One for Quack III fans
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 2:51 am
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:29 am
haha. nicely done.
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:59 am
Yeah I like that one.. 
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 7:07 am
amazing.
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 7:16 am
The at the start was lucky his candle stick didn't backfire... 
Was a pretty good flick though
Was a pretty good flick though
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:59 am
You might not know this, but "Quack III" is actually a real thing and not just a mere misspelling. When Q3A first came out, it turned out that ATI drivers for their flagship 8500 card were doing some "illicit" reductions in image quality while running Q3A in order to boost benchmark scores (after all, for the longest time, Q3A was the benchmark game for video cards).
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTEx
http://techreport.com/etc/2001q4/radeon-q3/index.x?pg=1
Basically, they were futzing with the texture filtering and MIP-mapping settings. Look at the second link for a very obvious example of how awful the optimisations made Q3A look.
As it happened, fiddling with the quake 3 executable and renaming it to quack 3 (both in filename and internally) caused the optimisations to magically disappear, fuelling considerable anger against ATI for "cheating" in this manner.
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTEx
http://techreport.com/etc/2001q4/radeon-q3/index.x?pg=1
Basically, they were futzing with the texture filtering and MIP-mapping settings. Look at the second link for a very obvious example of how awful the optimisations made Q3A look.
As it happened, fiddling with the quake 3 executable and renaming it to quack 3 (both in filename and internally) caused the optimisations to magically disappear, fuelling considerable anger against ATI for "cheating" in this manner.
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 4:15 pm
HAHA! I laughed until I stopped!
That's brilliant. Dumb - but brilliant!!
That's brilliant. Dumb - but brilliant!!
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 4:25 pm
I love it
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 5:30 pm
you might have missed the best partMobius wrote:... until I stopped!
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 11:23 pm
Excellent! 
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 1:16 am
lol! Damn those were some serious roman candles.
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:39 am
Neato.
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:49 pm
Guess that would look like this: http://www.big-boys.com/articles/nomoregirl.htmlwoodchip wrote:The at the start was lucky his candle stick didn't backfire...
Note at the beginning the guy saying: "That's not stupid."
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:20 pm
Ouch!
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:58 pm
yea, roman candles are notorious for backfiring.
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 10:48 pm
"Excellent!"