I had a really horrible Steam experience too. I have broadband DSL 384/384. I considered wether I wanted to buy a Steam version or a Retail box. In my consideration was the following: -there was NO information on the Steam website that told me if I bought online if I could burn a CD of my purchase so that I could install…
I spent a solid few months of optimizing polys, lightmap UV channels, collish meshs for everything in UT and the act of stripping 2million polys out of a level generally improved the FPS by 2 or 3 frames. Polycount is not the huge issue people were rightly sure it was previously. The bigger issue now is texture resolution…