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Will there be any differences in PC and X-box versions? Besides different controls, or course, and such...will there be anything extra in the PC release? Will PC version also include the same downloadable content as X-box Live?

 

I know little has been said of the PC release, but I'm just curious as to what you may have heard about it.

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Regarding downloadable content, here's the official answer right from the PC forums

 

Sorry, but a decision on this hasn't been made at this time.

 

Other differences would be of course the graphics and the number of CDs

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Well MGS2 did okily doke on DVD format and I have no problem with the possibility of KOTOR being on DVD, one disc means more space for the user to put other games, and DVD means no putting in a new CD when you warp to a different planet, and DVD rom drives aren't a wallet killer like they used to be, you can get a decent DVD rom drive for about fifty or less bucks

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Whoah, there...

 

Asumming there are 4 disks, it'd be, like, 3 install disks and a play disk, right? Or would it be like, one install disks and 3 play disks?

 

 

I might have to get a DVD-ROM if it's gonna be, "Please insert disk 2 into drive D:" to go to Korriban, then "Please insert disk 4 into drive D:" to go to, whererever, Kashyyk.

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well the experience i have had with multiple discs was with baulder's gate.

 

all it was, was when you reached to a certain point, or like a certain break in the story, youd have to continue onto the next disc.

 

and remember, bioware helped develop that too, so we might be seeing similar results.:)

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wait wait wait, are you telling me that my athlon 2400 will run the game better than my xbox that has 3 year old hardware in it?? NO WAY !

 

:D

 

I am sure that whatever downloadable content has been released before the PC version, will be included in teh PC version, I mean, why not? Especially if you are doing 4 discs already, wahts one more :p

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Originally posted by Zargon

wait wait wait, are you telling me that my athlon 2400 will run the game better than my xbox that has 3 year old hardware in it?? NO WAY !

 

That assumption is not necessarily right. Your pc is much slower than it could be due to a lot of drivers, middleware and compability issues. A Xbox on the other side has an integrated direct x/ driver structure, and thus is a lot faster than some theoretically faster pc setups.

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CPU:

 

Intel Pentium III 733MHz processor with Streaming SIMD Extensions

 

Graphics Processing Unit:

 

233MHz custom 3D graphics processor by nVidia

 

300 million micropolygons/particles per second

 

150 million transformed and lit polygons per second

 

100+ million polygons per second sustained performance (shading, texturing)

 

4 simultaneous textures

 

Compressed textures available at 8:1 compression

 

Full-scene anti-aliasing

 

Memory:

 

64 MB of RAM (unified memory architecture)

 

6.4GB/sec memory bandwidth

 

Storage:

 

8GB hard drive

 

4X DVD drive with movie playback

 

8MB memory card

 

Sound:

 

Custom 3-D audio processor

 

64 Audio channels

 

3-D Audio support

 

Midi/DLS2 support

 

AC3 encoded game audio

 

Network:

 

100 MBPS Ethernet Port

 

Optional Modem

 

Input/Output:

 

4 game USB controller ports

 

Expansion port

 

Proprietary A/V connector

 

It probably will smoke some 1 GHZ machines playing similair games, but I just plain have more bandwitdh available to me then it does. Too bad it doesn't say what the Bus speed is........

 

It is pretty impressive, especially for a console. But its 3 years old...........its better than my P3 600 server machine tho, minus the missing 130 gigs of HD space.....

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lol. What am i the only one that plays this on xbox? :p So far the game has been great only drawback is that you dont actually get to control the fighting which would make the game a little bit more better than it is. Any how at sometimes when you are talking to some of the npc they glitch a bit but only for a second. The only problem i had so far was that gam froze once when i was talking to this character in the hunters den. And the characters are basically the same ones other and other again but just given a different name. Must be a small universe eh? lol

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Since BGII they had options to do a "full install" with a Play disc so that should speed things along since most of the stuff will come off your hard drive.

I think BG - TotSC expansion might have made it(BG) "Play disc-ised".

 

Anyway, gotta love hot keys and quick slots and such :)

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Originally posted by Com Raven

Well even Diablo II combat is stats-based to some degree :)

 

yeah, to some degree, just not a really high one, don;t ge tme wrong, I LOVE diablo 2, but its not really an RPG..........and I am not saying that as a bad thing either :p

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Originally posted by Frosty_V2.1

Since BGII they had options to do a "full install" with a Play disc so that should speed things along since most of the stuff will come off your hard drive.

I think BG - TotSC expansion might have made it(BG) "Play disc-ised".

 

That'd be nice with KOTOR....quite nice.

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