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Re: A couple of simple ways to make it more friend

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Gandalf Parker said:

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alexti said:
You don't need physical CD other than for the installation. However Dom3 license limits you to a single concurrent copy on a computer storage medium (aside of backup). That sounds curious because I don't see any straightforward way to play it without having one copy on the hard drive and another copy in RAM http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Really? I should read that since Ive always put it on my windows desktop machine and my linux server, with full knowledge of the devs.

Im not sure how thats worded but the game is purposely setup to allow seperation of client and host. The host copy doesnt check its own serial against the players to specifically allow that.

Do you think developers read license agreement? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: A couple of simple ways to make it more friend

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alexti said:

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Loren said:
What I think is going on is that while it technically goes into the background, if it doesn't monitor the message queue it doesn't see what happened and know to release the screen.

It shouldn't need to do anything explicit. OS should be able to take the screen over (or shouldn't allow an application to monopolize it).

But it does when using DirectX.

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Loren said:
And I do mean 10 minutes of AI think time--this on a 3ghz processor with oodles of ram. Admittedly the memory is currently in single-channel mode. I've been having trouble getting a response out of Corsair about the memory chip that died.

Oh well, maybe that's a reason somehow. Btw, does it happen in one particular game or you have it in every game of comparable size?

This is my first game of this size.

Incidently, I'm thinking my reason on why it's so slow is wrong. The undead are on the march and they have some *HUGE* armies.

I'm going to have to fight them soon. What ratio of priests to undead should bring to battle?

Re: A couple of simple ways to make it more friend

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Loren said:
But it does when using DirectX.

Dom3 is DirectX-free AFAIK.

Re: A couple of simple ways to make it more friend

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alexti said:

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Loren said:
But it does when using DirectX.

Dom3 is DirectX-free AFAIK.

Just remembered that I read somewhere that some video drivers implement OpenGL through redirecting calls into their DirectX drivers. Maybe that's the case for your video card and the cause of your problem?