AoE3 demo

[coomar]

random screenshot
water effects
trapped explorer
the whale

 

[coomar]

max zoom

 

[James3shin]

thanks coomar, what was the game settings?

 

[coomar]

everything highest except anti-aliasing which is on low, 1280x1024, it can probably run on high

i can pop in the x700 to show what ati mid range cards do

 

[hans030390]

Why is everyone complaing about the graphics? its a demo, and i recall them saying it doesnt have every graphical feature in it...

Besides, its the best looking strategy game out currently.

 

[Xonoahbin]

I complain that it only runs on windows xp unless you do a little self modding..

 

[hans030390]

Originally posted by: NeonAura
I complain that it only runs on windows xp unless you do a little self modding..

that is understandable to complain about

 

[Avalon]

Hot, downloading. Will report back results on my low-end graphics muscle, the vanilla 6200.

Subjectively, runs great at 10x7 w/2xAF Quality with the majority of details set on high. My card is unlocked, though. I'll have to throw fraps at it tomorrow, but it seems like 90% of the people on these forums should be able to run the game well.

 

[Muscles]

Originally posted by: Zenoth
Those of you who do not like the game for its graphics ... please stay out of video-gaming and keep those big titles with your own standards of high-quality graphics for benchmarks.

On my side, I appreciate it a lot. Actually, I like it a lot. AOE III Demo shows exactly what you need to know. Is it the type of game you would buy ? If you don't want it, alright with me.

And I bet some of you saying the Demo's graphics turned you off will eventually get it via Peer-To-Peer programs to give it a "second try". Pfff.

Anyways ...

Age Of Empires III will be awesome. Its actual Demo gives a minimum, and that's appreciated.

The times are changing indeed.

I'm from those Atari, NES 8-Bit and Turbo-Graf-16 days, and I've followed the video-gaming evolution, and revolutions.

But I can still have fun with a game's content and features, besides its visual quality.

If you guys want top-notch graphics and superb game-play like that (and I mean top-end quality by your own very high requirements as it seems so), then please go work for Industrial Light & Magic and make some visual effects for future movies or something, but quit the video-gaming domain.

Stupid graphics evolutions is washing too many brains out there.

QFT - Great post Zenoth

 

[Tab]

First of all - Graphics and Gameplay aren't two different things, graphics are part of gameplay. Would Half-Life 2 be the same on the Quake I engine? No, it would not be the same game at all.

First of all, holy crap this game is awesome I might actually buy it. The last game I bought was Battlefiled 2, that was a complete waste.

The only things I dislike are the fact can't control the behavior of my units, like tell them to "stand ground" for example. I can't set unit formations either, not to mention I'd like to be able to zoom out more.

Another thing that bother me is the User Interface, it looks way to big and should be a lot smaller, but that's just me.

 

[Lord Banshee]

Originally posted by: Tab
First of all - Graphics and Gameplay aren't two different things, graphics are part of gameplay. Would Half-Life 2 be the same on the Quake I engine? No, it would not be the same game at all.

First of all, holy crap this game is awesome I might actually buy it. The last game I bought was Battlefiled 2, that was a complete waste.

The only things I dislike are the fact can't control the behavior of my units, like tell them to "stand ground" for example. I can't set unit formations either, not to mention I'd like to be able to zoom out more.

Another thing that bother me is the User Interface, it looks way to big and should be a lot smaller, but that's just me.

I am sure the final version will have miltary formation as all other AOE/AOM had them and they also had Stand Ground. I think it is a Demo thing with it not being there, err it might be

Yes i agree the UI is pretty Big. I hope there is some control over this stuff in the final... But my guess it might be best to be played on a 1600x1200. Yep wish i could zoom out some more also.

Hopefully this weekend i can get down and play and see how it stakes up with AOE/AOE2/AOM

 

[fibes]

Nothing new here...going back to play BF2

 

[A5]

Well my roommate's 5200 runs the opening menu at about 5 fps...he hasn't tried gameplay yet.

It runs fine on my 9800 (1280x1024, Low AA, most other stuff on high) - at least until the battles...

