Orcish Champion Slows Down Demo To A Crawl

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  1. ccubed

    ccubed New Member

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    I can guess why the orc doesn't actually appear, since they didn't put in all the graphics for the game (like female characters etc..), but I was wondering if summoning the orc has caused anyone else's computer to slow down to the point of near unplayability. I've got an Athlon 550 with a Geforce 32mb DDR, and 512 Ram. So is this a demo issue only, or am I going to be in trouble come September.
     
  2. skwerly

    skwerly New Member

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    Yup, orc champ nearly killed my poor 366mhz/geforce/384mb..

    Don't worry, the full game should have all the graphics. And if it's missing one, I'm sure the Troika Folk added some code to handle it. Right, Troika? Right??
     
  3. gridflay

    gridflay New Member

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    I had some slowdown, but not too bad. Depends on the system, I guess.

    As far as fixing it, it came up in some thread or other just how impressive it is that the game doesn't just crash out when a sprite is missing. The fact that it lets you go on at all is a pretty nice piece of work by itself. I can't think of another recent title that had that level of error handling in it.

    (But yeah, of course they still oughta fix it)
     
  4. Bad Buck

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    I think you are wrong as they dont need to fix it since this wont be the case in the full game...
    I dont think there is really a need for a patch to a demo do you?
    At the end of the day the demo is only meant to be a preview
    :cool:
     
  5. Saint_Proverbius

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    I'd like some more sprites for it. :smile:

    But I don't see it happenning, either.
     
  6. gridflay

    gridflay New Member

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    I didn't mean patch the demo, I meant don't ship the game this way!

    Sheesh, I should have put one of these in my post: :wink:
     
  7. Bad Buck

    Bad Buck New Member

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    Sorry m8 kinda misread what ya said ...
    tho the full game will already have it fixed by the simple fact that it is the *full* game
    :smile:
     
  8. gridflay

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    That's the theory, anyway.

    I'm keeping my fingers crossed...
     
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