----------------------------------- ericfourfour Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:45 pm Infinity ----------------------------------- This game looks amazing. It is a space fighting game that utilizes procedural generation to create a massive galaxy with billions of planets. It's called [url=http://www.fl-tw.com/Infinity/index.php]Infinity. I've been following it for a while and it seems to be coming along very well. ----------------------------------- Cervantes Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:58 pm ----------------------------------- Awesome indeed. We had a post about it before -- [url=http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?t=12987]here. Though that was just one video on YouTube. There's a lot more media here. Very cool. ----------------------------------- ZeroPaladn Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:43 pm ----------------------------------- lol, 1 to 2 years before playable release (best case senario). but it does look awsome. i'm gonna add to favs and keep track ot it. it looks very promising. ----------------------------------- TokenHerbz Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:38 am ----------------------------------- maybe you would like, www.archspace.org I used to play this game alot befor WoW. You play in a council of people, huge planitary war game, you design ships, very complex actually, should understand it in about 2 months. :) ----------------------------------- War_Caymore Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:55 am ----------------------------------- OMG have you senn the requirements for this! i'm sorry but i'll need 5 of my comps to get this thing ever RUNNING! looks kewl. hey, has anyone ever played Starflight before for the sega genesis? It looks kinda like this. You fly around in space, kill stuff, contact with other races, and destroy the crystal planet tahts making every star in the universe explode, eliminating all life and materials on the surrounding planets. it's a fun game, I still play it (OLd SkOoL). ----------------------------------- Neo Wed Sep 27, 2006 6:59 pm ----------------------------------- Minimum system requirements These minimum requirements are only estimated and will probably change to something more accurate as the development progresses. * CPU speed: Intel Pentium IV 2 Ghz or AMD Athlon 1500+ or equivalent * RAM size: 512 MB * Video card: a graphics card supporting pixel shader 2.0 (ATI Radeon 9500+, NVidia Geforce FX+) * Disk space: at least 2 GB * Internet connection: 56k modem * Operating system: Windows 2000 or later Thats not bad for requirements. Is this a one man development team because in the FAQ he refers to himself a lot. ----------------------------------- ericfourfour Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:19 pm ----------------------------------- Yeah, the requirements are realy high (looks like I'll be playing this on my dad's computer :) ). You should try the prototype. I've never tried it because my computer is too slow but from what I've heard it should be fun. By the way. It is the one person coding but he has other people doing modelling, story, music etc. ----------------------------------- War_Caymore Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:59 am ----------------------------------- Minimum system requirements These minimum requirements are only estimated and will probably change to something more accurate as the development progresses. * CPU speed: Intel Pentium IV 2 Ghz or AMD Athlon 1500+ or equivalent * RAM size: 512 MB * Video card: a graphics card supporting pixel shader 2.0 (ATI Radeon 9500+, NVidia Geforce FX+) * Disk space: at least 2 GB * Internet connection: 56k modem * Operating system: Windows 2000 or later My computer : * CPU speed: Intel Celeron I 456 Mhz * RAM size: 196 MB * Video card: 32 MB on-board POS (peice of s**t) * Disk space: all i have is 2 GB... * Internet connection: 10mb/s Broadband * OS: Windows XP Home Ok, i meet the internet and the OS, but everything else i'll need 5 of my comps to even run the thing. I won't be seeing the demo anytime soon. ----------------------------------- TokenHerbz Thu Sep 28, 2006 1:25 pm ----------------------------------- thats better then my old computer... ----------------------------------- War_Caymore Fri Sep 29, 2006 7:49 am ----------------------------------- you see, thats not my OLD computer, this IS my computer. hence the shitty res on deskotps 06. ----------------------------------- ZeroPaladn Fri Sep 29, 2006 12:26 pm ----------------------------------- It's ok bro... Processor - Pentium 4 Processor Speed - 3.2 GHz (when im not overclocking it) / 3.5 GHz (when i am) RAM - 0.5 GB or 512 MB HD Space - 160 GB Video Card - ATI Radeon 256MB Sound Card - Built in 128MB Internet - Bell High Speed OS - Windows XP Home I'll try out Infinity for you ^^ ----------------------------------- War_Caymore Fri Sep 29, 2006 1:09 pm ----------------------------------- wtf bro, i thougt that comp (aka dads) only had a 128 mb running at 500 mhz graphics? wehre did you get the 256? ----------------------------------- Silent Avenger Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:23 pm ----------------------------------- Well I'm glad my comp has most of the system requirements. Now if I have an onboad GeForce video card do you think that will still be compatible for this game? My system stats: CPU speed: Pentium D (2.8GHz x 2) RAM: 4GB Hrad