UT2003 Software Rendering

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  And on my 1.8GHz with 16mb Radeon 7500 as well I bet! : lee majors
  • and on my celeron 466 w/ radeon mobility 8 meg video :( : diehlr

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  It's supposed to be if you've got a fast CPU and a really useless gfx card. Still kinda pointless. : xenoeye
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    It is useful for all those poor souls who get corporate laptops with 2.5Ghz P4 and some really crappy vid... : dynamo
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      OK, laptops mabye but any decent PC bought in the last few years has at least some kind of hardware rende... : xenoeye
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        Still, what laptop with a decent CPU doesn't come with a decent video card too? Laptop CPU's and memory ... : LoveGravy
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          Uhh have you ever had a note book? There's a reason why trident still has a 40% market share. It's ... : galaga
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            First off, YES, I have 2 notebooks, both with the Radeon. We sell nearly $60Million/year worth of NOTEBO... : LoveGravy
            • Here is a link to 2.8GHz Pentium4 laptop with Intel 852 graphics. Its an affordable desktop replacement ... : dynamo
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    Well, every second spent on software rendering might have been better spent elsewhere... Anyway, I jus... : LoveGravy
    • They bought a middleware solution, it's not in-house. : Fred Garvin
    • Yeah, kinda silly to waste time on this. : su007
• Because it will eliminate the need for them to put 3D hardware required on the Minimum Requirements of th... : Do_Or_Die
• you can buy 3d caperble cards for peanuts on ebay, newegg does 3d cards for $15-40 which is nothing compa... : narby--
• I think it is more of a feature for the average computer player... you know? Like, instead of playing Sol... : skizl

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  You can't. Besides senses can't lie because they have no consciousness. : Aubrey Philipsz
  • Yea but your brain interprets your senses and you could argue that your consciousness is just your though... : FuryVII
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    Your senses lie all the time. An example is that you see everything upside down, your brain makes everyt : indeego
    • inverted mouse forever! actually i do FPS inverted and EQ non inverted : junkstyle
• 2nd best one. *highfive* : Dan[WSB]

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• i.e. The DELL pc's most people buy. : Judicus
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  Advanced Game Player, and Game Plaing Unit? : carrioN luggagE
  • A Great Post Green pee Urine! : indeego
• Whatever the reasoning, if it was simply done "because we can" that'd be cool with me. Seriously, it's re... : node

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• hahahahahahahahaha... Similarly, we can turn AA on all games since they won't need anymore fillrate th... : jake
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  Um... Wait for it.... BWAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.... <<sniff>> Whew! That was a good one! Curre... : LoveGravy
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    Whoa, someone missed the sarcasm! : aggressor
    • Yeah, could be. I believe Tim Sweeny a long time ago said something similar, perhaps that is where the l... : jake
    • Um, if that's sarcasm, then it's weak. That's an argument that was put forth a while back by a game deve... : LoveGravy
  • OMg lol...someone is taking things way, way too seriously. It was just a fun little sarcastic comment lo... : brewsterdog
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  offloading the burden of GPU specific instructions to the hardware is superior than a monstrous CPU (unle... : warren
  • hehe, not even quad Opterons can even come close to a modern GPU. : magila
• In the future this is true : shack_konto

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• To the shack, baby. : Aubrey Philipsz

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  What laptop has a CPU fast enough to make the game playable in software mode, yet doesn't come with a dec... : LoveGravy
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    Pretty much most corp laptops. So tens of thousands, at least. : indeego
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      Hmmm, lemme take a look at my inventory of corporate laptops, I'll grab one of the lower priced systems w... : LoveGravy
      • yeah, I don't get it. Seems worthless to me. But whatever... : ease_one
  • My friend's laptop has a P4-M 2.0 ghz and a 16 meg GeForce2 Go and I saw several laptops with even worse ... : diehlr
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    My Compaq N800C: 2Ghz P4, 1GB Ram, ATI Radeon 7500. Q3 1024x768 High Quality: 110+FPS : jake
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      In SOFTWARE mode? Wow, that's impressive.... : LoveGravy
      • Well, yeah, had I actually read your whole comment :) : jake
• Yeah, but any laptop from the past couple of years has 3d hardware. This seems oddly pointless. : trevis

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  Those results are pretty old : narby--
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    indeed, just wondering where http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=7566145 got his 2% number from. : Steve Gibson
    • Ahh ok, I hope Valve/speakeasy publish some newer results soon, it would be interesting to see just how m... : narby--
    • Oh yeah. Huh. I'm sure I read it in one of the HL2 previews. Or I could be totally wrong. : Carnivac
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      Gabe said it in the 40 minute Gamespot interview .mov : n0v4
      • Yeah that would have been it. : Carnivac

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• And the HL engine isn't nearly as hardware/3d intensive as UT2003. So while HL might be able to run on t... : garylsjr

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• I agree. Why bother... if you're really into playing games that much you'll have something that can play ... : Madwacker
• Nah, they just licensed the Pixomatic software from RAD games and Daniel Vogel worked on it for a bit. No... : node