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Re: C&C 3 Demo is Out [message #247137 is a reply to message #247073] Mon, 26 February 2007 19:36 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Yeah my computer is really crap, I can only run it with lowest setting and the sound doesn't work. Even then it doesn't run perfectly Whats That

But other than that, I had a good time. I got some railguns on the Mammoth tanks and I built 5 of them, and rushed. Man those things are crazy.


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Re: C&C 3 Demo is Out [message #247138 is a reply to message #247073] Mon, 26 February 2007 19:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Can anyone else set the anti-alias higher? My controls don't seem to let me using game controls.

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Re: C&C 3 Demo is Out [message #247146 is a reply to message #247073] Mon, 26 February 2007 20:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I'm getting my full retail version free from EA. I just hope I can get it from EA Link instead of waiting for them to ship it to us. I'm about to hop into the demo and check it out now. I hope it will play well... EA gave all the Community Summit attendees free high-end video cards from nVidia so we'd be able to enjoy it. I'm not sure my old Ti4800SE would have handled this well. Smile

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Re: C&C3 Official Announcement [message #247147 is a reply to message #246959] Mon, 26 February 2007 20:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Please do NOT mirror or offer links to download the file other than FilePlanet and EA Link. I have been asked not to allow them for the first week.

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Re: C&C3 Official Announcement [message #247148 is a reply to message #246959] Mon, 26 February 2007 20:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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WTF? Why, I think we should unless they give us a reason? We could just Google it any freaking way?



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Re: C&C 3 Demo is Out [message #247151 is a reply to message #247138] Mon, 26 February 2007 21:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Can anyone else set the anti-alias higher? My controls don't seem to let me using game controls.


Set your AA settings in your video card settings. That way, it will render it with whatever AA setting you have it on no matter what.


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Re: C&C 3 Demo is Out [message #247153 is a reply to message #247151] Mon, 26 February 2007 21:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Good Demo. Fun to play. I'm upload two videos both of them are the same just one is HQ and one is LQ. Once I finish yousending them i'll try to edit this post and give y'all the links. (They're only 3min video but I thought i'd do it anyways.) Just to let y'all know there is no sound because FRAPS didn't want to record it but the graphics (On the HQ Video) are superb. Full detail with AA on the highest level which i'm going to assume is 4.

For some reason during the encoding the video lost alot of lighting, hopefully its not too dark. However if it is i'll either make another one and just encode it again with some tweaking.

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Re: C&C3 Official Announcement [message #247154 is a reply to message #246959] Mon, 26 February 2007 21:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Re: C&C 3 Demo is Out [message #247156 is a reply to message #247073] Mon, 26 February 2007 22:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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When my copy finishes downloading I'll take some screenshots and video of it on AAx16 and AFx16).

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EA gave all the Community Summit attendees free high-end video cards from nVidia so we'd be able to enjoy it.


What chipsets did they give you guys? I'm curious to see what this would look like on a 8800. Very Happy


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Re: C&C 3 Demo is Out [message #247158 is a reply to message #247073] Mon, 26 February 2007 22:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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It's a GeForce 7900GT. I played at 1280x11024 with basically no lag and no problems at all. Well, I THINK I might have seen a bit of lag when there were a lot of things flying about... I'm so glad to see that all the minor little graphics issues that existed in the alpha are not there anymore. I beat the Easy AI in a 40-minute skirmish. I have a lot to learn because I totally suck at RTS games.

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Re: C&C3 Official Announcement [message #247159 is a reply to message #246959] Mon, 26 February 2007 22:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Meh, apparently it's only for the first day, not the first week. I guess they knew they couldn't keep it in much longer than that.

To be honest, I'm sure EA just wants to know with pretty good accuracy just how many people downloaded it on the first day.


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Re: C&C 3 Demo is Out [message #247161 is a reply to message #247073] Mon, 26 February 2007 22:23 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Just out of curiosity then, what are your full systems specifications? I have a 7800GS chipset so I'm curious to see what is in store for me.

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Re: C&C 3 Demo is Out [message #247162 is a reply to message #247073] Mon, 26 February 2007 22:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I have an Athlon 64 3500+ processor with 2GB of RAM. I'm running on dual 19" LCD monitors at 1280x1024 on each.

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Re: C&C 3 Demo is Out [message #247164 is a reply to message #247073] Mon, 26 February 2007 22:38 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Ah, cool. I should be able to max everything out at 1024x768 then.

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Re: C&C 3 Demo is Out [message #247165 is a reply to message #247073] Mon, 26 February 2007 22:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The fact that you can't play as Nod sucks big time. Hopefully someone will use their 1337 HAX on the demo and make Nod playable soon.
Re: C&C 3 Demo is Out [message #247166 is a reply to message #247156] Mon, 26 February 2007 22:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Dave Anderson wrote on Tue, 27 February 2007 01:06

When my copy finishes downloading I'll take some screenshots and video of it on AAx16 and AFx16).

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EA gave all the Community Summit attendees free high-end video cards from nVidia so we'd be able to enjoy it.


