Splash Damage

This line was pretty interesting to me:

Work with programmers to develop possible new or improved animation technologies for the game engine Sounds like the next game might feature a whole new level of technology partly made in house at Splash Damage. I also noticed the "Work at Splash Damage" page still lists "knowledge of id technologies" as one of the "Preferred Skills and Experience" for programmers, even at the newly added job offerings for Senior Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 Programmers, I hope this means the next SD game will indeed run on an id engine (nothing against the engines Bethesda uses, but id engines are just awesome for shooters). Good luck on the search.

Joe999, have you completely become frustrated with ET:QW? I have noticed some of the issues you mention on the community forums, but I have also experienced similar stuttering in Q3 and W:ET. Overall I find the game very playable, but with some hick-ups, internet lag, cpu lag, and server lag, that happen to me from time to time. A minor annoyance common in most online games. I run a fairly low end system: Processor: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2500 @ 2.00GHz (2 CPUs) Memory: 2.5 MB RAM Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce Go (7600) Maybe your expectations are set so high that anything other than perfect game performance are unacceptable? I know you've exhaustively looked into this and have been unable to pin-point exactly what is the cause and how to fix it. But is it really that bad? Not in my opinion. I'm still playing, loving it, and see getting thousands of more hours in this near perfect game. Sorry for the ID software fanboy rant there... Good luck in your search, ID tech or not.

Joe999, have you completely become frustrated with ET:QW? I have noticed some of the issues you mention on the community forums, but I have also experienced similar stuttering in Q3 and W:ET. Overall I find the game very playable, but with some hick-ups, internet lag, cpu lag, and server lag, that happen to me from time to time. A minor annoyance common in most online games. I run a fairly low end system: Processor: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2500 @ 2.00GHz (2 CPUs) Memory: 2.5 MB RAM Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce Go (7600) Maybe your expectations are set so high that anything other than perfect game performance are unacceptable? I know you've exhaustively looked into this and have been unable to pin-point exactly what is the cause and how to fix it. But is it really that bad? Not in my opinion. I'm still playing, loving it, and see getting thousands of more hours in this near perfect game. Sorry for the ID software fanboy rant there... Good luck in your search, ID tech or not.\

not frustrated, rather disappointed in id as the problem is in all games with the d3 engine. it's one point from producer sight that the problem isn't reproducable and can't be fixed by them, but my point of view as customer is that i've tested especially et:qw on 5 different pcs (intel/amd/nvidia/ati, all varying, lekdevil even had it on linux) and i have yet to see a configuration where it doesn't hitch every second. the thing i'm wondering is why nothing has been done against this "com_precisetic" problem (if that's what's causing it), as there's been lots of references about it since doom 3. it's not about perfect game performance as it's not a hardware issue which you could solve by tweaking settings, it's an engine issue. i blame the carmack. i really didn't care that much about it previously as et:qw is playable because of it's fast movement, the disappointment started when i tried the ut3 demo and saw how butter-smooth a game can be. and your rant was id fanboy vs id fanboy, i only play id games on pc :D

yeah, i made a full detail topic on the official forum about it. but let's not go OT with this. so on topic: @future technical animator: see to it that stuff runs smooth! :D