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Posted 27 months ago

In order for us to stay more in tune with our readers, we're launching a weekly chat session between you the readers and our editors.

Our first session will be held on Wednesday August 29th from 12-1PM PST. Brandon will be our host and will attempt to answer any questions that you have about his work, the site, or when the latest heat wave will end (he's that good!!).

Come join us on Wednesday for what should be a fun and interesting one hour session.

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Click to view DanT's User PageI am an AMD Agent DanT (513)  My XFire username is: wanchaiwarrior Click to view DanT's User Profile Talk to DanT in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Aug 29, 2007 - 12:32 pm
» Industry
Brandon, in your opinion, what is going to happen to the hardcore PC gaming industry? Do you think it is going to continue to shrink against the consoles?
And, if it does, what does that mean for companies like nvidia?

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Click to view ZaneZavin's User Page ZaneZavin (86)  Click to view ZaneZavin's User Profile Talk to ZaneZavin in the Shout! Box Aug 29, 2007 - 12:50 pm
Nvidia supplies a lot of chips in the PS3. I don't believe consoles will cause a problem for ATI or Nvidia. I know that manufacturers will continue to push the envelope and make things faster and faster. The trend is that less games are made solely for the pc and fully take advantage of new technologies. If the game is multiplatform with simulaunch the pc version may not be as good as it could be in some cases. All of that said, I'm a gamer period PC and 360 in my case.

I just wish all games for windows games would have achievements.

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (369)  Talk to GX-Brandon in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Aug 29, 2007 - 12:37 pm
I don't think it will. I think the reason there's so much doom and gloom right now is because the consoles are at the beginning of a new life cycle, but as time passes on the PC will just pull further away from consoles and the segment will grow as gaming in general grows. The PC market may not grow as quickly but it will always be there.

What does disappoint me a little though is hearing companies like id talking about dumbing down their idtech 5 engine for consoles. The old id wouldn't do something like that imo.

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Click to view ZaneZavin's User Page ZaneZavin (86)  Click to view ZaneZavin's User Profile Talk to ZaneZavin in the Shout! Box Aug 29, 2007 - 12:20 pm
I recently bought a pc with Vista Ultimate 32 and 5 gigs of ram 1 of those gigs being flash memory. Problem is it seems 32 bit operating systems are only capable of paging 4gig of memory total. You also have to subtract what is taken up by other resources such as the video card. So my problem is that the OS only recognizes 2.75gb of ram. Do you know of any work around outside of moving to 64bit?

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Click to view Martimus's User Page Martimus (158)  Click to view Martimus's User Profile Talk to Martimus in the Shout! Box Aug 29, 2007 - 06:37 pm
A better explanation of what is going on and what you can do about it is given here in three parts:
http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3034
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3044
http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=3060
It is interesting, and does show some tricks to get more of that 4GB available to your applications, but it won't be possible to use more than 4GB until you move to a 64 bit operating system.

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Click to view Martimus's User Page Martimus (158)  Click to view Martimus's User Profile Talk to Martimus in the Shout! Box Aug 29, 2007 - 06:32 pm
32 bit operating systems can only use 4GB of memory. It is a limitation with 32 bit (2^32 = 4,294,967,296 memory addresses). Windows cuts that in half for convenience, so that it can use the additional 2GB of memory addresses for the operating system. You will never be able to use more that 4GB of memory on a 32bit operating system, so to fix this you would need to go to 64 bit (2^64 = 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 memory addresses). This includes video memory on Vista.

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (369)  Talk to GX-Brandon in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Aug 29, 2007 - 12:24 pm
BTW: An update on BioShock testing. The 2900 XT is scaling TREMENDOUSLY under 32-bit now that I'm forcing DX9.

I'm still having problems getting FRAPS to work with the GeForce cards. Everytime I start FRAPS the game crashes.

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (369)  Talk to GX-Brandon in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Aug 29, 2007 - 12:22 pm
Zane: The OS reports a lower figure but it does recognize all your RAM. I'm surprised Microsoft didn't fix this with Vista, WinXP had the same problem.

With so much system RAM, I doubt you'll see any benefit from Readyboost. You might as well take that 1GB flash drive and use it for conventional storage.

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Click to view ZaneZavin's User Page ZaneZavin (86)  Talk to ZaneZavin in the Shout! Box Aug 29, 2007 - 12:24 pm
Yeah, I had been thinking that. I'll probably remove it just to get rid of the annoying red light it has on the end.

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Click to view ZaneZavin's User Page ZaneZavin (86)  Click to view ZaneZavin's User Profile Talk to ZaneZavin in the Shout! Box Aug 29, 2007 - 12:09 pm
Great, do any FiringSquad Clans exist? I would like the opportunity to kick some of those other websites around a bit.

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (369)  Talk to GX-Brandon in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Aug 29, 2007 - 12:17 pm
I don't think so. Waaay back in the days we the editors at FS would challenge other websites and even companies to matches of Quake/Counter-Strike. That was a loooong time ago though.

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Click to view DanT's User PageI am an AMD Agent DanT (513)  My XFire username is: wanchaiwarrior Click to view DanT's User Profile Talk to DanT in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Aug 29, 2007 - 12:09 pm
» MSI motherboard swap
I've got an MSI motherboard that only recognizes 1/2 my RAM. It's becoming a real problem because I regularly run out of virtual memory.
I'd like to swap it with another mb, but don't want to have to completely rebuild my OS and all my software. Can I swap out the mb with one that uses the same chip set and expect WinXP to adopt to the new system?
One more hurdle.... I am also using the built in RAID on the motherboard. This required a special driver during the original XP installation.

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (369)  Talk to GX-Brandon in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Aug 29, 2007 - 12:16 pm
I've successfully swapped out the motherboard without getting the BSOD in WinXP before, but it's a crapshoot. I always recommend a fresh format before re-installing the OS although I do realize it's a bit inconvenient.

Your RAID question depends on the motherboard you are upgrading to. If you're upgrading for example from an old nForce mobo w/RAID to a Bearlake mobo with RAID it's not going to work.

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Click to view ZaneZavin's User Page ZaneZavin (86)  Click to view ZaneZavin's User Profile Talk to ZaneZavin in the Shout! Box Aug 29, 2007 - 12:03 pm
I like to think of FiringSquad not as just the home of the hardcore gamer, but of the educated gamer. Would you consider this to be accurate?

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Click to view DanT's User PageI am an AMD Agent DanT (513)  My XFire username is: wanchaiwarrior Click to view DanT's User Profile Talk to DanT in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Aug 29, 2007 - 12:10 pm
Wow, we may have to adopt this new name for the site...."Home of the Educated Gamer"

I like it!!!

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (369)  Talk to GX-Brandon in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Aug 29, 2007 - 12:07 pm
Definitely. You guys not only know that Core 2 or whatever product is the fastest, you also know WHY that is.

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