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Warelieus

3 ott 2016, ore 17:39

Where do I get Pandora Tomorrow?

I can't find it on Steam, have they stopped selling it or? :S

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josh 5 ott 2016, ore 11:27

Amazon, ebay, etc. You can't buy it digitally, and can only find physical copies.

Warelieus

5 ott 2016, ore 11:27

Messaggio originale di josh:
Amazon, ebay, etc. You can't buy it digitally, and can only find physical copies.

That sucks

Mr Keefy 27 ott 2016, ore 13:28

Last time I played Pandora the shadows didn't work properly so its quite hard to stay hidden.

TheMysterD 27 ott 2016, ore 17:30

Messaggio originale di Keefy:
Last time I played Pandora the shadows didn't work properly so its quite hard to stay hidden.

Were those issues w/ the lighting fix mod (version 0.05) or without it?

Mr Keefy 27 ott 2016, ore 17:40

Ohh there is a mod that fixes it? Never tried it.

Phobos

28 ott 2016, ore 3:29

Why is it not on sale ? Copyright problems ?

Warelieus

28 ott 2016, ore 6:30

Messaggio originale di Evilman:
Why is it not on sale ? Copyright problems ?

It's Ubisoft... Release every single Splinter Cell on PC and skip one...

endermaryn ha Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

28 ott 2016, ore 8:26

Messaggio originale di ✪ n000b:
It's Ubisoft... Release every single Splinter Cell on PC and skip one...

Pandora Tomarrow is available on PC. For some reason it is just not availiable on Stream.
Threre are a total of seven Splinter Cell games. The only one not on PC is Essentials which was only released for PSP.

Ultima modifica da endermaryn; 28 ott 2016, ore 8:27

Warelieus

28 ott 2016, ore 8:51

Messaggio originale di endermaryn:
Messaggio originale di ✪ n000b:
It's Ubisoft... Release every single Splinter Cell on PC and skip one...

Pandora Tomarrow is available on PC. For some reason it is just not availiable on Stream.
Threre are a total of seven Splinter Cell games. The only one not on PC is Essentials which was only released for PSP.

Yeah, it's available as a psychical copy not as a digital.

Duskylyon

29 ott 2016, ore 16:32

I've heard the reason it's not available on Steam is because whatever they used for the shader at the time does not work with modern graphics chips so you're game would be all messed up.

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Mr Keefy 29 ott 2016, ore 16:34

Messaggio originale di Duskylyon:
I've heard the reason it's not available on Steam is because whatever they used for the shader at the time does not work with modern graphics chips so you're game would be all messed up.

I heard the same and it seems true. Like I said I played it a few years ago and it was messed up, but on my older hardware which at the time wa Nvidia 5700LE it looked OK and worked.

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Duskylyon

29 ott 2016, ore 17:03

It's a shame really. I don't know much about PC's but wouldn't there be a way to remaster it or fix the problem?

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josh 30 ott 2016, ore 2:17

The specific reason was, Splinter Cell was developed and designed for the original Xbox and its graphical chip, the NV2x chip. Only a handful of computer GPUs used this series chipset, but they decided to port it regardless. When the game can't use shadow buffers (which were exclusive to the previously mentioned chip series), shadow projectors would be used instead. The difference between these 2 is that shadow buffers allow for realtime shadow casting for objects on the screen, while shadow projectors are much more selective about how the lighting and shadow system works.

If you purchase SC1 on Steam, and then click play, you're using shadow projectors, which is a vastly inferior version of the lighting system. It's still playable, but there's quite a bit that gets lost in the overall scene quality. But that option to use shadow buffers or shadow projectors was never implemented into Pandora Tomorrow. It only uses shadow buffers. And since no modern card correctly handles shadow buffers, the game fails to render any type of shadows, thus making the game, for all intents and purposes, broken.

I doubt very much that the reason Pandora Tomorrow isn't on PC is because of licensing issues. Ubisoft owns the license and likely has a long contract that has anything to do with the Tom Clancy name. PT was released on the PS3 a few years ago, so if they wanted to, then they could re-release it on PC. Likely, the main reason the game hasn't been looked at, is money. It would cost them money to assemble a team (however small) to develop and fix the shadow buffer problem (and they wouldn't use the 3rd party wrapper developed by Komat either), add in widescreen support, and fix any other bugs that arise from that. And when they factor in demand (or lack thereof), it would further cement their decision to not waste resources.

The only way that I can see Pandora Tomorrow getting re-released on PC is if they remake it on console, and then port it to PC. And I mean like a full on remake where they use a different way of handling the shadows. Because in this day and age, big name games just don't get remade for a single platform.

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VigilanteCipher 26 ago 2024, ore 16:29

I know it's been 8 years since this thread was alive but I have a solution, the PS2 rom and a PS2 emulator while less than ideal the ps2 emulator can run the game.

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