Komag

But when I installed Doom 3 and Res of Evil it asked me to install DX9 b or c or whatever. I don't know how it all works though, maybe the regular game while playing doesn't really use it, but it needs it for some little thing

The textures wouldn't even have to be very accurate. Look at Gothic - they had these big flat walls covering the forests, but when you get closer, they fade away and the real forest with all the trees and stuff is behind. It works well enough.

what happened?

They seem to be going down more often lately (unlike my ... NEVER MIND)

FYI, it's "anisotropic" filtering I just tried my laptop again, and suddenly I realized there are two more option screens under the Video tab - I didn't see the tabs on the left! So all those advanced option are there, and I turned off a few things, turned down a few more, and suddenly the game plays pretty smooth on my laptop with lowish settings all around.

Okay, I'm at home and I just finished playing through the demo on my desktop (runs a TON better than my lamo laptop). I have to say, I'm impressed! I really liked messing with the gravity and jumping through the portals. (That round and round and round one was especially trippy). But the most crazy moment of all was when I was in this little room and saw this interesting little rounded rock in a small display case, and then I went through another portal and was disoriented for a few seconds, then WHAMO!!! I don't want to spoil it, but I suddenly got a massive hit of something like vertigo but not quite the same. THAT was a great moment in gaming for me. I'll probably get the full game at some point. Probably not right when it comes out, but maybe in a few months or so.

So I just got done playing through the Prey demo on my home PC (runs very smooth - I couldn't play it smooth on my wimpy laptop at work). Talk about messing with your head on the whole upsidedown/sideways/which-way-is-up thing!!!

I think the Museum had an elevator or two

Depends on how immersed you are in the game. If you play any flying games (flight simulators, or more "arcady" stuff like Crimson Skies) there is a lot of upside-down or sideways situations. It works fine to me. I don't know how I would like it with an fps game, but it might work.

that's the most important thing to get in detail!

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You could do Gothic 2 in first person (can't remember about Gothic 1), but it was crap. The game only works well in 3rd. So he's saying that in first person, you do the forward roll, but the view just keeps looking forward the whole time throughout the roll instead of how it would really look through your eyes, seeing the ground, then the upside down sky, then the sky, then forward again.

Do you have an ATI graphics card? Perhaps Prey is more optimized for ATI

That's very counter-intuitive, I wonder how it could be doing that. Have you tried Doom 3 recently? I've been playing it some these past few days

I fired it up on my laptop (Pentium M 1.4ghz, 1gig ram, GeForce Go FX5650 w128ram) and it's only just barely playable on lowest settings (5-15 fps). From what I played though (just beginning, till opening first door on the ship), it seems pretty cool! It's using Doom 3 engine, but it must be taking it a few steps further because my laptop runs Doom 3 pretty smoothly (20-40 fps) on high settings!

I suppose the update does say "we are releasing" as opposed to "we have released", hehe

I think pretty much all the shots have been in game the past year or more

Ah, but how many of you ever played Star Command! IMPERSONATE DEITY!

I guess that means no more exploiting that sliver of pitch darkness in the middle of the doorway, hehe!

I think you're looking at it wrong. The idea is that you back up to the rail, lean back a bit out over the rail, looking upward as you do so, to see the guy up on the upper level. Kind of like leaning back a bit to look up at the top shelf in the closet

But then again we won't be dealing with Garrett her in Dark Mod. So if it's a setting that authors can set or something, then that might be a good comprimise. Then again, going out with NO tools is only what a very few players want to do. That minority should probably just avoid using tools if they don't want to, like people already do with T2

I think so, because I'm talking about when you look for the craziest maximum price $8,000 "SUPER ULTIMATE GAMING PC!!!!!!" it still has a normal Geforce line card (or two in SLI mode nowadays)

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I dunno how I feel about the allowing drop all vs keeping sword and blackjack. It would be odd to me to start with a sword and blackjack (as in I brought them with me from my apartment/hideout to the starting area) and then decide to drop them on the street! Maybe there could be an option in the inventory loadout screen to "unselect" the basic starting inventory items if you want. Sort of like Garrett saying "I'll leave these behind in my apartment for this one, I feel like a challenge!" I think there would need to be some basic objects in the world that can be blackjacks/clubs in disguise. Things like candlesticks, crate flinders, etc. Maybe the basics of those items could have the properties of the blackjack.

forgot about SS2, yeah I remember getting shot at from turrets