Guild wars trial

atlanta_203 · #1 05-11-2004, 06:09 AM

Everyone has to go to the website www.guildwars.com and check out the demo they have for the game. It is only available to play from 11 May until 14 May I have played it this morning let me tell you it kicks ass. It will be a free service unlike SOE they will not charge a monthly service charge to play online. Try it and if you dont you will be sorry.

x-scythe · #2 05-11-2004, 08:03 AM

game looks tight

ltlruss · #3 05-11-2004, 03:49 PM

Just got on and played for a little bit... Definitely has potential.

Dave987 · #4 05-12-2004, 03:44 AM

Oh... my ... god ...

(Damn those System Specs!)

Charmy · #5 05-12-2004, 01:46 PM

played it for 6....10.....15 hours straight, loved it, still wondering though... eq2, guildwars..... <shrug>

Dave987 · #6 05-14-2004, 04:00 AM

After playing it, I don't like it much ...

It's .. I can't explain it really, just not my game :(

Spose it could either be the views or simply because it's not n00b friendly or something .. I dunno

Could end up a very good game as thats only very early days, but .. I dunno ...

Just my 2p

gandar · #7 05-14-2004, 05:11 AM

I liked what I saw, for the 45 seconds I could get the game up and stable. It continually crashed on me within 1 minute of logging in. I think it doesn't like my video card because I'd get a screen full of multi-colored squares in a checkerboard pattern on my screen before crashing, everytime.

Odd, that...

ATI Radeon 8500 128 mb

BTW, I would not recommend this video card to anyone...

~Gandar

MrJag · #8 05-21-2004, 05:44 AM

i tried it out . i really didnt care for it much tho .. think the best part was being able to pick custom names from the start lol

x-scythe · #9 05-21-2004, 07:48 AM

gander : on one of my comps i have the same video card you do and it did the game thing...had to get on my other comp which has a geforce 4 in order to play...

gandar · #10 05-21-2004, 08:03 AM

Yeah, I've had problems with several of the recent Radeon cards. I plan to upgrade soon to an nVidia chipset...

My wife's comp, exact same stats has a GeForce 4 card (only 64mb compared to my 128mb ATI card) and gets higher framerates...

/shrug...

MrJag · #11 05-21-2004, 09:00 AM

thats been a ongoing war for a long time ,, i have both here also ands never a prob with either tho i dont have a ati 128 ther 64s my nVidia cards i have the 128 and its a nice card also... some people swear by ati some by nVidia i like em both lol

samandhi · #12 05-21-2004, 01:29 PM

@gandar try turning off trilinear filtering, and or AA and even try turning off antiotropic filtering....Also check on the net to see if you have a GOOD set of drivers for that card. Some are better than others, and this has made both ATI and NVIDIA cards better than when they were released, but also worse when the drivers sucked...

gandar · #13 05-21-2004, 02:28 PM

Thanks for the tips. I'm not much a video card setting guru.

I did not find a setting for trilinear filtering, but I did find the settings for AA and antiotropic. They can not be turned off, from what I saw. They can be turned down - but currently they are set to "application preference."

The driver version I am using is from this file:
wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-00-040322a-014266c.exe
and it's version 6.14.10.6436 from 03-22-04.

Of course, it's digitally signed and Micro$oft HCL compliant, but THAT never means anything! :P

I'll do some more searching and see if I can dig up any "known" issues, but it seems that the Radeon 8500 64mb card was far more popular than the 128mb version.

Thanks again!