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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20419 |  Major Shtupping (141) Apr 29, 2008 - 10:15 pm
| 1. The general snarky tone of the gaming news will continue...
Reading the 3 news posts since this clarification, I like the changes. I can tell the news from the coloring, and adding words like "news goons" and "bafflegab" liven up the articles.
But, come on, people. Is the millisecond it takes for the news page to load really that much of an issue?
And there is the problem for me. I DON'T use the news page. Ever. Either I'm looking at my RSS feed, or from the main page, I've clicked on the headline that I wanted to read. And from that article I click directly on the next article I find interesting. So all I have are headlines to see. So for example, I'm interested in GTA4 news (for when the PC version is coming), but the headline "Perfect 10's" could be about anything from a new Olympics computer game to skin models. "Perfect Stabbings" is a great title ONLY if you've read "Perfect 10's". If I had been in a hurry, I'd have skipped both stories.
3. I'll change up the formatting some for quotes to improve readability. I'm growing into this, so expect some pains.
Wallshadows, I think without this part and all the other snarky comments around the "my way or the highway" comment shows it was meant tongue-in-cheek, not head-up-a$s like you interpreted it. I think he is trying to entertain us, not make us move on to the shack or kotaku.
All in all, I think Brett will get to something acceptable for us as long as he keeps a copy of the Alone in the Dark articles printed on his wall labled "How not to do the news" Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20413 | Major Shtupping (141) Apr 28, 2008 - 02:51 pm
| Good review generally. Your writing style makes for an entertaining read to a so so game. I even agree with your rating. I hope you write more (PC) game reviews.
However, let me chime in with everyone else who dislikes the changes you've made to the news, since now they are the majority of articles on this site. The creative titles, while entertaining, are not helpful to me reading the news I find interesting. The snarky comments don't work in the middle of the news article either. It stops being news and becomes Brett Todd's Blog.
ALWAYS post the link to the original article (that's why this is the web and lets us see things for ourselves). And if you have snarky comments, add them before or after the news. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20366 | Major Shtupping (141) Apr 15, 2008 - 01:15 pm
| Vista is extremely sensitive to memory problems because it is always trying to use available memory. It seems to detect problems that pass through just about every memory testing util.
If you are OC'ing your RAM, run it for a week at the default settings, and set the voltage in the BIOS manually instead of leaving it on AUTO.(A bunch of new motherboards seem to occasionally provide improper voltage on the auto setting.)
If you aren't OCing still set the voltage manually, or see if someone you know would swap you their ram for a week. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20357 | Major Shtupping (141) Apr 13, 2008 - 08:08 am
| Then you completely missed the point. Intel was saying they would be integrated into the cpu in the future, so you wouldn't need to buy them separately.
Much like how early motherboards didn't have hard drive controllers, floppy controllers, and had separate add-in IO cards for mouse, printer and COM ports. All of these required setting up jumpers on the cards to work properly too. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20203 | Major Shtupping (141) Mar 29, 2008 - 05:32 am
| nVidia had a tougher time of it, with having to write drivers that:
1) supported the new driver model
2) were DX10 compliant
3) supported their brand new G80 architecture.
ATI's drivers were far more stable, but they had an easier time of it. When Vista came out, they didn't have any DX10 compliant cards, and didn't have to add that stuff for months. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20203 | Major Shtupping (141) Mar 28, 2008 - 05:36 pm
| Apparently no one experienced/remembers how crappy the original nvidia Vista drivers were. Dreamscene would cause my 8800gtx to get caught in a reset loop, and it was just showing video, not 3d. Good thing I didn't need or want dreamscene.
Most games I played would crash after 15 min or so, there were even problems with just running Aero.
Its took them like 6 months before their vista drivers could be called some sembla ce of stable.
nVidia didn't "choose" to rewrite their drivers. Microsoft made huge changes to the way video drivers work, so everyone HAD to rewrite their stuff. If they could have kept their old drivers, they would have. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20018 | Major Shtupping (141) Mar 17, 2008 - 01:41 pm
| I'm running Vista Ultimate x64 and I haven't had any problems with any steam games. I play TF2, Red Orchestra, and DoD: Source a bunch. I have never had any crashes or other problems except the latest update for TF2 would never download.
