thank you for the information, @Lar!
i looking forward on the larians future projects.

that give's me another question.
which people are currently the whole larian team?
And what about the new ones?

maybe it would be a nice thing (in the near future) to make another larians profile like the below 10 one at www.locusinn.com

Is this the beginning of a slow proces of revealing stuf obout the projects in the works. Lets hope so.

After watching the testimonials I give the engine

Or as the seaman on the simpsons i'll give it ; 2 ARRRRRGGHS

Gameembryo ?

By the way, this is the first official information that there are at least two projects and that these are all in 3D.

verrrrrryyy nice!

wow! irrational used gamebryo (probably different version from other devs) to make freedom force! i love that game!

thanks, Lar, for the info. i can remember when Lar revealed & back then the hint was R..R..R. & yes, day dreaming while on work isn't healthy for my career.

Any chance that the code would be 64-bit optimized

if the code (game) is 64 bit optimized.
wouldn't that mean you have a 64bit operating system?

Well windows XP 64 bit is going gold in march. So it would be nice that in 2 years (divinty 2) 64-bit is quite common.

No it doesnt mean that you NEED a 64 bit processor.... it means it is optimized for it. In other words it will run 10x faster on a 64 bit. It will still run normal on a 32bit.

Has intel made a 64 chip yet? AMD has had them out for a while, I'm suprised at a lck of response from INTEL.

Intel released one about 4 months ago.... but was forced to pull it back, due to instability and overheating issues.

THey only have a 64 bit server CPU.... but for that price, i rather buy myself 8 AMD 64 bit systems, COMPLETE.

Intel is slowly losing the battle to keep up with AMD. If you benchmark some systems, you cant help but note a dramatic speed diference with games(AMD in the lead).

It was mentioned in another thread (my brain is too rotten tonight to remember where / when), detailing the strengths and weaknesses of intel / AMD.

the summary would be:
Intel is good for office applications ad internet applications. (how fast does your computer need to be, to cope with a 1Mbps internet connection??? - taking average speeds)
AMD is good with graphics and gaming applications. (now HERE i can use good performance)

The whole FX line of 64 mb chips ( the 51, 53, and 55 ) are all way ahead of all buy the
XEON
line I believe its called.

Anyways, thanks, I didn't know they had made one. Just like the x700 XT. Neve rheard about em, cause they're gone.

Intel HAD a 64-bit processor called Itanium. It was a horrible piece of junk that ran 64-bit code very fast but 32-bit code was a disaster they couldn't get 32-bit to run higher as the equivalent of a 1800GHz (could be more). So Itanium was scrapped (a few weeks ago). Also the Itanium was more for severs then for desktops. Intel will release an other 64-bit processor that is compatible with AMD's 64-bit. But Intel was seriously caught off guard by AMD's 64-bit processor.

This give for me the difference between Intel and AMD

Intel was always searching for ways to up the GHz of the processors while AMD was looking for ways to do more with a slower speed. Intel has trapped itself in it own public relations. Intel PR was always saying the faster the better. Well guess what, they have serious problems to get CPU at higher speeds. This while AMD was looking at things like 64-bit and dual cores and guess what Intel is also going with dual cores.

Intel has tried to optimise everything for numerical calculations (office applications / internet related application)... not thinking... that 70% of the applications that gets used on computers today, has NOTHING to do with that...

Most people run more graphics applications...
more GAMES
more applications using floating point calculations...

And yea, AMD had good vision when they started looking into bottle necks, and how to get rid of them.

Here is the link to the thread i mentioned before

INtel cares about the numbers, thats why there chips are called 3.8 ghz, 3.6 ghz, 2.4 ghz, etc.

While AMD care more about how it runs. Fx-55, you can't get how fast it is out of that if you've never heard of it, but its super fast.

My personal impression is that :

AMD - desktops, private users
Intel - servers, companies

By the way, in the game Jazz Jackrabbit there was a Planet called "Letni" ...

have any of you played KOTOR (knights of the old republic) cuz imo that is the only game comparable to baldurs gate that i have recently played, i think the graphics engine in that would be good for divdiv2 although i do prefer the 2d isometric view