Posts by Section_Ei8ht

  • Real World Crysis Comparison

    Quote from wacko

    Well two major things about the title... one its a Windows Vista only game at the current moment. Since it uses Directx 10 which right now is only in Windows Vista; Vista hardware reqs are a little higher then current day windows, but the major thing about these screens is that they are running on shitty quality hardware and by that I mean, everything we see of Crysis is being emulated across DX 9 hardware which means its not running at its tip top... since there really is no DX 10 hardware yet we should really wait and cast judgement when the game is running on its actual hardware.

    no prototype hardware?

    Well, even if they had prototype hardware, its still... well, a prototype so the point stands... I'll shut up now.

  • So if I have a song stuck in my head, I owe someone money?

    This probably wont pass, though. Pretty much every slashdotter/digger has protested against it to the house, and im sure Microsoft and Google are gonna use their bought and paid for politicians to make sure this doesnt go anywhere.

    Hell, even if it did, who in their right mind would implement it? A file is cached a shitload of times between the webserver and the client browser, so goodbye streaming sites, and i dont think amazon, google, youtube, aol, yahoo, etc would want to pay for 20 licenses for the same file just so they can stream it to potential customers. And ISP's would have to fork over another high sum for simply delivering the content to you, seeing as how the streamed file would have to be cached on their servers as well, just so it can be streamed from the webpage to you.

    It is my conclusion that everyone on the MPAA/RIAA board of directors is insane. Their business model is crumbling, and this is all part of their last ditch effort to halt innovation simply because control is slipping away from them with every passing day.

    The **AAs need to die horrible, bankrupt deaths.

  • anyone else having crash problems with HL2 Episode 1?

    whats yer hardware there, klein?

    I haven't had this problem with anything steam, but I did have it (and still do, occasionally) with doom 3 tech. Quake 4 liked to lock up like you describe, and I would have to ctrl-alt-delete to task manager and wait about 30 seconds for it to respond again, at which point it took about 5 minutes to actually get it to kill the game. A normal reboot would temporarily fix the problem, but the next forceware drivers fixed this problem (doom 3 editor crashed on start up a few days ago, but i think that was a fluke).

    Id say see if it happens on other source tech, and then either try a video card driver update or rollback.

  • Mapping as a real-world construction tool

    Quote from RD

    Also dont you need a license to be able to use asource or hl1 engine for business purposes?

    Only if you make money off of the material made with source tech.

    I did something similar a few months ago. My former employer was going to build a paintball field and needed to sell the idea to a few investors, so I drafted up a source level in hl2 of the paintball field which he then showed to the investors as a "here's how it will all look in the end" kinda thing.

    They bought the idea, and I drafted up blueprints for it. The workaround was, I was paid for the drafting of the blueprints, and not the drafting of the source level. I didn't argue that the paycheck for the blueprint drafting was larger than it was supposed to be.

    Of course this was a small project and the level only took about two days to build and it was kind of a spurr of the moment thing. On the larger projects, or even a full blown business based on this kinda thing, you might not get away with it.

  • Ouch...

    I think this guy is over-reacting. Everyone does this these days. The most important thing is that everyone who has their work featured on this magazine now has something really kick-ass and impressive to put in their portfolios.

    Who cares if the mod never comes out or is only x far along at time t. Even if the mod becomes vaporware, everyone who worked on it got something out of it. Whoever made those models and levels can now say "My work was in a frontpage article in CGW".

    [sarcasm]

    Cry me a river over some photoshopped "in-game" screenshots, because god knows nobody on these forums has any idea what a Sharpen Filter is.

    [/sarcasm]

  • Half-Life 2: Episode 1

    Some parts felt like reused hl2, but for the most part it was quite fun. I really enjoyed the whole Alyx thing. The subtle connection between her and Gordon is enhanced to a nice point (the little things, "zombine... get it?"). Got a little bored with the dark parts of the game. For about an hour it felt like I was playing Doom 3.

    Well worth it. Sadly, the Episode 2 preview kept crashing my steam.

  • Rockstar Vienna closed

    Yeah it sucks. Happened to me once. Was supposed to have a meeting with the boss to see where things were gonna go after the project was finished. Fucker never showed. Was sitting in my car in snowy parking lot for about an hour before I left to go to school.

    Of course I was an independent contractor, but I still no longer had a job.

  • [warning]people should protect their files better

    Quote from Thrik

    While you're right in saying that it's not a standard, I must point out that your claim of Google not obeying robots.txt is nonsense. Google does obey them; have a look in the official support database and you will see evidence of this, and Google even uses robots.txt on their own sites at times. Almost all respectable engines will obey robots.txt, only leaving the smaller ones that much fewer people use and various other crawlers such as those operated by Blog scourers. I'm not sure where exactly you got your facts, but they're wrong.

    Yeah, they probably are. I'm basing this off of something that happend at work a few years ago. A client site kept getting thrown offline because the spider would poll every single page in the inventory (poorly written asp code). Now that I think about it, the sysadmin there was probably too stupid to config the norobots file correctly. But it wasnt my job to fix it, I'm just going off of what he told me (You know, one of those bestfriend's-sister's-boyfriend's-uncle's-cousin's stories )