Supreme Cmdr

quote: Originally posted by $iLk: Whatever works. Just write me off as an oddity with excellent computer setup skills. hehe, OK then

quote: Originally posted by Soback: Wow, that's it, I am getting a new 3d card this weekend. LOL!!!

quote: Originally posted by Joel Schultz: I too would be shocked if it was Menchise. He seems a decent fellow. Hard as it is to form accurate judgements given the anonymous nature of the Internet - I dunno, I think a troll wouldn't be able to hide their true colors for that long, without giving something away by their tone or content. Like what happened with Ent1ty. Menchise doesn't seem to fit the profile, in my most extremely humble opinion...Besides, without him we wouldn't have those windy political debates between him, Aramike and Jaguar, would we? Nah. The investigation is complete, its not him. Sorry Nick!!

quote: Originally posted by $iLk: I agree, my point simply being that my particular voodoo 5 : Pricewatch Price 3Dfx 3Dfx, Voodoo5 5500 64mb PCI NEW,Bulk w/CD $ 136 6.5 9/17/2001 9:07:03 PM CST CompuVest 888-644-7017 206-547-2600 WA ) did not display the errors that you showed in your screenshots and described. I mean seriously my planets never got crunched... of course I'm only listing this just to say that these effects didn't happen on that particular card, and I'm not trying to defend my ex-3d lover... Lets just say that I don't believe it, and leave it at that. OK?

I don't care about the demo Josh. I'm talking about the RELEASED game. Get it now? If you are able to run the demo on a system that meets with its requirements, good for you. But the FACT is, just because you CAN run the demo, doesn't mean you CAN run the final game. I hope this is clear

quote: Originally posted by jstuart: If your talking about EB fulfillment center(the main one), last time I remember it was in or around West Chester, PA. That used to be there there main shipping and distribution center, but that was a few years ago. I don't know if taht is still main center. Now, the fulfillment center that SC is talking about, I don't know Your guess is as good as mine! EB doesn't handle my production. I do. So, their fulfillment center has nothing to do with my production. My fulfillment center ships their units to their central warehouse. From there is goes to the various stores.

quote: Originally posted by $iLk: BTW MAX PAYNE and Operation Flashpoint ran smoothly with the voodoo5 with no graphical glitches that I encountered. Your point being what? Neither one of them has a single model that is even remotely in size as the BCM models. The problem with the Voodoo cards is that they are losing precision in Z buffer calculation. I spoke to the Croteam guys, Brian Hook and a few other devs, who agree. That planet you see in the shot, is HUGE (the equatorial diameter of Earth is 12756km. Do the math). From a distance, its fine, up close, its not. And thats due to the size of the polys when up close. And when you compensate for closeer models (fp weapons), it overflows in the opposite direction. The problem is ONLY evident on Voodoo cards and its due to bad architecture and drivers. They never banked on someone doing a game that even goes anywhere near the limits of the card+drivers. Which is exactly what I went and did. And since they're no longer around to fix it, all Voodoo owners of BCM, are screwed. Buy a GF or Radeon

quote: Originally posted by $iLk: Anyway the drivers I used were from Microsoft. I didn't download the ones from 3dfx.com, didn't trust them. Since when did MS carry 3Dfx drivers? Whats the URL? This is odd because even Andy Mahood, the reviewer for PC Gamer, has a V5500 and experienced the same identical problems.

quote: Originally posted by Epsilon 5: Wasn't the v5500 having problems in BCM? Yep. Hence my post above. I was only thinking purely in terms of BCM and nothing else.

quote: Originally posted by Akira: Epsilon. You can't have AE's in two areas of the same race. At least that's what it seemed DS meant. You can't be Terran/GALCOM and Terran/Raider. You could be Syrion/Raider though Yeah he can. As long as the race is different, the caste is irrelevant. I think

quote: Originally posted by $iLk: On a related item, anyone know where I can get a student priced copy of Discreet 3dstudio max 4 less than $1000?Or SC where can I get a cheaper version of 3.1 or something? I've got Rhino, and Lightwave. Don't know how to use well yet though. No need. I think their scaled down version called GMax, is free.

quote: Originally posted by $iLk: My v5 worked good with the latest drivers on both win2k and on winME, the only probelm was I would have transparent layers on certain surfaces, and the Hyperdrive transition would screw up sometimes. Other than that, it looks comparable to the G3 in terms of resolution. Really? What drivers are you using? On my V3, V4, V5, here is what I get in all versions of Windows, using the final 3Dfx drivers as well as the lastest x3Dfx drivers. Notice the texturing: distant planet close planet Notice the texturing, White banding etc fp mode, crouched fp mode, standing fp mode, standing + firing [ 10-09-2001: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

quote: Originally posted by R_wilco: Ok, once again I've proven to be an idiot Sorry You're not an idiot. You just weren't thinking straight.

