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Ya I've heard the same. I hate how Valve has whored themselves out to one card. I hope this isn't a growing trend among developers. I wonder how much they got from ATI to tilt the game towards their line of gpu's?

Bah. I'm looking forward to HL2 more than any other game but I'm not sure if my system will be worth it. I don't want to ruin the gaming experience just because my system is aging.

Gah, seems like yesterday that i bought this rig.

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Valve wanted to take full advantage of DX9 and Ati is the only one that has full implementation of DX9. Nvidia is pretty damn close (I heard NV has 80% of the DX9 stuff) so its not saying it wont run as good. Just stating that to get the best maximum experience from HL2, a Radeon card will do it. Valve isnt going to shut out Nvidia, its just that they will have to not have a few graphical things here and there, but other hten that, your card should be able to at least play it on the lowest settings.

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it'll run fine on nvidia cards. its all a driver issue. thoes latest tests where it was running good on ATI and bad on Nvidia, ATI had brand new drivers, Nvid had old.

And sides that your not going to have to worry about the directx 9 issues because 4600 is a DX 8 card and wouldnt be able to do the DX9 stuff anyway. (it'll still look good, just wont be able to do some of the fancier things)

my fan died on my 4200. so i had to go out and buy me a R 9600XT. had wanted to wait untill the new nvids and ati's were out. but alas. needed something to use the pc

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Mmmm, I just got my 9800Pro and AMD 64 3000+ so I'm ready for HL2 and whatever comes along for awhile.

But anyway, I do have UT2k4 and I love it.

Is there a program out there that you can use to create your own characters? NOt just skins, but the actually wireframe?

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I'm not sure but I'm gonna guess its a possibility. I'll try and navigate the editor real quick and see if I can find something on it.

Oh, and damn you and your A64:mad:

*edit* gah, the editor is too much for me to attempt to use:baby: But I'll pop in the tutorial DVD and see what it has

*edit2* You can create a character from scratch!:D I included some screenshots on what the Tutorial DVD shows what you can do with the UT2k4 Editor.

I'm not 100% sure if there is a 3rd party program that can do it, but if you have the UT2004 editor, you can make it.

If you dont have the DVD version with the tutorial dvd so you know what to do, either try and get it of suprnova.org (if you have bit torrent) or wait a few weeks and you can buy the DVD edition of UT2k4 for $40 and get the tutorial dvd.

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yea Unreal comes with its own editor. and thats not just some cheap editor they threw in for ppl to use. thats the real deal that they use to make thier maps and models. thats why is INSANLY complicated. lol. but its a professional program.

the DVD SE comes with tutorials for making your own models, maps, vehicles. you can prolly find other tutorials on the internet and there are some sites that you can download the SE tutorials. i think 3dbuzz.com has some.

BTW, the Editor is in your UT2004/system Folder.

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Yeah, I 100% agree with that. I'm reaaallly thankful they added the tutorials for the dvd version otherwise it would be more hell then you can think of when trying to make almost anything.

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There's also Maya PLE and some other character modeling stuff in the DVD or 6th CD, whichever one you have.

No tutorials on the CD version though. Anyone know where I can find the video tutorials on 3dbuzz? I couldn't find them...

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I finally got the game. Havent had any time to play recently, been quite busy with school and work.

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I just got cable and Ive been playing it and FFXI on and off.
I use the same name Hero2.

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I use the name Yoda. But its unlikley that we'll be seeing each other online, that is of course unless we start posting servers that we usually play on.

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Well. wheres your server jumbo?

Dunno if that would work anyway. we'd all have to be close to the server to get a decent ping out of it.

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I'll look at the Server Rental thing and decide whats best for GT.

Well, we have 7 definite owners (me included) and 7 that may get it. Private servers are $4 a player slot. So should i get an 8 player slot or 10 player because I doubt we will be able to gather a time when everyone can be on there at once. I'll be awaiting feedback on what size server I should order.

And just to let you all know, if you want, you can donate $4 (or more, but im not forcing anyone to) however way you want to.

But like I said, I need feedback on how big I should order. Because it all depends on how many people will want to play on the dedicated server. I would choose it as a public server, but its $7 and then I'd ask for at least some help in the cost per month.

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I picked up the 2 DVD version litterally minutes ago, I'm going to install it now.

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Will that server be able to host other games besides UT2k4?

Like, once HL2 comes out or some bf1942 stuff.

I was going to get UT2k4 but my money is nonexistant.