Curse

Doomlord_Slayermann · Oct 24, 2006, 04:20 PM // 16:20

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Originally Posted by Mushroom

You might as well accuse MicroSoft of having a hand in GW then, because the game only works on Windows. After all, they have to be in bed together, since the games is not written for Linux or Apple.

And it is not to uncommon for companies to do things like this. It is called "working with the most common demoninator". After all, there are dozens of different browsers out there. Are they supposed to rewrite their program to work with every one of them? Of course not. They are going to try and work with the most common Browser, and that happens to be IE.

If this was 1995, they would more then likely would have made it so the program worked with Netscape, since nobody used IE before version 3.

This situation does not apply to Windows game because of course there is practically no support for games on a Mac and very little use of Linux, so the Microsoft platform is not simply the most widely used, it's practically the only one used.

Furthermore, Loviatar cited Microsoft in his original post, so I don't really see what this argument is accomplishing. I'm saying that FutureMark is not the end-all for system testing.

EDIT: I missed the post earlier, but as was pointed out the software uses ActiveX, which somewhat explains the IE use even if ActiveX is not the greatest thing ever. I don't think that you need to look very hard though to see that Microsoft is somehow involved in this. See the word "Windows" everywhere? FutureMark is not by any means bad software, but I would be a lot more trusting if FutureMark actually ran the thing on their own instead of with Microsoft's help.

Oh, and the FutureMark software detects my laptop's RAM and processor type incorrectly. Run a couple different tests to get a good opinion of your computer's performance, not just one.

ANOTHER EDIT: FutureMark lets you download the software directly from their website, which I am much more comfortable with.

Syndren · Oct 24, 2006, 09:52 PM // 21:52

hmmmm...
I don't think I trust gameadvisor. Not because of only IE or anything like that but.... it says I can run doom 3, oblivion, and KOTOR 2. On its little graph it shows my PC performance to be the highest when compared to the requirements.
I know for a fact (tried it out with all games) that I cannot run any of these games. Not even past thier menu screen.
-KOTOR 2 was because my video card was specifically mentioned to be not working with the game
-Oblivion was because of no pixel shader or something like that
-Doom 3... well.. I have a radeon 7500 32vram :P

l)l2UNl( · Oct 25, 2006, 12:44 AM // 00:44

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Originally Posted by Syndren

Yes laggy but during the preview event there was a 'single player' tutorial you had to go through. That ran fine (not laggy when by yourself but in a fight or something equally intense indeed very laggy).
Not sure if GW would run nicely on a P2 _now_ (you can try if you want) but back then it ran surprisingly well. (for a P2 :P)

EDIT:
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/
to test your system if it meets the 'requirements'.
Don't take its results as the 'final say' though. My laptop miserably fails the sys req test but it can run GW fine.

well actually i was just surpirsed but my sys. isnt that outdated its P4 1.7 but thx for website!