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ET2SN · 02-05-25, 08:13 PM

Matrix has a major over-haul available for Nuclear War Simulator.

If you have the sim (NWS is NOT a game) and you check for updates, plan on painting the living room while you wait for the download and install to complete.

For me, the whole operation took about 2 1/2 hours in total. My first reaction was that they reversed the left and right mouse buttons for..reasons??

I still need to dig my way through the documents, which will take about a week. But, there is something going on about "turn based play" for some of the scenarios.

Which sounds very game-like???

The basic format is mostly the same. Hit "run" and a captioned photo (at random) pops up. And stays there, and stays there, and stays there before the main screen loads. I have plenty of spare time to ponder the Universe and my place in it, how about if we press the space bar (or something) to move along?

I run a fast (4 GHz) i3 cpu that has TWO WHOLE CORES

since almost all of my games were coded for a single core. I went into buying NWS knowing that I wasn't going to get blazing speeds, especially after the sirens go off. Some earlier updates made NWS run a little faster, but things seem to have shifted back to the pre-optimized days.

Is the update worth it? I have NO bleeping clue, at least not yet.

02-05-25, 08:13 PM	#1
ET2SN Ocean Warrior Join Date: Oct 2017 Posts: 2,652 Downloads: 60 Uploads: 0	Major over-haul for NWS. Matrix has a major over-haul available for Nuclear War Simulator. If you have the sim (NWS is NOT a game) and you check for updates, plan on painting the living room while you wait for the download and install to complete. For me, the whole operation took about 2 1/2 hours in total. My first reaction was that they reversed the left and right mouse buttons for..reasons?? I still need to dig my way through the documents, which will take about a week. But, there is something going on about "turn based play" for some of the scenarios. Which sounds very game-like??? The basic format is mostly the same. Hit "run" and a captioned photo (at random) pops up. And stays there, and stays there, and stays there before the main screen loads. I have plenty of spare time to ponder the Universe and my place in it, how about if we press the space bar (or something) to move along? I run a fast (4 GHz) i3 cpu that has TWO WHOLE CORES since almost all of my games were coded for a single core. I went into buying NWS knowing that I wasn't going to get blazing speeds, especially after the sirens go off. Some earlier updates made NWS run a little faster, but things seem to have shifted back to the pre-optimized days. Is the update worth it? I have NO bleeping clue, at least not yet.