Gun Metal Demo

digitalwanderer · Dec 21, 2002, 03:16 PM

Well, it downloaded ok for me and I fired it up just peachy this morning. That's the good news.

The bad news is it is just SOOOOOO lame! "I'm a giant robot that can turn into an airplane and I shoot all da little ship & people around." It's like a bad copy of "Slave Zero"...and I really wasn't that impressed with it's graphics either.

So good news for fanATIcs, you ain't missing nothing.

dipstick · Dec 21, 2002, 03:24 PM

heh, I've played it on the Xbox and it wasn't that great. Some of the missions were fun and looked nice but overall the game is average. Do you know if it uses any DX9 features? I will download it if I can see something new and improved

digitalwanderer · Dec 21, 2002, 03:47 PM

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Originally posted by kakarot
Do you know if it uses any DX9 features? I will download it if I can see something new and improved

I....don't....know! I'm not exactly sure what DX9 features look like to be honest, so I don't know if I saw any or not. I can tell ya I installed the "final DX9" the other day on me 98se install and then did a clean install of the official 41.09 drivers and left them on the default settings. (Except I did use coolbits and jack me clockspeeds up, I just had to! Do you have any idea how hard it is for me to leave drivers on their default settings?!?! It's un-natural!

) When I ran Gunmetal I didn't see any real cool effects or anything, nothing that I haven't seen done better in other games that are DX8.1 or before. Maybe I missed something, but I was looking for anything new or different.

Actually, it ran sort of crappy compared to most stuff for me. It was jerkyish and I really did think the graphics looked like crap.

Then again I wasn't that impressed with the "speed tree CG demo" that came out when CG was introduced. I think CGs big advantage seems to be in ease and speed of development, but for me so far the end product shows that. It seems rushed and un-polished.

Scoop · Dec 21, 2002, 07:21 PM

I coant even get it to run on my geforce 4600ti with DX9 any ideas?

Scoop

dipstick · Dec 21, 2002, 07:35 PM

It won't run for me

highpingdrifter · Dec 22, 2002, 12:55 AM

you will only see dx9 effects/features if you have compatible dx9 hardware.

-=BiGmOo2U=- · Dec 22, 2002, 08:32 PM

Some of you people are so stupid you need a new vid card that supports dx9 and no games will have dx9 features until well into next year (how you expect to see dx9 features with an old shitty geforce 2 is beyond me)

digitalwanderer · Dec 22, 2002, 08:40 PM

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Originally posted by -=BiGmOo2U=-
Some of you people are so stupid you need a new vid card that supports dx9 and no games will have dx9 features until well into next year (how you expect to see dx9 features with an old shitty geforce 2 is beyond me)

"emulation" would be the first word that springs to my stupid mind, but I'd try it on me GF3 rather than me son's GF2.

Heck, I tried to run it on my 8500 for giggles just to see if it would. (It won't, "NO SUPPORTED VIDEO CARD" error.

)

ToshiroOC · Dec 24, 2002, 03:00 AM

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Originally posted by -=BiGmOo2U=-
Some of you people are so stupid you need a new vid card that supports dx9 and no games will have dx9 features until well into next year (how you expect to see dx9 features with an old shitty geforce 2 is beyond me)

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Like digi said, its possible to emulate, and hopefully the program in question would simply disable dx9 effects on non-dx9 cards, though from the look of things it isn't. I would disagree with you when you say that "no games will have dx9 features until well into next year", as we already have dx9 games out - not officially

but Doom3 alphas are dx9, and are available, and there are all of the ATI and nVidia demos that are available with dx9, and now that directX 9 has been released, I would think that the dx9 games will start appearing very soon, perhaps as early as february...

ToshiroOC

silentsnow · Dec 25, 2002, 06:54 AM

I guess nVidia wants to show off with Cg

Antario · Dec 26, 2002, 12:17 PM

I've yet to get to it to even open much less play. I get the happy little error reporting screen everytime I try to start the demo.

I'm running WinXP fully updated(including .Net), DX9, 9700 latest drivers and haven't been able to run the demo once.

Dec 21, 2002, 03:16 PM	#1
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,619 Rep Power: 0	Gun Metal Demo Well, it downloaded ok for me and I fired it up just peachy this morning. That's the good news. The bad news is it is just SOOOOOO lame! "I'm a giant robot that can turn into an airplane and I shoot all da little ship & people around." It's like a bad copy of "Slave Zero"...and I really wasn't that impressed with it's graphics either. So good news for fanATIcs, you ain't missing nothing. __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?

Dec 26, 2002, 12:17 PM	#11
Antario DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Chicago, IL USA Posts: 10 Rep Power: 0	Did Anyone Play The Demo On A 9700? I've yet to get to it to even open much less play. I get the happy little error reporting screen everytime I try to start the demo. I'm running WinXP fully updated(including .Net), DX9, 9700 latest drivers and haven't been able to run the demo once.

Dec 21, 2002, 03:24 PM	#2
dipstick HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3,609 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	heh, I've played it on the Xbox and it wasn't that great. Some of the missions were fun and looked nice but overall the game is average. Do you know if it uses any DX9 features? I will download it if I can see something new and improved

Dec 21, 2002, 07:21 PM	#4
Scoop DriverHeaven Alcoholic Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Round the corner from the chip shop and over the pond... Posts: 182 Rep Power: 0	I coant even get it to run on my geforce 4600ti with DX9 any ideas? Scoop

Dec 21, 2002, 07:35 PM	#5
dipstick HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3,609 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	It won't run for me

Dec 22, 2002, 12:55 AM	#6
highpingdrifter Truth will set you free Join Date: May 2002 Location: england Posts: 118 Rep Power: 0	you will only see dx9 effects/features if you have compatible dx9 hardware.

Dec 22, 2002, 08:32 PM	#7
-=BiGmOo2U=- DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: England Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Some of you people are so stupid you need a new vid card that supports dx9 and no games will have dx9 features until well into next year (how you expect to see dx9 features with an old shitty geforce 2 is beyond me)

Dec 25, 2002, 06:54 AM	#10
silentsnow DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	I guess nVidia wants to show off with Cg