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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19600 |  Major Shtupping (153) Feb 15, 2008 - 09:45 am
| I just got GH3 for the PC this week. I wonder if/how/where I can get Dream On. Not a HUGE Aerosmith fan, but if it's free, it's for me.
BTW, there's an option to play using the keyboard. It works, but the fun is in using the guitar, isn't it? Good thing it comes with an xbox 360 guitar. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19456 | Major Shtupping (153) Feb 06, 2008 - 11:24 pm
| It could be a whole bunch of mini-games:
1) a Paulie Bleeker race like Track & Field.
2) a GTA like timer mission where you have to drive Juno to the hospital
3) definitely some Guitar Hero action when Juno and Paulie play guitars at the end.
4) There could be hidden tic-tac boxes all over that unlock things like the cigarettes in Chronicles of Riddick
Maybe even a sunny-d mod where you get to knock Juno up. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19414 | Major Shtupping (153) Feb 06, 2008 - 07:22 am
| Yeah, it was purchased only this past September, and commented extensively on this board, so I guess YaThink doesn't remember back that far.
The physics wars are different than the normal FPS fights between Nvidia/ATI. They are both free to develop their own tech as long as it is compatible to the current Microsoft Direct X spec.
With physics there is no spec, and it is just like the High Def video wars where everyone wants just one tech, but it has to be their own tech and they refuse to support the other.
Even with nVidia's high end success, the numbers are all in the low/middle end, and its still about 50/50 there.
No game company is going to make a game for less than 50% of the market, so physics, no matter who's, will only continue to be used trivially.
Hopefully, Intel will stay out of the discreet video card market for a while, so everyone will keep using Havok.
Sadly, at this point for gamers, the best thing that could happen is for Microsoft to roll a physics standard into a future Direct X spec. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19058 | Major Shtupping (153) Jan 11, 2008 - 02:09 am
| I was just discussing the other day how no one except Left4Dead and Vampire:Masquerade bothered to license the Source engine. Everyone's gone with UT3.
Now apparently it's just down to V:M.
Seriously, what is it with Valve buying up the good multiplayer mods for its games (like it did with CS)? Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18913 | Major Shtupping (153) Dec 27, 2007 - 10:19 am
| Labotomizer, yeah I agree with you 80%. I'm sure that improving effective yields is most of it. However,companies have been known to disable and/or lower bin parts just to make price points. Also read D1nOnly's post on why they might also do it.
D1nOnly:
I agree completely. I simplified it too much and knew the word "always" would bite me in the rump. It's just that my posts always seem to be book length, and I was trying to go for brevity.
I'm an excessive multi-tasker, my work apps support multi-core, and my QX6700 runs every game but Crysis like butter so quad is better for me. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18913 | Major Shtupping (153) Dec 27, 2007 - 06:52 am
| I've read elsewhere that the spin AMD is putting on it is that they are purposely disabling the least over-clockable core, so that the tri-cores will overclock better. Without the PR spin, at the least they are promising very good overclocks with these.
Now, IMHO, I'm pretty sure 4 normal clocked cores would almost always give better performance than 3 overclocked ones unless the 3 had a HUGE over-clock. But then again, whenever you experience problems or crashes the first thing you do is turn off the oc, which you never have to do with a regular clocked machine. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18913 | Major Shtupping (153) Dec 26, 2007 - 07:15 pm
| "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
5 threads are nothing.
Threads can be either time-sliced or multi-processor threaded. Currently, my quad core with firefox and acrobat open has between 745-752 threads open with 1% CPU usage.
Don't believe me? Check your own machine. Open your task mangler and click on the performance tab. It lists the amount of threads your pc is currently processing. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17616 | Major Shtupping (153) Sep 28, 2007 - 12:46 pm
| This is an odd time to post this non-committal article. It's right on the cusp of the release of DX10's poster-child Crysis.
If DX10 looks no different or runs too slow on it, then there would be no compelling reason at all. And since you keep previewing all parts of Crysis, it seems as if you know the answer already.
Personally when I bought my DX10 card, there weren't ANY DX10 games out yet, and seeing as it was a new OS, DX revision, and GPU there was every possibility that the DX10 performance could suck.
So why did I buy it? Easy -- the DX9 performance. The card would allow me to crank the graphics settings to 11 and play at 19x12 on just about any game. The DX10 future compatibility was a minor selling point.
If you compare the performance of top of the line DX9 only cards against these DX10cards, the DX10 cards are the only choice.
The article's title is "Is DX10 Really Worth It?" though, and with the cureent games the easy answer is "Does it make my game play choppy, because otherwise, why not?" Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17598 | Major Shtupping (153) Sep 27, 2007 - 06:52 am
| I'm betting my $5 on the black box pricing on Steam being announced after the games go officially on sale.
Their plan is to upsell the orange to everyone possible, and many people wouldn't buy it if there was a hint of a cheaper set.
DiRT and Overlord can hold me another 2 weeks or so. That Codemasters company certainly has been making a bunch of good games. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17572 | Major Shtupping (153) Sep 26, 2007 - 01:58 am
| This is the most unexpected and interesting news I've heard in about 6 months.
The graphics industry becoming a 3 horse race and on the outside of possibility 4 if Intel jumps in.
The most fascinating possibility would be a PS3 graphics mode that would make PS3 ports trivial (and seems to me to be the most obvious reason for this sony creation). Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17535 | Major Shtupping (153) Sep 24, 2007 - 04:51 am » Edited on Sep 24, 2007 - 04:55 am
| Personally, I like and use Vista64. That being said, I am really really happy with MS's decision.