What chipsets did they give you guys? I'm curious to see what this would look like on a 8800. Very Happy


Unless you have quad SLI you won't be reaching 16xAA.

I'll take some better screenshot tomorrow after my exam. The ones I took today only have 2xAA and I haven't applied any driver tweeks. Need to find a way to make the HUD flash when screenshots are taken as well.


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Re: C&C3 Official Announcement [message #247167 is a reply to message #246959] Mon, 26 February 2007 23:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I got amazing speeds from EA Link anyway, I don't see the problem. I was getting 900kb/s and most people that I talked to who also used it got even higher...

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Re: C&C3 Official Announcement [message #247168 is a reply to message #246959] Mon, 26 February 2007 23:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I was pissed at how many hoops I had to jump through to get the damn demo:

-Open up Fileplanet download thing
-Wait 45 minutes
-Fileplanet tells me to wait ANOTHER 45 minutes
-*Insanity*
-I install EA link
-The registration page dosen't work.
-After about 30 refreshes, it still dosen't work
-Register an account at EA's website
-Download and install demo

Downloading the demo was a pain in the ass, and was not really worth it.
Re: C&C 3 Demo is Out [message #247169 is a reply to message #247073] Mon, 26 February 2007 23:23 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Unless you have quad SLI you won't be reaching 16xAA


Wrong. If your video card supports it, but doesn't have it in the driver settings, you can force-enable it with RivaTuner. And you don't need Quad SLI for AAx16, that's ridiculous.

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The same can be done for OpenGL settings.
  • Attachment: AAx16.JPG
    (Size: 31.26KB, Downloaded 194 times)


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Re: C&C 3 Demo is Out [message #247170 is a reply to message #247073] Mon, 26 February 2007 23:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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You can't force it because the card pysically does not support it, nor could it handle it anyway. The 8800GTX can barely handle 8xAA on newer games with 768mb of RAM, you're crazy if you think a 256mb or 512mb card could handle 16x.

Also, 8xS is not really 8x AA. Excluding the 8-series, any single gpu nvidia card out there today can only handle 4x AA, and 6xAA for ATI cards I believe.


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Re: C&C 3 Demo is Out [message #247171 is a reply to message #247170] Mon, 26 February 2007 23:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Renx wrote on Mon, 26 February 2007 23:32

You can't force it because the card pysically does not support it, nor could it handle it anyway. The 8800GTX can barely handle 8xAA on newer games with 768mb of RAM, you're crazy if you think a 256mb or 512mb card could handle 16x.

Also, 8xS is not really 8x AA. Excluding the 8-series, any single gpu nvidia card out there today can only handle 4x AA, and 6xAA for ATI cards I believe.


The two 8800 series chipsets in SLI mode can easily handle 16xAA and 16xAF.

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» New NVIDIA driver brings 16xAA

Just before the GeForce 7800 GTX launched last month, NVIDIA informed the press that a future driver release would bring new AA modes (including a 16x setting) for SLI users. Well, today that driver has sort of arrived, as NVIDIA has posted their beta ForceWare 77.76 driver to their nZone website.

Two new AA modes are now available for SLI users only, an 8x mode and a 16x mode. With the 8x setting, both cards utilize 4x multisampling, with each card using different rotated-grid sampling patterns which are blended together before being output to your screen. Under the new 16x setting, each card runs NVIDIA's 8xS mode with different sampling patterns. If you recall, 8xS combines NVIDIA's traditional 4xMSAA with 2x supersampling for sharper visuals.

End users must use the Coolbits registry hack to enable the new AA modes (change the value to Cool. Once that's done, change the SLI rendering mode field to SLI antialiasing to enable the new modes.


I may have been wrong about it having an effect on a single chipset on 16xAA settings, but you can still force AAx8S, and I CAN physically see the difference in games both in image quality and it drastically drops the rendering and processing power. But it does not effect the performance enough to not use it in certain scenarios.


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Re: C&C 3 Demo is Out [message #247173 is a reply to message #247073] Mon, 26 February 2007 23:51 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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In SLI mode yes, because then there would be 1.5GB of video RAM at their disposal.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=53847

Read that. Like I said, 8xS AA is not nearly the same as 8xAA. You need two cards for real 8xAA, and four cards for real 16xAA. For each level of AA you increase it effectively doubles the amount of video ram the card uses.


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Re: C&C 3 Demo is Out [message #247174 is a reply to message #247073] Mon, 26 February 2007 23:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I'll have to read it tomorrow after school. Thanks for the link though, it should be interesting to read.

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Re: C&C3 Official Announcement [message #247178 is a reply to message #246959] Tue, 27 February 2007 00:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I was downloading at 100kbps from that EAlink crap, uTorrent was off and other internet bw hoggers, I was only on msn and IRC. :V

I had a direct download link, Didn't take too long, And the download was orgasmic, I'm definitely buying C&C 3.


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Re: C&C3 Official Announcement [message #247179 is a reply to message #246959] Tue, 27 February 2007 00:23 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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It was good, but so far I still want Supreme Commander more. It's out, I just need to buy it.
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