Ugg... this demo appearantly doesn't support chipsets... or at least not Radeon Xpress 200M. Looks a bit like a shadow system I would guess. The issue is that areas of the textures are painted over with some black, the black dynamically changes when you change position but is allways the same when you go back to the same position.
So, I guess, shadow system.
Then there is the fact that the minimum requirements are NOT the min requirements. I definatly need more ram, but having a screwed up MB or BIOS appearantly won't let me upgrade.
The thing is that even at absolute minimum settings the game insists on maintaining a high quality appearance. Even further more, the sound doesn't seem to go the same speed as the animations... and with no way to stop the animation it got very borring.
Just ONCE I wish games would... allow the plr to fully customize the settings.
Do I really NEED the high quality textures. Stop being idiotic when making games you companies.
More and more of a configuration control menu is vanishing and the changes aren't that signifigant. It is like low quality textures are generally the same as the high quality now with some exceptions here and there.
How hard would it be to allow a game to 'dumber up' and revert to an secondary lowend engine instead of making minor tweeks that don't do crap.
Physics is da-bomb but you can reduce the number of active objects. You can revert to older less complex algorithms then use newer more accurate ones.
But the general trend is to not care about such small descrepancys and to force the games full load on a persons computer. It gets very annoying.
I know my computer can handle games like HL2 and if it couldn't I also know that they can go down to extreamly low res textures. The guns could become blobs that you couldn't even reconize (although I refuse to play that way if I get a decent 30-40 fps) Where is that in this game?
Why insist that everyone has a high end machine? Allow people who want the hq content to use it, and people who want the lq content to use that.
What I just said.
Games are no longer allowing people to run their games on any computer. This can easily be fixed by allowing REAL changes in game quality. Allowing the glitter to be numbed out (such as physics, dynamic shadows, dynamic lights) instead of running them with high end algorithms. Game Companys should NOT view all people as highend proformance machines but see those who need a little lower quality instead of hq being 1024 and lq being 512, try 128 instead.
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