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| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/22 |  Martimus (158) Apr 05, 2007 - 12:52 pm
| | Me too. I had three choices when I booted up. Boot into Windows, Boot into DOS with memory configurations set for games (and mouse and cd-drive), and a regular boot into DOS. I don't remember exactly how I had each configuration set up, but it was pretty easy to code the files to do whatever I wanted. I should go back and try to find that Batch file and see what I did. I don't even remember any of the commands anymore, other than Echo. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Matrix Blog Link » /matrix/blog.asp/11053/410 | Martimus (158) Apr 05, 2007 - 07:59 am
| | I like the changes. It really makes the information flow better, at least to me. I updated my score as well. It is a very good article, and I appreciate the work that you put in. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Matrix Blog Link » /matrix/blog.asp/11053/410 | Martimus (158) Apr 04, 2007 - 11:02 am » Edited on Apr 04, 2007 - 11:06 am
| The reason I suggest typing out the primary settings you used is two-fold. First, you don't force the reader to search for these settings, which breaks up the flow of the article, and may even keep the reader from finishing it. Second, the settings are displayed in completely different formats in each picture, which makes it even more difficult to compare what settings are used between the games. If you had actually written out those settings, you could have standardized the way they were portrayed and made the flow of information to the reader easier to understand. You could still include the screen shots of the settings if you wanted to show exactly how each of the games was set up, but I would like to see the major points such as screen resolution, AA, AF, and Dynamic Lighting settings shown in a standard shared format for each game that was tested. It could be done in a single sentence (Use the same general sentence structure for each), or a short table under each game. As a reader who plans to use the information written in this review, this was the main issue that I had while reading it.
edit: Of course if you used the same settings in each game, you could just write what settings you used in the beginning, and just comment on changes made in the standard settings that you defined when you review each of the games. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Matrix Blog Link » /matrix/blog.asp/11053/410 | Martimus (158) Apr 03, 2007 - 04:52 pm » Edited on Apr 03, 2007 - 04:58 pm
| I couldn't find where you listed what settings you enabled in-game. I happen to have that card and I am interested to see how these games do with it. Other than when you mentioned if dynamic lighting was enabled, I can't tell what video settings you enabled in each game - not even the resolution.
Please add that information to the review and I will score it then. Thanks for writing this, it is very useful to me, and it seems pretty well written!
edit: I now see the settings in the pictures. Considering that the pictures are off to the side and out of the way, it may still be a good idea to write out the primary display settings in the main part of the article. That would still be a good idea even if the pictures were embedded in the article, because then you could organize how the information is portrayed and make a better "apples to apples" comparison. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=14845 | Martimus (158) Mar 30, 2007 - 01:41 pm » Edited on Mar 30, 2007 - 01:38 pm
| http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=2955
http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2939
It sounds like Nehalem will have most of the same features at Barcelona. We'll have to see how they compare in practice. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=3968 | Martimus (158) Mar 21, 2007 - 04:40 pm
| | I have lived here for 20 years. The houses in Detroit, with the exception of those on the river front are VERY poor investments. Plus with city laws the way they are, you could lose your house easily by someone coming by with an old deed and just taking it from you, even if you got it from the city for one dollar so that you would fix up a condemned home. (They sell them for a dollar, then give you something like a year to bring it up to code. It is cheaper than demolishing it, and the city is in serious financial trouble.) Many people have lost homes they put tens of thousands into, even hundreds of thousands into from a fake deed showing up. The only reason that Detroit homes are selling well right now is because they are so cheap, and Michigan's economy is really bad now after the trouble the car companies are in. It used to be the second richest place in the country, and it now has the highest unemployement rate. Flag this | Edit this post |
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