With well over 4,000 views, this thread is--by a significant margin--the post popular thread in all of the Supremacy, New Beginnings, and BotE forums. So why is it that only a handful of people have posted feedback?

If you download one of my tech demos, I'd like to hear what you thought about it. Drop me a PM or e-mail, or just post a quick note in this thread. Tell me if you downloaded it and what your impressions are. Let me know if you have any suggestions, or if you ran into any problems. You can post as a guest if you don't want to register. The more I feel like people are keeping an eye on my game, the more motivated I am to work on it .

BTW, I'm hoping that the final release of the .NET Framework 3.0 will be available soon, at which point you will only have to download one prerequisite (as opposed to both .NET 2.0 and the WinFX RC beta). I'll be able to release more UI previews then.

Do you think my system:

P2 400 Mhz

could run it?

Yes, cdrwolfe is confusing it. BOTE is the one with the Dilithium problem.

Yes, I think so, too

@mstrobel:
Your maptest runs great at my PC, no problems with speed. Okay, my system is fast, too. But there are some little things I don't like:
- the big white lines (I think dotted thinner lines look better)
- the menue after a right click flickers two times
- in my opinion the space between the planets in the systemview is too small

But great work, looks very very good!

Don't worry about it. As I said, it's barely noticable.

In case it helps, my CPU is a Pentium 4 model 540 processor (3.21Ghz) and my graphics cards are 2x ATI Radeon 9250 128mb (256mb total) graphics cards.

So, the .NET Framework 3.0 has now been officially released, and wow, the Galaxy Map won't run anymore.
Does this happen only on my machine, or is the Galaxy Map not .NET 3.0 compatible?

Wow, .NET 3.0 was released and I hadn't heard yet?! The galaxy map test was built with WinFX Beta 2, so its dependencies are for an earlier assembly version. I'll look into releasing a new UI demo once I get the new Windows SDK w/ .NET 3.0 loaded up. Hopefully that will be in a few hours .

Anyone that's interested in running future tech demos of Supremacy should go ahead and uninstall any pre-release versions of the WinFX Runtime Components or the .NET Framework 3.0. Once that's done, you can download and install either the or version of the .NET Framework 3.0 RTM.

*Edit from Matress_of_evil - Microsoft have got an official .Net uninstallation tool that uninstalls all old prerequisites for you in the correct order. You can get it from