Zerker on 16/9/2010 at 20:49
Not so much nowadays. You can get 20000-30000 cycles running flawlessly on a Netbook.
Personally, I run it at 12500 cycles; if Underworld is running too fast, the strafing movement gets a bit glitchy.
If you have UT, you can always play (
http://www.zerker.ca/zzone/2000/08/30/ultima-underworld-2/) my maps re-creating the entire game. Of course, it's still vanilla UT, not an atmospheric singleplayer experience.
ZylonBane on 16/9/2010 at 20:58
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gunsmoke on 16/9/2010 at 21:49
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Actually, that would be awesome. Do you have rapidshare links?
Sorry, I don't. I said nothing about rapidshare. I don't even know if he wants them yet, anyway. It was my fault, I should have sent him a PM, as it wasn't a public offering.
demagogue on 16/9/2010 at 22:16
I played it for the first time a few weeks ago off DosBox and I didn't have any issues, and I was running it on an Asus netbook too.
Fun game, even showing its age... It was interesting how it had so much of the feel of the late-80s 2D RPGs and reminded me of that era. It hadn't quite arrived at all the new tropes 3D gaming would bring, but it was definitely on its way... I really felt it skirting the borderline of two paradigms or eras, reminding me of aspects of both.
I agree it doesn't need to be remade, though. I wouldn't mind seeing a new 3D game set in the Ultima world though.
Zygoptera on 16/9/2010 at 22:39
I played it a few months ago and the sum total of my dosbox manipulations were typing "mount c c:\uuw" then "uw.exe".
Actually I lie. There was a "C:" in the middle too, of course.
june gloom on 16/9/2010 at 22:51
In my defense I'm on a piss-poor Pentium D. It's quite a bit of a joke.
gunsmoke on 17/9/2010 at 18:50
This laptop is a Pentium M, which iirc is the mobile ver. of the D and it handles it rather nicely. I dunno.
Nameless Voice on 20/9/2010 at 20:55
I tried playing it on DOSBox myself recently, though I couldn't get into it at the time.
I had no issuses with speed though, on my Core 2 Duo E6320, which is one of the slowest Core2s IIRC, and I have trouble running SS1 in DOSBox on this CPU (at least, at the higher resolutions, it can just about cope with 640x480).
