[deadcrickets2]

Wingrider01 wrote:

deadcrickets2 wrote:

Windstalker wrote:

We are always concerned about performance and will be looking at optimizations and improvements on an ongoing basis.  I'm not sure who said we were updating the "game engine," because we're not doing that specifically. 

What we are doing is working on terrain and art tools that will help us build environments that look and perform a lot better than they do now.  It's not a trivial task and we've been working on it for some time, but artists are already doing testing and working with it.  It's pretty amazing to see how quickly they can create things like mountain vistas compared to the tools they have now.  We're excited about it.

To be honest, we will never stop looking at ways to improve how the game performs while maintaining and improving the quality for players.  

Smokejumper said that the engine was being worked on.  

That being said I would love to see all the SF zones re-done especially spots like Paineel as they perform worse than even newer, better looking zones like DoV.

BTW, is one of the changes going to be the skeleton update that was talked about back in 07?  And will there be in change to the way the character models are done so they are more quickly rendered?   SIMD or one of the newer DirectX 10 features like DrawInstanced (http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GP...gems3_ch02.html)?  Right now it seems it's bogging down heavily with very few models onscreen.considering the limitations in DX10

Considering the limitations in DX10 -

1. not backwards compatible to any other version of Directx

2. to be dx10 complaint both the OS and the hardware have to be DX10 capable

to name a few, dx10 is pretty much a no go unles you are sure that your client machines are capable of supporting it, lot easier in a single player game then a online game

I expected that response.  Many games out there allow the user to pick between what version they want to run under.  In fact, many of this game's competitors allow it:  LOTRO, DDO, AoC, Rift, WoW amongst many.

It wouldn't be that difficult to set it as an option under advanced options much like the Godrays are now.  Dismissing it simply because some folks are still running old equipment is a bad business decision.  You create options for those who have the new modern equipment to see and run the game better while still able to maintain the old code for those who need it (which drops every month).