drive: 500GB Video card: 256MB integrated GeForce Sound card: 7.1 surround Internet: 56kb/s modem OS: Windows XP Professional w/ Media Center My computer is fairly new so it should be fine. And has anyone seen all the vids of this game? ----------------------------------- Cervantes Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:26 pm ----------------------------------- My system stats: CPU speed: Pentium D (2.8GHz x 2) RAM: 4GB Hrad drive: 500GB Video card: 256MB integrated GeForce Sound card: 7.1 surround Internet: 56kb/s modem OS: Windows XP Professional w/ Media Center Hahahaha! :lol: Wow, I yours. :S ----------------------------------- Silent Avenger Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:42 pm ----------------------------------- I feel sorry for you SilentAvenger. Dial up. But the rest of your comp is nothing short of amazing. (well, the 256mb Vid Card could use an upgrade, like mine) @ War_Caymore - It came with it. Yes I know dial up sucks. As for the video card it works good enough for me to be able to watch live TV and high quality videos. I actually intended for this computer to be a project computer and I'll be getting a new case for it soon so I can do some major upgrading. ----------------------------------- Andy Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:54 am ----------------------------------- if you're only going to list the vram capacity of your gpu, why even bother stating the clock speed and manufacturer of your cpu? 512mb of ram should be enough info right? ----------------------------------- viperfan7 Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:11 am ----------------------------------- my comp sucks, has a 5 year old pentium IV, a GeForce 4 of all things, 50 GIGS OF HARD DRIVE OOOO WOW THATS ALOT (sarcasim for all of those that dont get it), but atleast I have an amazingly fast cable internet :P (looking at avenger) ----------------------------------- ZeroPaladn Tue Oct 03, 2006 1:19 pm ----------------------------------- my comp sucks, has a 5 year old pentium IV, a GeForce 4 of all things, 50 GIGS OF HARD DRIVE OOOO WOW THATS ALOT (sarcasim for all of those that dont get it), but atleast I have an amazingly fast cable internet :P (looking at avenger) Did they even have P4's 5 years ago? Meh. @ Silent Avenger - Most newer games won't let you play online unless you have a high speed connection. Also, online for all gaming systems require Broadband. Your missing out :o ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:39 pm ----------------------------------- [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_4]Yes, they had Pentium 4s 6 years ago. Also, I don't see why people are surprised that their something year old computers can't play the newest games... ----------------------------------- rdrake Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:13 pm ----------------------------------- my comp sucks, has a 5 year old pentium IV, a GeForce 4 of all things, 50 GIGS OF HARD DRIVE OOOO WOW THATS ALOT (sarcasim for all of those that dont get it), but atleast I have an amazingly fast cable internet :P (looking at avenger)50 GB is not too bad, actually. Up until a few months ago, the largest HDD I had access to was 30 GB. Something tells me you need a trimmer operating system, that hardware should be just fine. ----------------------------------- Silent Avenger Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:28 pm ----------------------------------- @ Silent Avenger - Most newer games won't let you play online unless you have a high speed connection. Also, online for all gaming systems require Broadband. Your missing out :o Yes I know what I'm missing out on and it isn't much because my neighbour has high speed for about 10 hours a month and it's almost triple the cost of my unlimited dial-up. I just don't think that paying triple for high speed is worth it for playing a few games where sometimes you have to pay for a membership. Anyways if this game all of a sudden needs high speed instead of that 56kbps connection my computer is already set up for it so it's almost just a matter of connecting the wires. ----------------------------------- War_Caymore Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:15 pm ----------------------------------- GETTING NEW COMPUTER! System specs: 2.93 Ghz P4 HD 512MB RAM (DDR) 160GB HD @ 7200RPM 2ndary 64GB HD @ 10700RPM (gaming of course) ATI Radeon 1600X series 256MB (DDR) @ 800Mhz 7.1 Surround intergreated audio Windows XP Pro DSL Cable Broadband @ 10mb/s there we go. i'll have it by november. Custom in a wikid tower. All for 800 bucks :D ----------------------------------- Andy Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:50 pm ----------------------------------- p4 is outdated. no real game would use one for a new system 512 ram is nothing. my laptop has 2gb ddr2 samsung @ 533mhz stock you dont need a 10krpm hdd for gaming if you have enough ram. and if you get one, that should be your primary drive 160gb of storage is gona bite you in the ass sooner or later. your x1600 does not run at 800mhz. the GDDR2 vram does your broadband does not run at 10mbps.. your nic has a theoretical bandwidth of that much chuck your 10krpm drive for a better cpu and more ram. and build it yourself instead of getting someone else to do it ----------------------------------- Mazer Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:48 pm ----------------------------------- And be aware