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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Should I get Patch 4?

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Philip 1337
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Posted: 24th Mar 2003 12:51
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Does anyone think I sould get Patch 4?
Because it doesn't sound like it does good things
"It slows it down"
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MrTAToad
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Posted: 24th Mar 2003 12:57
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It doesn't for most people...

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Superbeest
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Posted: 24th Mar 2003 13:29
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Hmm. I mostly have bad things with it. I think I'd wait a while. P3.1 still works, so why change it?

By steel will thy flesh divide
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EddieRay
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Posted: 24th Mar 2003 16:24
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Dark Fox... if you have a Radeon-based video card, then you may want to wait until they resolve the "game startup delay" problem introduced in patch 4. If that doesn't matter to you, or you have non-Radeon video card, I think the general consensus is that patch 4 is good... lots of good fixes.

Read the patch 4 download page... look for stuff you care about, and make your own decision (armed with the information about the Radeon problem).

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Terabyte
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Posted: 24th Mar 2003 17:40
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hi dark fox

I have a word of advice...
..don't piss on an electric fence!
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Terabyte
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Posted: 24th Mar 2003 17:42
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hey ed philips what is a Radeon-based video card
would that be the standard graphics card that most people get with their pc?

I have a word of advice...
..don't piss on an electric fence!
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spooky
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Posted: 24th Mar 2003 18:03
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On board cards are usually S3 Trio or TNT2 or SIS type cards and are usually a load of rubbish for 3D games.

Radeon cards (specially 9000 and above) are top of the range, on par with a decent geforce card and should be able to run anything.

It appears though that patch 4 has a problem with most radeon cards (excepet 9700). The problem is where first few 3D objects created or loaded take a number of seconds up to multiple minutes for some people.

Gronda, Gronda
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Chief Voyager
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Posted: 24th Mar 2003 19:51
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Radeon is an ATI card(s), and geForce is from nVidia. You usually have to purchase those separate from the pc.

You're ate up like a soup sandwich.
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TogaMario
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Posted: 24th Mar 2003 22:07
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I would advise against it, I guess it wouldn't hurt you to download it, install it, but backup what you were working on. And if push comes to shove, you could reinstall ... which i'm about to do.

P.S. This is what the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.
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