Oh.my.god.
Sidewinder
Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7842Members
Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7842Members
Okay first off as usual this game owns meh and all yew foolz, and no other mod will ever be able to succeed this baby! I'm wondering, however, is Natural Selection crazy or something? I have UT2003 installed on my Pentium 4 1.4 Ghz, 512 MB PC-800 RDRAM and GeForce 3 Ti500 system running at the same resolution as Natural Selection and probably with more graphics features tew, but it doesn't lag, but when I'm in Natural Selection and I play for perhaps a less-than-moderate building-of-structures session the thing chugs along like a friggin Heavy Armor Marine with all the fancy stuff. Is this an act of god, or does Natural Selection need some serious tweaking here? BTW, I play both games offline with bots (more in UT2003) so I doubt my internet connection or some server being the cause.
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[edit] I have a P3 733 with 256 RAM, a NVIDEA TNT2 (sucky) and NS runs like.... heaven for me.
P3 600mhz, 256ram, Geforce2 annilator 2 mx series
Man I need a new computer x.x
Bots tend to eat CPU time also (I am not exqactly sure about HL bots)
however they are performing an action for every FPS that you have
orrr, there could be something screwy (hosting and playing tends to get funky, not sure though try playing O/L)
Unreal Tournament 2003 on the other hand is brand new, and its uses more of the GFX card, wich results in that there is a nice "balance" betwen GFX card usage and CPU usage.
Bridger's Guide to not looking like a jackass! If you don't want to be labled as an immature 12 yr old who failed out of grade school, please adhear to the following rules:
<ul>
<li>Do not use words like meh and tew and yew. They are extreamly childish and anoying to read.
<li>Sentances should not be longer than the second sentance on this post. Run on sentances are hard to read and make your post less professional.
<li>Use paragraphs to denote different subjects in your post. This is much more organized and shows that you did, in fact, make it though grammar school.
</ul>
There you have it! The ultimate guide on acting older than 12!
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Yeah I agree, UT doesn't need much CPU power except for maybe if you set the Physics Detail to high (with all the fancy effects like smoke being whirled around by rockets) or adding like 50 bots. I think without those bots your NS should run a good bit smoother.
No chance in hell of UT2003 running at those resolutions and fsaa/aniso settings...
Dunno what youre doing wrong, theres no way NS is more cpu intensive than UT2003.
<ul>
<li>Do not use words like meh and tew and yew. They are extreamly childish and anoying to read.
<li>Sentances should not be longer than the second sentance on this post. Run on sentances are hard to read and make your post less professional.
<li>Use paragraphs to denote different subjects in your post. This is much more organized and shows that you did, in fact, make it though grammar school.
</ul>
There you have it! The ultimate guide on acting older than 12!<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Psst... You misspelled <b>adhere</b>, <b>extremely</b>, <b>annoying</b>, and <b>sentence</b> (three times).
Thought you'd like to know. You know, impressions and all...
<ul>
<li>Do not use words like meh and tew and yew. They are extreamly childish and anoying to read.
<li>Sentances should not be longer than the second sentance on this post. Run on sentances are hard to read and make your post less professional.
<li>Use paragraphs to denote different subjects in your post. This is much more organized and shows that you did, in fact, make it though grammar school.
</ul>
There you have it! The ultimate guide on acting older than 12!<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Redrum's Guide to not acting like a pompus twit. If you don't want to be labaled as an immature and completely useless flamer who failed to make friends in grade school, please adhear to the following rules:
<ul>
<li>Do not post off topic flames. (Funny to see you flaming like a 12 y/o about not acting like a 12 y/o...) Note: This post by myself is in defense of the original poster, and hence a flame-retardant ... not a flame.
<li>Do not critique the spelling or grammatical errors of others... Ever.
<li>Get a life. If your only contribution to the world is picking fights online, you need to log off and go outside.
</ul>
There you have it! The ultimate guide on not acting like a pompus twit.
Forget the TNT2 and get your self a GeForce 4, because a TNT2 can't run BF1942 good ^_^
what kind of video card do you have???
Thought you'd like to know. You know, impressions and all...<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
i think i know i'm a horrible speller, there's not much i can do about that (short of studying the dictionary...).
I didn't mention any kinds of spelling mistakes in my guide, i was talking about purposfully mispelled words that have no purpose. My biggest gripe on forums such as this is people who ignore common grammar rules. <b>Sentences</b> longer than a fright train and giant paragraphs really make it hard to read posts. Simply splitting your ideas into different paragraphs isn't really that hard is it? Using sentences and words that make it easy to read?
I don't think that's asking too much. It's just that when i see a post like that, it instantly makes me think of the person as somebody who dropped out of 6th grade or simply refuses to take the time to make their post readable. Either way, it causes me to loose respect for the poster, and thus his arguments have just lost their respect as well.
<ul>
<li>Do not post off topic flames. (Funny to see you flaming like a 12 y/o about not acting like a 12 y/o...) Note: This post by myself is in defense of the original poster, and hence a flame-retardant ... not a flame.
<li>Do not critique the spelling or grammatical errors of others... Ever.
<li>Get a life. If your only contribution to the world is picking fights online, you need to log off and go outside.
</ul>
There you have it! The ultimate guide on not acting like a pompus twit.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'm flaming like a 12 yr old? Ok, maybe it was a bit over the line, i was just trying to frame my critisism in a humorous light.
But if you'd read any of my other 200 someodd posts you'd realize that i very rarely, if at all, flame people. The only time i could posibly see an exception is when somebody is posting in such a way that makes it very hard to read. That is one of my pet peeves (sp?).
Like i said, this is one of the very rare times where i've come close to flaming, so your last point is totaly groundless. I'm not critiquing the general spelling or gramatical mistakes, i'm critiquing the PURPOSFUL misuse of words.
How hard is it NOT to use run on sentences? How hard is it to frame your post in a well thought out manor using paragraphs? It seems to me anybody who has passed 6th grade would have an easy time with this, hence, people who refuse to take the time to make their post easier to read apear to me as being 6th grade dropouts.
I'm trying to help the guy by pointing out that the way his post is framed causes me to loose faith in whatever he's saying. I loose respect for people who don't take the time to make their post readable. Somebody has to tell him or else he'll keep posting like that.
Here's the thing... I agree that it's not that hard to avoid run-on sentences and such (at least it's not hard for me), and it <b>can</b> get annoying. But, it really is in bad taste to point out someone's grammar mistakes (especially when it makes up an entire reply) in reply to a post that has nothing to do with grammar at all.
I see your point about letting him know, but did you really handle it that well? I don't think so. You could have just as easily let him know by PM'ing him. You didn't have to devote a long, drawn-out reply to it. Look at your post again. Whether you were joking or not, you essentially insulted him (insinuating that he looked like a "jackass" and an "immature 12 year old"). In any case, you could have handled the situation a lot better than you did, and I don't think there's any good reason to be defending that post.