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- Spoonicus, on 05/31/2009, -10/+434"Sliding that long card into a tight PCI Express slot always feels so good. "
Ohhhh Yeah, who's been a baaad mobo? - inactive, on 05/31/2009, -5/+3289 out of 10 experts ® agree that future technology will improve.
- Mohdoo, on 05/31/2009, -2/+236What an incredibly misleading title. There was no new information at all.
God damn I hate ***** blogs. - acolytegerm, on 05/31/2009, -25/+156All though I am all for better graphics and shiny things, its just funny and ironic that the next gen console with the worst graphics is the current highest selling console. I guess a photo might say a 1000 words, but having fun while taking that photo says a 1000 more.
- JamesBondQ, on 05/31/2009, -10/+109The wii is good and all, but nothing compares to playing online the way the other platforms let you.
Just because older people are finally buying the wii, doesn't mean the whole industry needs to turn to the casual market, have you seen the garbage companies have been trying to pump out? - h0ser, on 05/31/2009, -0/+90this guy is a windbag. Title talks about the future, 90% of the article is about the past.
- fury420, on 05/31/2009, -1/+89did you miss the near-constant drug addiction theme of the article?
- Hoxie, on 05/31/2009, -2/+73The other one is an idiot.
- marx2k, on 05/31/2009, -7/+76"But lines aren't very exciting, unless they're white and Bolivian in origin."
What the.. - lazyink, on 05/31/2009, -2/+71yes indeedy, in the future, technology will be betterer..
- evil-doer, on 05/31/2009, -11/+79nintendo are the ***** masters at making stuff that people want, until they have it.
i bought a ds and i never touch the thing. everyone i know that has one is the same.
same goes for the wii. tons of people i know that bought them thought it was the best thing ever, for a week or two. now they gather dust. im not sure how this happened. i absolutely loved the nes and snes, and ill still load up an emulator to play lots of those games today. the novelty of these new systems wears off so quickly. - jrm125, on 05/31/2009, -1/+52Well, do the old games stutter, or just the new ones? new games, higher requirements, and you're scaling along with it.
That, or you're doing something totally wrong. - thebrokenlight, on 05/31/2009, -1/+449 out of 10 experts agree that the other 1 out of 10 experts is an idiot.
- Khast, on 05/31/2009, -3/+37That's not exactly the system's fault. That is the fault of the game company who makes the games themselves.
The Wii is quite capable, despite it not having the graphic resources. Any system, even the PS3 is capable of having ***** games...it is the developers who put the quality in the game, not the system specs. - evil-doer, on 05/31/2009, -2/+36"But I better see performance improvements of at least 2x that of a CPU, and it better be more like 5X - 10X the performance of current CPU technology for me to take it seriously."
uh...... if they had a cpu thats DOUBLE the speed of a current intel or amd cpu you wouldnt take it seriously? are you an idiot? in other words, as powerful as a 6+ghz intel/amd, and thats not enough for you to even consider it?
idiot. - themastersb, on 05/31/2009, -6/+39My Wii is my gimmick and my PC is my power house.
- BananaChips, on 05/31/2009, -4/+35Crysis.
- onux16, on 05/31/2009, -2/+31In plain text: "lines aren't very exciting, unless they're [cocaine]"
- cawfee, on 05/31/2009, -0/+28Two reasons:
1) Developers code and test the game on a number of systems to ensure stability (unless you're talking about developers under EA in which case they're just slavedriven to put ***** in a box and call it a day), but even then there's likely to be a configuration (namely yours) that they haven't encountered and that causes slowdowns or crashes.
Usually there's patches to fix that, but with the current trend of releasing unfinished games and adding on to them later (or even just making them playable through a patch), it's pretty much become culprit #1 for slow and laggy games.
2) You could be demanding framerates that the engine can't support. If you look at many RTS titles like Warcraft 3 and C&C3 (might seem outdated, but the principle remains the same), they're all capped at 30 frames per second, and if you're used to playing a lot of high-FPS shooters, you might notice some slowdowns or hitches that aren't really that much of an issue to anyone else. You're limited by a game's engine in that case, and if it falters while displaying 50+ units on screen, it's the engine's fault, not your computers'.
