Random thoughts....

Jerrysn · #1 10-20-2003, 02:21 AM

1st random thought:

Holy crap have PCs come a long way that past couple of years!

OK so I've spent the last couple of weeks upgrading and reloading my PC, in part because I want to run EQEmu. hehe hard to find spare time with a 4 month old. Cost me about $200 to do this (had Win XP laying around).

Went from:
Pentium 2 @ 450 MHZ (overclocked), 384 MRAM, 10Gig ATA66 running Win98(SE)

To:
Pentium 4 @ 1.5 GHz, 576 MRAM, 60Gig ATA100 running WinXP.

Most noticable results:

1) Boots up under 30 seconds.

2) It used to take about 7 minutes to copy my EQLive directory - now it takes 55 seconds!

3) Same dial-modem used to average 4.7KBPS - New average is 5.5KBPS - again - no hardware change.

Going to try EQEmu again this evening - wish me luck!

2nd Random thought:

If my thinking is correct , the only major thing EQEmu is 'borrowing' is the 3d rendering engine.

So would it be all that tough for a bunch of geeks to get together to write an engine and make the content?

-Jerry

Trumpcard · #2 10-20-2003, 02:41 AM

You ever written a 3d rendering engine?

Jerrysn · #3 10-20-2003, 02:56 AM

Hehe No I sure haven't trumpcard, I would know where to start, only because I knew a guy who wrote a very basic one, but thats about it.

I'm sure it not an easy task - But you programmer guys haveto be pretty talented with doing what ya'll already have - and it seems like it alot of work just to try to keep up with the patches.

-Jerry

Trumpcard · #4 10-20-2003, 03:07 AM

Its alot more work to write a 3d rendering engine, believe me. It took me 2 months to write a raytracer that just rendered static object files. The server side is the easy part, 3d graphics programming is not something to be taken litely, 3d programmers are probably the best in the business....