that having a cool case doesn't necessarily make you cool. Also, note that there's generally nothing cool about bright blue LEDs. And the word you're searching for is "wicked". ----------------------------------- Silent Avenger Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:39 pm ----------------------------------- GETTING NEW COMPUTER! System specs: 2.93 Ghz P4 HD 512MB RAM (DDR) 160GB HD @ 7200RPM 2ndary 64GB HD @ 10700RPM (gaming of course) ATI Radeon 1600X series 256MB (DDR) @ 800Mhz 7.1 Surround intergreated audio Windows XP Pro DSL Cable Broadband @ 10mb/s there we go. i'll have it by november. Custom in a wikid tower. All for 800 bucks :D If you're going to buy this computer for gaming such as for Infinity I wouldn't go for it because it'll be out of date for most games in about six months give or take a few months. I know that some games that will be coming out in the near future will only support dual core processors and later on will only support SLI and quad SLI video cards. I think that's a fairly good deal for a computer but if your looking for something for gaming I wouldn't go for it andjust look at it Andy's laptop has more ram than the computer you want to buy and some desktop computers now can support 8GB of RAM. Also you should really have the faster drive for your primary drive and your system will work slightly faster but no by much. ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:47 pm ----------------------------------- I know that some games that will be coming out in the near future will only support dual core processors and later on will only support SLI and quad SLI video cards. Oh really? Know from where? Link? I didn't think so. ----------------------------------- Mazer Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:57 pm ----------------------------------- DSL Cable Broadband @ 10mb/s Wait, what broadband? ----------------------------------- Silent Avenger Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:13 pm ----------------------------------- Damn I can't find the article anymore. Oh well if I find it again I'll send you the link and it was just an article so it could be off by a bit on it's dates. I know somewhere in the wiki about SLI I think is says someting about gaming here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Link_Interface. Also if you read the system requirements and the FAQs on the Infinity website I'm pretty sure they say it's recomended to have a dual core processor. I've also heard on the Bungie website that their PC version of Halo 3 is going to have some major system requirements but I think that it's just a rumour. ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Thu Oct 12, 2006 12:06 am ----------------------------------- Look, anything can be "recommended", but there's no way SLI is going to be neccessary for a significant amount of new games in the foreseeable future. By the time game requirements become that high, I'm sure they'll already have 5 new graphics card technologies that more than meet those requirements. And nowhere in that article do they mention games needing SLI. SLI optimized games yes, SLI required games no. Same thing with dual cores, though to a slightly lower extent, since it's definately possible that dual cores or similar will become the standard in the near future. ----------------------------------- Andy Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:05 am ----------------------------------- not to be bragging or anything.. but i think i would know. some guy from my team pretty much invented SLI. games will never be labeled SLI only, because it doesnt make sense. OGL and D3D are on complete different layers than video drivers. To the game programmer, its the same programming on SLI, Crossfire, or just a single gpu. It's the driver that handles all of the top bottom rendering and surface flipping. Infact, you cant even really optimize a game for SLI... unless you can somehow strictly draw on the top or bottom of the display each time. ----------------------------------- War_Caymore Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:02 am ----------------------------------- ... I would like to say a few things... First, it's only 800 bucks! Second, I WILL be upgrading it, and first thing i'm getting is 2 1GB DDR2 RAM, 3.6Ghz PD, and a 560GB external firewire drive (hows that for storage) Third, where i live, thats the internet we get. It's barely broadband. it is not just the LAN or WAN runs at 10mb/s, it's the actual internet connection speed. ... Next time, apprecialte the lonely teenager taht makes minimum wadge and still lives in his parents house. I asked if they can help me get [url=http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1770723&Tab=2&NoMapp=0] this one but they can't afford to help me get it. Then i heard this deal come up and I said well, it's a start. Sorry about ranting like this but if this will allow me to play the games that i have, even though i will be needing to upgrade it later on, it will do for me. ----------------------------------- ZeroPaladn Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:40 pm ----------------------------------- at least it beats the crap out of your current computer bro. Next time, apprecialte the lonely teenager taht makes minimum wadge and still lives in his parents house. I'm sure most teenagers know how you feel bro, most of us still do make minimum wage and live in our parents house. You are not