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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22326 |  LORD ORION (1334) Nov 18, 2009 - 01:09 pm
| >>Upgrade and customize armies with new weapons and technology and deploy them instantly on the battlefield, turning a base-level tank into a high-powered, multi-barreled, anti-aircraft-sporting multipurpose battle unit
Bleah... this was already tried in Earth 2150. Fail.
Everything else sounds great though...
Still SupCom didn't have the feel of the masterpiece known as Total Annihilation. Maybe this one will be closer. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4547 | LORD ORION (1334) Oct 23, 2009 - 07:34 am
| Naw, ultimately the problem is fractional reserve banking. It doesn't matter how well you run this kind of system, it is always going to implode.
This kind of system has been ruining countries since the days of Rome.
Google Money As Debt if you want to learn how idiotic our monetary system is since the Federal Reserve was implemented. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22202 | LORD ORION (1334) Oct 09, 2009 - 12:09 pm
| Kudos for putting big bright flashing lights around "Not the original developers!" (metaphorically speaking)
I loved the first flashpoint, and this is nothing more then obfuscation to make money with a name.
You liked the Original Flashpoint? Play ARMAII :D Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22160 | LORD ORION (1334) Sep 23, 2009 - 03:38 pm » Edited on Sep 23, 2009 - 03:38 pm
| I am more interested to see how much parallel horsepower this hardware can provide.
It's running on Intel machne code, which menas you don't need a layer like CUDA or Brook+ to use the hardware effectvely.
Since what you do in normal engineering works on Larabee... I am pretty sure it will be a success unless it is terribly slow compared to proprietary stream processing from ATI and Nvidia. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22155 | LORD ORION (1334) Sep 23, 2009 - 08:05 am
| Fair enough Yoshi, but I would say low end nettops and laptops have the illusion of adequate performance, not because they are good systems, but because the software is not taking advantage of the higher end models.
No more free rides for crappy hardware in the near future.
I'm aiming this comment right at the Atom class and friends... they can only exsist because of this problem. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22158 | LORD ORION (1334) Sep 22, 2009 - 10:34 pm » Edited on Sep 22, 2009 - 10:40 pm
| OK hear me out, I am trying to be constructive to the whole benchmark industry... but this is FiringSquad so you should expect a little bit of caustic sass.
Every 5800 series benchmark I have seen so far is SHIT!
I am a HARDCORE gamer, this is my home! Everytime the FPS drops below 75 I can tell!
I don't give a shit if the FPS is 50 when 4X AA is turned on compared to 45 on some other card 1/2 the price... what I care about is the FPS is +75.
You want to enable uber awesome settings and AA and show me the results... show me when the FPS is +75! If the res is +75@1280x1024 with 4xAA and 8xAF at max details, I want to know this!
How many reader's montitors can even do 75Hz at any rez over 1280x1024? Not too damn many I am betting.
This is shit! Disclaimer: (My opinions are directed at the benchmark product launch industry in general. The article here is mostly good though; It is to the point and has no bias in the test apps. It is just lacking the things I care about)
-Pissed off for staying up so late to see a bunch of shit on the net that didn't help at all in determining if this card is worth its launch price! (Disclaimer: FS has the best article so far I have read if you want useful information, and not a bunch of filler to make the article look more offical becase it is longer.)
Pissed! Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22152 | LORD ORION (1334) Sep 21, 2009 - 10:05 am » Edited on Sep 21, 2009 - 03:12 pm
| Sweet...
Good and Evil are perspectives... Chaos is the true reality!
:D
Also the chaos music on the DowII spash screen is pretty cool... imagine the mean clowns come to town and blow up all your shit and themselves in the process. :D Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22149 | LORD ORION (1334) Sep 19, 2009 - 12:38 pm » Edited on Sep 19, 2009 - 12:45 pm
| Jacob, I think it is every reason not to use it. The service is crap.
Here are huge problems I have noticed in the single game I have that has it.
1) Having to restart the entire game after an update several times in a row.
2) Having it unavailable means being unable to play, even single player.
If you keep buying games that use it, the clueless execs will think that it is a good idea. Not only will they keep using it, but "improve" it too.(for the worst).
I can't wait until I have a dozen different services on my desktop for each publisher. Let's see, games for windows, steam, star dock... etc.... I though we decided that crap like this is undesirable a decade ago?
It works like this; I bought your game. I didn't give you permission to run a pipe into my compuiter to spam me. This is worse then the freeware crap that we all loathe, because I paid for a product and also got this "service" I don't want. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22144 | LORD ORION (1334) Sep 17, 2009 - 09:16 am
| LOL, would he have said this if Nvidia was about to get the jump on ATI by 2 months with their new DX11 product?
It's inconceivably bad to be talking about crap like photo editing for consumers when the technology has been good enough for 10+ years.
Can you see "New Mom" saying "OMG, I need to get a Video Card so I can edit these photos of baby faster!" when she can already do that?
What an idiot. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22142 | LORD ORION (1334) Sep 16, 2009 - 05:05 pm » Edited on Sep 16, 2009 - 05:06 pm
| Not so sure... these cards are of the 4770 manfuacturing process.
Will the 5770 need a power connector? That's the question I want to know.
If it doesn't need the power connector and it performs around 4870 levels, that's pretty impressive. (Though I don't think it is worth the inital asking price) Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22139 | LORD ORION (1334) Sep 16, 2009 - 10:47 am » Edited on Sep 16, 2009 - 10:50 am
| I'm envious. My favorite thing is playing with the new toys before they are available to the market. ;)
As a suggestion, as I have noticed this gapping hole in many reviews and charts.
Please also include tests of 1680x1050 with max details and no AA. I am thinking this is the res many mainstream users may be interested in because their HDTVs likely have 720P and 1080i, so they will game at 720P if they want to hook their PC up to their TV.
Also, if you don't have time to do this, send me the important hardware and I will help. :D Flag this | Edit this post |
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