Myst Online: Uru Live on Gametap

Robert The Rebuilder · **Posted:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:41 pm

greydragon wrote:

The server and the build is the same as preview.

Thanks for the clarification, GD!

Calam wrote:

Videos? I'm confused. All the videos in the 'media' section of the site say 'coming soon'. Or are you referring to some kind of in-game video??

Apparently (I have not seen it myself yet) there is a video that plays while you are downloading Myst Online in GameTap.

[EDIT] Here's a link to a thread discussing this download video:

http://www.urulive.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3931

Alahmnat · **Posted:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:42 pm

I believe the videos being referenced are available through the GT client, but not are yet being made available on the site. Patience, it's still day 1

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MercAngel · **Posted:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:16 pm

if you do not see the game and you are useing a sub account the main account as to set it so you can play MMO's

Tiran · **Posted:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:36 pm

Here is a link to the video at google:

Gadren wrote:

Here's some info on getting started in the world of Uru Live:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 6395809622

SCGreyWolf · **Posted:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:46 pm

The linking transitions are cool... can y'all make the game client do that?

lego_addict · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:09 am

It's in GameTap TV. URU is featured in "Retrospective" and there's a movie in the spotlight called Myst Online: Uru Live 101.

Ashelbane · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:13 am

In future (after launch) will we HAVE to run it in GameTap or can we always use the stand-alone client?

I may like gametap, but the flashy startup and the fact it takes a while to launch makes me hope we can open Myst Online outside of gametap.

Whilyam · **Joined:** Tue May 09, 2006 1:04 am **Posts:** 4134

One more problem: I'm experiencing a LOT of extra lag when I go through the Gametap client. I also sometimes sit at the loading screen to other ages for a long time 5+ minutes just for RELTO..

I hope U.S. residents can use a stand alone program instead of going through Gametap. Either that or something needs to be done about the lag/horrid link times.

Then again, this all could be me. I'm not hearing anyone else having these issues. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Alahmnat · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:35 am

It could be you, but if you've not tried the game through the stand-alone player today yet, I'd venture to say it's more likely that the servers are just getting hammered. Earlier there were reports of not being able to log in at all, so things seem to be running a bit on the "incredibly overloaded" side right now.

Whilyam · **Joined:** Tue May 09, 2006 1:04 am **Posts:** 4134

I was in both and it seems different on the Gametap accessed one. I've heard Gametap sucks memory, could that be it? I have a gig of RAM and some in the Radeon video card as well.

Alahmnat · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 3:25 am

Depending on how much RAM you have, GT may affect your performance, but it shouldn't be incredibly serious; GT drops to little more than a background process when it launches a game. I've noticed that every now and then, it kind of "forgets" and sits in the background using more RAM than it usually does, but it's never retained the same memory allocation as when the GT front-end is in use for me.

That said, if you've got a lot going on in the background already, GT isn't going to help things

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MercAngel · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:40 am

Whilyam wrote:

I was in both and it seems different on the Gametap accessed one. I've heard Gametap sucks memory, could that be it? I have a gig of RAM and some in the Radeon video card as well.

gametap uses 4K of ram and 0% CPU when it is in sleep mode this is as you are playing the game and about 150K when not in sleep mode.

plus a tested it is URU before they took it off and the hit on the systems with stand alone and useing gametap is not the much maybe 5 to 10k of memory and 2-3 % CPU

if this is makeing some one have more lag then they need more ram or a fatsr computer

Whilyam · **Joined:** Tue May 09, 2006 1:04 am **Posts:** 4134

Problem was solved last night (couldn't find this post).

It was simply that the servers were being hammered. I got that impression when I logged in fine later at night and it was confirmed at 4:00 AM EST (poor Cyan...).

So, like I said elsewhere, aside from some chat bugs this thing looks like it's almost ready to go.

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