DICE Devchat about BF2

[Zyn]

The log of the devchat that was held a few hours ago on Quakenet:

http://www.quakenet.org/dev-chat.Dice.txt

35 programmers, and still delivered a such crappy serverbrowser for the demo

[Tequila]

And a terrible bug where pressing enter to return a typed message activates the actual normal button binding, in this case ejecting me from a flying Blackhawk as I'm trying to organise my squad.

The sooner I get my mic the better.

[mike-0]

they asked some obvious questions

[Thrik]

And a terrible bug where pressing enter to return a typed message activates the actual normal button binding, in this case ejecting me from a flying Blackhawk as I'm trying to organise my squad.

I really did "lol" at that thought.

[Algor]

Hauk asked: How come games like HL2, FarCry, Doom3 and so on run perfectly on GF4 TI cards, but not BF2? The graphics is not superior to the ones in those games. How much did Nvidia pay you?

[DICE]Sanosuke answers: We needed to take advantage of the features in Pixel Shader 2.0, sadly the cards you mentioned do not support this.

Wow.

[von*ferret]

I have a state of the art grahpics card and I still get text anomalies where everything is distorted and unreadable, along with crazy tiling of shadows in places, and I even had a circus color effect in blotches of terrain and models for a while. What have they say about that.

[OL]

i bet you have an nvidia card and you didnt install the included drivers

or youre running AA from your drivers because that makes the text mess up

[Tequila]

And a terrible bug where pressing enter to return a typed message activates the actual normal button binding, in this case ejecting me from a flying Blackhawk as I'm trying to organise my squad.

I really did "lol" at that thought.

I can laugh about it now, but back then I was pretty distraught.

[von*ferret]

its the ATI Radeon x800xt

[Pericolos0]

Peris asked: There is a big usability problem with setting up controls, it's really hard to properly assign keys because you have to replace the key's it's assigned too first.. are there any plans to make this more straightforward like just switching the keys when you assign them?

[DICE]Sanosuke answers: This is because, even though the key in the front end is not bound to anything, it is in the controls.con file. Today we were working on fixing this.

;D