Pillars of Eternity Beta Discussion [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[polo]

Buy windows?

 

[Blaine]

The Titan X has already released at least in the US.

Yeah, I realized that a little while after I posted. It's on sale directly from Nvidia and elsewhere.

Time to get ordering.

 

[Fry]

Buy windows?

Eh... I've been a big boy with an income for a long time. 5-fingering software doesn't really enter into my thinking anymore.

 

[polo]

Buy windows?

Eh... I've been a big boy with an income for a long time. 5-fingering software doesn't really enter into my thinking anymore.

Good for you!

 

[ArchAngel]

I can't believe you're still seriously discussing it. The only viable option here is to download win7 x64 from torrents, install it and get over yourself / forget all this nonsense about linux.

God, what wouldn't poor people come up with just to stay poor.

With limited hardware it is better to squeeze anything extra for the game and not for the OS, that is why people are saying Linux. I said SteamOS as that is already done and prepared for gaming. It might only have problems with drivers for that specific machine and will require research.

The fastest solution would be 64 bit win 7 from PirateBay.

 

[Bester]

With limited hardware it is better to squeeze anything extra for the game and not for the OS, that is why people are saying Linux.

Are you referring to the possibility of PoE using DX on Windows and OpenGL on linux? Or are you refering to Linux' lower memory usage?
In both case I don't believe it'll make a difference, since the game seems to always stay at 1-1.5gb in memory and what's clogging the fps is poe's cpu usage. I'm not sure dx/opengl could change anything here? But then again I don't know if dx/ogl are very different cpu-intensity-wise. In any case, doesn't seem like a good reason to jump on linux and turn into a pimpled nerd.

 

[tuluse]

Are you referring to the possibility of PoE using DX on Windows and OpenGL on linux? Or are you refering to Linux' lower memory usage?
In both case I don't believe it'll make a difference, since the game seems to always stay at 1-1.5gb in memory and what's clogging the fps is poe's cpu usage. I'm not sure dx/opengl could change anything here? But then again I don't know if dx/ogl are very different cpu-intensity-wise. In any case, doesn't seem like a good reason to jump on linux and turn into a pimpled nerd.

I think he was referring to Valve's work to reduce API overhead in Linux. They were showing a 10% speed up in Source Engine with their improvements.

 

[Bester]

The next opengl? It's not out yet as far as I know, so...

 

[ArchAngel]

With limited hardware it is better to squeeze anything extra for the game and not for the OS, that is why people are saying Linux.

Are you referring to the possibility of PoE using DX on Windows and OpenGL on linux? Or are you refering to Linux' lower memory usage?
In both case I don't believe it'll make a difference, since the game seems to always stay at 1-1.5gb in memory and what's clogging the fps is poe's cpu usage. I'm not sure dx/opengl could change anything here? But then again I don't know if dx/ogl are very different cpu-intensity-wise. In any case, doesn't seem like a good reason to jump on linux and turn into a pimpled nerd.

The difference will not be felt on a good computer, but one close to minimum might just get a few frames more on Steam OS.

 

[Bester]

The difference will not be felt on a good computer, but one close to minimum might just get a few frames more on Steam OS.

Through what mechanism?
And even if that was true, going over to the pimpled side for 2 fps, you're seriously giving this advice to people?

 

[tuluse]

The next opengl? It's not out yet as far as I know, so...

No this was when they were working on linux like 2 years ago. They got a 10% speed boost in L4D2.

 

[Sensuki]

Putting finishing touches on the soundtrack for #PillarsofEternity Uh... looks like I wrote about 120 minuets of music for it #timeflies

Correction... 135 minutes for the #PillarsofEternity soundtrack.

 

[Rostere]

Cool, that's more than double the length of the soundtracks to BG1 or BG2.

 

[Bubbles]

By the way, 120 minuets with a running total for 135 minutes means that the average minuet in PoE is 67.5 seconds long. This would be considered extremely short if you were actually supposed to dance to it -- my best guess is that it's a comment on how fast paced the combat animations feel.

 

[Sensuki]

Judging by what I've seen from the world map, it looks like the progression through the world map is actually pretty linear.

I mean I haven't played it yet, but I think there'll be a *a little bit* of disappointment about that overall

 

[bonescraper]

Putting finishing touches on the soundtrack for #PillarsofEternity Uh... looks like I wrote about 120 minuets of music for it #timeflies

Correction... 135 minutes for the #PillarsofEternity soundtrack.

Too bad it's meh at best. Nowhere close to this:

 

[Sensuki]

Yeah so far I prefer BG1 and IWD1 tracks to the PE music.

 

[tuluse]

By the way, 120 minuets with a running total for 135 minutes means that the average minuet in PoE is 67.5 seconds long. This would be considered extremely short if you were actually supposed to dance to it -- my best guess is that it's a comment on how fast paced the combat animations feel.

I think they're counting them the same way Bethseda counted endings of Fallout 3.

 

[Apexeon]

Putting finishing touches on the soundtrack for #PillarsofEternity Uh... looks like I wrote about 120 minuets of music for it #timeflies

Correction... 135 minutes for the #PillarsofEternity soundtrack.

Too bad it's meh at best. Nowhere close to this:

You missed that one on your list. Musical perfection.

 

[Jaesun]

Putting finishing touches on the soundtrack for #PillarsofEternity Uh... looks like I wrote about 120 minuets of music for it #timeflies

Correction... 135 minutes for the #PillarsofEternity soundtrack.

Too bad it's meh at best. Nowhere close to this:

You missed that one on your list. Musical perfection.

Fixed that for you.

 

[Ellef]

Putting finishing touches on the soundtrack for #PillarsofEternity Uh... looks like I wrote about 120 minuets of music for it #timeflies

Correction... 135 minutes for the #PillarsofEternity soundtrack.

Too bad it's meh at best. Nowhere close to this:

Spoiler

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It's unfair to compare anything to Kuldahar tune though. IWD1 has the best music.

 

[J_C]

Putting finishing touches on the soundtrack for #PillarsofEternity Uh... looks like I wrote about 120 minuets of music for it #timeflies

Correction... 135 minutes for the #PillarsofEternity soundtrack.

Too bad it's meh at best. Nowhere close to this:

I would say that you are wrong but nothing is more subjective than music. (Keep in mind that I also prefer the IE games music, but PoE is not meh. I think it is pretty good, based on what I heared in streams).

 

[Kingston]

By the way, 120 minuets with a running total for 135 minutes means that the average minuet in PoE is 67.5 seconds long. This would be considered extremely short if you were actually supposed to dance to it -- my best guess is that it's a comment on how fast paced the combat animations feel.

I think they're counting them the same way Bethseda counted endings of Fallout 3.

Maybe he misspelled "minutes" in the first tweet.

 

[J_C]

I don't know if this has been discussed yet, but...
I stumbled upon the collection of portraits and after a glance I asked myself, why are there so few of them. I counted 31. Then I checked BG1's roaster, and it had 32. Yet PoE's lineup seemed much fewer. Then I realized why. They basicly use the same portraits several times, with some slight changes in colour.

Sorry, but this is lazy. If you count the same ones as one, there are only 24 of them. Can we expect more in the final version?

 

[Starwars]

I don't know how many there will be but there are more than those in the current beta.