Supreme Cmdr Posted March 11, 2005 Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 Servers will soon start popping up everywhere. As for now, 3DGamers, Gamer's Hell, Worthplaying, have it up. Check the downloads page for links. Unless your system meets with the minimim requirements for the game, don't even bother. The demo contains four scenarios featuring the three marine careers (Elite Force, Recon Force and Mobile Infantry) and the Planetary Support Pilot. Depending on where you download it from, there are two versions of this demo. The larger 267MB full version contains both demo 1&2.The smaller 64MB small version only contains demo 2 and requires a previous install of demo 1. Simply copy the file into the demo 1 install folder and execute it. This will merge both demos. This will be the second and final demo. I had planned on doing a third, but I don't have time and these two demos have enough stuff in them already. [ 03-11-2005, 11:05 AM: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Arthur_Dent1976 Posted March 12, 2005 Report Share Posted March 12, 2005 Great news! I'm looking forward to plunge myself deep into this second release this weekend! I have a question though, about the occurence of a single white line in the sky: When starting the first and third of the new planetary-based scenario's, I can see a line from horizon to horizon. Is this a waypoint-related thing, or an anomaly caused by my graphics card? I've put up a screenshot of the line here. Sorry if this is a stupid thing to ask or if I'm posting this in the wrong forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quantum Posted March 12, 2005 Report Share Posted March 12, 2005 When you get closer to that base, you'll see that it's weapons fire!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Arthur_Dent1976 Posted March 12, 2005 Report Share Posted March 12, 2005 Ah, that will be it! Thanks for answering Quantum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted March 12, 2005 Report Share Posted March 12, 2005 quote:Originally posted by quantum: ...you'll see that it's weapons fire!! If you want to see this from up close (spectacular), put your AE in the prone position ("X" key) then run (Shift+W) in spurts until you're nearly inside the base. When you run, you do it standing up but, once you release the "Shift" key, you return to the prone position. This should allow you to get close enough to the weapons fire to be blown away (literally). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cc Posted March 30, 2005 Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 Kick Ass Demo..... Finally, in the 'Last Man Standing' I made it to the rescue ship. Which I took off and thrashed the nearest enemy base. Still working on the rest of the FP demos. Seems like my escorts like to shoot me. Very good scenarios. Of course,the graphics are superb,especially the follage in 'Last Man Standing'. Super. Get the Demo. [ 03-30-2005, 12:55 AM: Message edited by: Cc ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted March 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 Yeah, last man standing is one of my fun scripts. btw, those escorts are firing because you are firing and standing in the line of fire. Its called friendly fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scramjet Posted April 10, 2005 Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 Problems running UC AWA Demo 2 Version downloaded ucawa_preview_demo2.exe From 3dgamers size of file 279,441,065 demo version 0.04.05 of march 3 2005 installed as instructed by installion prompts hit run game Screen goes into full blackness then appears a message about that its not been Rated, after this message finish's Back to desktop smaller screen appears and is black with the title Universal Combat - A world Apart (version Demo 0.04.05 of march 3 2005 etc and it hangs there for all enternity my specs directx 9.0c 5900 ultra gforce 256 SB audigy plat xp pro sp2 3.0 gig 2.gig ram all updated and rechecked just point to the answer thx! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scramjet Posted April 10, 2005 Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 I fIxed the Problem Method Delete all avi's in the folder c:/Program Files/3000AD/Universal Combat - A World Apart Demo 2/gfx/avi/ files are: esrbRP.avi 3klogo.avi dclogo.avi launch game hit ok 3 times and the game launch's fine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranide Posted April 18, 2005 Report Share Posted April 18, 2005 Ok where to start: §1.if everything that i will say in the next lines is dumb,rubbish or nonesense or has been already solved please delete my post and ban me as i would then deserve it So, that said i can start I have several problems with the UC-AWA preview demo 2 1.only one terrain type(kind of desert) on earth and mars(so no water, no hills ,just flat etc.) 2.no "firing" animation: i fire a weapon and no "flame" is coming out of the gun 3.the external planetary clouds seem nearly too have dissappeared(this may have been changed conciously but in comparission to the external planetary cloud effects in the 1. preview demo it doesn't look so good anymore 4.As Arthur Dent has seen it there is a single white line seperating the sky ├Ãt night which is definetely NO turret firing as i have followed the line quite half an hour(in a gunship) without getting nearer to an firing turret 5.The game crahes especially when destroying Air-Defense-Vehicles(like X10,X15) Config Screen Resolution 1024x768 Anisothropic Filtering High Environment Mapping On Lightning Quality High DXT Compressed Textures On Optimized Models On Preload Character Models On Visible Damage FX On Object Flight Path Trails Off Object Contrails Type Particle External Planet Cloud Map On To state it i wouldn't have dared to post this if i had this problems in BOTH demos but i encounter these only in the 2nd demo NOT in the 1st demo If needed:I've taken several screenshots from both demos to show what i mean,i just dont know how to post them Furthermore: i dont know about the development of UC-AWA so this could already have been solved so §1 would come to action Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranide Posted April 18, 2005 Report Share Posted April 18, 2005 Well as my editing time has elapsed i'm doing a new post. I'm