Orcish Champion Slows Down Demo To A Crawl

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.

 

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??

 

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)

 

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

 

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

But I don't see it happenning, either.

 

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:

 

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:

 

That's the theory, anyway.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed...