Demo Discussion Thread

**pyradyn** · 02-20-2009, 18:03

91 posts in 5 hours.....wow lol

**MK_MadMick** · 02-20-2009, 18:08

Mines all over the shop regarding speed, but at least its at 6%. I'm off out tonight so I'll be playing tomorrow methinks. :(

**Don Esteban** · 02-20-2009, 18:16

I have a tough decision...

Empire Demo or night out drinking with the boys?

I think going out has to win but I suspect a drunken attempt to play at 2am is on the cards

**Zatoichi** · 02-20-2009, 18:20

Oh rude words! It's happened to me again - this time I got to 52% before it reverted back to 'Download starting'. GAH! The innernets hate me!

Still, third time's a charm.

**Greyblades** · 02-20-2009, 18:21

Hmm... I went to the dentist for an hour and it went form 2% with no kb/s showing to 40% at average 100kb/s

**Zatoichi** · 02-20-2009, 18:22

Hey, maybe that'll work for me too - I'm off to the dentist! Any dentist will do!

**Greyblades** · 02-20-2009, 18:37

Originally Posted by Zatoichi

Hey, maybe that'll work for me too - I'm off to the dentist! Any dentist will do!

Its amazing what having clean(ish) teeth will do.

[edit] woo 50% through... ok I'm going to stop posting percentages before it gets silly.

**Gregoshi** · 02-20-2009, 18:39

I was at about 2 MB/s during the download with my FiOS (fiber optic) service. The download went pretty fast.

Alas, for me, that was the only thing that was fast. My computer meets minimum spec but the demo was pretty much unplayable. Load screens were over 5 minutes (I know because I was microwaving some food). Even changing screen resolutions took nearly 5 minutes the first time - the second time the demo hung (not responding). I did have the tutorial up for a few minutes - looked great but it was at higher display setting and was a slide show with screen updates in the 1-3 second per frame range. I'll give it a shot later on when I have some more time and see if I can get anything reasonable acceptable at the lowest settings, but I guess I'm probably going to have to wait until I can get a new machine.

BTW, my specs:

P4 2.53mHz
1 mb RAM (max my motherboard supports)
Radeon X1300 (512mb RAM)
Window XP SP3

**Relic** · 02-20-2009, 18:52

Forgive me for this fellas but...
"OMG! WOOT! WOOT!"

It's finally out!

**Fisherking** · 02-20-2009, 18:57

After finely getting the download to restart I got a result of half the previous time…it is now below 14 min. But my wife and kids are all home now…so I don’t know about reports.

Odd thing though, I didn’t get a download screen this time, only a bar and I can’t shop servers…what is up with that?