 

[imported_Rampage]

Originally posted by: fibes
Nothing new here...going back to play BF2

 

[mOeeOm]

Just as boring as all the other ages games....going back to wc3/starcraft

 

[chinkgai]

Originally posted by: mOeeOm
Just as boring as all the other ages games....going back to wc3/starcraft

yes wc3 rocks, but my first love was aoeII

 

[mOeeOm]

Originally posted by: chinkgai

Originally posted by: mOeeOm
Just as boring as all the other ages games....going back to wc3/starcraft

yes wc3 rocks, but my first love was aoeII

wc3 got ruined after the new AMM, it lost so many solo players, all i played wus solo ladder, i hate it now i only go on to play custom games, sucks they did this to a great game to make the noobs stop whining.

 

[Genesis15]

steady 713KB/s

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: A5
Well my roommate's 5200 runs the opening menu at about 5 fps...he hasn't tried gameplay yet.

It runs fine on my 9800 (1280x1024, Low AA, most other stuff on high) - at least until the battles...

I run the menu at about 5fps...
Doesn't mean the game will run low though.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: Lonyo

Originally posted by: A5
Well my roommate's 5200 runs the opening menu at about 5 fps...he hasn't tried gameplay yet.

It runs fine on my 9800 (1280x1024, Low AA, most other stuff on high) - at least until the battles...

I run the menu at about 5fps...
Doesn't mean the game will run low though.

i run the menu at about 15fps, gameplay rarely drops below 20 or goes over 25...

 

[martinez]

Originally posted by: Lord Banshee

Originally posted by: Tab
First of all - Graphics and Gameplay aren't two different things, graphics are part of gameplay. Would Half-Life 2 be the same on the Quake I engine? No, it would not be the same game at all.

First of all, holy crap this game is awesome I might actually buy it. The last game I bought was Battlefiled 2, that was a complete waste.

The only things I dislike are the fact can't control the behavior of my units, like tell them to "stand ground" for example. I can't set unit formations either, not to mention I'd like to be able to zoom out more.

Another thing that bother me is the User Interface, it looks way to big and should be a lot smaller, but that's just me.

I am sure the final version will have miltary formation as all other AOE/AOM had them and they also had Stand Ground. I think it is a Demo thing with it not being there, err it might be

Yes i agree the UI is pretty Big. I hope there is some control over this stuff in the final... But my guess it might be best to be played on a 1600x1200. Yep wish i could zoom out some more also.

Hopefully this weekend i can get down and play and see how it stakes up with AOE/AOE2/AOM

Alt-S is the hotkey for stand ground usually, Alt-A for aggressive stance, Alt-D is defensive. Defensive is what you want, cause stand ground will just sit there getting shot .

On the UI.It's not just you.Everyone in the AoM/TT community hates it too. There will be mods(that I will link to for you ATers) to the UI even if Ensemble don't change it. In AoM you could hit control /down arrow would minimise the UI. I'm sure it will be the same in this game, being that this UI is even more intrusive.

 

[Fardringle]

Originally posted by: A5
Well my roommate's 5200 runs the opening menu at about 5 fps...he hasn't tried gameplay yet.

It runs fine on my 9800 (1280x1024, Low AA, most other stuff on high) - at least until the battles...

I don't have any idea of the FPS since I don't have FRAPS installed, but the demo is perfectly playable (apart from the bugs/limitations already mentioned) on a Barton 2600+ with a Geforce4 MX440 video card at 1280x1024 resolution.

Of course, this is with all graphics settings at Medium or Low, but what can you expect from an MX440? At least it shows for me that if you are capable of sustaining life without max eye candy, you can still play the game even on a five-year-old video card...

 

[mindgam3]

With everything on the highest setting at 1280 x 1024 i can only do around 25 - 70fps in this game it still looks like crap even the menus look lame !

 

[martinez]

Originally posted by: mindgam3
With everything on the highest setting at 1280 x 1024 i can only do around 25 - 70fps in this game it still looks like crap even the menus look lame !

Compared to what? Empire Earth 2 Demo was farcken unwatchable compared to this. That was the last comparable game in the genre to come out.

 

[mindgam3]

This is the first game of this type of genre ive ever loaded onto my computer .. ive never played a rts game before so i having nothing to compare it to... im disapointed because the pictures i saw online looked sweet and the layout seems clunky and hard to learn.