The Most Popular Game

[troop]

http://www.maximumpcmag.com/inside_sources/99.9/99.9.9.phtml#HalfLifeTopsCharts

Unfortunately ,
this is also the game that needs the greatest support effort by the bros on the software dev team.

When is the next driver set due ?

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Justice

[Maggi]

and are you using OGL now ?



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Cheerio,
Maggi
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Asus P2B-DS @ 103MHz FSB
2x P3-450 @ 464MHz
512MB CAS2 SDRAM
Millenium G400 32MB DH

[troop]

Absolutely-the 3Dfx minigl driver on the SLI.
There's no comparison with the Matrox OGL driver or the " wrapper " as it is called.

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In Harm's Way

[tish beta2]

the reason Half-Life is on top is cus if you wanna burn it to your friend you need 80mins CD's and a burner capable of burning those kinda CD's.

Not many people have it, and not may people know how to do it

I play half-life with openGL at my g400 max @ 1024x32 with 40-60 fps.

Thanks.

[This message has been edited by tish beta2 (edited 09-12-1999).]

[rei]

half-life is an overburn? half-life needs 80 min cds? huh?

i bought and own half-life and had the sense of mind to make a backup copy before my old cdrom drive scratched it to shreds (this happened to my starcraft cd as well) and i didn't want to send $10-20US and wait 6 weeks for a disc replacement...

i used nero on it and it copied fine on a normal 74 min disc...?

[Maggi]

Hey Trooper,

the Matrox ICD is no wrapper, the so called D3D code within Half-Life is the wrapper.

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Cheerio,
Maggi
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Asus P2B-DS @ 103MHz FSB
2x P3-450 @ 464MHz
512MB CAS2 SDRAM
Millenium G400 32MB DH

[tish beta2]

Rei, have you tested that burn? I would be surprised if it worked...

[SteveC]

http://www.gamecopyworld.com

There, you just choose your game, and it tells you, step by step, how to copy it. Even PSX games!

Anyway, the Most Popular Game EVER muct be Civilisation, surely?

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Cheers,
Steve

PS: Some or all of the above message may be wrong, or, just as likely, correct. Depends on what mood I'm in. And what you know. ;¬)

[rei]

yeah it works fine. because my original sure as heck doesn't.

i bought it in december-january, maybe they changed it to overburn later?

[tish beta2]

Interesting... I wanted to burn it from a friend, and he said it was an overburn. It also said so on the ISO warez sitez. Not that I do anything like that though... No no not me I'm mister saint

[IceStorm]

1) Half-Life is an overburn for those outside the US. For me it was a straight copy using CDRWIN. The backup I made works fine.

2) I get about 30 to 40 FPS with HL on my G400 MAX using OpenGL at 1024x768. I didn't see a difference between 16 and 32 bit color, so I left it at 16 bit color. It's plenty bright for me.

3) I can run at 1152x864, but for some reason it slows down in multiplayer at times. I think that's the network connection to the server slowing down, but I'm not positive. Anywho, 1024x768 is fine for multi for me. And I'm runing OpenGL now, not D3D.

The G400 MAX dropped my CPU temp from 57 to 47 degrees C. For that alone, it was worth it. Add in V2 performance, and the gain of two or three PCI slots, and it's a worthy card.


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Primary System: PIII-540 (450@4.5x120), Soyo 6BA+ III, 256MB PC100 ECC SDRAM, G400 MAX in multi-monitor mode. Two Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 900u monitors, 3Com 3C905, SoundBlaster 32, Altec Lansing AC5 spkrs, 2nd Parallel Port, WD AC41800 18GB HD, WD AC310100 10GB HD, Toshiba XM-6102b CD-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, 3Com 3C900, SoundBlaster 16 MCD, Fujitsu 3.5GB HD, WD 1.2GB HD, Hollywood Plus DVD decoder card, Toshiba 6x DVD-ROM, OS of the week

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