Pretty sure the Voodoo card does not support Direct3D rendering. But it's been 15 years since I had anything to do with that stuff.
Specs for the machine and a video from your cellphone or whatever of it booting, starting up AO and playing it. Untill then, I'll just assume you're making this up. Running a bot, sure. Playing the game? Not a chance. But please, prove me wrong. I love seeing crazy things.
Last edited by Mastablasta; May 25th, 2013 at 02:46:16.
Thor Mastablasta Hammersmith - Level 220, AI 30, LE 70 Clan Atrox Nano Technician - Setup
The Red Brotherhood
I'm a Nano-Technician, don't ever expect me to fight unbuffed, alone or fair.
Means: about f'ing time :P
Satenia: heresy <3
Znore: Mastablasta <3
Kinkstaah: I have agro from many mobs ;(
Madarab: we are aoe class, we are supose to use pistols
Marxgorm: the NT toolset does not fit into my raiding tactics
Leet form?
Iirc back in the days usage of the leet form (adv or veteran) was mandatory for pande raids because AO did not have to load and manage a lot of different textures and the leet form does not have many/as many polygons as a normal player. Also the particle systems are far from optimized so back in the days all visual effects where off in pande. People had scripts to turn that effects on/off especially for pvp and pande (including minimal view distance which makes the position where you check you framerate pointless except for the number of chars that are present there).
In "the old days" people where used to use a lot of workarounds which are forgotten today and try to bruteforce the problems with more Mhzbyte.
AO is a plant that has not been watered for 12 years. Assuming 10 liters (about 3 gallons) at once now will make it grow sweet fruits is just childish.
Last edited by Garremp; May 27th, 2013 at 18:53:17.
I always wondered what kind of stoneage machines people were running to get any performance boost of meaning from the leet stuff. We used to troll it by morphing to dragons.
Thor Mastablasta Hammersmith - Level 220, AI 30, LE 70 Clan Atrox Nano Technician - Setup
The Red Brotherhood
I'm a Nano-Technician, don't ever expect me to fight unbuffed, alone or fair.
Means: about f'ing time :P
Satenia: heresy <3
Znore: Mastablasta <3
Kinkstaah: I have agro from many mobs ;(
Madarab: we are aoe class, we are supose to use pistols
Marxgorm: the NT toolset does not fit into my raiding tactics
80 polygons times 40 players are 1200 total (as a minimum, pande raids used to be much more crowded back then) opposed to 40 players and 120 polygons each are 4800 total (all rough estimates but no matter whats the exact number you get my point) and smaller IS better in that case. A rough difference of 75% matters. The first computer i played AO on was a celeron 466 mhz and either a voodoo 3 or a GeForce 2 Ti 400 MX (cant remember exactly). That is the kind of stoneage i am talking about. The dragon form might not be as "troll" as you would think because all that players using the same set of textures also helped AO because it always had been slow with hdd access and texture loading.
And you didn't see anyone with hardware like that playing in pande with that many players That kind of hardware was so ancient at the time that if you had it, you shouldn't have 120 people take it into consideration.
And sure it was, all the bot carebears were crying because they couldn't see anything.
Last edited by Mastablasta; May 27th, 2013 at 21:57:51.
Thor Mastablasta Hammersmith - Level 220, AI 30, LE 70 Clan Atrox Nano Technician - Setup
The Red Brotherhood
I'm a Nano-Technician, don't ever expect me to fight unbuffed, alone or fair.
Means: about f'ing time :P
Satenia: heresy <3
Znore: Mastablasta <3
Kinkstaah: I have agro from many mobs ;(
Madarab: we are aoe class, we are supose to use pistols
Marxgorm: the NT toolset does not fit into my raiding tactics
I always thought the leet form was to make it easier to follow the tank, since he was usually the only one not in leet form.
220s "Wakizaka", "Sneakygank", "Wakimango", "Wakisolja", "Tardersauce", "Bushwaki", "Midgetgank", "Bugfixxx", "Ramsbottom", "Paskadoc"
200s Chrisd, Malema, Delbaeth
TL5s Youfail, Bugfixx, Riothamus, Johndee
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Lainbr - 220/30/70 Meta-Physicist Nanomage - E / Spirals - 220/30/70 Enforcer Solitus - E / Kokusho - 201/22/55 Fixer Nanomage - Equip Soon ;o
Traderbr - 180/0/0 Trader Nanomage - / Kaoru - 60/0/0 Meta-Physicist Nanomage - totw semitwink
Proud veteran of Spartans
To devs: You failed redesigning MPs as NTs with pets. I want my debuffer back.
Dreamer: Basically - I wish THIS much effort was put in to ALL profs rebalance docs.
Kintaii: Genele is more hardcore than you, your guildmates, and anyone else you've ever played with
Anarrina: Trust me, I'm not that scary in real life.
Heh this reminds me, we got ao working on a imac (those built in screen-pc with fancy colors) with some windows emulator on it. It was my first meet with ao and loved it ever since
I dont remember the specs on it but it looked like this: http://wheremyheartresides.com/wp-co...s-1024x711.jpg
You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
W.I.N.E. - W.I.N.E. is not an emulator. Also: Infinite recursion.
SmokeX 210/23 Neutral Opifex MA General of Spirit Walkers
SmokeKillsU 81/3 Neutral Opifex Agent
UraniumX 101/2 Neutral Nanomage NT
BruteForceX 61 Neutral Opifex Fixer
SmokingGunsX 43/2 Neutral Solitus Soldier
SixOfNynex 42/2 Neutral Nanomage Engineer
Jiroieyoshi 12/2 Neutral Atrox Enforcer
EMHMarkX 32/2 Neutral Nanomage Doctor
Lainbr - 220/30/70 Meta-Physicist Nanomage - E / Spirals - 220/30/70 Enforcer Solitus - E / Kokusho - 201/22/55 Fixer Nanomage - Equip Soon ;o
Traderbr - 180/0/0 Trader Nanomage - / Kaoru - 60/0/0 Meta-Physicist Nanomage - totw semitwink
Proud veteran of Spartans
To devs: You failed redesigning MPs as NTs with pets. I want my debuffer back.
Dreamer: Basically - I wish THIS much effort was put in to ALL profs rebalance docs.
Kintaii: Genele is more hardcore than you, your guildmates, and anyone else you've ever played with
Anarrina: Trust me, I'm not that scary in real life.
Eroz, finally 220/26/70 Adventurer & proud General of Regulators on ex-RK2 (outdated) equip
Rokroland, 170 Engineer No more crab for j00 Northern Front on ex-RK2
Ranged roxxorz!
Sig last updated properly when West Athens still had people sitting about the subway.
ti 400 mx doesnt exsist. ti means "good one" and mx means "bad one" :/
but if character has, lets say, 9 textures loaded, 120 characters adds to 1080 which is quite lot even with AOs texture sizes.
and to reduce door-lag you needed to play with uncompressed textures.
so you had to choose if you wanted to use lots of memory or have massive doorlag in pande.
i found that leeting made my loading times faster.
Last edited by Otansaanpas; May 30th, 2013 at 00:21:25.
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Thor Mastablasta Hammersmith - Level 220, AI 30, LE 70 Clan Atrox Nano Technician - Setup
The Red Brotherhood
I'm a Nano-Technician, don't ever expect me to fight unbuffed, alone or fair.
Means: about f'ing time :P
Satenia: heresy <3
Znore: Mastablasta <3
Kinkstaah: I have agro from many mobs ;(
Madarab: we are aoe class, we are supose to use pistols
Marxgorm: the NT toolset does not fit into my raiding tactics