Great G400 Test !! Think you got a fast system?

[LAMFDTK]

Battlezone II is out in demo form. 14 meg. I have 256 meg PIII-450 and 32 G400. With bumpmapping enabled and Full boat, I cant run this game at 1024x768. Bumping takes a big hit here. Try this out. It is the first big-ass game that has a new engine and will tax your system in a big way!

<A HREF="http://www.intel.com/home/club/bz2down.htm">Battlezone II Demo</A>

[ManojM]

Hi!

I got the demo yesterday but I didn't find any option to enable bump mapping. Where in the options can I switch on bump mapping?

Regards,
Manoj Mahtani

[LAMFDTK]

Its on by default is my guess. Pretty sweet looking game EH? Much more demanding than any game I have EVER seen before. 1024x768 is not to smooth at 32 bit I need a P3 750 ?

[The Rev]

I know you probably get this suggestion alot, but I know from expierence that alomost every P3 450 will overclock to 550. If you have PC133 RAM you can get 580/600MHz sometimes. If you bought a prebuilt computer check your BIOS to see if it has jumperless means to overclock your BUS. Otherwise you might be able to find some jumpers on your motherboard to do the trick. You could always fork over $100 for a nice mobo too.

If you want help on OCing it, let me know.

Off to download this demo,
-The-Rev-

[LAMFDTK]

Look at the water in the game its bumped right? I think bump is on auto. Although I'm not certain. I also have not messed around enough with the configs and such. At 800x600 32bit full boat its a keeper though. What a great looking game. I was floored!

[R0M]

The demo has no bump-mapping, we're still working with them on adding EMBM support. As for the water, that is just reflection, using same code found in tech demo

Regards,

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[LAMFDTK]

Before I bought this card I read everywhere that B2 would have EVBM. Even you site has coming soon. Bummer. THat means that this game is this intensive WITHOUT EVBM!! Whoa.

Rev E-mail me on Overclocking

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[Storm2]

I've got a C466 oc'd to 583, with a G400 DH 32Mb oc'd to 150/200, and it runs BZ 2 demo pretty well at 1024x768x32 ALL maxed out. Looks impressive
(probably a lot better than on a TNT2)


Regards,
Storm

[Maniac]

Well the eye candy and special effects are somewhat impressive(it's not anything we haven't seen before)too bad it lacks the gameplay to back up the pretty pictures.

[GD]

I agree that the gameplay is awful.
I do not think the graphics are that stunning, however I like the freedom the game provides in movement. On my PII 450 it is playable at 1024x768@32... anyway I really need to format the PC because my scores are relatively low in benchmarks

The game also supports SSE so if you have a PIII be sure to have that "Pentium III optimizations" option enabled... That should nearly double the FPU power and thus the polygon rendering rates

[Nuno]

They released a patch that is suppose to fix the gameplay issue. get it at ftp.telepac.pt/pub/3dfiles/patches/bzpfix.exe (or go to www.3dfiles.com and chose your nearby server)

And why not 3dnow! optimizations? I mean, I´ve got an Intel CPU anyways, but if they code for SSE they should code also for 3dnow!. I guess Intel is sponsoring them or something like that..

Hey, guess what, I just found the link LAMFDTK provided is from intel´s site. How surprising...

Update: None of the links for the patch worked so far. The only one that worked was ftp.cdrom.com and the file was corrupted. Maybe later...


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[Nuno]

Hi there!

I got the demo too (being a big battlezone I fan) and I think it´s great too.

But... I don´t think a PIII is required to run at 1024x768x32... The game is so complex that it is clearly fill-rate limited at that res (here I am talking with ALL the options on). I have a Celeron 450 and if I drop to 800x600x32 (16 bit no thanks ) it´s very smooth... What would you expect anyway?

And I only took a fast look in the demo, but could you spot me a place where bump-mapping is enable, like water, sky,...? I still couldn´t figure it out.

[KvHagedorn]

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