Geo1988

May 16 2006, 10:34 AM | Post #1

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Taken directly from www.RuneScape.com

Today finally sees the launch of our latest game engine upgrade.
This is the biggest upgrade to the underlying engine which runs the game since we launched the new 3D engine two years ago, and I've been working on it for literally months. However this time the changes are more under the hood, which means (if everything goes to plan) you shouldn't actually notice a huge amount of difference!

The game engine upgrades this time are focused on allowing us to make the game bigger and on providing support for all sorts of features we want to do in future updates. These are the sort of changes that you won't see immediately, but do allow us to do all sorts of things in the future which we've been dying to do, but couldn't previously.

However there will still be quite a few improvements that you will see immediately, such as:

The first time you load the new engine it will take slightly longer than normal to load as it imports all the data from the old engine. However it only ever has to do that once, and from then on you can look forward to much faster loading times and much faster update times.
Greatly reduced memory use.
Vastly improved sound compatibility, including sound support in Firefox.
Better sound engine which can play more sounds at once.
Improved chat filter. Again this is a whole new technology and we might need to tweak it a bit so please be patient with it, but it should in the long run give less false positives whilst still protecting the chat.
Far better anti-macro technology.
Better compatibility with dual CPU computers.
Better compatibility with firewalls.
Better language support, with support for accented characters in chat, etc.
But of course it mainly consists of underlying changes to let us do more exciting stuff in upcoming updates...

By the way... we can now type cool stuff like <3 and ^ _ ^!

This post has been edited by Geo1988: May 16 2006, 10:37 AM

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Twilight Ray

May 16 2006, 11:17 AM | Post #2

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WE CAN TYPE <3!?!?!?!?!?

Holy shit. That almost makes me want to come back.

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Shredar

May 16 2006, 12:16 PM | Post #3

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nice ^ _ ^! yay faster load i was tired of waiting for it to load then when i finally try to log in world 2 is full....

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crayoneater

May 16 2006, 01:46 PM | Post #4

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sounds cool, fianlly a useful update and twi and elite come back /\__/\

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Arguous

May 16 2006, 04:16 PM | Post #5

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QUOTE(Twilight Ray @ May 16 2006, 03:17 AM)

WE CAN TYPE <3!?!?!?!?!?

Holy shit. That almost makes me want to come back.

???

I could swear I saw you on the other night! Where did you go?

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sabuthedog

May 16 2006, 04:43 PM | Post #6

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it also bleeps out fahg and gai and for some reason it bleeps out the word mem?


list of newly bleeped words

fahg
asse
mem
gai
mhmm

This post has been edited by sabuthedog: May 16 2006, 04:47 PM

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Makoto

May 16 2006, 05:32 PM | Post #7

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Interesting engine tweak. It should prove interesting to see how far they could push Java (if it's not already at the bleeding edge) with their game.

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Baakalor

May 16 2006, 05:42 PM | Post #8

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And along with the update comes this taken from Runescape.com:

16 May 2006 - Laaaaaaaag :-)
Our servers are all a bit busy at the moment sending the new game engine to everybody, so are running a bit slower than normal.
If you find the game a bit slow then please just try using a world at a different location.

The game is still working fine, it just might be a bit slow today. Should hopefully be mostly back to normal tomorrow once everyone has finshed downloading this rather big update!

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BluEz

May 16 2006, 06:04 PM | Post #9

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Not bad, still a bit laggy at first. Also I am forced to listen to sounds on low mem...

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echo8989

May 16 2006, 07:24 PM | Post #10

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cant say omfg....

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Twilight Ray

May 16 2006, 08:40 PM | Post #11

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QUOTE(Arguous @ May 16 2006, 11:16 AM)

???

I could swear I saw you on the other night! Where did you go?

Quit last Sunday =p.

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ftblkd2004

May 16 2006, 09:03 PM | Post #12

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this up date so far 2 me has been not all 2 well
*home world offline*
Logs on
take 5 min to load
logs on in HIGH detail-no sound what-so-ever, not just music, the sound fx also.
lags out almost momentarly

*changes world*
*home world offline*
logs on
no music, but sound fx works EXTREM LAG
dosent lag out
logs out due to lagg

*changes world*
*home world online*
log on, not much lagg
says somthing and hit enter...
...1 min 7 seconds later it comes through to my firend

*thinks to self...*
well im not going to tran strength today with this much lagg(im dhoraking)

*logs off*
*posts thread*

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P.S. i sprained my ankle at school today...massive swellling...great
espically since its 3 weeks until my vacation to the Beaches Resort in Jamaica!

This post has been edited by ftblkd2004: May 17 2006, 12:19 AM

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BluEz

May 16 2006, 09:35 PM | Post #13

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Gah, it takes so long to switch worlds for me and there is a huge delay on chat. I hope this gets better or gets fixed soon.

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crayoneater

May 16 2006, 09:40 PM | Post #14

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so useless update, bleeps out: Shaz,Telephone,Phone,dam,satan thats sum i noticed

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Splatman

May 16 2006, 09:42 PM | Post #15

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Those will be fixed, they can't test a whole chat system...

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