Why would that matter? I seem to recall one of the devs saying Directx is only used for mouse & keyboard controls, and that the D3D component isn't used at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mastablasta
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Why would that matter? I seem to recall one of the devs saying Directx is only used for mouse & keyboard controls, and that the D3D component isn't used at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mastablasta
Why are people even talking about this? Redundant systems.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keldros
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keldros
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psikie
Leet form?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wrangeline
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's why I had raid forces leeted. The zerg had a terrible sense of direction.Quote:
Originally Posted by Esssch
Both things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Esssch
Also, when I started play AO, it was a Pentium II (I dont remember the vel) with onboard graphic card stealing max RAM (32MB) and 128-32MB RAM :cool: Beat my stoneage! (A friend of mine played on one AMD 486 possessed by evul spirits xD)
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
W.I.N.E. - W.I.N.E. is not an emulator. Also: Infinite recursion.
I played on an HP prebuilt from '97, using AOL 56k....until after AI came out. Loading between any zones took me upwards of 2 minutes each time.Quote:
Originally Posted by lainbr
Big deal, I play on a modified kinetoscope tied to a morse code telegraph line soldered together with gum wrappers, and bits of tin foil I collect from the ocean.Quote:
Originally Posted by Esssch
Damn you...Quote:
Originally Posted by Esssch
Many a time after the advy minituarization nano was introduced, there was one winged "leet" with the leet pack... people would ask why I am a funny colour. Good times!Quote:
Originally Posted by Garremp
Daguerreotype or it didn't happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vurtuoso
ti 400 mx doesnt exsist. ti means "good one" and mx means "bad one" :/Quote:
Originally Posted by Garremp
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.
It's on its way via horseback, I tipped the rider 10 cents to moon you as well. Prepare yourself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keldros
1080 * 10kb is 10mb. That's not a lot of data.Quote:
Originally Posted by Otansaanpas