Article: PC PSO Demo/Trial released

[gideon]

Anonymous writes, "The PC port of Phantasy Star Online is out and it can be found here with a faster mirror readily available for download. It is a 13MB download and is very bare and featureless. Download it. Install it. Run it. Evaluate it. ~ Keitaro ~ "

[Rubius-sama]

demo didnt work for me...

[googles]

wow an update!!!

[Dyze_Skeearmon]

Nope, doesn't work for me, either.

Worked, but it isn't realy negood. lets u run around in forests as a HUMAR with a sabre. monster cant hurt u and u dont level, no sound either. It make me wonder why sega would bother releasing thiswhen all it probably do is turn people off the game.
So if u wanna c 640 480 res on ya PC get it.
If u wanna actually get some entertainment from it, wait till a proper demo or a fix to remove the invinvibility....

[Kryslin]

I got the demo up and running, first try. looks sweet (can't say anything about the sound, there isn't any). The specs listed on the mamak page are whacked; I was playing at 30fps on my Celeron 500 based PC and only got slowdown when there were some 20+ things on the screen - well beyond the point the DC version would have choked...
As for what resolution it runs in, I'll dispute the 640 x 480 - it grabs a 1024 x 768 window on my system (640 x 480 is less than a quarter of my screen size, and WinPSO grabs a lot of the screen when it initializes...).
Kryslin

worst. demo. ever

I too had problems with the demo.

What do you mean the graphics are sweet? They are total crap.
And I have no idea what you mean on 20+ thingy.

[EvilDeadite]

absolute crap. the graphics arent much better than dc. They've added some new pre-set sentences. I ran it pretty smoothly on a p3 dimension l550r. The control system is complete garbage. The arrow keys pick the various functions on screen (up = pre-sent sentences, left = mid attack etc) and you have to click and hold the mouse button to move. absolute crap.