UT D3D Demo Status

btw- 55 or 60 fps would seem a \'little slow\' on a TnT2 card at 640@480

Why is everyone bashing Epic for having DX7, and maybe OpenGL in thier next demo release...... Uh, gee, none of you \'critics\' have even seen the next release run, so WTF do u know? LOL

So, any news yet about Quake 3 Test 1.09 ? Hmm..what about 1.10 than or
the real demo?? *shrug* Urm...the final ???

Although DirectX is finally maturing into a decent API, I still think it\'s unfortunate to see developers using it. I\'m not a hardcore windoze basher but DX is obviously one more MS attempt to control another facet of the market. UT rocks, but I have a lot more respect for developers who use cross platform standards, ala OpenGL.

#2: Not piss poor programming, more like lack of oversight, or rather predicting the future ^_^

I suspect Unreal was so optimized for Glide and software (really the only choices when Unreal was developing) that they made some design decisions that hurt them when it came to try out other APIs.

Heavy texturing was a decision that most likely hurt them big time. But try and redesign an engine at this stage and see how far you can get.

Plus, Glide has been mature for a long time *SHRUG*

I don\'t really care. It\'s a game. Deal with it.

It\'s all a matter of priorty. Since the Unreal engine took four years to create, it was begun back when glide was the only viable solution for hardware acceleration. Since then they have tacked on both OpenGL and Direct3D, but that hasn\'t been the biggest focus of their attention. I\'m guessing that they\'re net coding has been their biggest issue. This also explains why Unreal has wound up in bed with 3dfx (and please, don\'t even say that they aren\'t). They see that non-glide acceleration is a problem for them and so they support the video card that makes their game look good. I would to. What I blame them for, however, is the smarmy way that they\'re going about it. Hell, they even praise 3dfx in the UT demo\'s readme. They also decided to disallow the implementation of even *basic* T&L support (ala Nvdia\'s new GeForce 256 and friends). I don\'t like Epic\'s choice of bed partners, but other than expressing and explaining my dislike, I\'m afraid there isn\'t much I can do about it. As for the D3D UT demo still being a few days off... sigh.... looks like Epic is back to its old tricks, eh? Oh well, a duck with quack. It appears that the release of DX7 was just another way for Epic to shift the blame to elsewhere. Hell, it took several weeks for Sweeney to admit that Unreal\'s network unplayability was due to something more than internet congestion.

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