Q3 Demo OUT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ozymandis]

It took me about 50 seconds to download the demo... god bless my oc3 college line!!! But it runs slower than the tests before because it has more textures.

[Echo|Fox]

All you dialup peopel are gonna hate me :P
Even though cdrom.com is maxed out with 5000 users, i managed to sneak in at 10:00am this morning and started downloading .. at 80k/sec =)
10 mins to download and i have 2 minutes to go. Yaaaayy :P
Oh, 21 seconds left now. I'm gonna go install it now <evilgrin>

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P3-450@558mhz@2.1v, ABit BE6, 128megs 7.3125ns PC133 SDRAM, SB Live! Value, G400 32meg Dualhead (@120%), Acer ALN-201 PCI 10bT NIC, 6.5gig Seagate Medalist Pro 7200rpm, 13gig Quantum Fireball CR, Yamaha 4416e Burner, Pioneer 10x DVD-ROM, Panasonic e70 17" Monitor, Antec KS-188 24" Tower, 6 year old Honeywell-SUH 101key Keyboard, Logitech Trackman Marble+

[IceStorm]

TurboGL? Does that work with this? Dumped me back to a regular screen, overbright. I might be doing something wrong, though - just got an Athlon 550. :-)

[Scytale]

There seem to be some video mode specific problems with TurboGL initialization, but at 800x600x32 with 32 bits textures it works great for me.

[Scytale]

BTW, I found the funky shiny middle post base - I have one too. It's funky and shiny.

[Maniac]

Not to pour salt in the wound but I grabbed the entire demo in 2 minutes! Average of 425k/sec...

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Celeron 300A@464 2.0V, Abit BH6 G400 16meg DH@150/200, Western Digital Expert 18gig, Ricoh mp7040A, Pioneer 6X DVD slot load, Motorola Cable Modem w/DEC ethernet card, Soundblaster Live Value Ver. 2, Viewsonic GT 775

[Jake]

To all you people with unlimited cable access:

May a thousand maggots feast upon your rotting carcasses!

Just kidding!

Damnit, it took me all afternoon to DL this demo!
But it looks and plays great. Don't know if anyone cares as most of you own G400's, but I got a nice benchmark of 29 fps in 640*480 on my G200 in Demo001. I'm quite happy with that.

That was with a normal setup with 16-bit textures and color depth, detail level slider one notch from max.

I tried enabling the A3D support. I think this must sound great with a 4 speaker setup, but alas I only have two at the moment, so it sounded a bit strange sometimes with A3D on. And my numbers dropped to 22 fps. Sad...

Anyway, have fun!

Jake


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Who is General Failiure and why is he reading my drive?
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MGA-G200 8Mb Mill. bios ver. 2.3, Abit BH6 mobo bios ver. LN, PIII-450@558, 128Mb PC-133 SDRAM, 17" Hitachi monitor, Plextor 40TS CDROM, Panasonic 7502 CDR. Diamond MX300 A3D PCI soundcard.

[Bilbo]

OK OK so I'm only downloading at 14-15k/sec but its better than a 14.4 modem right!
25MB so far with maybe 25 mins to go!
Can't wait...
Anyone got a list of resolutions/colour depths that TurboGL works in yet?
I saw earlier that ID say that no "MiniICD's" are supported but Scytale seems to have managed it!

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G400 32MB DualHead,
PIII450@504,
64Mb,
QDI Brilliant 1 Mobo,
Goldstar 32X CDROM,
6.4Gb UDMA SAMSUNG HD,
3.2GB Quantum Fireball UDMA HD,
Int. IDE ZIP Drive,
ASUSCOM ISDN TA (Internal)
10/100MB Fast Ethernet Card,
SB AWE64 Gold,
Belinea 10 70 10, 17" Monitor,
Hmmmm and a Floppy Drive

[Buuri]

Actually I'm now getting it 70KB/s from the original site
(well that Sandpiper service anyway)

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[Scytale]

That's where I got it at about the same rate