice/accent made me melt in my chair. It was all I could do to think up more questions to keep her on the line...

[IceStorm]

No URLs, but I did fiddle about with the wrappers last night.

- MGlide doesn't work. Dies with an error on setup.

- Unified DOES work, BUT... runs it in a window - D'OH! And I've set it to be fullscreen. It is quite playable at 800x600 (desktop is at 1280x1024@32bit - both). Not only that, It plays on the SECOND HEAD via Unified.

- Software mode looks worse than Unified, however it too runs. It locked up on me in software mode, though. Same as Unified - windowed mode can run on either head.

Either way, UT looks absolutely, positively GORGEOUS in 32bit color. Makes the V2's look positively plain. AND the motion blur from the V2's is gone under Unified/softwa
re. I'm hoping they do a great job on the DX7 implementation of the engine. I'd much rather play in 32bit than 16bit for UT.

The .sig is there so people don't think I'm talking out my ass. :-)


------------------
Primary System: PIII-540 (450@4.5x120), Soyo 6BA+ III, 256MB PC100 ECC SDRAM, G400 MAX in multi-monitor mode. V2 SLI rig. Two Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 900u monitors, 3Com 3C905, SoundBlaster Live!, Altec Lansing AC5 spkrs, 2nd Parallel Port, WD AC41800 18GB HD, WD AC310100 10GB HD, Toshiba SD-M1212 6x DVD-ROM, HP 8100i CD-RW, Epson Stylus Pro, Sharp JX-9400 LJ-II compatible, OptiUPS PowerES 650, MS SideWinder Precision Pro USB joystick, Logitech 3-button mouse, Mitsumi keyboard, Win98 SE, Belkin OmniCube 4-port KVM

Secondary System: PII-266, Asus P2B BIOS 1008, 128MB PC100 ECC SDRAM, Millennium II, 3Com 3C590, ADSL Modem 640kbit down/90kbit up, 3Com 3C509, Mylex BT-930 SCSI card, Seagate 2GB Hawk, NEC 6x CD-ROM, Linux distro S.u.S.E. 6.1 (IP Masquerade works!)

Tertiary System: DFI G568IPC Intel 430HX chipset, P200MMX, 96MB of non-parity RAM, Millennium II, Intel Pro/100+ client NIC, SoundBlaster 16 MCD, Fujitsu 3.5GB HD, WD 1.2GB HD, Creative Dxr3 DVD decoder card, Hitachi GD-2500 6x DVD-ROM, Win98 SE

All specs subject to change.



[This message has been edited by IceStorm (edited 09-21-1999).]