That plus playing all games on "Ultra" setting will result in disappointment, because even if you have the latest water-cooled Reactor Ultra-X Gaming machine for $6000, you can revert right back to 1) where the system configuration doesn't get along with the game all too well. - acegi, on 05/31/2009, -1/+29graphics isn't 'just' graphics.
having more powerful hardware enables a lot of things, for example, mass A.I. mass physics and mass polycounts & characters.
it's one thing to have some wii RPG displaying a town of 5 NPC's, and another to have a realistic city with thousands of NPC's in real-time. - ej1oo1, on 05/31/2009, -1/+27SPOILER: intel
- pGizmo, on 05/31/2009, -2/+27Jesus, this author doesn't know how to get to the damn point.
- Nickolassc, on 05/31/2009, -2/+24Only if your game is swapping to the hard-drive during play. Ram is so cheap now there really isn't a reason to go with less than 8 GB on a 64 bit setup.
- Shadic, on 05/31/2009, -0/+22Hey, sentences complete type.
- Llanowar, on 05/31/2009, -0/+22I wouldn't ever again leave my room if I could play a RPG with realistic graphics which has actual towns with thousands of NPC's.
It always saddens me to see so called "big towns" which have at max 20 houses. a few shops and some people walking around.
But, I think it will be a long time before we're at such a point. - YuviC, on 05/31/2009, -2/+23Actually, consoles have never been better than computers. I know it's so hard to believe, but your "all mighty" PS3 is melted poop compared to any good gaming computer.
- inactive, on 05/31/2009, -0/+20More like "The PAST of graphics cards revealed"
- lear, on 05/31/2009, -13/+33let me ask you something...
why is it that no matter how current my graphics card is, the games i play still have a stutter to them? you would think getting an up-to-date motherboard, ram & video card combo would run any game as smooth as can be, but you would be wrong. this is a strange phenomenon to me.
is it because as video power increases so do the latest game's video power consumption increases as well? - Junkyarddawg, on 05/31/2009, -2/+21nVidia and AMD have the right idea, intel the wrong.
nVidia, and to a lesser degree AMD, want to offload complex mathematics from the general purpose CPU to the much more efficient GPU, like the PS3 did.
Intel wants to bring the graphics stuff from the GPU back to the CPU by making the CPU more complex.
One of the above is not a good move.
Also Intels's been doing graphics cards for a long time. They've just not been very good. - Exodin, on 05/31/2009, -0/+18If your PC is a cluttered mess it's going to run poorly, and from experience with other peoples PCs that is almost always the case.
- Veni_Vidi_Vici, on 05/31/2009, -3/+21Pr0n.
It's FTW. - mahnic, on 06/01/2009, -1/+17I usually have to force it in there, sometimes I worry I'm a little too hard on it.
- PsychoBrat, on 06/01/2009, -0/+15It was a bunch of old news and waffle mixed up to amount to not much at all.
But if you'd like a summary anyway: Intel are making videocards based on an architecture they call Larabee, which swaps out conventional GPU design for a ***** of "normal" CPUs on a board, with only a few specialised graphics components. In theory it looks good, but nobody outside Intel has gotten to play with them much, so it's mostly speculation and ***** at this point. - SummerofGeorge, on 05/31/2009, -2/+17while various components in the rest of your computer can handle data at a stable 1-5GB/s, your hard drive is where everything starts...
you'd be lucky to sustain rates of 300mb/s from even the best hard drives on the market; that's what causes the stuttering - Nickolassc, on 05/31/2009, -1/+16A lot of the games that run poorly are very poorly coded or most likely aren't multithreaded so you are only taking advantage of 1 core on your processor and the game is CPU bound.
- fangor, on 05/31/2009, -2/+16lol what a drug addict
- nullcodes, on 05/31/2009, -2/+16How is Larrabee techniology the future of graphics cards when at the end of the article they say that it won't even outperform the current high end graphics cards?