alone. ----------------------------------- Andy Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:12 pm ----------------------------------- ... I would like to say a few things... First, it's only 800 bucks! Second, I WILL be upgrading it, and first thing i'm getting is 2 1GB DDR2 RAM, 3.6Ghz PD, and a 560GB external firewire drive (hows that for storage) Third, where i live, thats the internet we get. It's barely broadband. it is not just the LAN or WAN runs at 10mb/s, it's the actual internet connection speed. ... Next time, apprecialte the lonely teenager taht makes minimum wadge and still lives in his parents house. I asked if they can help me get pentium D and pentium 4 are on different chipsets.. if you knew anything about computers you'd know that you cant just swap the cpu. your broadband definitely does not run at 10mbps, link me the site. i too was a lonely teenager making minimum wage and living in my parents house (i'm still a teenager, just living in cali and making alot more). i used a pentium 2 up til 2003 and never complained much. that doesnt change the fact that about anything i said about your system. I gave suggestions that would bennefit you. its up to you to take it or not ----------------------------------- Silent Avenger Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:24 pm ----------------------------------- ... I would like to say a few things... First, it's only 800 bucks! Second, I WILL be upgrading it, and first thing i'm getting is 2 1GB DDR2 RAM, 3.6Ghz PD, and a 560GB external firewire drive (hows that for storage) Third, where i live, thats the internet we get. It's barely broadband. it is not just the LAN or WAN runs at 10mb/s, it's the actual internet connection speed. ... Next time, apprecialte the lonely teenager taht makes minimum wadge and still lives in his parents house. I asked if they can help me get A 4 terabyte external hard drive would be even better but who's going to pay over $3, 000 for it? As long as it suits you and what you may be doing for the next couple years or so it's a good buy. As for changing CPUs that's umm... a little harder than you might think. Most motherboards that come with computers will only support one type of CPU such as on my PC the motherboard (and chipsets) will only support a pentium D and nothing else. There are some motherboards that will support two or three different types of CPUs but I'm pretty sure they don't come stock with most computers. As for being a teenager and living in your parents house I'm in the same position and I do have a part time job just like you and I had to buy my computer 6 months ago on my own but the trick is I was saving for a year before that so I had the money to buy what I wanted and make sure that what I buy will be good and will be with me for the next 5 or 6 years. ----------------------------------- Andy Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:35 pm ----------------------------------- Silent Avenger, its not about what type of cpu, but about the socket. if the cpu is same socket, and chipset allows for the speed then everything within the range will run perfectly. ----------------------------------- Silent Avenger Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:00 pm ----------------------------------- Yes Andy I know it's not about the CPU but the socket itself. I'm not sure if I got my post messed up again with using motherboard as a general erm for the socket and chipsets. But I was talking about how my computer will only support pentium Ds and that War_Caymore should check if his motherboard will support different types of CPUs which means a socket which supports different CPUs. I also said that there are some motherboards that will handle different CPUs therefor they have the chipsets and sockets that will take on different types of CPUs. There I think it's clear this time but if it isn't just tell me. ----------------------------------- War_Caymore Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:05 pm ----------------------------------- As for being a teenager and living in your parents house I'm in the same position and I do have a part time job just like you and I had to buy my computer 6 months ago on my own but the trick is I was saving for a year before that so I had the money to buy what I wanted and make sure that what I buy will be good and will be with me for the next 5 or 6 years. I don't plan on saving for years and years, but i get where youre coming from. ----------------------------------- Mazer Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:12 pm ----------------------------------- If you're living with your parents the trick is to just not waste money on things like Yu-gi-oh! cards, going to see every movie in theatres, playing games with subscriptions, buying food at school, etc. ----------------------------------- Silent Avenger Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:14 pm ----------------------------------- Well I only really saved for 10 months little by little but I just put up with my old system which was a Win 98 running on a P2 and with stock video cards and sound cards. But yes you don't have to save for years if you don't want to. ----------------------------------- ZeroPaladn Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:02 pm ----------------------------------- Lol, going cold trukey with money is hard (especially when you have 95% disposible income), but is it doable. I bought my XBox (dont laugh please, I'm regretting it now, should have got a PS2) after saving for 2 months. This was on top of my Runescape (and now WoW) subscription, paying $5 / day for school lunches, and i swear those cards were a great investment ^.