X3: Terran Conflict Rolling Demo

A rolling demo for X3: Terran Conflict is now available, offering a look at the latest installment in EGOSOFT's space combat series. This should not be confused with a playable demo, as a rolling demo is non-interactive, offering the chance to see what the game looks like using the actual game engine. As such this rolling demo can also benchmark your system to show how it can handle running the game. The 422 MB download is available on AtomicGamer, ComputerGames.ro, FanGaming, FileFront, Gamer's Hell, and Strategy Informer. X3: Terran Conflict was released a couple of weeks ago, and can be purchased through Steam.
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If it's CPU limited on a rolling demo, how is it going to handle economic stuff, control monitoring, clipping, busier scenes, etc?

The game IS CPU limited, sadly. They took the Reunion engine, and build around that, and it was single core. So your dual core doesn't really do much.

On my system the game runs fine at 1680x1050, everything max, 4xfsaa 8xaf, though some sectors with 9 million asteroids run a bit slower than usual.
After the 1.2.1 hotfix, combat is smooth too, though the engine has an annoying tendency to have to reload everything for every sector - like weapons fire and missile sounds etc. So if you hear a sound for the first time in a busy battle, it'll freeze for 2 seconds or so. It doesn't happen often, but just enough to be really irritating.

I'll run the demo, see what it does.

Creston
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