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Wheel of Time D3D Problems
by Maarten Goldstein, Nov 12, 1999 6:51am PSTThe World of Dreams guys saw a reply from Legend's Matthias Worch to this thread, which has someone who just picked up Wheel of Time complaining about Direct3D performance on his PIII-500. This is indeed a problem, here's what Mattias had to say:
Some D3D machines seem to have problems, we're working on fixing it (there might be a fix soon). In the meantime, try setting your Windows desktop to 16bit and turn detail textures off. Maybe that helps. Sorry for the inconvenience (god, does that sound dumb), it sucks for us, too - we want everybody to be able to play the game, tooSo how about that demo huh? Should be up today, so you can check D3D performance on your PC.
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And glide is dead. If you go and get a 3Dfx card just to play this fucking stupid game, then you are a complete idiot.
As well, it didn\'t happen in 16-bit. Weird... I just went back to the Guillemot drivers, it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling using the drivers from my manufacturer :)
Anycase, I haven\'t had any real trouble running WoT with my TnT2, so I figure there\'s probably something else causing them their problem.
http://www.wheeloftime.com/downloads/
I\'m looking forward to this one...
Anyway, instead of spouting a bunch of excuses and stuff like \"man, don\'t you think we want you to be able to play our game, too?\" I\'ll just tell you that there will be an experimental (as in Try On Your Own Risk) patch later today or tomorrow, that has fixed the TNT problems for a lot of people. It will be tiny, too.
I\'m using the 3.56 ref drivers for the card.
It is true that if you have an nVidia card, your card dictates which games you can play. But for me, it\'s the games I play that dictate the card I\'m buying, and I\'m going to buy a GeForce because it\'s the best card for Quake3. All other Unreal-based games like WoT or UT take a back seat to Quake3 in my rig.
Anyway, back to the topic as this is not a video card board :) ....
I agree, WoT\'s support for the various graphics API\'s is probably lackluster... The whole engine just does not seem \'solid\' to me. Fortunately, future driver updates and patches to the game will improve matters. Until then however I will probably not do more than check out the demo....
Glide is dead, my ass.
Wheel of Time.
See http://www.shugashack.com/news_reply.x/2769/ re: \"Wheel of Time Out\". Yet another game to lure you away from spending your hardearned money on important things like Duke Nukem, Doom2, and other seminal \"How to be a Psycho\" instructional material.