Computer, Displacement and Texture Map specs for MX vs ATV for PC.

[Kamshaft]

Bruce and I have been hounding Rainbow Studios (Sorry Rainbo!) to try and get specs on the displacement and texture maps and the minimum machine size to run this puppy!

Here they are....straight from the horses mouth!

Minimum System Requirements:

• Windows(R) 2000/XP
• DirectX 9.0c (included on disc)
• 1.2Ghz Pentium III or equivalent AMD Athlon XP processor
• 256 MB RAM (512 MB required for 6-player multiplayer games)
• 1.2 GB free hard drive space
• 4x CD-ROM
• nVidia GeForce 2 - ATI 7500 or better with at least 32 MB of Video RAM
• DirectX(R) 9.0c compatible 16-bit sound card
• Keyboard, Mouse

Track requirements:

"The displacements can be created in any resolution but the Unleashed Editor will resize them to 257x257. The same is true of textures they can be created at any resolution but the Unleashed Editor will resize them to 960x960. "

[The Loz]

Awesome, cheers for that info Kam I can't believe they still run the same res as MCM2!! I'm not complaining though. Means what worked will still work now

~Loz

[VRT_JPRLisbon_]

hope will be possible 513 and 1920 (at least) on the future as we do now with hidef tracks. any news about that is apreciated.

thx for the info 

[Green_CRrider2]

how about for connections for online is 56 k ok

[DBR_Dodgy]

6 years down the line and there still squashing it to a 257 x 257 


Ian.

[The Loz]

I found 257 was generally enough detail, though it's still puzzling why they haven't upped it. For me the real disappointment is textures still being 960... I'm distraught!

~Loz

[VMX_101]

Well that is disappointing news.

[VMX_SKYmx99]

I am a bit disappointed, but I still can't wait to try out the new physics.  New SX tracks will be way more tech.

[DirtTwister]

I believe a realistic way to look at this new game as the last refinement of the MCM 1 terrain engine.  What you are getting is more race modes and better physics.  The fundamental terrain/textures is the same.  It also looks like we will be getting the best track editor yet from Rainbow, although it remains to be seen what all it will let us do.  I do wish it would support a 513x513 dispmap.  In reality it might it may be something that we'll have to try to figure out.  We could do it in MCM 1 but no one ever told us we could.

I assume that all their new stuff will be done with a different terrain engine.  I think on the console side reviewers will start knocking their games if they don't step up the state of the art in terrain.  I do believe that one reason that they have been able to get so many games out of it in the first place was how well it was done from the beginning. How many people remember downloading the MCM 1 demo and being blown away by it?  I know I spent the first hour with it just riding around in the quarry.

Bruce

[Metla666]

Hmmmm.....Tis a shame, I run my games via a projector, Display is about 12 foot across the diagonal, MCM2 looked absolutly crap at this size due to the low res textures (compared to todays games), Knowing that this game will look just as bad knocks a bit of the gloss off.

http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/5615/00007588ks.jpg

[ElDiablo (Paul)]

Looks like AMA_King just got 'one upped'! lol That's awesome man!

[VMX_Slowpoke2]

that's sweet!! how do most games perform on the big screen?

[MCMnut]

As Bruce said above, I think we need to be realistic about this and not let it get us down.  The PC version of MXA is a port with a few new features added...not a completely revamped game with enhanced environments.  This means the formats/sizes are pretty much the same as they were in the console version.  This being said, it's not surprising that the TD MXU remakes are amazingly similar to the MXU originals. 

...So if you don't expect the sun and the moon you won't be let down if they aren't included.  One thing to consider here is that we (Twisted DIRT) aren't going anywhere and we have experts like Laurie and Bruce on our team!  With those guys, I think just about anything is possible...so we'll just have to wait and see what's needed.  I can envision the D2 editor becoming the U2 editor (DilloToo Editor becoming Unleashed Editor).  It's all too soon to speculate what we will and won't need...but rest assured TD will be ready if need be.

Jeff

[The Loz]

Metla, I find that screenshot hilarious... everything is photo-real, and then there's these cardboard people in the crowd!

Bruce, I know what you mean - I had the MCM1 demo and it was astonishing! Then MCM2 came out with all these trees and it was at the time the most amazing game I'd seen! Admittedly things have moved on a bit but the game still can look pretty striking... even these days I haven't seen a game that implemented trees so well without killing your framerate.

And Jeff, the Sun at least included. Dunno about the moon. But those sun flares look pretty fun...

~Loz

[Metla666]

that's sweet!! how do most games perform on the big screen?

Mind freakin Blowing, Imagine if you can playing something like CS:S where the other players are real life size, Everything to scale, You come around a corner and are attacked by a 6 foot player. Car games where you actually have a lifesize windscreen....Or riding in a Chopper in BF2, manning the gun, The landscape stretching out for miles in every direction. It makes the heart jump into your mouth. Its almost beyond explanation. Takes it to a level that cant be touched by a PC monitor or even a large screen TV, My display goes from floor to ceiling and right across the breadth of the wall. I sit at the other end of the room on a couch, My steering wheel and KB mounted on a movable arm that swing out of the way.

Add in the set of Altec Lansing 5.1 speakers, DVD player and TV card, Plus the beer fridge......PARADISE.

[AUS_Twisted]

You need a bigger sound system to match that big screen hehe.

I guess I'm the opposite to you, I spent a fair bit on a surround sound system for the loungeroom, but we still have a crappy old 68cm TV LOL. Hopefully next year sometime will get a 42", deffinately dont have the room to setup a screen like yours.

One of my fav movies for sound still has to be the oppening of Top Gun, the jet engines shake everything in the room. I'd listen to those things live every day if I could (if only the aussie airshow at Avalon close to me was on every year instead of every 2 ), but I'm sure I'd end up deaf pretty quick aswell lol.

As far as the disp map size that doesn't really bother me, but the texture size of 960x960 does , we have video cards that can run 4096x4096 res textures and where still stuck with 960x960 in a 2006 game? I was hoping the main (centre texture map) was double that size, something around 2048x2048 would have been really nice.

[Metla666]

Its all actually set up in my shed, well a room in my shed that I made twice as large, I have also put in a wall size set of glass doors that open onto an entertaining area, complete with seating,long tables and a fire pit, when we have people over the projecter is swivled so it displays on a secondary screen that can be watched from outside.

Works well no matter what the occasion, be in party time, The Rugby or Bathurst.....

I have also just picked up another amp to drop into the system that will power some largeish speakers that Im going to mount in the walls facing outwards to the entertainment area, Still have to work out how to keep it waterproof but also let the sound out, Might make it a sliding door type arrengment.

Inside the house I have another 5.1 setup, running through speakers that cost me 3 arms and 7 legs, TV is only a small 32" though.


Well, thats enough stroking my AV peni, I'll go back into my corner....

[Jägermeister]

well thats it then.257/960 kills the game for me.im sure TD will try their hardest and always surprises but if theres no way around this my trackmaking days are over.what a shame.

[RRC_OiLbUrNeR]

Oh dear lord my computer just scrapes in on most of them specs. Im gonna have to uninstall and delete all my mcm2 tracks and game. I hope i get a new pc in time.

[AUS_Twisted]

Sounds like a awesome setup. I can just imagine watching Bathurst on it havin a few drinks with Ford & Holden fans goin at each other, especially this years Bathurst with the Murphy and Ambrose crash that caused a good pileup LOL.