Top Down Shooter

[Dameria]

I've heard of Steam for a while now, and I have heard of Alien Swarm before. I actually downloaded Alien Swarm off of Steam a few days ago and found that it ran incredibly slow on my computer even with lowest settings. This is what has prompted me to buy a GeForce 9400 GT 1GB graphics card and 4 GB more DDR2 RAM. Once it comes in the mail, my computer should be more than ready to handle Alien Swarm.

Lol, I payed $160 so that I could play a free game...

[jediaction]

Have you been on my site? Also, glad to have you back. Make sure you play this game. Give feed back

[shaydon]

Originally Posted by Dameria

I've heard of Steam for a while now, and I have heard of Alien Swarm before. I actually downloaded Alien Swarm off of Steam a few days ago and found that it ran incredibly slow on my computer even with lowest settings. This is what has prompted me to buy a GeForce 9400 GT 1GB graphics card and 4 GB more DDR2 RAM. Once it comes in the mail, my computer should be more than ready to handle Alien Swarm.

Lol, I payed $160 so that I could play a free game...

lol
you have 775 motherboard??? ddr2 u should uprgade to 1156
what processor do you have???

[Dameria]

I have Intel Pentium dual core 2.4 GHz. The problem is that my graphics card sucks, so I'm buying a new one. The one I have now is the one that comes integrated into the motherboard, NVidia G31/G33 chipset 250mb (almost all the new games have problems with it or don't recognize it for some reason, and it makes games lag).

The extra memory is unnecessary, but I got it anyways. I don't know what you mean with those numbers though, "775 motherboard and 1156 for the ddr2".

[shaydon]

Originally Posted by Dameria

I have Intel Pentium dual core 2.4 GHz. The problem is that my graphics card sucks, so I'm buying a new one. The one I have now is the one that comes integrated into the motherboard, NVidia G31/G33 chipset 250mb (almost all the new games have problems with it or don't recognize it for some reason, and it makes games lag).

The extra memory is unnecessary, but I got it anyways. I don't know what you mean with those numbers though, "775 motherboard and 1156 for the ddr2".

you have a 775 socket motherboad you should upgrade to 1156 socket
(i3, i5, i7 motherboards) which are faster and better for mulitasking

[x2495iiii]

Originally Posted by rockstar442

i heard about it right now good thing i came back to this site lol

Ha. Nice.

Originally Posted by Dameria

I've heard of Steam for a while now, and I have heard of Alien Swarm before. I actually downloaded Alien Swarm off of Steam a few days ago and found that it ran incredibly slow on my computer even with lowest settings. This is what has prompted me to buy a GeForce 9400 GT 1GB graphics card and 4 GB more DDR2 RAM. Once it comes in the mail, my computer should be more than ready to handle Alien Swarm.

Lol, I payed $160 so that I could play a free game...

Ouch. Sorry about that. It runs slow on my compy too, but I figured I'd just deal with it. I'm saving my money for college, so upgrades will have to wait.

Plus, I'm not even sure if I can upgrade my PC. Here's my computer. Being a laptop, it doesn't have an actual graphics card, just a program that uses RAM to emulate one. I don't even know if I can install a compatible graphics card, but then again I didn't research it overmuch. I'll do that now.

And hey Dameria, when you get Alien Swarm working on your computer, let me know and we can play together. I just downloaded some of the newest maps and I've been waiting to try them with some friends.

And as for the game I'm making, I've got a problem on my hands, since I was hoping I'd left a more recent stable copy on here. Time to sift through the stinking pile of backups, all 45 of them...

[jediaction]

Originally Posted by rockstar442

i heard about it right now good thing i came back to this site lol

Yes, i have heard of Steam. I have Steam. I have the DEmo for Alien Swarm and find it kinda cool. I use steam everyday for game demos and videos. It runs graet on my computer. Dameria...yah what everyone else said

[x2495iiii]

Oh hey I got the backup working.

+Changed the collision system for the rosethorn beam so that grazing shots only damage the tanks, not instantly destroy them.

+Moved the camera up higher for a wider field of view. I decided that having the camera so close would make long-range encounters pretty much impossible, so moving the camera up fixes that.

+Added some cool scorch marks that appear under the exploding tanks that fade away after a few seconds. They can overlap, however, which looks weird.

+Added a laser sight that, in my opinion, looks and moves like a beam of light with air moving around it. Also inspired by Alien Swarm.

[jediaction]

Great!

[x2495iiii]

Latest version. All features listed above, plus one more.

+ Added damage-induced slowness for enemy tanks. Pouring a clip into a charging tank is definitely going to slow it down.