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Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2018 9:16 am
I played this game when it was first released back in 98. Fell in love with it and was completely amazed by it for various reasons. Nothing impressed me as much as this game, not even half-life. I was pretty new to pc gaming but was catching on pretty quick. I realized this game had implemented physics somehow and it’s really what made the game for me. I didn’t care how clumsy it was at times. I knew this would be a big part of future gaming. I ran this on a 233mhz pentium with 64MB ram and that may have been before I even got a GeForce 2 mx. I had a riva 128 with 4MB of onboard. I remember having to play this game in either a 640x480 window in the middle of the screen (because I hated scaling and found a 1:1 pixel ratio nice and sharp) or it could have been a 320x 240 window, to get playable frame rates. It was tiny but I didn’t even care. I’d never had such an amazing experience with a game and was pretty depressed when it was over with. I took my time going through the game and explored and grabbed everywhere and everything I could. I was methodical in dealing with the dinos and found the game terrifying as hell because you could die so easy. Anyone else that went all the way through that game deserves a medal.
I have an original retail disc and had to copy the contents to the Hdd to get it to install on windows 10. Installed CE and played with the ini. I was quite surpised and happy to see that after playing around a little I got it to run at a nice and consistent 60fps @ 1080 with vsync and AA. No stuttering. Looks as good as I could ask for. Super happy to be able to play the game again and at a higher fidelity. I might disable texture filtering to get that old pixelated look again though.
If anyone has tips on anything they want to suggest I’m all ears. One thing that I always wanted to see improved was lod. Those old super pixelated bitmaps suddenly popping into low res models and then higher res as they come closer. I’d like to push those higher level models so they come in earlier in the distance. Is there a way to do that?
I’ve had a little dream for years now of trying to recreate at least one level from the game in a newer engine, from scratch. All models, textures, scripting and animation from scratch, but somehow keeping in the arm/hand control and all the physics, just refined and easier to play. I spent around 800 dollars on courses from Udemy.com for 3D modeling, animation, rigging, programming, and unreal engine. I just jumped into it all a couple of weeks ago. I saw that some others have been working on this type of thing too but I don’t think I have found anything playable yet. As I learn and create I will come here for advice. It’s good to see a forum dedicated to this game considering it didn’t do so well commercially. It was just ahead of its time.
I have an original retail disc and had to copy the contents to the Hdd to get it to install on windows 10. Installed CE and played with the ini. I was quite surpised and happy to see that after playing around a little I got it to run at a nice and consistent 60fps @ 1080 with vsync and AA. No stuttering. Looks as good as I could ask for. Super happy to be able to play the game again and at a higher fidelity. I might disable texture filtering to get that old pixelated look again though.
If anyone has tips on anything they want to suggest I’m all ears. One thing that I always wanted to see improved was lod. Those old super pixelated bitmaps suddenly popping into low res models and then higher res as they come closer. I’d like to push those higher level models so they come in earlier in the distance. Is there a way to do that?
I’ve had a little dream for years now of trying to recreate at least one level from the game in a newer engine, from scratch. All models, textures, scripting and animation from scratch, but somehow keeping in the arm/hand control and all the physics, just refined and easier to play. I spent around 800 dollars on courses from Udemy.com for 3D modeling, animation, rigging, programming, and unreal engine. I just jumped into it all a couple of weeks ago. I saw that some others have been working on this type of thing too but I don’t think I have found anything playable yet. As I learn and create I will come here for advice. It’s good to see a forum dedicated to this game considering it didn’t do so well commercially. It was just ahead of its time.