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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20446 |  Kerrick (145) May 08, 2008 - 04:48 am
| | as long as id doesn't screw us again and leave coop play out it's all good. No coop play will make it suck!! We still play doom & doom 2 once in a while cooperatively, doom3 got played thru once and then put on the shelf. If you can't have fun with your friends, what's the point? Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20394 | Kerrick (145) Apr 24, 2008 - 04:54 am » Edited on Apr 24, 2008 - 05:01 am
| no, they mean the 486sx. No game at all used the fp unit in the chips. The 486sx was a great chip for home users. There was absolutely no difference in performance at all between the 486sx and 486dx for 99% of home users, especially gamers. You were too young to really know apparently at the time. The fp unit was just a waste of money for gamers.
You must be thinking of the 386sx, which really was crippled compared to the 386dx. the 386sx was only 16 bit comparedt to the 32bit 386dx. And the 386dx did not have a fpu either.
and also, comparing the 486sx to the phenom is not good. The 486sx did not have a disabled or broken fp unit. The chips were made without the fp unit to reduce costs.
and as for the 3 core phenom, like was already said. this is a good idea if the price is right, why throw the chip out if 3 of the 4 cores still work? Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20223 | Kerrick (145) Mar 31, 2008 - 04:41 am » Edited on Mar 31, 2008 - 05:21 am
| » crysis test
The conclusion that this article comes to about crysis and multithreading is a little off base I believe.
here is the quote:
"If anything, our benchmarks show that really isn’t the case. In fact, the Core 2 Duo again tears through our timedemo test faster than anything else at 800x600. Given the overclocked result at that resolution, we’re going to guess processing power isn’t the limiting factor there."
I would say that is a bit off. Considering that the ai is disabled in timedemos that is a big conclusion to jump to. I have seen another review that shows the same thing, timedemo's run better on a dual core. But when the game was actually tested with the ai and physics running the quad core's came out on top. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20203 | Kerrick (145) Mar 28, 2008 - 10:09 am
| | It's says a certain percentage of the crashes were caused by these things, but the percentage of actual crashes compared to the installed base is not that high. Most of those high percentages were probably the same people crashing over and over. I've been running vista 64 ultimate for a month now on an nvidia 780i mobo and 8800 gt video card, got sp1 the day after it was out. Have not had a single crash yet. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20055 | Kerrick (145) Mar 20, 2008 - 04:53 am
| why? bluray was/is too expensive. The only reason I went hd is because I needed a new dvd player, and the hd players for $100 with 10 free movies just couldn't be passed up.
nobody is going to take best buy up on this. get a whole $50 to trade in the player and then have a bunch of movies that will cost you $200-$300 to replace if you have to buy them blu ray? I don't think so. And since most of the hd movies I got have the movie in both hd and dvd I can still watch them if the hd player breaks just by getting another cheap dvd player. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20071 | Kerrick (145) Mar 20, 2008 - 04:48 am
| lotro may keep pumping things out, but the game itself still sucks. I played it in beta, thought it was fun for a couple months, then gave up on it, gameplay was severely lacking. the "pretty" graphics, don't make up for lame gameplay and poor animations and poor netcode.
I just bought the game at best buy for $20 to see if it was better than in beta, the netcode is a bit better, but gameplay still sucks.
That being said, WoW is starting to suck also. I know they are aiming for the casual player, but they went way overboard. Now things are way too easy. But it is still a much better game than lotro will ever be I'm afraid. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19941 | Kerrick (145) Mar 13, 2008 - 05:03 am
| | Nowhere did he say it's not a big deal affecting sales. All he said basically was that they would rather not inconvenience the paying players which is more important than trying to stop pirates, since most copy protection doesn't faze them anyway. Piracy is huge, and is affecting all aspects of the computer gaming industry. It's a shame that all the pirates here at this site think that this somehow say's that piracy isn't affecting the industry. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19803 | Kerrick (145) Mar 01, 2008 - 12:19 pm
| | that point is moot anyway. All steam is doing is selling keys. You still have to go to the official eve website to download the game. Why involve a third party that is just going to take a cut of the sale for not actually doing anything. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19690 | Kerrick (145) Feb 22, 2008 - 06:07 am
| have you ever played crysis? It runs fine on my 5 year old 3.2ghz p4 with an x1950 video card. I play it at 1280x960 with everything set to medium, which still looks better than farcry with everything on high!
It's not perfect, but considering how old my computer is, I can't imagine it playing worse on newer computers.
And the gameplay is extremely FUN! just what a game should be. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4454 | Kerrick (145) Feb 15, 2008 - 08:38 am » Edited on Feb 15, 2008 - 08:40 am
| what happened before the video started? We could be missing a big part of the picture and the reason why the cop was so pissed. Sometimes these things are edited just to make the cop look worse. something this particular kid did set the cop off. the other kids weren't being harrassed.
Or it could be that this cop is just an ass. lol. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19331 | Kerrick (145) Jan 30, 2008 - 08:39 pm
| | hmm, let's see now. National Geographic videos are distributed by WB. WB announced that they are going bluray only. Now NG announces they are going bluray only!! Imagine that!! This is the most stupid news item I've seen in a while. Of course they are going bluray, they had no choice since WB is the one making them. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19278 | Kerrick (145) Jan 29, 2008 - 06:05 am
| | the numbers do mean something. It doesn't matter when the game came out. They are only releasing total sale numbers for the year. So whether it came out 4 years ago or 6 months ago we still know how many sold in 2007. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19287 | Kerrick (145) Jan 28, 2008 - 09:08 am
| | I'm not impressed. Looking at the graphs with the average framerate everything looks rosy. But when you look at the minimum framerates, the amd/ati cards just don't cut it. They were dipping down close to 20fps in some games when 8800 was only dropping into the 50's! Minimum framerates are what make or break the game, not the artificial average you get because of some freakishly high fps you get at the other end. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19222 | Kerrick (145) Jan 25, 2008 - 05:56 am » Edited on Jan 25, 2008 - 05:58 am
| Eve is alright for the first few months. then once you've done the same missions over and over and over hundreds of times you get bored and leave. Unless you like to pvp, that is the only thing to do after running the same 10 missions over and over. Then get you're credit card ready to buy lots of game money to keep replacing the ships and equipment you lose in pvp.
And as for being on steam, that's worthless. All you will be able to do according to ccp is buy a game key on steam. You will still have to go to ccp's website to download the game and get any patches. What's the point? When you download the game from ccp, you can play for 14 day's free to try it out. If you like it, then you just pay them and get the key, leave the middleman out of it!! Flag this | Edit this post |
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