SEV - to buy, or not to buy?

Fyron · #1 March 4th, 2007, 09:50 PM

Lancefighter said:
"Btw, will the mods work with the demo?"

Probably not.

Lancefighter · #2 March 4th, 2007, 10:14 PM

Heh i suppose the best way to test if the mods work is to start them...

Glacial turn processing times? In my game, on my core-duo dell inspiron, it ran perfectly - perhaps 10 sec between turns(all the way to 100). My desktop runs a bit slower, but still no more than a minute between turns - all the way up to turn 40 or so (not gotten farther on desktop)

Ill have to get this game though... gonna check out SEIV also, i hear its not too bad either.

Kamog · #3 March 5th, 2007, 04:16 AM

10 seconds between turns is really fast! Even 1 minute between turns is fast. Could it be because of dual core? I thought SEV doesn't take advantage of dual core yet?

AgentZero · #4 March 5th, 2007, 04:20 AM

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Imperator Fyron said:

Probably not.

Definately not. I just tried it and I'm still cleaning up after the kittens.

Dan_ · #5 March 5th, 2007, 11:02 AM

Put it this way, It's like being sold a nice looking car which
- you can only drive for 5 minutes, then have stop and wait 5 minutes for it to cool down
- the reverse gear goes forwards rather than backwards
- if you turn too sharp the steering wheel comes off
- will spontaneously break down at least twice every hour
Some people might call these minor issues and say it's working, so I guess it comes down to how much you're willing to put up with and your initial expectations.

aegisx · #6 March 5th, 2007, 12:28 PM

Funny, i can play for a lot longer then 5 minutes.

aegisx · #7 March 5th, 2007, 12:29 PM

the only crash I get now is if I start up 2 directx apps. SeV ends up dying, but not due to playing.

oli_chose123 · #8 March 5th, 2007, 12:50 PM

I've got a AMD 3000+
1.81 GHz
1 Gig of Ram
2 SLI GeFroce 6600 GT (Ok, no use in processing time)
and my turn processing take 10 seconds
So unless it's a "Battlefield 2" like bug where two identical computers do not have the same bugs on the same game, SEV is going to run fine if your computer does more than + - / *
(unless it's old...)

Fyron · #9 March 5th, 2007, 02:08 PM

Over-abused car analogies are always so terrible... Software and cars have just about no reasonable basis of comparison.

GuyOfDoom · #10 March 5th, 2007, 02:20 PM

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Dan_ said:
Put it this way, It's like being sold a nice looking car which
- you can only drive for 5 minutes, then have stop and wait 5 minutes for it to cool down
- the reverse gear goes forwards rather than backwards
- if you turn too sharp the steering wheel comes off
- will spontaneously break down at least twice every hour
Some people might call these minor issues and say it's working, so I guess it comes down to how much you're willing to put up with and your initial expectations.

That's a fairly large hyperbole and grows even more so by the day.