Tony... that's really weird. I'm running W2K with the same card and the same drivers and it's working great at home. Odd that.

As for the Galaxies question: We are doing it in conjunction with Sony Online Entertainment... and it's being produced by Haden Blackmen of LucasArts. The Rhino is right... all Star Wars branded games are concieved of and have to go through us... generally with at least the Lead Producer being one of our own... often more people are involved than that and we often provide a lot of art assets. Factor 5 (who did Rogue Leader) is about 500 feet from our office and are tied to our network.. .so a lot was shared for that project.

I've seen some preview stuff... and it does look insane. The shear size of the universe is ridiculous, and the fact that you can have just about any job you can imagine is going to make it insanely open ended. They even showed us how you could decorate your home in the game ala the Sims! Shhhhh...

http://pc.ign.com/articles/368/368840p1.html

check out some of the movies!! You only get to DL 5 unless you have a subscription, so choose wisely. =] There's one that shows the ball turrett gun on a bomber... holy crap. So amazing.

Speaking of Battlefield 1942 movies, you guys need to check this one out:

Weenie Movie

I still say they should have used some old school Metallica or something for that video. It's head bangin' for christ's sake!

Alright the game is loading now that I've installed DirectX, but now I'm getting the same problem as Tony with the game closing while loading the wake island map. I tried installing the Nvidia driver like Tony but it said I don't have a Nvidia video card, so how can I tell what kind of card I have so I can update the driver? Is there some way on win98 to find out?

That game has pretty steep requirements for the video card. If you don't know what kind of video card you have (i.e., you didn't buy it yourself), there's a good chance it's not powerful enough to run that game.

When you installed DirectX, it also installed a utility called DXDIAG.EXE which you can run and it will give you the specs of the video card (on the "display" tab).

On this same subject...

Yea, I stole my PSA from that comic

Hey, have you picked up SOCOM for the PS2 yet? It's been loads of fun so far. I really like the headset setup they use...You can order your teams around via the headset mic(VR is very good), and all your teammate responses comes through the headset, but the enviroment sounds are through the TV(or stereo) speakers.

Also little trick, you don't *need* the PS2 broadband adapter to play, several of the usb<->ethernet adapters will work with it

Nah, i haven't picked up SOCOM yet. I'm currently in the middle of two games and that one's farther down on my list. Mario Sunshine and Ghost Recon are going right now... and Battlefield 1942 is coming out in a little over a week... so thats definitely next up. I'll check out SOCOM though... I'm sure i can borrow it from someone here at work. I've had a USB -> ethernet adaptor since Tony Hawk 3 came out. =]

Loren I just needed to tell you that you have managed to waste my entire week by informing us of this game. I get home, feed the dogs, then play the damn demo for hours. My TiVo will be full soon because I have forgotten about television... I have never played a demo for so long before.
And I pre-ordered the game so I suppose the rest of the year is shot now...
BTW pre-order from ebgames.com and it's free shipping and a $10 mail-in rebate... Sept 10 they say...

Thanks, Tony. I tried installing an updated driver for my Trident card from their website, but their driver just f'ed up my computer (it kept wanting to go into safe mode or some gay crap), so I reinstalled the previous driver. But at least now I know I need to buy a better video card.

Ok, got my new Geforce4 card and am playing the single player demo. Is there a guide or training mission or something? I'm running around not knowing what I should be doing!

Downloading the multiplayer demo now too.

All the games that would just die on my old Voodoo card are now humming along. GTA 3, Crazy Taxi, and of course, the demo of Battlefield 1942...

- Jon

Read the readme that comes with it, then check out the controls in the custom controls area in the game... that'll give you a good idea of what all you can do.

The singleplayer sucks compared to the multiplayer... it hardly shows the potential of the game at all.

we should get an empeggers only server going sometime...

now that is a great idea.

I assume you mean that the single-player demo sucks as compared to the multi-player demo. Or does the single-player gameplay suck as compared to multi-player?

The single player demo is rather lame. Not enough action to show what the game can really offer. But I've always found multiplayer games to be more interesting, except for the dickweeds that insist on team killing all the time... That's a good reason for an empeg only server. Then we can complain about the TKers on the board

Its good to see I'm not the only one who has spent all his time in front of his computer playing this game. And it's also nice to see that I'm not the only one who went out and bought a new video card just to play this game. A week and a half....

Ok, installed and have been addicted to the multi player version all day. Let's get a server going... Do you need lots of upstream bandwidth to host a game? I have DSL with 1.2 down but only around 384 up...

Am I a decent host? If not, is someone else? When can we do it? Tonight!?

- Jon

How much did your card cost?

Loren, I'd like to THANK YOU for completely and utterly ruining my Labor Day weekend. Any thoughts of spending it outdoors, ANY thoughts of having some beers, ANY thoughts of otherwise being away from my computer are now in serious trouble.

The game is fan-freakin-tastic. I'd participate in a Empeg-Only server in a heartbeat.

But I do have some gameplay questions... Is there a way to connect a standard joystick to the game for flying? I'm a huge flightsim nut and could probably fly circles around these mouse-jockies if I could get my rig connected. (It only looks like it accepts mouse control for flight)

September release, eah? Count me in!
-Greg

I got a MSI GeForce4 440MX w/64 MB DDR from a local shop for $87. It will do until the AIW Radeon 9700 comes out

$87, wow. I guess I can wait on a new video card. That's almost a fourth of the price of my entire computer.

Oh man, I am in some serious trouble with this game.
And the full version isnt even released yet.
Boy is the girl going to be pissed with me...
Oh well....

I tried to set up a server for us empeggers but owing to an apparent lack of documentation, I dont appear to know what the hell I'm doing.

Ive got a Dell P-Edge P600 with 256 MB ram running windows 2000 server, hooked up to a Cable modem, doing jack-all here at my house.
I downloaded the bf1942 server app, installed it, configured it, and apparently succeeded at nothing.
I dont know how good the server will be if I can get it going, but I figured its worth a shot.

Anybody out there have any pointers on how to set this up?
I'm willing to give it another shot.

Cheers,
Z~

Why do these imbiciles in the game insist on shooting me when I get in the airplane just because I got to it first? We're on the same team for crying out loud!!!"

These guys are seriously starting to piss me off.
One guy killed me 4 times in a row.
So I spent an hour following him around and sniping him.
Two wrongs dont make a right, but three rights make a left.

Z~

$87 is nothing... when you look at $400 for the new Radeon. But now I can play the game. And all my old games run so much better... Of course I am stuck on BF1942 Now I just need a better internet connection... my ping time sucks for this game. How is it on a modem anyone?? Much lag??

If your computer cost about $400, I doubt it'd be able to play the game regardless of your video card.

We got it like 2 years ago through a combination of it being on sale and with a rebate and it being a display model, so it was a pretty good deal. Compaq Presario- 500 mhz, 192 mb ram, 10gb hd. Not the best, but it's good enough for at least counter-strike.

Yeah, that $87 card is starting to sound pretty cheap