Battlefield 2142 Demo

[lost_in_moose]

Well it's quite good fun... once you manage to get an EA account through the in-game login thing, and find a free name, and logon, and create a uniquely named soldier and avoid joining a clan, and have fought your way through the control setup, video setup etc. Then managed to actually connect to a server, then wait for 45 minutes whilst it "

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[bloggerofdeath]

I approve of the seething. seeth on MacYeti.

[spasmaton]

Optimising for your graphics card? On a PC? That's crazytalk. It should reformat the vertex stream byte by byte every time you reload the game and if the user doesn't like it they can buy a faster computer.

[lost_in_moose]

The point is not that it's doing the optimisation, it's that it take 45 minutes on a dual-core 2ghz machine with 1Gb ram and an utterly standard graphics card which is THE most popular performance nvidia chipset in peoples machines.

If it took 5 minutes i'd think that they had missed an obvious opportunity to create profiles for the most popular chipsets but taking 45 minutes just shows that they have made no effort whatsoever to optimise any stage of the optimisation process at all using any method avaailable.

[bloggerofdeath]

well I expect the next version to optimize the optimization of the optimization process for 21 minutes, then optimise the optimization process for a further 18 minutes, and then finally optimize the graphics card for a mere 4 minutes. You won't be bitching about a long graphics card optimization process then will you eh? That'll be even better than your five minutes that will!

[lost_in_moose]

No because even snacking on the crisp of glory is made impossible.

In fact all you get is just a lick of the crisp, you dont really get to know whether it IS the crisp of glory or just an inferior brand masquerading as the crisp of glory by coating it's surface with monosodium glutamate.

And even that surface coating, whilst sweet, reveals that they clearly haven't baked the thing long enough