quote: Originally posted by Soback: Download the EP2 demo. EP2 uses dx8 and is basically very close to what the actual game will run like. No its not. Not even close Try reading the demo readme to see what kernel was used in the E2 demo. Then read the Beta VCF to see the difference since that kernel to the actual Gold release version.

quote: Originally posted by Josh: I forgot to ask why the troubleshooting file indicates that an 8mb video card is the minimum requirment? No it doesn't

What a sordid WASTE of time. Why can't you just warn the fokars that they CANNOT use ANY names from a science fiction work and be done with it. If they do, kick 'em out. No need to compile a list.

What a sordid WASTE of time. Why can't you just warn the fokars that they CANNOT use ANY names from a science fiction work and be done with it. If they do, kick 'em out. No need to compile a list.

Only a total and complete idiot would buy a Voodoo 5500 at ANY price these days. If you liked it so much, why'd you change?

Relax Nick, a lot of people have vouched for you here, in email and on ICQ. I am relieved I'm glad that you understand why the evidence looks highly suspicious. Nevertheless, am waiting to hear back from my friend, then we'll have concrete evidence. I suspect it would be a waste of time, but its time well spent. As you know, over the years, we've booted one or two long time forum members who felt that their tenure gave them carte blanche to mess with and/or disrespect me. As I've said before, I really don't give a shit if someone has been around since I thought up BC, I will boot them from this site. If I was sure that you were the one, you would've been booted. Speaking of booting, I have deleted ALL profiles with vanity email addresses. I have restored Steve's original profile. Steve, your new one is deleted, which is why your post shows unregistered. When I restored the previous one, I copied the email+password from the new to the old one. So, you should be able to log back in using the old profile but with the new password. But if you can read this, then you're already in. There are some known members with vanity emails. In 24hrs I am going to delete those profiles and I will NOT restore them. e.g. Ristar is using hockeymail.com. Gordon is still using Netzero and I just deleted everyone with a Juno vanity email (including Mikel). ALL of you had sufficient warning. I only restored Steve's profile because I deleted it in error and he's a known member who's been around for like, forever. So, I didn't mind taking the time to dig up the backup from my local server and restore the site copy. Thats that.

quote: Originally posted by Cmdr Jeffery Eu: Well, Intercorp does provide a service where its member may pursue legal actions against any fleet member that refuses to pay up upon successful completion of contract. PROVIDED THAT the initial contract was taken in the ambit of Intercorp, any contracts outside the purview of Intercorp is none of our business. [ 10-08-2001: Message edited by: Cmdr Jeffery Eu ] Yeah, you could just post a bounty on the Commlink channels. Easy enough.

quote: Originally posted by Epsilon 5: Hmm SC can ask a couple of questions about the S.Commander thing? Figures that I'd never catch a break in here either, without running into someone's laundry list. I'll respond tomorrow

I agree

quote: Originally posted by Steve Schacher: Ensign?.?.? Shucks!.!.! Busted... [ 10-08-2001: Message edited by: Steve Schacher ] Sorry Steve, in addition to flushing everyone from @home network, I flushed everyone with a vanity email address. I flat out forgot to check each on for known people. Had I seen your name there, I would've skipped it. I have a backup though. Shall I restore it?

quote: Originally posted by $iLk: It's fine now, it was before the post where I said that. I posted, then I think aramike posted and I clicked the commlink forum graphic and no one was listed as the poster. That was a scare for me after I was reading your post about changing our passwords which caused me to change mine immediately.Once again I vouch for Menchise as a character reference as he has done nothing I have seen (in regards to this forum and active worlds) to tip me off otherwise. On the contrary he is quite a productive member of our community in both areas. Still waiting to hear from him first. I know what you're saying, but I tell you, its weird and I, for one, would be surprised. But then again, a good mole is a good mole. I'm gonna need some serious convincing, though.

quote: Originally posted by krazor: I no longer have the E-Mail but I do have the credit card statement of course. If that isn't sufficient, $5.00 is no biggie. I'll still buy the game regardless. It's good to know that you are honoring your promise. If you remember, I defended this point on Usenet at the time. I still have the original reg database, so I can just look up your name. Thats proof enough if you ordered the first CDROM from BMT. Yeah, I remember. And if you remember, I told them to go screw 'emselves and that I was going to do it anyway.