xbox 360 versus my GPU

[Marine-RX179]

why is everything blurry on all of his ps3 and 360 comparisons, even the huds?

Because they are at 1280 res (or below)?

 

[james.miller]

nope, wont be that. None of my ps3 and 360 games look like that.

 

[dave_beast]

My friends who have eggboxes, when they're round they are pretty amazed at BF3 at Ultra, so much so they went and bought it for their consoles. They're pretty dissappoint that it's capped at 30fps!

 

[ALXAndy]

Hmm. Well about five months ago I decided to buy an Xbox 360. Up until that point I had always gamed on a PC ever since the Game cube.

That was the last console I waited up all night to go and get. And tbh it was the first console I had owned since my beloved N64.

Any way, my findings contradicted what I had been told. Basically a large bunch of my friends were into consoles and kept telling me how they were just as good as my PC. So when I bought my 360 I was due another play through of Fallout : New Vegas and as such that was the first and only game I bought for it.

So what was so wrong with it?

Well firstly first impressions were actually somewhat reasonable. It looked quite nice. However, once you start to move it all made sense. What I mean is, in screen shots Fallout New Vegas (whilst obviously missing the FSAA) looked just as good on the 360.

Sadly I soon realised that the missing FSAA would leave me feeling rather ill. Basically as I walked along a road side there were objects in the distance (like tumble weeds and bushes and scrub) that all seemed to glisten. Basically it was because the edges were very coarse and were not being smoothed.

My eyes could see this, and so were trying to focus on those objects as well as the road in front of me. Call me fussy, call my eyes fussy, but it was horrible.

Then I went to the Powder Ganger's NCR prison and had already decided that they were enemies of mine. About fifteen of them come rushing in to greet you and immediately things become very choppy. Like, literally ground to a halt choppy. This took away my ability to shoot myself full of stimpaks "in fight" and I kept dying. The terrible part was that I could not look at it as it was giving me motion sickness.

Now I have a very fussy pair of eyes, but to me that game was rendered basically unplayable.

I didn't feel like playing too much after that, so I tried to sell it. Seems no one wants used Xbox elite 120gbs any more so I gave it away.

Never, ever, again. That's the last time I listen to some peanut who thinks its as good as a herculean PC.

However, what I will say is this. It's actually quite incredible that Fallout New Vegas is even achievable on an old bag of bolts. It's testament to how well an old crusty PC shoved into a small black box performs.

Sadly FONV was basically a rolling slideshow, but still very impressive none the less.

 

[TheRealDeal]

My friends who have eggboxes, when they're round they are pretty amazed at BF3 at Ultra, so much so they went and bought it for their consoles. They're pretty dissappoint that it's capped at 30fps!

Why are they dissapointed as all there other games will have been capped around 30 also. Gameplay is where its at anyway and the wii/ds proved this against much more powerful machines. I have started enjoying console gaming again mainly because the games feel much more polished. It feels like a lot more went into the console exclusive games ie uncharted, infamous and the latest game i have been playing final fantasy 13-2. Even saints row 3 which i tried on my pc was better on the console as it ran like crap on my pc.

The pc has the power to make great games its just a pity that the biggest game developers prefer the consoles. Theres still plenty of life in the pc yet though especially when it comes to sim games and fps. I just dont get the same feeling from the pc as i did back in 2000 when i first started online gaming.

 

[dokko]

Hmm. Well about five months ago I decided to buy an Xbox 360. Up until that point I had always gamed on a PC ever since the Game cube.

That was the last console I waited up all night to go and get. And tbh it was the first console I had owned since my beloved N64.

Any way, my findings contradicted what I had been told. Basically a large bunch of my friends were into consoles and kept telling me how they were just as good as my PC. So when I bought my 360 I was due another play through of Fallout : New Vegas and as such that was the first and only game I bought for it.

So what was so wrong with it?

Well firstly first impressions were actually somewhat reasonable. It looked quite nice. However, once you start to move it all made sense. What I mean is, in screen shots Fallout New Vegas (whilst obviously missing the FSAA) looked just as good on the 360.

Sadly I soon realised that the missing FSAA would leave me feeling rather ill. Basically as I walked along a road side there were objects in the distance (like tumble weeds and bushes and scrub) that all seemed to glisten. Basically it was because the edges were very coarse and were not being smoothed.

My eyes could see this, and so were trying to focus on those objects as well as the road in front of me. Call me fussy, call my eyes fussy, but it was horrible.

Then I went to the Powder Ganger's NCR prison and had already decided that they were enemies of mine. About fifteen of them come rushing in to greet you and immediately things become very choppy. Like, literally ground to a halt choppy. This took away my ability to shoot myself full of stimpaks "in fight" and I kept dying. The terrible part was that I could not look at it as it was giving me motion sickness.

Now I have a very fussy pair of eyes, but to me that game was rendered basically unplayable.

I didn't feel like playing too much after that, so I tried to sell it. Seems no one wants used Xbox elite 120gbs any more so I gave it away.

Never, ever, again. That's the last time I listen to some peanut who thinks its as good as a herculean PC.

However, what I will say is this. It's actually quite incredible that Fallout New Vegas is even achievable on an old bag of bolts. It's testament to how well an old crusty PC shoved into a small black box performs.

Sadly FONV was basically a rolling slideshow, but still very impressive none the less.

Did you install your game?

Never had a slowdown problem with either fallouts on the 360 to that extreme.

Fallout on the pc doesn't look that much better either, stuff like bf3 and Skyrim though is like a different game.

 

[Ch3m1c4L]

nope, wont be that. None of my ps3 and 360 games look like that.

remember that the video is going to be upscaled to 1080p, and then compression youtubes compression. Personally I didnt notice as I ahvent seen the games first hadn as I havent bought them for my xbox. I assume its youtube's video stuff though, since let's plays dont tend to look pixelated on youtube, even on low res, but if you saw it first hand it would be all jaggy as its not "smoothed" as it is in the video.

Could be that, or i could be talking out of my ass :/

 

[ALXAndy]

Did you install your game?

Never had a slowdown problem with either fallouts on the 360 to that extreme.

Fallout on the pc doesn't look that much better either, stuff like bf3 and Skyrim though is like a different game.

Yeah I installed it to the hard drive as I've heard the horror stories about the drive eating discs.

And it does look better on the PC. It really, truly does. Especially when you look at draw distances aliasing and so on. As I said, the xbox is very very crude. It pretends to be a big boy, basically.