Does the Xisle Tech demo Ease the Pain!?

[XyZspineZyX]

Who still plays around with the Xisle tech demo?

I remember when I first found this in 2001. It was one of the most awesome 3d Technical demos around, and once again no one had heard of it or Crytek! I had a geforce3 with a T'bird 1.2Ghz and it ran a treat, awesome stuff, bumpmapped dinosaurs, perfect water reflections, the works!
A few months ago I started digging through my CDR archives looking for it and eventually found it. The idea was that playing around with this would give me a little taste of what to expect from Farcry. I know that this tech demo does not reflect the full potential of what Farcry offers but thought is may offer some Anticipation relief!
After install, I set up all the usual parameters, res, windowed blah blah, press the run button and " this demonstration only works in conjunction with Geforce cards",
Aarrgghhh! ATI cards are not supported............... I was gutted! big time.
Oh well, so that isn't going to happen now, anyone know if there is an ATI wrapper for this tech demo? I guess not.

Anyhow, for those of you who do have a Geforce based card, do you still play this demo ? Does it fortify your desire for Farcry or have no impact?
Because I have not played it for such a long time I have no idea what the outcome will be. Could it be recommended to Farcry junkies who have never tried the Tech demo before?
Now I am "tech demoless", just my luck.
Now I have to go back and watch the AVI's instead... again and again.

[XyZspineZyX]

Who still plays around with the Xisle tech demo?

I remember when I first found this in 2001. It was one of the most awesome 3d Technical demos around, and once again no one had heard of it or Crytek! I had a geforce3 with a T'bird 1.2Ghz and it ran a treat, awesome stuff, bumpmapped dinosaurs, perfect water reflections, the works!
A few months ago I started digging through my CDR archives looking for it and eventually found it. The idea was that playing around with this would give me a little taste of what to expect from Farcry. I know that this tech demo does not reflect the full potential of what Farcry offers but thought is may offer some Anticipation relief!
After install, I set up all the usual parameters, res, windowed blah blah, press the run button and " this demonstration only works in conjunction with Geforce cards",
Aarrgghhh! ATI cards are not supported............... I was gutted! big time.
Oh well, so that isn't going to happen now, anyone know if there is an ATI wrapper for this tech demo? I guess not.

Anyhow, for those of you who do have a Geforce based card, do you still play this demo ? Does it fortify your desire for Farcry or have no impact?
Because I have not played it for such a long time I have no idea what the outcome will be. Could it be recommended to Farcry junkies who have never tried the Tech demo before?
Now I am "tech demoless", just my luck.
Now I have to go back and watch the AVI's instead... again and again.

[XyZspineZyX]

I'm just downloading it now for the first time. I've got a GeForce based card so it should work. Don't expected much of it (still don't). It's just not right to play a tech-demo when you should be playing the real one!

http://www.hkpro.com/image/g36cmag.jpg
There is nothing more satisfying that having someone take a shot at you, and miss.

[XyZspineZyX]

I should take it all back.
To answer your question: it makes the pain even harder!
It's great. It has the best visuals I've ever seen! Too bad I can't post some screens I just made!
Man the CRYEngine is the best! Trees are fine too, btw.

http://www.hkpro.com/image/g36cmag.jpg
There is nothing more satisfying that having someone take a shot at you, and miss.

[XyZspineZyX]

where can I download it?


" A Target Always Marks With An X "
http://members.lycos.co.uk/cjshadow/hpbimg/xplsg.gif


Please Visit My M8's Far Cry Site http://www.FarCry.dk

[XyZspineZyX]

and how much MB is the game?

" A Target Always Marks With An X "
http://members.lycos.co.uk/cjshadow/hpbimg/xplsg.gif


Please Visit My M8's Far Cry Site http://www.FarCry.dk

[XyZspineZyX]

It's 42 MB and you can download it at www.farcryhq.com (http://www.farcryhq.com).
I already forgot the direct link. There are two of them. But the second seems not as good.

http://www.hkpro.com/image/g36cmag.jpg
There is nothing more satisfying that having someone take a shot at you, and miss.

[XyZspineZyX]

Its pretty cool just to walk around and stuff, but theres not much to 'play' ya know. I got a GF3 right now and it ran fine, although Far Cry will need more I'm sure as they'll be more going on. And think of all the additions they've made in 2 years since that tech demo was released!



I try to do, what I can do, when I can do it.

[XyZspineZyX]

Where is this?

I found some tech demo with dinosaurs and all it was, was the camera was zooming around and that was it.
I couldn't do anything.


http://world.guns.ru/machine/predator_minigun.jpg

"IT'S PAYBACK TIME."

[XyZspineZyX]

Blain there are 2 demos !..1 is a ride and the other is interactive,so u can go for a walk in the woods..http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[XyZspineZyX]

The demo is pretty sweet. Runs flawlessly on my comp( P4 1.7Ghz, 256MB DDR-SDRAM and Geforce 3 64mb). It not alot to do though. Run around and look at dinosaurs http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif Although you can almost imagen bullets flying around your head http://ubbxforums.ubi.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif



SIDE NOTE: Am i the only you who thinks it's really neat when the butterflies fly up and form CRYTEK when you press Esc?

[XyZspineZyX]

na thats cool dont you think


keep it real for now
http://home.publishnet.nl/~pvermaas/pics/images/soldier9pics%20viewer.jpg


go to the Operation Archangel web site

http://home.publishnet.nl/~pvermaas/oa/

[XyZspineZyX]

Look, is this normal on a GeForce 2 Pro?
X-Isle tech demo 2
1280x1024x32
Full Screen
No V-Sync
Alternative lightning for bumpmapping
Realtime effects.

Result in:
2.000.000 Frames/sec
Min FPS=17
Max FPS=35
Average FPS=25

http://www.hkpro.com/image/g36cmag.jpg
There is nothing more satisfying that having someone take a shot at you, and miss.

[XyZspineZyX]

So where is this interactive demo then?

http://world.guns.ru/machine/predator_minigun.jpg

"IT'S PAYBACK TIME."

[XyZspineZyX]

It's the first demo on www.farcryhq.com, (http://www.farcryhq.com,) it's 46 MB.
When you open it you choose intercative instead of the defwult fly-by and there you go.

Btw. those butterflies say "Crytek", and then "NVidia" and then "Cool!". Those guys have got sense for humor. I hope they put some good humor in the game too.

http://www.hkpro.com/image/g36cmag.jpg
There is nothing more satisfying that having someone take a shot at you, and miss.

[XyZspineZyX]

If the demo showed off AI and what's in the full game maybe yes it would ease the pain but seeming it's not a full resemblance probably not, i should go see it for myself,Hmmmm.