My Pre-release, Far Cry 2 mini review

[TrooperJac]

Re: My Pre-release, Far Cry 2 mini review

I would expect DX11 to be part of Windows 7

We all know Windows 7 is Vista with a bit of marketing polish flung over it so expect DX11 to be DX10 with a few irrelevant features thrown in that people won't be able to use anyway because they have 10 or 10.1 cards. :lol:

[Death Merchant]

Re: My Pre-release, Far Cry 2 mini review

Can you choose whether to use DX9 or DX10?

I think so reviewers seem to have been able to

[=98=]

Re: My Pre-release, Far Cry 2 mini review

Can you choose whether to use DX9 or DX10?

[Death Merchant]

Re: My Pre-release, Far Cry 2 mini review

^ aww, was hoping for it to be DX9 only lol. Neways only a few hours from purchasing the game!!!!!!!!!!! pics to be uploaded in this thread soon (if its okay with you Death Merchant).

Im running on DX9, theres no difference in image quality as far as i can see from images on the net, maybe the framerate is a little better

yes please upload those images

DX10 is bollocks anyway.

Someone agrees with me on this one, finally :) its kinda like the jump from dx7-dx8 a bit pointless not that many games have adopted it and it adds very little in real world image quality and dx11 is out probably late next year

[TrooperJac]

Re: My Pre-release, Far Cry 2 mini review

I never stated it did. I was only interested in the fact that the Nvidia cards will run DX10.1 even though they are classed as DX10.

DX10 is bollocks anyway.

[=98=]

Re: My Pre-release, Far Cry 2 mini review

DX10.1 doesn't add any new effects, it simply allows compatible cards to process the graphics more quickly and efficiently. In theory, ATI cards should run the game faster.

[TrooperJac]

Re: My Pre-release, Far Cry 2 mini review

I've heard it's DX10.1 even on Nvidia cards.

Re: My Pre-release, Far Cry 2 mini review

^ aww, was hoping for it to be DX9 only lol. Neways only a few hours from purchasing the game!!!!!!!!!!! pics to be uploaded in this thread soon (if its okay with you Death Merchant).

[iQue]

Re: My Pre-release, Far Cry 2 mini review

It's both but DX10 is buggy, from what I've seen from various other forums :P

Don't like the DRM? Buy the game, install it as many times as you like and when you can't do it anymore, pirate it lol

Re: My Pre-release, Far Cry 2 mini review

Hey guys, i am gonna get the game today, but was wondering just out of curiosity is the game DX9 or DX10, or both lol?

[KillerStickMan]

Re: My Pre-release, Far Cry 2 mini review

i was never talking about spore dairuka, nobody was, until you highjacked the thread...i posted the same thing as death just did...

[Death Merchant]

Re: My Pre-release, Far Cry 2 mini review

Plus... If you're an American, then look up, The Digital Millennium Copyright Act. You'll then see how wrong you are about expecting Congress to do anything about it.

Im not american so your argument flies right out the window :p

SecuROM is already big time... four leading publishers (Take-Two, THQ, EA, Ubisoft) are planning to, or have already used it's invasive licensing limitation software.

I mean using it for most DVD films, music, games and other downloadable content so that the lives of a good proportion of the population are affected

id hardly call EA plus a few other games developers 'big time' when the rest of the developers jump on board then people might take notice

In the end you can complain all you want, but really theres nothing you or anyone else other than the government can do about it, unless you want to fight a long hard legal battle that youll probably lose because the big game publishers can afford the best lawyers. We get raped by big buisness everyday this just seems another of those annoyances that i can let pass by because 99% of people dont have more than five machines in their home and you can easily resell because a new user has four more installations



edit: been reading Ubisofts policy on all of this and it seems fair enough, nothing that id really get outraged with at all

-You have 5 activations on 3 separate PCs.
- Uninstalling the game “refunds” an activation. This process is called “revoke”, so as long as you complete proper uninstall you will be able to install the game an unlimited number of times on 3 systems.
- You can upgrade your computer as many time as you want (using our revoke system)
- Ubisoft is committed to the support of our games, and additional activations can be provided.
- Ubisoft is committed to the long term support of our games: you’ll always be able to play Far Cry 2.

also can we please get back to topic ASAP, if you want to share your anger about securom to the rest of us make a new thread :thumbsup:

[Dairuka]

Re: My Pre-release, Far Cry 2 mini review

Seems you are wrong Dairuka...



Source
If you don't trust them, here's another...
and the source of the sources
in which a post by a forum manager under the name bukowski113 states the above.

MaxisCactus (a member of Maxis, not just a forum manager) stated that all copies of Spore gave you 5 installations, and would refund an activation upon un-installation.

What he failed to tell you was that the 5 installations were for only people who bought copies of Spore made after October 3rd, and that un-installing actually doesn't refund you an installation, it merely doesn't credit you with reinstalling it on the same computer setup..

However, if you change even one piece of major hardware such as your Hard-Drive, or Motherboard. You've effectively used up an installation.

Please also note that these installations are not concurrent, but Total.

Finally. EA has also made many press releases about it's de-activation tool, yet still refuses to give us an ETA on it, despite many thousands of threads on the Spore General Discussion forum.

If Ubisoft has actually done it, and not just say they've done it.... Good... they need to show EA how to do it.

De-activation Tool Soruces:

http://firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20854

Since launching Spore earlier this month EA has been hit with a deluge of users who are upset with the game's DRM
measures. Last week we discussed Spore's activation limitation, which limits users to one online account per copy of the game; another controversial item EA has introduced is limiting the number of times the game can be installed to just three PCs.

EA states that their policy is similar to iTunes, but actually Apple's software allows you to authorize up to five PCs. Another difference between iTunes and Spore is that Apple actually provides a tool allowing you to deauthorize PCs -- Spore doesn't. EA plans to change that soon though in an upcoming patch. No ETA is provided on when this patch will be released however.

There has been two patches since that article was made. We still lack the De-activation tool. We still lack the ETA.

This is why there is a problem. The only game that I know has a de-authorization tool up to date is Bioshock.

[KillerStickMan]

Re: My Pre-release, Far Cry 2 mini review

Seems you are wrong Dairuka...

You have 5 activations on 3 separate PCs.

- Uninstalling the game “refunds” an activation. This process is called “revoke”, so as long as you complete proper uninstall you will be able to install the game an unlimited number of times on 3 systems.

- You can upgrade your computer as many time as you want (using our revoke system)

- Ubisoft is committed to the support of our games, and additional activations can be provided.

- Ubisoft is committed to the long term support of our games: you’ll always be able to play Far Cry 2.

Source
If you don't trust them, here's another...
and the source of the sources
in which a post by a forum manager under the name bukowski113 states the above.

[Dairuka]

Re: My Pre-release, Far Cry 2 mini review

I don't care about Yahoo! music customers, i don't care about anything.

Apathy makes for apathetic people.