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HighlandeR said:
Same here. Been tiding me over nicely though.
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Its a bit boring now don't you think?
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Same here. Been tiding me over nicely though.
cyclops12 said:same here just got a new bike 6 months ago
had to stop myself a few times hitting the buy it now button
no games that take my fancy at the moe so im gona wait it out
this is the longest ive been inbetween upgrades lol its hard work
My interest in PC cools off when its summer.
There are so many other things to do.
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Yawn, whens Quake Wars coming. Everything seems to miss its release date, Medal Of Honor and Crysis look good and Kane and Lynch as long as its not a dodgy port. Had to play Medieval Total War 2 and BF2142 just to keep ticking over!! S.T.AL.K.E.R is O.K but its a pain travelling back through levels.
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jrodga2k5 said:Glad I saved Half-Life 2 Episode 1 until now to play
aye true, games are a lot better to play when theres actually hardware to run them at full glory,
i mean when i got farcry free with a agp6600 it was the dogs dangles to run it at low settings!
and some hardware still cant run it full with 16x AA etc..
man_from_uncle said:
Doesn't actually have quite a number of games that i have
Yes, its boring when you own the same graphics card for almost a year, thankfully I've changed to a quadro fx4600 so that was interesting to mess around with for about 5 hours before i had to do work with it.
Waiting patiently for the G92 + X38
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Legionaire68 said:
Quake War's will come out when Splash Damage pull there damn fingers out there asses
I have a feeling that too many games companies are loosing business through pirating ATM.
Exclusively online games will be harder to crack, unless some people manage to set up private servers (pirate servers?), probably quite common
.
If the game is single player, or has a single player mode , that can be cracked for sure
Other problems:
Need to supply:
Drivers supporting XP 32 bit,
Drivers supporting XP 64 bit.
Drivers supporting Vista 32 bit.
Drivers suppoting Vista 64 bit.
Drivers supporting OS: Foo, version: Bar, ETc, Etc, etc.
A lot of the new games writers are going to want to build in some DX10 code/mode.
They also have to write DX9 compatible code ATM, as it would be suicidle to write a DX10 only app ATM.
The architecture of DX10 hardware, and DX10 software at the driver level is drastically different from DX9 (software not so much different at API level).
Check this out guys, it's a beautiful thing
DX10 with its unified shaders and virtualized memory will be a major stepup IMO.
Only (
) problem is that this will take quite a lot of work in this "crossover" period, both for the driver writers and the games programmers ( DX10 API/SDK users).
The DX10 model is really not backwards compatible with previous versions of DX at all, which is a major break from the norm.
Suppoting lagacy systems has its drawbacks re: inefficiecy.
Creating a new architecture and developing for it also has its drawbacks (it takes time).
Also, (in this specific case ) you couldn't just write a game that uses DX10 ATM 'cause that would limit the buyers to people with DX10 hardware (and Vista!).
ATM, Games writers wanting to utilise DX10 would have to write two different apps to support DX10 or DX9, or a single app which will use different code paths to use DX10 / DX9 depending on your hardware and options.
I would imagine the latter.
At the API/SDK level, DX10 and DX9 aren't too different, but to write OPTEMISED code for either could be quite different.
Personally, I think ( a theory ) that the delay with new games maybe due to them wanting to support DX9 and DX10, with the architecture of DX10 being drastically different from any of its predessors causing the delay.
IMO, I think there is a lot to come from DX10 yet at the driver, API and game level.
DX10 is brand new guys, give it time.
Dave
Exclusively online games will be harder to crack, unless some people manage to set up private servers (pirate servers?), probably quite common
.If the game is single player, or has a single player mode , that can be cracked for sure
Other problems:
Need to supply:
Drivers supporting XP 32 bit,
Drivers supporting XP 64 bit.
Drivers supporting Vista 32 bit.
Drivers suppoting Vista 64 bit.
Drivers supporting OS: Foo, version: Bar, ETc, Etc, etc.
A lot of the new games writers are going to want to build in some DX10 code/mode.
They also have to write DX9 compatible code ATM, as it would be suicidle to write a DX10 only app ATM.
The architecture of DX10 hardware, and DX10 software at the driver level is drastically different from DX9 (software not so much different at API level).
Check this out guys, it's a beautiful thing
DX10 with its unified shaders and virtualized memory will be a major stepup IMO.
Only (
) problem is that this will take quite a lot of work in this "crossover" period, both for the driver writers and the games programmers ( DX10 API/SDK users).The DX10 model is really not backwards compatible with previous versions of DX at all, which is a major break from the norm.
Suppoting lagacy systems has its drawbacks re: inefficiecy.
Creating a new architecture and developing for it also has its drawbacks (it takes time).
Also, (in this specific case ) you couldn't just write a game that uses DX10 ATM 'cause that would limit the buyers to people with DX10 hardware (and Vista!).
ATM, Games writers wanting to utilise DX10 would have to write two different apps to support DX10 or DX9, or a single app which will use different code paths to use DX10 / DX9 depending on your hardware and options.
I would imagine the latter.
At the API/SDK level, DX10 and DX9 aren't too different, but to write OPTEMISED code for either could be quite different.
Personally, I think ( a theory
) that the delay with new games maybe due to them wanting to support DX9 and DX10, with the architecture of DX10 being drastically different from any of its predessors causing the delay.IMO, I think there is a lot to come from DX10 yet at the driver, API and game level.
DX10 is brand new guys, give it time.
Dave
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Dave2150 said:
Who Easy?, Impossible !, he's permanently fixed to his high horse
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There is currently no more to play on consoles than there is on PC, its summer, enjoy the real world, then we can all cocoon ourselves away at the first sign of winter
I had my 360 break recently, considered buying another one, but then I realised the only thing i played on it was pro evo 6 online.
I ended up buying a new pc for games, got pro evo and wow, and im happy.
I had my 360 break recently, considered buying another one, but then I realised the only thing i played on it was pro evo 6 online.
I ended up buying a new pc for games, got pro evo and wow, and im happy.
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Got rid of my 360 when I realised I kept going back decent RTS games and once you've played Gears and Call of Duty 3 you can get nearly all the 360 games on PC for hat least 2/3 the price. Was tempted by PS3 but my mates(couch potato) got one and still uses his 360 more.
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pegasus1 said:
Do you use a driving wheel for that game?
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easyrider said:
yeh your right
mmmmmmm let me see, playing crap games or down the beach surfing and hanging out with mates and checking out the ladys
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still waiting for a GFX card that can run FM2007 at full FPS