XNews: Preview about X3: Terran Conflict

Naferius · Post by **Naferius** » Tue, 12. Aug 08, 02:23

September is near! I CANT WAIT! I just know it will be awsome!

Al · Post by Al » Tue, 12. Aug 08, 09:17

Should this not be a sticky?

Risky · Post by **Risky** » Tue, 12. Aug 08, 10:57

BugMeister wrote:
mufassa wrote:Any word on the system reqs for X3:TC?
see here:
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=211315

Thanks for the link.

The box I'm building now will be a 3GHz Quadcore Yorkfield with 2Gb and a 7900GT. Hopefully this should be able to cope after a bit of overclocking.

Sandalpocalypse · Post by **Sandalpocalypse** » Tue, 12. Aug 08, 12:27

Military outposts sound interesting. If they act as a sort of RRF it will add a lot to the artificial life of the game. A station gets attacked and they send out a wave of reinforcements. Presumably they also give out shooty blasty kill-kill missions.

Damn... I really want to know how bombers work.

*edit*

Now that I think about it, I don't think any capital ship has been shown shooting anything but PPC-alikes and Flak-alikes. It's possible that 'new weapons' means that capital and fighter weapons have finally been segregrated. THat makes a lot of sense from balance POV..

paul1290 · Post by **paul1290** » Tue, 12. Aug 08, 14:09

Risky wrote:
BugMeister wrote:
mufassa wrote:Any word on the system reqs for X3:TC?
see here:
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=211315
Thanks for the link.

The box I'm building now will be a 3GHz Quadcore Yorkfield with 2Gb and a 7900GT. Hopefully this should be able to cope after a bit of overclocking.

From what he said that should be more than enough.

Dang, you guys have 8800GTs and 7900GT graphics cards and your talking about needed overclocking or running on medium.

I'm really hoping that the 9600M GT I'm getting with my new laptop will be able to run this well. I really hope you guys are being pessimistic because you're making me nervous.

eladan · Post by **eladan** » Tue, 12. Aug 08, 14:33

paul1290 wrote:Dang, you guys have 8800GTs and 7900GT graphics cards and your talking about needed overclocking or running on medium.

The eternal quest for FPS.

I'm really hoping that the 9600M GT I'm getting with my new laptop will be able to run this well. I really hope you guys are being pessimistic because you're making me nervous.

There was a link posted earlier in this thread which gave some indication of system requirements.

I'd expect the requirements to be slightly higher than for X3:R, but given that Bernd has mentioned that 6000 series cards are capable of running the game, I doubt that you'll have much difficulty.

Poobah · Post by **Poobah** » Tue, 12. Aug 08, 15:18

I so need to buy a new computer. Right now I have a Pentium 4 2.5Ghz and a Radeon 9200 on my Desktop.

I'm gonna have to agree with the incredulity expressed by the guy who wrote:

Dang, you guys have 8800GTs and 7900GT graphics cards and your talking about needed overclocking or running on medium.

Now all I need is some money....

BugMeister · Post by **BugMeister** » Tue, 12. Aug 08, 15:19

my guess is, if you can run XTM then you'll have no probs with X3:TC..

98abaile · Post by **98abaile** » Tue, 12. Aug 08, 16:35

Any chance of DX10?

Demotruk · Post by **Demotruk** » Tue, 12. Aug 08, 17:03

98abaile wrote:Any chance of DX10?

I think the German interview said it wasn't viable to do that yet.

silenced · Post by **silenced** » Tue, 12. Aug 08, 17:24

september ... september ... hmm, september ? which year ?

anyhow, it cannot be that hardware-hungry

Risky · Post by **Risky** » Tue, 12. Aug 08, 17:32

Demotruk wrote:
98abaile wrote:Any chance of DX10?
I think the German interview said it wasn't viable to do that yet.