^ ----------------------------------- Mazer Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:21 pm ----------------------------------- Runescape subscription?! Ohhh, no... ----------------------------------- ZeroPaladn Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:24 pm ----------------------------------- Yeah, I know, I'm killing myself about it too. Good news is, its done now, and im selling my acount on ebay. Bad news is, i wasted almost 2 years of my life with RS. ----------------------------------- War_Caymore Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:53 am ----------------------------------- i played it and i realised just like silk road, there are waaay too many maxed characters. but silkroad is still f2p and beats the hell outa runescape:D ----------------------------------- bugzpodder Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:14 am ----------------------------------- i too was a lonely teenager making minimum wage and living in my parents house (i'm still a teenager, just living in cali and making alot more). talk about self-promotion... but you know, $20 bucks an hour isnt that much eh? although its decent for a coop position in any case, since everyone wants to compare how *bad* their system specs I will post mine. I have two PIII desktop systems running below 666mhz and having about 128MB of ram and around 30 gigs of space. My laptop is a bit faster with 256MB ram and athlon 3200+ and 60gigs... I'll try to get my hands on a Core 2 Dual set with Vista. It looks delicious. ----------------------------------- ZeroPaladn Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:13 pm ----------------------------------- talk about self-promotion... but you know, $20 bucks an hour isnt that much eh? although its decent for a coop position Note to self - get a co-op in University. Note to self - get the marks to get to University ^^. ----------------------------------- Andy Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:14 pm ----------------------------------- talk about self-promotion... but you know, $20 bucks an hour isnt that much eh? although its decent for a coop position 20? i was thinking mroe like 25 usd ----------------------------------- bugzpodder Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:54 pm ----------------------------------- talk about self-promotion... but you know, $20 bucks an hour isnt that much eh? although its decent for a coop position 20? i was thinking mroe like 25 usd thats much more reasonable :) ----------------------------------- ZeroPaladn Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:43 am ----------------------------------- more incentive to get to university. ----------------------------------- War_Caymore Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:44 am ----------------------------------- the course i'm taking in college i don't need a good adverage, although it would look better, i don't need 85%+ to get in. the course i'm taking is never full anyways. gl bro:D ----------------------------------- ZeroPaladn Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:06 pm ----------------------------------- thanks, ill need it with the marks im geting right now. ----------------------------------- bugzpodder Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:25 pm ----------------------------------- all anyone has to do is take schoolwork seriously in order to get very high marks. It is not difficult. If you memorize course materials, you will get 90 (except in english of course). ----------------------------------- Andy Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:41 pm ----------------------------------- or cs241 for that matter... ----------------------------------- ZeroPaladn Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:02 pm ----------------------------------- I do focus on my schoolwork, mostly the problem is my Physics mark. I'm failing right now. Taking grade 12U Physics with only a Grade 10Applied Math under my belt isn't helping, I have trouble rearanging formulas and I just recently learnt to cross-multiply (or just recently remembered, not sure if i learnt it before). Not to rant but that is my problem. ----------------------------------- War_Caymore Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:48 pm ----------------------------------- anywho, finaly getting that new computer of mine i stuck with what i origianly planned to get, it's too good to let go. getting it tommorow and hope to have it internet ready by the end of the month. :D happy day! ----------------------------------- Silent Avenger Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:30 pm ----------------------------------- Well I hope your computer lasts for a while and does what you want it to do. Congrats on the new computer! ----------------------------------- War_Caymore Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:10 pm ----------------------------------- thank you for the congradulations. i jsut picked it up toda and it works relatively well. the only problem right now is i'm using an unknown onborad video. the new graphics card will be in monday next week. also, look in onto the topic that i made about wireless or wire internet and system linking.