Call of Duty och United Offensive uppdateras för Intel

Tänkte att alla kanske inte känner till det men äntligen ska Call of Duty få universal patch. Nyligen uppdaterades Star Wars Jedi Knight 2 och Academy av Brad Oliver och han skriver i sin blogg att snart kommer patchar till CoD också. Det är bara ett par buggar som ska fixas :). Brad Olivers blogg

"In my limited testing, the game runs at roughly triple the speed vs. Rosetta on the same Intel Mac."

I'd really thought we'd have the Call of Duty universal binary patch done by now. It's been sitting idle for months now. I planned to wrap up the loose ends when I got done with my current main work project as it has ties to my CoD work that I can't go into here because it's not announced yet. But the schedule has been a harsh mistress and has slipped, and so I've used that as an excuse to not finish up the UB. At this point, I need to investigate some issues with auto-downloading not working for some servers in the MP app and make sure PunkBuster *really* works.

Call of Duty/CoD United Offensive: I handed off the patch to our QA guys for testing last week. It shouldn't be too much longer - probably weeks, not days or months.

Call of Duty 2: I've started looking at a patch for this now that the CoD1 stuff is behind me and I have more time away from the main project I've been on. We originally handed this port off to an outside house, so I do have to get up-to-speed a bit on it, but the core code is eerily similar to CoD1 so that's a plus. The biggest issue with this is that it hitches badly on the Nvidia 8600/8800/9400 cards, which shipped after our port did. I've identified the issue (the game is using Vertex Array Range in a way that causes trouble for the NV G80 driver), so that's good to know. Fixing that should also bring up performance in general for all the other cards. A few people have mentioned that the graphics are wrong for skin/water on the Nvidia 8600, but I'm not seeing that in 10.5.6, at least on the starting level. I'll have to research that some more.

Det senaste är det här.

Det tog sin lilla tid (8 månader) men nu har Aspyr i tysthet släppt patchen. Själv får jag nästan fördubblad prestandaökning i CoD med mina inställningar men bara ca 5 extra fps i UO. Jag har dock bara testat början på första banan i båda spelen. Kom ihåg att alla tidigare sparade spelsessioner slutar att fungera. Om ni spelar i nätverk bör ni också tänka på det här.