An FPS in 96kb? Surely not!

16 Apr, 2004 at 9:34pm ET Article published in Tech

Comments

1. 
   16 Apr 2004 ~ 9:48pm Spinner I just had a quick go, and boy that's some amazing work. 96kb.. wow!
2. 
   16 Apr 2004 ~ 10:00pm BlackHawk Wow! That is sweet.
3. 
   16 Apr 2004 ~ 10:11pm fudgam Thats amazing. The gun and walls actually reflect light!!!!
4. 
   16 Apr 2004 ~ 11:19pm godzilla525 damn. laptop doesn't support pixel shaders. oh well. I'll have to try it at home...in a week ;-P
5. 
   17 Apr 2004 ~ 1:53am Camman simply amazing thing from these guys, I was checking this out the other day.
   
   I was really impressed with their "theproduckt" demo in 64k when I first saw it a while ago. Also be sure to check out "the Popular demo" on their page, it clocks in at 8mb because they used vocals and character animation but still an awesome demo and not an enormous filesize.
6. 
   17 Apr 2004 ~ 2:41am Shorty Paging John Carmack.. hire this guy
7. 
   17 Apr 2004 ~ 4:48am Enverex Doesn't work on this machine. Completes loading and my machine hard-resets, same as what happens if I run the Sandra Mem bench or try to run Memtest....
8. 
   17 Apr 2004 ~ 4:50am BlackHawk Did you ever try another stick of ram?
9. 
   17 Apr 2004 ~ 4:58am Enverex Yep. The other motherboard did this too. Nothing else is affected, all games and things are fine, very strange.
10. 
    17 Apr 2004 ~ 5:43am EyesOnly Another game i wont be able to run, yet at least i don't have to worry about harddrive space. I'll wait then.
11. 
    17 Apr 2004 ~ 1:06pm Garg Does this run well on anyone's system?
12. 
    17 Apr 2004 ~ 1:10pm Geeky1 Too lazy to boot the NF7-S, transfer it over the network, clear off my keyboard, clear off the floor in front of the keyboard so I can roll my chair over to it, clear off my chair so I can sit down without crunching stuff like SECC2 HSRMs, and find out. I'll do it after I clean up this disaster area.
13. 
    17 Apr 2004 ~ 1:10pm Spinner Runs like a gem on mine.
14. 
    17 Apr 2004 ~ 1:12pm primesuspect totally unplayable on my wife's laptop. I'll give it a go on my gaming rig at the office in a couple of days.
15. 
    17 Apr 2004 ~ 1:31pm Medlock

    Spinner wrote:

    Runs like a gem on mine.

    I concur!
    Amazing work.
16. 
    17 Apr 2004 ~ 1:58pm Thrax Runs splendidly on my system also. Fun little game. Found it about 9 days ago.
17. 
    17 Apr 2004 ~ 8:19pm Garg Must either need a much faster processor or more than 512mb of RAM then. The opening runs better on my computer than on my roommate's, and the only major difference is our video cards. But the game runs at like 1-5 fps.
18. 
    17 Apr 2004 ~ 8:37pm Geeky1 Did any of you actually read the system requirements?
    

    kkrieger requires a relatively high-end machine to run properly. To be
    precise:
    
    - A 1.5GHz Pentium3/Athlon or faster.
    - 512MB of RAM (or more)
    - A Geforce4Ti (or higher) or ATI Radeon8500 (or higher) graphics card
    supporting pixel shaders 1.3, preferably with 128MB or more of VRAM.
    - Some kind of sound hardware
    - DirectX 9.0b
19. 
    17 Apr 2004 ~ 9:47pm BuddyJ Yep. We both read it (well I read it to Garg cuz he was busy laying on his bed and couldn't possibly get up). I have an XP @ 1.54ghz and 512MB DDR with an 8500LE 128MB. That meets the reqs. I should prolly update the Catalysts cuz they're old but besides that, it shouldn't be running so choppy.
20. 
    17 Apr 2004 ~ 9:55pm mmonnin The 8500 is an understatement. I have the 8500LE which is just a lower clocked version and it looks NOTHING like the screenie above. That area is TOTALLY black except for the ground and doors. And it is SOOOOOO LAGY as well. All I can say is that it pwned me.
21. 
    17 Apr 2004 ~ 11:10pm Geeky1 *sniff*
    So it won't run on my R8500/64MB @ 320/294? :bawling:
    
    I guess I'll just have to run it on the 9700 Pro @ 360/330 then...
22. 
    17 Apr 2004 ~ 11:15pm Garg I exceed all the req's (as shown in my sig that I don't think anyone has ever clicked on, but oh well), but it still runs bad. If I cared more, I'd OC my Radeon, but I just kinda don't. One day when I get a Barton like the rest of the kids on the block I'll give it another try. In the meantime, it's still a sweet concept.
23. 
    17 Apr 2004 ~ 11:18pm Geeky1 Yeah, I think your problem is a lack of CPU horsepower...
24. 
    17 Apr 2004 ~ 11:20pm mmonnin Mine was not OCed so it was still at stock speeds. Give it a shot.
25. 
    18 Apr 2004 ~ 6:16am bothered Runs fine for me, but I forgot the change weapon key. Still, I completed it. As a demo of what can be done it's very good, UT it ain't.
26. 
    18 Apr 2004 ~ 8:55am Norge Wow that is really amazing. I can't even imagine how they managed to fit something that good looking into such a small file.
    
    Norge
27. 
    18 Apr 2004 ~ 11:10am Creep Who cares about the game! I want that compression program!!!!! OMG OMG OMG! I could backup my whole system on ONE CD!
28. 
    18 Apr 2004 ~ 2:14pm BuddyJ

    7. technical FAQ

    ---

    
    In general, if you have any technical questions concerning .kkrieger, either refer to our
    web site or contact us via email. However past experience shows that there are some rumours
    and misunderstandings about our work that are very hard to correct, so we'll state the truth
    here, in written form, for all the world to see
    
    - We do .not. have some kind of magical data compression machine that is able to squeeze
    hundreds of megabytes of mesh/texture and sound data into 96k. We merely store the
    individual steps employed by the artists to produce their textures and meshes, in a very
    compact way. This allows us to get .much. higher data density than is achievable with
    normal data compression techniques, at some expense in artistic freedom and loading times.

    
    It's not data compression as much as it's smart programming.
29. 
    18 Apr 2004 ~ 5:08pm mcwc I can watch the intro sequence just fine but when I try to play the game, it was really laggy that I can't move one step forward. It was so laggy that I had used taskman to kill the game and when I did that, it was using 300MB of RAM .
    
    Time for an upgrade.
30. 
    27 Apr 2004 ~ 7:18pm CyrixInstead Nah it's programmed in assembly. It's not compression, just the original code is written as efficiently as possible.
    
    ~Cyrix