October 12, 2003
BF1942
Battlefield 1942 is yet another example of why I hate buying video games.
My PC isn't high-end, but an AMD 2600+ with 1GB RAM isn't too shabby for most games.
Unfortunately, processor speed doesn't mean so much for a game like BF1942.
Here's how an average game goes:
"I think I'll play BF1942."
Time passes.
"Oh look, Here's the game startup screen!"
Time passes.
"The unescapable intro movies are over. Now I get to choose a map!"
Time passes.
"The map is loading!"
Time passes.
"I'm joining the game!"
Time passes.
"Wow, I'm finally playing the game!"
BLAM! Sniper round in the head.
Time passes.
"Ok, I've respawned, and I've got my weapon of choice and I'm ready to ..."
The game disappears. Crashes. Gone. Not even an error message.
"Screw this. I'm gonna go read a book."
Posted by Eric at October 12, 2003 08:56 PMMay I recommend "How to Get Video Games to Load"?
Posted by: poop! at October 12, 2003 11:56 PMConsole gaming all the way, baby.
Posted by: sushi at October 13, 2003 08:44 AMI have an AMD 2500+ with 512mb DDR RAM. It runs just fine on my system; rather quickly too. Could just be your video card.
Posted by: kayvan at October 13, 2003 03:17 PMI was also thinking eric had the Barton 2500+ as we do. I just upped my box from 512MB to 1GB of ram this weekend. Havent run BF since. But the Inexplicable load times are insane. I realise its like a 48MB map that has to be decompressed and loaded into memory and textures and other crap. But DAMN... multiplayer loading is just insanely long.
Posted by: Daniel at October 13, 2003 10:52 PM