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Postby PHREAK » Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:25 am

Hey guys and gals,
Phreak is back.
Some of you older players know me so HEY!
For those who don't, you'll meet my hagger and RL in-game :wink:

Well life took it's grip on me so I didn't have much time for anything.
Graduated college, moved in with my GF, etc.

Then I discovered Tremulous and realized that I love that sort of gameplay and became very good at it.
But then a few weeks ago I got a tad sentimental and figured I'll check up on this baby so here I am.
Still the good old nex, just a tad newer :wink:

Now here is something funny, for all you FPS/Graphics/Card performance junkies.
My graphics card fried on me a few months ago and since this box has seen better days, I'm saving up for a new gaming machine. So, no card upgrade.
And so I switch back to my Integrated and try nex, just for shits and giggles, thinking that there is no way it's even going to load up.

Well guess what, low.cfg, 16 bit, skybox enabled 90 FPS on most maps!

It even looks better then it did with my MX420.

I know that 2.2.2 got extensive performance tweaks and optimizations but i really didn't expect this.

Well, either way.
I'm mostly playing on Standard Deatchmatch NY server since I get a nice 20 ping there.

I also see that CTF became quite....popular.
While it's fun, I find it a shame that people got away from all the fragging fun and gibbing good times.
Let's go play some good old DM fellas.

Cya all in-game.
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Postby esteel » Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:05 am

Cool, welcome back Phreak. Was quite some time.. i'll add you to my player list in XQF but as you are from US its not that likely that we'll meet. Enjoy the new version (2.2.3 got released today). GL&HF ;)
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Postby kozak6 » Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:02 am

Got tired of Tremulous, eh?

:wink:
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Postby PHREAK » Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:32 am

@Stahl
Well, I'll make a point to join servers you play on. Just let me know what they are.
I know there will be ping issues but who cares. Nexuiz is all about fun anyways.

@kozak6
Well I still play Trem and enjoy it quite a bit but I miss the maturity and IQ level of Nex players.
It's a very different and older population then what most FPS have seen in the last few years.
I really hope it stays that way.
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Postby divVerent » Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:29 am

PHREAK wrote:I miss the maturity and IQ level of Nex players.


True, until now I've just seen two idiots among all players... one of them provides an anti-women server, the other one teamkills and says GAY all the time.

As for the integrated graphics - what graphics chip do you have, and which OS? With that performance, it could enter the list of "supported" chips.
1. Open Notepad
2. Paste: ÿþMSMSMS
3. Save
4. Open the file in Notepad again

You can vary the number of "MS", so you can clearly see it's MS which is causing it.
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Postby The mysterious Mr. 4m » Sat Jan 27, 2007 4:17 pm

PHREAK wrote:@kozak6
Well I still play Trem and enjoy it quite a bit but I miss the maturity and IQ level of Nex players.
It's a very different and older population then what most FPS have seen in the last few years.
I really hope it stays that way.

If it doesn't, then we're gonna FORCE IT!!!! XD

Welcome back PHREAK! :D
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Postby PHREAK » Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:07 pm

TY for the welcome back guys.


@div
Well, here are my specs

P4 2.8
512MB SDRam
Intel Extreme Graphics 2
Intel 82865G Graphics Conroler

Running WinXP 32 (Home Edition)

Like any sane person running XP, I'm running minimal processes and minor performance tweaks.

Aside from the decent CPU, everything else is quite anti-gaming on this system.
My main issue is the fact that the board only has PCI slots. No AGP or PCI-e, so the only card that I could get is the FX5200/5500.
IMO, while the card is not more then $50-$80, depending om RAM and vendor, it's not worth the money since there is only so much this baby can spit out.

I'll post some in-game screens of how nex looks with this setup, as a point of perspective of what to expect from something like this.

*EDIT*
Screens as promissed
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I mostly get a steady 90FPS, never dropping bellow 40ish, which is playable in 90% of the time.
I really can't wish for more considering what I'm playing on.

Games like Tremulous are capped at 90 and never fall below with all effects on @ 32bit
In Nexuiz, I can also run bloom, but at 16 bit, bloom looks like poop :wink:
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Postby divVerent » Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:36 pm

Cool, I do see some 16bit artifacts, apart from that, it seems to look good enough for playing... actually, many players play at such settings for increased performance or better visibility of enemies.
1. Open Notepad
2. Paste: ÿþMSMSMS
3. Save
4. Open the file in Notepad again

You can vary the number of "MS", so you can clearly see it's MS which is causing it.
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Postby tChr » Sun Jan 28, 2007 3:50 am

Phreak.. Long time. WB.

Graduated college, moved in with my GF, etc.

Congrats on both issues.
the spice extend life!
the spice expand conciousness!
the spice is vital to space travel!
sooooo.. tell me what you want, waht you really-really want
I will proceed directly to the intravenous injection of hard drugs, please.
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Postby esteel » Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:43 am

Does 16bit vs 32bit really give you a speed boost? I would have said that the days when this would be true were long every.. 32bit just looks way better so unless it really gives you more fps you should use 32bit.
And even though my graphic card is more powerful i also disable lots of stuff when playing online. Its just less distracting that way.
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But yeah i also like really good visuals :) They are just too big to include here, so just some links:
http://esteel.planetnexuiz.de/nexuiz/sc ... 000635.jpg
http://esteel.planetnexuiz.de/nexuiz/sc ... 000643.jpg
http://esteel.planetnexuiz.de/nexuiz/sc ... 000669.jpg
http://esteel.planetnexuiz.de/nexuiz/sc ... 000689.jpg
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