GRAW - PC v 360

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Hi Guys

I saw GRAW in action on PC last night and i have to say i'm very surprised at how basic it looks compared to the 360, i was half expecting to see it being as good if not better than the 360 but it doesn't come anywhere close!

How come it looks so different? i remember seeing an article on it a few months ago and i'm sure it stated that the pc version would wipe the floor with the 360 version, how wrong that was!! saying that the 360 is far more powerful than any PC ive seen anyway so i should have expected as much

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Depends on the PC i suppose, but people are getting those pyshx card things for graw and tbh what an absolute load of rubbish! £200 for a card that adds a bit more rubble.

In the Graphics card section theres a pic of it on and off, and even with it on u loose fps! And thats suppose to be the idea of the card :rolleyes:
 
R5Rich said:
Depends on the PC i suppose, but people are getting those pyshx card things for graw and tbh what an absolute load of rubbish! £200 for a card that adds a bit more rubble.

In the Graphics card section theres a pic of it on and off, and even with it on u loose fps! And thats suppose to be the idea of the card :rolleyes:
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lol, i didn't even know about those cards but who would buy one, i would much rather spens the £200 on a 360 than a card that doesn't do much lol
 
by all accounts quite a lot of people would buy one, seem pretty popular and tbh its a complete rip off. Why im so glad i dont concentrate on PC gaming so much now adays
 
£200 for better explosions lmao. I burst out laughing when I saw the price of those things. It just confirms my views that pc gaming is going to get a lot more expensive in future and engines a lot more sluggish with the HDR era looming.

I've seen people with SLI 7800 setups complaining, and it makes me glad I dumped the pc platform for gaming even though I still do miss it.
 
Kainz said:
£200 for better explosions lmao. I burst out laughing when I saw the price of those things. It just confirms my views that pc gaming is going to get a lot more expensive in future and engines a lot more sluggish with the HDR era looming.

I've seen people with SLI 7800 setups complaining, and it makes me glad I dumped the pc platform for gaming even though I still do miss it.
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I'd agree there - PC gaming is getting far too expensive in an effort to stay ahead of consoles. I've still got my X800 XTPE/1gig RAM/AMD64 set up, and I can't see myself buying for a long time unless something radical comes out.
 
The rig I'm on atm is a Barton [email protected] with 1.5gb of ram and a 6800GT AGP. It's been long overdue an upgrade but for what exactly? So I can play one top game, and then try another with a poor engine and frown upon my purchase. It's exactly what happened when I bought the 6800 for AoEIII, and then tried Most Wanted which was a shambolic mess.

My next upgrade will happen a month after Vista arrives, and even then the gpu will be a medium/low end one. Prolly a 7900 or similar which will have enough grunt. Right now this Physx garbage just reminds me of the old days when Diamond bought out the Monster3D soundcard to 'accelerate' pc gaming, oh how I laughed when my mates realised the truth.
 
Lots of chuckles around the office when we saw the price of PhysX. We're pretty much console gamers now, so the sweetness of that price was even sweeter than normal :)

Of course PC gamers get a rather bitter taste :eek:

/awaits Hardware site reviews stating how PhysX is amazing and vastly improves the gaming experience. I say, sit them on a sofa in front of a 100" projected image with surround sound and then ask them to tell you what a real gaming experience is.
 
ive been reading that thread, xbox 360 or a physics card, hmmmm. TBH i dont see the need for them cards, i found the source engine to be more than enough immersion into the game, i.e half life 2
 
Yeah the graphics on the pc version are totally different to the 360's. (this is from screens) Unfortunately i haven't had the pleasure of playing a 360 yet! Are the prices for the PhysX cards gonna drop? :o
 
Thing I don't understand is, I've had two pc gamer mates raving about how the pc version will own the 360. I knew better but cba to argue my point for the 100th time. Anyway, how come Ubisoft didn't develop the pc version? I heard that it also has a different engine? :eek:
 
it was developed by a load of guys who played the first game, or at least thats what i got from pc zone.
The pc bonus are:
-Better Squad control
-Bigger Maps
-Tougher AI
-More Realistic

The last one is because the lead developer for pc makes combat sims for the army most the time :P

All in all i like the demo tough game play :D
 
Anyone who spends £200+ on one of these cards is a mug! what next, a seperate sound filtering card to run side by side with a sound card?

Can't people see the industry is just trying to find new ways of extracting money out of us! this Physx chip should be included with the videocard, god knows we pay enough for them :rolleyes:
 
Kainz said:
£200 for better explosions lmao.
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Is that really any sillier than paying £200+ for better looking explosions?

Also, I find it kind of funny that all the people declaring the death of PC gaming recently are those playing the most PC-like of the consoles. I guess it makes sense though.
 
Weebull said:
Is that really any sillier than paying £200+ for better looking explosions?

Also, I find it kind of funny that all the people declaring the death of PC gaming recently are those playing the most PC-like of the consoles. I guess it makes sense though.
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The explosions just have what looks like little bits of confetti in them, and it puts a rather big strain on the FPS, despite it meaning to be beneficial to the frame rate since it handles with the physics. Pointless.

The most PC-like, but without the upgrading.
 
Weebull said:
Is that really any sillier than paying £200+ for better looking explosions?

Also, I find it kind of funny that all the people declaring the death of PC gaming recently are those playing the most PC-like of the consoles. I guess it makes sense though.
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Let me state a few things here.

Firstly, I've been gaming on the pc for utterly ages since the 386 days. I've seen so many types of new tech come and go since then, and I've also seen little bits of tech arrive with such promise and get shot down in no time at all.

Secondly I hate consoles, full stop. I'm a hardcore keyboard+mouse guy and moving to a pesky controller was the hardest thing I've ever done.

Although only now have I seen a decline in pc gaming as theres only one or two key titles that have interested me in the past few years. I'm at the point where I cannot waste my time upgrading pc's like I once did as I was an avid overclocker. Lastly I saw pc game engines having even larger system requirements as HDR in gaming became more commonplace.

Can anyone justify the price of a PPU? For what? Increased debris and ingame effects? I'm sure things will get much better in time but these early impressions are laughable. In time I hope these things eventually get added to graphics cards themselves as FPU's once did in CPU cores but that's a totally different story.

The 360 has closed the gap between consoles and the pc and I'm standing by it now. So, I'm no fanboy, I just think its sad to see pc gamers having to fork out for a feature in which developers should try and incorporate into their games to the best of their abilities.
 
GTCole said:
Hi Guys

I saw GRAW in action on PC last night and i have to say i'm very surprised at how basic it looks compared to the 360, i was half expecting to see it being as good if not better than the 360 but it doesn't come anywhere close!

How come it looks so different? i remember seeing an article on it a few months ago and i'm sure it stated that the pc version would wipe the floor with the 360 version, how wrong that was!! saying that the 360 is far more powerful than any PC ive seen anyway so i should have expected as much

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When a 360 game isn't very good people are quick to blame the developers and not the console - not unreasonably. So if the PC version of GRAW is crap then it would only be right to lay the blame with the devs and not PCs, right? ;)
 
Weebull said:
Is that really any sillier than paying £200+ for better looking explosions?

Also, I find it kind of funny that all the people declaring the death of PC gaming recently are those playing the most PC-like of the consoles. I guess it makes sense though.
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All consoles are 'PC like' other than Nintendo's offering.
 
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