Want to get your first taste of the Unreal Engine 3 tech?

[Hammyton]

Originally posted by: DefRef

Originally posted by: blurredvision
Wow, this is a first, and hopefully a last. They could atleast tell you before it installs that it will only run on an Intel. It would save a lot of people some time trying to play a supposedly crappy demo in the first place.

This is NOT a first - the original Unreal Tournament demo in 1999 was "3dfx only", though it was possible to fool it into running and then be able to access the software renderer mode by placing a blank Notepad file called "3dfx.dll" (IIRC) in your Windows directory so that the game would think a Voodoo card was installed.

That's when the 3d accelerator market was pretty much dominated by 3dfx tho... You can't say the same thing about Intel in the CPU market

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: Hammyton

Originally posted by: DefRef

Originally posted by: blurredvision
Wow, this is a first, and hopefully a last. They could atleast tell you before it installs that it will only run on an Intel. It would save a lot of people some time trying to play a supposedly crappy demo in the first place.

This is NOT a first - the original Unreal Tournament demo in 1999 was "3dfx only", though it was possible to fool it into running and then be able to access the software renderer mode by placing a blank Notepad file called "3dfx.dll" (IIRC) in your Windows directory so that the game would think a Voodoo card was installed.

That's when the 3d accelerator market was pretty much dominated by 3dfx tho... You can't say the same thing about Intel in the CPU market

And even with hyerthreading, couldn't it be posibile that a lonely AMD chip run the demo?