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FPSC Classic Product Chat / X10 Or X9?(help)

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PowerEye
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2011 16:49
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Hello FPSC community welcome to my post...i've been tossing up between buying FPSC x10 or sticking with FPSC x9 , the reason for this is because i am buying a new laptop (very good) and i was wondering that if i was going to possibly produce non-commercial and or commercial games better with x9 or x10

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Wolf
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2011 17:12
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You are better off with X9...trust some old veteran user

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Beno09
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2011 17:23
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You should trust Wolf, he is best around here. I am also on x9
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xplosys
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2011 17:25 Edited at: 23rd Jul 2011 17:27
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While I agree that X9 is better and more capable, there is a problem with making commercial games, even on a very small scale. FPSC X9 requires DirectX9 to be on the end users system. As it is now, there is nothing built into an FPSC game that checks for this or any other prerequisites. Because Windows Vista and 7 do not ship with DirectX9, this causes games to fail on the end user. Unless the user knows about this and is savvy enough to install DirectX9 on their system, you'll have a lot of dissatisfied customers. Even if they do know about it and can fix the issue themselves, it's not very professional to release a title this way.

If you choose to release a commercial product, you'll need to build your own solution into the product. A front end loader/launcher that checks for and directs to the needed downloads/files would be a nice step in the right direction. A launcher that includes the latest DirectX9 distribution and can install it would be even better.

Brian.

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Le Shorte
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2011 20:15 Edited at: 23rd Jul 2011 20:18
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Both have their pros and cons. x10 has better graphics out of the box, and has a helluva lot better performance.
x9 has a lot more media that you wouldn't need to tinker with to make compatible. It also has more support, and more than a single mod.
Really, they're both pretty good for a budget commercial game engine. If you buy x10, you can use your serial code with x9 Free to unlock it, thus getting both for $70.

Edit: I've got some links to WIPs
Rouge - Made in x10

When Worlds Collide - Longest-running FPSC Development to date. While it doesn't have pretty shaders and such, Bugsy sacrificed graphics for gameplay (and x9 has quite a few more gameplay options than x10, arguably).

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2Beastmode4u
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2011 22:47 Edited at: 24th Jul 2011 00:31
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If you buy X10, you get X9 as well. You just don't get all of the default media but you can use media from X10.

I personally am a X9 fan, but it's your choice.


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