This "downgrade" only applies to Vista Business and Ulitmate only. After all the patching, the only real problem left with Vista is playing nice on a network with XP.
Since that's what businesses have, and aren't going to upgrade ALL their machines any time soon, purchasing a new machine that only had Vista Business became problematic. They couldn't get valid serials (since they didn't have Enterprise licenses) for XP so any downgrade they did before this was illegal.
Now my clients can be legally compliant and happy.
Besides most businesses are buying underpowered machines as they run office just fine for most workers and Vista puts the hurt on lower memoried machines.
Also businesses won't have to support multiple OS's. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17534 | Major Shtupping (153) Sep 24, 2007 - 04:38 am
| I don't know what you were expecting, as they've called it a stand alone expansion from the beginning.
"Stand alone expansion" translates into using the same engine and code. So except for some different weapons, maps, and enemies, it should be almost exactly the same.
It's been like that since Doom. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17418 | Major Shtupping (153) Sep 20, 2007 - 12:51 am
| I do not know why people always buy the "price increase or get in-game ads" rationale.
Companies spew this line to sugar coat something that they know their customers do not want. It's called "positive spin"
Any MBA would tell you that the in-game ads are a separate revenue stream. Just like comic books, animated series, toys, movies etc...
Would you believe the line: "Would you pay $10 more or go see our crappy Wing Commander movie?"
Everyone who says they'd vote Neither is right because the two aren't an either or situation.
Lord Orion, you are 100% right with your comment about it subsidizing crappy games. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17420 | Major Shtupping (153) Sep 16, 2007 - 07:43 pm
| I never heard of McRae before Wednesday, as I'm not a fan of car racing. But I heard DiRT was good so I picked it up and played it ALL weekend, laughing my butt off at my and my best friend's driving and loving the game (a first for car racing games).
I feel for his family, especially for his wife.
Luckily for gamers though, it shouldn't have anything to do with future titles, as games shouldn't need celebrity endorsement to succeed.
Did ANYONE say "Oh well, John Madden put his name on this, so it HAS to be good?" Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17396 | Major Shtupping (153) Sep 15, 2007 - 08:06 pm
| You are making several assumptions...
1) That pushing the rendering to the client side has trivial benefits.
2) The server still has to keep track of all those states and force all that information through the network.
Why is this the case? Currently when an object is destroyed (lets say a crate), the parts go flying, land and disappear. They can't affect anything, so why keep that load on the server side? Since the crate parts can't damage someone else standing next to the crate, why can't the processing all be done on each client? Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17413 | Major Shtupping (153) Sep 14, 2007 - 06:51 pm
| I am surprised and saddened to hear this.
This tech was looking much better than Ageia until now. It all hinges on whether Intel bought it because they thought investment would eventually help them sell more CPUs, or more likely they want to take it away from AMD or make it run worse.
This will eventually marginalize it and help us to all need to eventually invest in Ageia.
Unless Microsoft becomes the savior and incorporates their own physics API into DX10.
You heard it here first... Microsoft would have the chance to be the good guys for once. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17409 | Major Shtupping (153) Sep 14, 2007 - 01:24 pm
| Ah but there it is. If kids have access to remotes that act like toy guns, then parents actually have to spend time with their kids teaching them not to Wiizap people.
This way, they can just protest a little before the product comes out and go back to ignoring their kids education.
Its the same thing with sex. The preferred plan is to teach kids "Just Say NO". That way you don't have to teach them anything about what they are saying NO to. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17396 | Major Shtupping (153) Sep 14, 2007 - 01:19 pm » Edited on Sep 14, 2007 - 01:27 pm
| 30-40% won't be before 10 years or more at the current Vista adoption rate.
I disagree with that statement because it is almost impossible to buy a consumer PC without Vista. So almost every new PC sold this year and onwards will be Vista.
Small businesses and home businesses are just as screwed. Remember it is only ENTERPRISE CLASS licences that can get XP for their new machines. And for every corporate drone who bangs away on an XP PC all day, he goes home and uses his personal PC (stuck with Vista).
30-40% market penetration in 2 years on the outside. That's why it's called a Monopoly. Good or Bad, we are stuck with it. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17396 | Major Shtupping (153) Sep 14, 2007 - 09:29 am
| Oh I certainly hope neither MS nor EA buy Crytek. They've done just fine on their own (except in marketing the far cry engine - because no one licensed it). I was just commenting on the fact that MS usually scoops up the best thing to push their product.
In June of 2000 people were talking about Halo the way they talk about Crysis. MS bought the company and all of a sudden it went from a PC exclusive to an XBox exclusive, with the PC version coming out 2 years later as a poor XBox port even though the game was originally developed on and for the PC.
Luckily MS has kept their big fat fingers out of Crysis. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17396 | Major Shtupping (153) Sep 14, 2007 - 09:22 am
| and then in a year or two, that 2-3% is now 30-40% as the tech works its way down to the mid and low end.
Every new video card introduced this year and going forward will be DX10 compatible, and they are already in the $100 range.
It's just like NASCAR racing. How many people can afford a racing car? They are in the $2 million range I'm told. Not counting upkeep and crew. Yet all the car companies develop tech for the racers, and eventually you get anti-lock brakes on your car. Flag this | Edit this post |
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