KLittle123 Posted August 21, 2004 I was wandering if there was anyway for a dial up user to somehow play multiplayer. I have a good graphics card and I was wandering if I turned the settings and turned a bunch of crap off if I could play it??? 0 Share this post Link to post
Linguica Posted August 21, 2004 It's broadband only for a reason, it's not like id are just being jerks. 0 Share this post Link to post
KLittle123 Posted August 21, 2004 dang man you replied to that fast...or maybe its just my internet. 0 Share this post Link to post
Lectrix Posted August 23, 2004 Yeah he's right, bb only... But then again us BB users experience incredible lag so 56k users would probably be killed before they spawn. :) 0 Share this post Link to post
Sephiroth Posted August 25, 2004 this game is not for dialup users. the days of online gaming with dialup are over, i think. unless you play older games. i am willing to bet that HL2 will also only support broadband. a fact that will disappoit many a fanboy 0 Share this post Link to post
KLittle123 Posted August 26, 2004 Sephiroth said:this game is not for dialup users. the days of online gaming with dialup are over, i think. unless you play older games. i am willing to bet that HL2 will also only support broadband. a fact that will disappoit many a fanboy Yes I got the point after two people said it... 0 Share this post Link to post
Mogul Posted August 27, 2004 DOOM 3 isn't for 56k users and I bet that HL2 will be the same way. :D 0 Share this post Link to post
Ultraviolet Posted August 27, 2004 Doom 3 will be best experienced on a 33.6k modem. 0 Share this post Link to post
Technician Posted August 27, 2004 I too know the pain of 56k. I would have better connection but its not available where I live. I just hope some one comes out with a bot mod. 0 Share this post Link to post
Naitguolf Posted August 27, 2004 mmm.... maybe you can play other deathmatch games. DooM 3 is nothing spectacular in deathmatch. Play Quake2, is the same. Also, it has good bots. 0 Share this post Link to post
destx Posted August 28, 2004 This is unfortunate, and strange - UT2K4 runs fine on dialup. 0 Share this post Link to post
AirRaid Posted August 28, 2004 UT2k4 doesn't need to deal with physics and world calculations. Its world is a lot more "static" than Doom 3s, hence the lower requirement. 0 Share this post Link to post
Mogul Posted August 30, 2004 I once read that DOOM 3 sends 8 times as much information over the wire as Quake III. This type of workload would be right next to impossible, I'd guess, for a 56k modem. 0 Share this post Link to post
destx Posted August 31, 2004 It seems so retarded that they spent so much time optimising the engine to run well on older hardware and then ditched dialup support. I really don't see what the fuck that 8x more data that its sending is. 0 Share this post Link to post
AirRaid Posted August 31, 2004 You speak like it's an evil conspiracy. If they could have made it dial-up compatible they would have... I mean, there's more sales, for a start. The way games are headed means that you need newer hardware. CPU, Graphics, RAM, and Internet connection too. 0 Share this post Link to post
Naitguolf Posted August 31, 2004 but that is the problem. Companies make *great* multiplayer games, but sucks in single player (meh, to me sucks in both way) ID wanted a great single player game. I bet they did it! :) Like Morrowind. 0 Share this post Link to post