general game/machine protocol 2004-01-30 - By Paul Fortier
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Barry Swan wrote:
>>insight as to why that is?) Are most 3d games, designed for
>>pIII level
>>machines, copied from the cd to the desktop before playing?
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>Commercial ones, yes. But then again, these often run to 800 megs+ of
>files, so that'd be a hell of a lot of CD thrashing and slow loading.
>>From what I gather, they copy to hard drive more for convenience and
>speed of loading than any actual in-game performance.
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Are these what you would call 'in -game performance' issues?
-collision detection failure (can slip through walls on occasion,
usually when a lot is going on in the camera view)
-sound stutters (rapid interruptions) at times
-when encountering a particle system for the first time, user's forward
movement halts for an instant
These only happen when running the game from the cd rom. (When running
from the cd I get about the same fps as when running from the desktop,
though) Except for when encountering the particle system, none of the
above events calls for an external file from the cd rom. (All content is
in the internal casts of the projector.)
So I guess I am asking what would cause these problems only when playing
from the cd rom? Is it the speed of the cd rom drive? (It says "8x4x32x
max speed"). Is it just cause I am burning it myself in my g4 ...and a
commercially replicated cd wouldn't have those issues?
Thanks,
Paul
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pIII level
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Commercial ones, yes. But then again, these often run to 800 megs+ of
files, so that'd be a hell of a lot of CD thrashing and slow loading.
>From what I gather, they copy to hard drive more for convenience and
speed of loading than any actual in-game performance.</pre>
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Are these what you would call 'in -game performance' issues?<br>
-collision detection failure (can slip through walls on occasion, usually
when a lot is going on in the camera view)<br>
-sound stutters (rapid interruptions) at times<br>
-when encountering a particle system for the first time, user's forward movement
halts for an instant<br>
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These only happen when running the game from the cd rom. (When running from
the cd I get about the same fps as when running from the desktop, though)
Except for when encountering the particle system, none of the above events
calls for an external file from the cd rom. (All content is in the internal
casts of the projector.)<br>
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So I guess I am asking what would cause these problems only when playing
from the cd rom? Is it the speed of the cd rom drive? (It says "8x4x32x max
speed"). Is it just cause I am burning it myself in my g4 ...and a commercially
replicated cd wouldn't have those issues?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Paul<br>
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