Should I play POTC or CoAS

[krist2]

wondered what you would sugest (using the latest mods for both offcourse).

thanks

 

[Hylie Pistof]

Umm, both! )

I've never played CoAS. It is DX9 while PotC is DX8, so it should have better graphics. They both use some of the same ships now if the historical ship pack is installed. PotC has a big world with many quests that will take you a long time to complete. I have never come close to completing them all.

 

[modernknight1]

wondered what you would sugest (using the latest mods for both offcourse).

thanks

See this post.

http://forum.piratesahoy.net/topic/15046-coas-or-potc/

MK

 

[krist2]

thanks for your replies, I will play them both

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Best decision you can make!

 

[konradk]

 

It is DX9 while PotC is DX8, so it should have better graphics.

I must disappoint you - both games use DirectX 8, CoAS simply proposes to install DirectX 9 (same as PotC, BTW), prints a static text "Initializing DirectX 9", but loads DirectX 8 instead. Meet modern marketing.

Of course, I corrected that one thing so program shall detect DX version it uses and print appropriate message. I plan to add support for other renderers (Direct X 9,10,11,..., OpenGL) but it requires me to get more free time, as well as gain some more experience in DirectX/OpenGL coding.

Back to topic, both games, both.



pirate_kk

 

[Hylie Pistof]

I stand corrected Sir.

Support for other renderers? Awesome! I like OpenGL because on my system it performs very well and delivers better colors.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

That sounds like a huge project. I'm still hoping you could help us with fixing and finishing various things... :?

 

[Hylie Pistof]

That is true. I know of one person doing a dx11 conversion for a dx7 game. He has been at it for nearly a year so far. But he is known for not finishing things.

 

[konradk]

Conversion-only from DX8 to DX9 wouldn't be such a big deal. However, I'd like to make game to work on a couple of separate renderers. In a configuration program user would select one and then program would load that one from a dll. The problem is it's not so easy because references to rendering dll are scattered around the code and, what's worse, in many places outside the proper rendering library the variables with types from DirectX 8 are used. I must find out some way to put all those in rendering library only; additionally it must be an universal method which would produce identical results for all renderers. My raw idea is to construct thing like, for example:

SendRendererRequest(RENDERER_COMMAND, param1, param2, ...);

but obviously, the devil hides in details. This should be written in some right way.

pirate_kk

 

[Hylie Pistof]

Ah, the good ol' needle in a haystack syndrome. Hopefully non of those references are hardcoded in.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

That doesn't matter in the case of CoAS, because we've got the source code for that so NOTHING is hardcoded anymore.