not sure but the problems must have something to do with the shaders.I'm guessing this as i had the problems occur again after i re-installed the UcAWA preview demo#1 and then installed the ucAWA_Preview_Demo1_update1 (wich has an gfx folder with shader files included). (of course i deleted the UcAWA preview demo#2 before doing this) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cc Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 That update is only for NVidia GForce 3 and 4 cards. Reinstall the demo and don't add that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranide Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 Thanks for the reply but this won't solve my problems with the 2nd demo (i do NOT update the 1. demo with the small 65 mbytes 2nd demo but i'm having the big 2nd demo,those one with 330 mbytes or something like that). The 1.demo is doing fine without the update(as i stated above in my first post),i just wanted to track down the beginning of the problems i'm having in the second demo,and i guess that this Geforce-Fix is both included in the 2nd demo and in the full version of Uc-AWA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted April 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 quote:Originally posted by Cc: That update is only for NVidia GForce 3 and 4 cards. Reinstall the demo and don't add that. It doesn't matter whether he adds it or not. The game will use the appropriate shader for the video card. So, its not like its going to use GF3 shaders if the card is a GeForce 6800. quote:Originally posted by paranide: Thanks for the reply but this won't solve my problems with the 2nd demo.The 1.demo is doing fine without the update(as i stated above),i just wanted to track down the beginning of the problems im having in the second demo,and i guess that this Geforce-Fix is both included in the 2nd demo and in the full version of Uc-AWA. I know nothing about your video card, but from what you describe, you are having driver problems. So, try another driver set and go with what works. I don't make drivers and have no control over what the video card manufacturers do. Running the demo with the default config (i.e. don't mess with the settings until you know whats wrong), might be a good start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cc Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 OK. Looks like he's got a MSI Radeon 9800 with catalyst 5.4. Maybe try drivers from MSI? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranide Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: quote:Originally posted by Cc: That update is only for NVidia GForce 3 and 4 cards. Reinstall the demo and don't add that. It doesn't matter whether he adds it or not. The game will use the appropriate shader for the video card. So, its not like its going to use GF3 shaders if the card is a GeForce 6800. quote:Originally posted by paranide: Thanks for the reply but this won't solve my problems with the 2nd demo.The 1.demo is doing fine without the update(as i stated above),i just wanted to track down the beginning of the problems im having in the second demo,and i guess that this Geforce-Fix is both included in the 2nd demo and in the full version of Uc-AWA. I know nothing about your video card, but from what you describe, you are having driver problems. So, try another driver set and go with what works. I don't make drivers and have no control over what the video card manufacturers do. Running the demo with the default config (i.e. don't mess with the settings until you know whats wrong), might be a good start. Ok thanks i'm going to try out other drivers and using the default config.I very appreciate the quick help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted April 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 quote:Originally posted by Cc: OK. Looks like he's got a MSI Radeon 9800 with catalyst 5.4. Maybe try drivers from MSI? Yeah, thats what I was thinking too. If MSI have their own drivers, those are the ones he should be using. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranide Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 Ok i tried using the msi drivers from the oldest to the newest but still no difference,the problems still exist.I guess i will now be trying out the Omega drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranide Posted April 20, 2005 Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 I have now tried out the newest Omega drivers as well as Catalyst 4.1 and 4.2 , none of them helped, also I was trying some things like enabling/disabling the Catalyst A.I, changing the AGP speed and other things like that without any significant changes towards the problems. So I guess I will be waiting for the retail version of Uc-AWA, maybe my video card will rather accept it than the demo, or maybe another new catalyst version will solve the problem. What i'm very interested in is if other users in here with ATI Radeon 9800 pro or especially MSI RX9800 PRO TD-128 video cards are having similar problems.(though it doesn't seem like that). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cc Posted April 20, 2005 Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 How about turning on your private messages.I have another idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostInSpace Posted April 21, 2005 Report Share Posted April 21, 2005 I know I'm a bit late but I finally downloaded the demo (full version) last night and I like it a lot. So far, no problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spindoktor Posted May 5, 2005 Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 Ok, I've been away from UC for a couple of months. I finally got around to trying out the UCAWA demo 1. I just played the first IA scenario (IA0101). That was one awesome firefight after entering the Mars region. Way to go SC! The new engine upgrades are pretty slick. Everything looks polished. I'm really looking forward to the game's release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkling Posted May 23, 2005 Report Share Posted May 23, 2005 I like the additional details added, like the fire coming from the ships that are damaged now showing up on the Vid screen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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