Age of Empires 3 demo out

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 9:17 pm

Brazilians mebbe

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 9:37 pm

XP ONLY! SUCK-A-COCK'LE-DOO!

Lynxer · Post by **Lynxer** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 9:39 pm

Hehe. Microsoft's idea of a two birds with one stone policy.

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 9:43 pm

I'm not changing my system to play some hyped up rts, and if at least one more person agrees with me, they're the ones being assfucked - not us. Business morals, that.

Lynxer · Post by **Lynxer** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 9:50 pm

I know i wouldn't, but heck....i allready have an illegal copy of XP....and I think I may enjoy aoe3 a bit...so why not download it when it has been uploaded to some torrent server. Fact is, however, that it's pretty greedy of microsoft to force customers to have another one of their expensive products in order to be able to use this particular piece of software.

[HpA]SniperPotato · Post by **[HpA]SniperPotato** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 9:56 pm

I agree with you St. Toxic.

I have shitty windows 98 but it still works for me. I havent played any good RTS's since Warcraft 3 back like 2 years ago. I need something new... that doesn't rape my processor like 1 ghtz games do

Naked_Lunch · Post by **Naked_Lunch** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 10:01 pm

Warcraft 3 wasn't a good RTS.

Lynxer · Post by **Lynxer** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 10:03 pm

Ehm.....I'm really lost when people claim they prefer working under win98 or antother version of windows that predates XP. XP is significantly more reliable and stable then any of its predecessors, from my experience at least. Not once have I stumbled upon any complications ever since I converted to XP. The same can't be said for any of the older versions.

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 10:09 pm

I assume he means 'CPU Demanding'. That's in no way a problem for me, I just don't want to use xp, and I'm neither downloading or buying it, just because they want me to.

EDIT: 2k for greater stability and performance.

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 10:11 pm

98 also loads a lot faster, and all old games run on it.
Process control is shit, though.

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 10:33 pm

If you rip all the unnecessary stuff out of XP it's a good OS, it works fine for me.

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 10:52 pm

Yeah, if you rip the 98 part out of it.

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 11:05 pm

you mean the emulation? Why would one do that, it works pretty good for most of the win9x games.

It's not like it's a startup service of XP, that slows down the system, or something

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 11:58 pm

The bits and pieces of 98 code that are cored into an otherwise nt-based system. Not the emulation, who cares about the emulation?

[HpA]SniperPotato · Post by **[HpA]SniperPotato** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 12:29 am

Process control is shit, though.

Damn straight

Yeah... I did mean CPU demanding. My comp is shit and I don't have the room or money to XP on it. Besides, from seeing my friends XP fuck up all the time I don't want it.

Lynxer · Post by **Lynxer** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 12:30 am

lol! Computer nerds. lololol!1 :kike:

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 7:00 am

Moved onto XP corp just recently from 2K. Haven't noticed any sort of difference, really, just that some new software had trouble running on 2K while not on XP. 2K loaded up a lot slower than XP, but then it was somewhat more stable. I've had a few system crashes already, but I think I had something like two for the time I ever used 2K.

So blah, doesn't matter, I haven't paid for any of them anyway.
The last legal Windows I've had was 98.

Lynxer · Post by **Lynxer** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 10:58 am

It's newer, bigger and better. From my experience it surpasses 2K performance-wise and stability-wise. But maybe this is an exception.

I don't see what the big dealio is anway. Various bootlegs of the product are distributed freely anywhere across the internet. I guess it's an ideology thing.

Hey dudes, let's get back on topic now.

I noticed something odd just now. The english priest is being rendered erroneously. It's horizontally in stead of upright when walking and standing and ''normal'' only when performing some kind of action.
The cannon has some graphic problems too. When deployed it remains attached to the horse. While it's operational, the units posture suggests otherwise, which yields a rather awkward effect.
When attacking an enemy unit for instance, the front side of the unit is faced towards it. Effectively, in the case of a deployed cannon, this is the muzzle of the cannon....but it appears to be the horse's mouth.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 12:11 pm

Well it's bigger alright. No chance of installing XP on older setups.

Lynxer · Post by **Lynxer** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 12:17 pm

It's desgined for newer machines.

. People that use their pc for purposes that demand a powerful processor are the the only ones that might benefit from XP.