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This really shows me how far removed are interactive experiences in a browser as opposed to running natively in an operating system. Nothing about this game sh
by jaysonelliot 15y ago
This really shows me how far removed are interactive experiences in a browser as opposed to running natively in an operating system.
Nothing about this game should tax the resources of a mid-level computer from the late 1990s, yet when running inside of a browser, you'd think you were asking your computer to run Crysis at maximum resolution.
- skore 15y agoRunning this in Chrome on Linux on a four year old PC - This ran very smoothly and always stayed below 20% CPU.
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- Cushman 15y agoNot to disagree with your fundamental point -- JavaScript and WebGL has a ways to go yet -- but what computer are you thinking of? 1999 was the year of Quake III, Unreal Tournament, and Half-Life, which looked like this[0] with fully-baked maps. This game smoothly renders thousands of dynamic polys with shading and stencil shadows, not to mention anti-aliased typography, at 1440x900 with about 30% CPU on my MBA. It's a little more impressive than you make it sound. [0] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/89/Quake_III_Arena_q3dm0.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/89/Quake_III_Aren... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Unreal_tournament.JPG http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Unreal_tournam... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8e/SurfaceTensionHLS.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8e/SurfaceTension...
- reustle 15y agoI don't know what you're using, but I'm using a base model macbook air and the cpu barely took a hit. Very smooth rendering.
- zzzmarcus 15y agoI'm on a mid 2010 Macbook Pro using Chrome 20 (dev) and it runs perfectly smooth with no lag and no noticeable spike in CPU usage.
- foxit 15y agoThis being the top comment, I'm assuming it got upvoted the most, but nobody chimed in verbal agreement. I'm posting from a 2007 Compaq 8510p with Windows XP, and having the browser bog down as if I've been hacked has been the sharpest reminder of late I need to upgrade.
- malkia 15y agoRuns ok, on MacBook Pro bought January 2008 (4GB, 17inch). But the fan started running, which is rare (Safari OSX 10.7)
- danmaz74 15y agoMy box is very recent but low price, and the game was running smoothly using 5% of the CPU... maybe you're not properly using hardware accelaration?