- PsychoBrat, on 06/01/2009, -0/+13Don't worry, there was no new information in that article at all.
- CodeCobalt, on 05/31/2009, -1/+14maybe once they can make larger SSD's at a more affordable price. Till then, just get enough RAMM to load the entire game to. That way when you play your HDD never needs to spin, besides when you start-up.
- Topher06, on 05/31/2009, -19/+31All I have to say is bring it, stop talking about it. If nVidia is set to release a GPU that can perform all the tasks a CPU can do, then that will be awesome. But I better see performance improvements of at least 2x that of a CPU, and it better be more like 5X - 10X the performance of current CPU technology for me to take it seriously. I am tired of overhyped technology that delivers like < 10% performance improvement over the competition.
Also from what I have seen from CUDA, its a big meh from me. The Badaboom video encoder suffers from poor software design, instability and a general lack of respect for end users and while its built-in profiles might convert a DVD to iPhone video quickly, its generally lacking in so many ways from CPU based video encoders its almost unusable. Also how many people really care about the only to other big CUDA projects Folding@home or Seti@home?
I think nVidia is suffering from a marketing PR disaster. They have a platform with an ability of performing some general processing tasks very well, but there is absolutely no interest in offering good quality software using GP-GPU technology. Without the "it" application, GP-GPU technology is stillborn IMHO and nVidia can boast all they want about having 512+ hardware threads available to software developers, but if there is nothing to do with them then who cares really.
Make an app that can convert DVD video to any profile I want that takes under 10 minutes to do and I am sold, otherwise shut up about it. - NoNameWorks, on 05/31/2009, -1/+13I have a new appreciayion for some people's ability to make a short story long without any new info.
- damack, on 05/31/2009, -3/+15The reason consoles were created was because people wanted a cheapter alternative to a slightly more expensive console that had games that didn't require as much though or time.
Your average console owner probably doesn't spend more than 5 hours a week gaming unlike your video game whore who has dozens of games and spends many hours a week in a virtual world.
The Wii just took the cheap, easy to use, fun games thing and took it to an entirely new level.
For a father of two or a elderly gentleman the Wii provides fine entertainment.
The PC on the other hand isn't for a gather of two or an elderly gentleman. Most of the more astute PC gamers know their ins and outs and love tweaking their system to get the best out of it.
The Wii provides simplicity and fun game play for those that can't commit a lot of hours and the PC covers the rest of the market for the games who love playing with resolutions, love full HD shiny graphics etc etc.
If you look at it strictly from a profit point of view Nintendo and Blizzard pretty much have the market to themselves making heads and heels above any other developer on the market.
The others are losing hundreds of millions in revenue on a yearly basis(Microsoft, Sony, Activison, Ubisoft, Atari, EA are all included in that list going off their last 4 quarters in revenue). - hinchb, on 06/01/2009, -0/+11So many words yet so little information
- hinchb, on 06/01/2009, -0/+11I see many terrible posts in your past so I envision you will have negative diggs
- shrudheuie, on 05/31/2009, -2/+12I gave up after half the article about the "future" of graphics cards was still talking about voodoo3. Can someone fill me in on how it ends?
- tehrich, on 05/31/2009, -2/+12You have a DS and don't use it? I don't believe it. There are TONS of good games out for that.
- fasda, on 05/31/2009, -1/+11or thinks their will be some kind of collapse or apocalypse.... so not just stupid but crazy as well
- frcc, on 05/31/2009, -1/+11The article says Larrabee is the future because it will cost more and run hotter because of size and not have the performance to compete with existing gpus.
- JamesBondQ, on 05/31/2009, -1/+11I'm never a fan of these articles. For a while, I'd hold out on buying a graphics card because of the big thing coming out next quarter...
But really, its not like technology's ever going to get worse. - ChileanGoD, on 06/01/2009, -0/+9Hold on to that conclusion of yours. We'll see what happens in a couple of years.
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