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Sqrl on 04 March 2008
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IllegalPaladin said:
Sqrl said:

Before you go running off to download it the reports say that the version leaked is extremely unstable and missing the City of Jerusalem.



lol, talk about a paradox.

Eh, I wouldn't try and get it anyway and I'm already skeptical of how poorly it's been optimized for the PC based on the specs that were released.


 Actually that is the reason I was curious.  I had actually decided not to bother but I found out a friend had already had it.

Long story short, on his 8800 GTS 320 it was running at Max settings at a solid 60 FPS (vSync on) at 1680x1050.  I think he has 2 GB of RAM and a 6400+ X2 iirc.  So he definitely has a nice system.  He actually climbed up onto a tall tower and was panning around the view over the entire city and it was silky smooth still.  So I'm guessing that its a lot more optomised than people think since the GTS 320 has been known to have some framerate issues on taxing games due to its relatively small VRAM, particularly with AA enabled.  It will be hard to know how optimised it is without trying other cards though.

And I can tell you from my experience that its definitely not a stable build.  I would be surprised if it wasn't stable by the time it launches and quite honestly there is a good chance that this build was several weeks old when it was released. With that said its definitely more of a concern now than it was before.

@mistershine,

The time/money invested would be negligable even for small devs.  Actually a great example of a company that already does this is Valve.  They let people pre-download the game before it is released so that they don't bog down their servers on launch day.  Then when its released officially you unlock the game through an online authentication with steam.   

I actually don't think the release was intentional tbh...they could easily release a demo and accomplish roughly the same thing.  The only reason to do it this way is if they didn't want to put the effort into fixing the bugs they would have to fix anyways...which of course doesn't make a lot of sense.  Also this method of release reaches a lot more people who aren't even considering a purchase than it does people who can be pursuaded to make a purchase. 

Honestly I have no idea how or why it was released, but it does make my choice a bit more confusing.  Now I'm not sure if I want to make a day one purchase and instead wait to see if the crashing issues are dealt with.  But on the other hand it cleared up my concerns about optimisation.  So really I'm pretty much where I started. 

 
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