As I understood that would mean a rewrite of the graphics engine which is, um, highly non-trivial.

fud · Post by **fud** » Tue, 12. Aug 08, 18:10

mufassa wrote:Any word on the system reqs for X3:TC?

Worst example: the chaps making Duke Nukem.

In another month, I'll be ready to start up the gaming season. I haven't touched a game since February.

As for a new machine, I'll wait on that until after the first of the year.

shireknight · Post by **shireknight** » Wed, 13. Aug 08, 06:25

My old PC (see my sig) used to run X-3 at around 30 fps, Iv'e just brought a new PC (Intel E8500 overclocked to 3.8ghz) with a 4850 graphics card which ironically cost less than half of what my old one did when I brought it and runs X-3 at over 100 fps even in sectors with loads of asteroids.

It just shows you how technology is improving so fast and yet getting cheaper at the same time too.

Tenlar Scarflame · Post by **Tenlar Scarflame** » Wed, 13. Aug 08, 06:53

Bah... I can't wait for my new machine to come in. If I had my way I'd shell all my cash for the computer of my wildest fantasies. But alas, my petty squirrel hoardings' worth of capital isn't nearly enough.

But that's where dads, birthdays, and education-related excuses come into play.

BigBANGtheory · Post by **BigBANGtheory** » Wed, 13. Aug 08, 08:45

Could we have a fan Q&A session at some point closer to release?

If you take Stalker:Clear Sky (Deep Silvers other project) as an example one of their guys did a nice session released to YouTube where he selectively picked questions and answered them with examples obviously in areas he felt showed off the games potential.

I know a video interview might be asking too much but something for your news letter perhaps?

(I am pleased to see some of the XTM models/ideas/people in X3:TC smart move, I think I've already seen my favourite Teladi SY in your vid or pics)

googlemeier · Post by **googlemeier** » Wed, 13. Aug 08, 13:52

Deep Silver will definitely show something new at the Games Convention on 21.8.
For tactical reasons, I think there's hardly any news before that.

mrbadger · Post by **mrbadger** » Tue, 19. Aug 08, 12:05

I just took delivery of my new PC, and a Geforce GTX280. I worked hard to make sure I'd have the money to get it before the release date, and I've just made it.

At last, and for the first time ever, I will be able to play an X series game from the first time I load it up with all graphical goodness on. I am somewhat chuffed.

Ok the 280 is overkill, but I wanted the gpu for some number crunching fun, as well as gaming fun.

jasedenton · Post by **jasedenton** » Tue, 19. Aug 08, 22:43

Although with a 32bit Windows 4 GB of system RAM are only limitedly useful, it is still recommendable regarding the actual prices.
Besides that X3TC, of course, runs stable on WINXP 64bit or Vista64bit systems too.
(It can however only use up to 2 GB because the game is a 32bit EXE).

A 32 bit address space can support up to 4gb. Windows (XP) normally divides the memory into 2gb user & 2gb system. There's a boot.ini switch to change this to 3gb user & 1gb system (/3GB)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833721

All egosoft need to do to support it is set the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE linker flag...
I've got 4gb and I damn well want to get the most out of it

Cheers, Jason.

aka1nas · Post by **aka1nas** » Tue, 19. Aug 08, 23:25

jasedenton wrote:
Although with a 32bit Windows 4 GB of system RAM are only limitedly useful, it is still recommendable regarding the actual prices.
Besides that X3TC, of course, runs stable on WINXP 64bit or Vista64bit systems too.
(It can however only use up to 2 GB because the game is a 32bit EXE).
A 32 bit address space can support up to 4gb. Windows (XP) normally divides the memory into 2gb user & 2gb system. There's a boot.ini switch to change this to 3gb user & 1gb system (/3GB)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833721

All egosoft need to do to support it is set the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE linker flag...
I've got 4gb and I damn well want to get the most out of it
Cheers, Jason.

You likely won't get much above 3.2GB addressable in 32-bit XP if you are running a modern video card.