Command and Conquer 3 demo - now

[Altrezia]

www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=73472



WOO.

[Polarbert]

Surely the X360 demo can't be long off?

[hoddo]

Altrezia said:

www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=73472



WOO.

Have you had a go? I will take a look at this tonight. Can not wait. this game has been along time in coming. Lets hope that it is more like Red Alert 1 than 2 as RA2 was total shite

[_Deano]

Has the EA server gone down? I can't get to their site

[Scraggles]

tried the download and was quoted over a day, so dont think will bother, pity they did not have the brains to seed a bit torrent file

luckily someone else has
www.torrentspy.com/torrent/1069514/Command_Conquer_3_Tiberium_Wars_DEMO

Edited by Scraggles on Tuesday 27th February 17:54

[cuneus]

It (the file) has disappeared from their ftp server

[hoddo]

Could some one point me in the direction of system specs for C&C3 please? I can not seem to find them on google!

[stevieb]

hoddo said:

Could some one point me in the direction of system specs for C&C3 please? I can not seem to find them on google!

minimum specs are here!

http://forums.ea.com/mboards/thread.j

[-DeaDLocK-]

Demo is up on Usenet, for those of you who find the usual channels slow.

[hoddo]

stevieb said:

hoddo said:

Could some one point me in the direction of system specs for C&C3 please? I can not seem to find them on google!

minimum specs are here!

http://forums.ea.com/mboards/thread.j

thanks.

[cuneus]

It's just like the old games(s) with better graphics :[

[jimmyjimjim]

I've been really enjoying supreme commander (Total anhilation 2, essentially) - apart from the last level which was abosultely rock solid, took one helluva long time to complete, and got about 1 frame a second at times (FX-60, with 2 7800GTX's in sli!).
Looking forward to some skirmishes now to keep me going until C&C3!

[ultra violent]

I tried the C&C demo, and looks like i'll need a new pc... Now mine is a couple of years old (2GB, P4 3.2GH, NV5950), but plays Doom3/Farcry et al, at good FPS (1280*1024), but appears to have melted atteming C&C3 at lowest settings.

[jfrf]

cant wait for this as i loved playing c&c generals.

was extremely disappointed with supreme commander. bought this on saturday. sold it on ebay on sunday

[ThePassenger]

ultra violent said:

I tried the C&C demo, and looks like i'll need a new pc... Now mine is a couple of years old (2GB, P4 3.2GH, NV5950), but plays Doom3/Farcry et al, at good FPS (1280*1024), but appears to have melted atteming C&C3 at lowest settings.

5950 is a bit long in the tooth... having said that it should play C&C3 a-ok, you've got enough grunt behind it. Anything else weird happening on your system?

[mr_yogi]

ThePassenger said:

ultra violent said:

I tried the C&C demo, and looks like i'll need a new pc... Now mine is a couple of years old (2GB, P4 3.2GH, NV5950), but plays Doom3/Farcry et al, at good FPS (1280*1024), but appears to have melted atteming C&C3 at lowest settings.

5950 is a bit long in the tooth... having said that it should play C&C3 a-ok, you've got enough grunt behind it. Anything else weird happening on your system?

It'll depend if you can turn off the DirectX 9 features on C&C3 - All the GeForce FX cards have real problems with DirectX 9 features but performed well as DirectX 8 cards. So if you can force C&C3 to use a DirectX 8 code path it should run alright.

[ultra violent]

I appreciate that the PC is a bit long in the tooth now, but it has lasted well so no complaints.

I just find it odd that I can run Far Cry at 1280*1024 at max most setting and high for the rest at 30-35 FPS and C&C dies horribly.

Not too bothered though as i'm going to buy a new PC soon.

On a side note still playing way too much Generals...

[mr_yogi]

But farcry was released about 3 years ago

...and like I said if C&C3 relies on DirectX 9 shaders then any card based on the GeForceFX architecture is going to be hopeless.

Edited by mr_yogi on Thursday 1st March 12:56

[hoddo]

M demo seems to run for around 3 mins. Once I have built a refinery, barraks and a couple of power plants C&C shuts down! Any help??

[jimothy]

Popped into Game today, picked up C&C the first decade for £20. Basically all the C&C games and expansion packs.