Deleting TF2 and re-installing it fixed that. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19935 | Major Shtupping (141) Mar 11, 2008 - 04:25 pm
| I buy my music on CDs, its the only way to get consistent CD quality music DRM-less. I know most people feel that ripping a CD takes too much time/effort, but it doesn't take me any of either.
Now that the RIAA has started to sue people who do this though, I have stopped buying any CDs except indie lables Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19752 | Major Shtupping (141) Feb 27, 2008 - 10:31 am
| I use a left handed setup at home, so I'm a big fan of the Razer Copperhead. With the onboard memory you can set the buttons to be reversed, and then never need to use the razor drivers again, or the mouse control panel either.
Since the button switching takes place on the mouse itself, all games see the switched buttons correctly.
Also, since it has 5 profiles, I can leave 1 set for right handed use, so when a righty person goes to play on my rig, a few presses of the button on the bottom of the mouse is all it takes to set it up for them. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19586 | Major Shtupping (141) Feb 15, 2008 - 09:53 am
| We PC owners like to say that OSX is so stable because Apple makes the hardware too. If MS made the hardware, windows would be far more stable.
I guess that's true because with the Xbox, MS makes it all and it doesn't crash. It crashes AND burns! :) Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19600 | Major Shtupping (141) Feb 15, 2008 - 09:45 am
| I just got GH3 for the PC this week. I wonder if/how/where I can get Dream On. Not a HUGE Aerosmith fan, but if it's free, it's for me.
BTW, there's an option to play using the keyboard. It works, but the fun is in using the guitar, isn't it? Good thing it comes with an xbox 360 guitar. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19456 | Major Shtupping (141) Feb 06, 2008 - 11:24 pm
| It could be a whole bunch of mini-games:
1) a Paulie Bleeker race like Track & Field.
2) a GTA like timer mission where you have to drive Juno to the hospital
3) definitely some Guitar Hero action when Juno and Paulie play guitars at the end.
4) There could be hidden tic-tac boxes all over that unlock things like the cigarettes in Chronicles of Riddick
Maybe even a sunny-d mod where you get to knock Juno up. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19414 | Major Shtupping (141) Feb 06, 2008 - 07:22 am
| Yeah, it was purchased only this past September, and commented extensively on this board, so I guess YaThink doesn't remember back that far.
The physics wars are different than the normal FPS fights between Nvidia/ATI. They are both free to develop their own tech as long as it is compatible to the current Microsoft Direct X spec.
With physics there is no spec, and it is just like the High Def video wars where everyone wants just one tech, but it has to be their own tech and they refuse to support the other.
Even with nVidia's high end success, the numbers are all in the low/middle end, and its still about 50/50 there.
No game company is going to make a game for less than 50% of the market, so physics, no matter who's, will only continue to be used trivially.
Hopefully, Intel will stay out of the discreet video card market for a while, so everyone will keep using Havok.
Sadly, at this point for gamers, the best thing that could happen is for Microsoft to roll a physics standard into a future Direct X spec. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19058 | Major Shtupping (141) Jan 11, 2008 - 02:09 am
| I was just discussing the other day how no one except Left4Dead and Vampire:Masquerade bothered to license the Source engine. Everyone's gone with UT3.
Now apparently it's just down to V:M.
Seriously, what is it with Valve buying up the good multiplayer mods for its games (like it did with CS)? Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18913 | Major Shtupping (141) Dec 27, 2007 - 10:19 am
| Labotomizer, yeah I agree with you 80%. I'm sure that improving effective yields is most of it. However,companies have been known to disable and/or lower bin parts just to make price points. Also read D1nOnly's post on why they might also do it.
D1nOnly:
I agree completely. I simplified it too much and knew the word "always" would bite me in the rump. It's just that my posts always seem to be book length, and I was trying to go for brevity.
I'm an excessive multi-tasker, my work apps support multi-core, and my QX6700 runs every game but Crysis like butter so quad is better for me. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18913 | Major Shtupping (141) Dec 27, 2007 - 06:52 am
| I've read elsewhere that the spin AMD is putting on it is that they are purposely disabling the least over-clockable core, so that the tri-cores will overclock better. Without the PR spin, at the least they are promising very good overclocks with these.
Now, IMHO, I'm pretty sure 4 normal clocked cores would almost always give better performance than 3 overclocked ones unless the 3 had a HUGE over-clock. But then again, whenever you experience problems or crashes the first thing you do is turn off the oc, which you never have to do with a regular clocked machine. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=18913 | Major Shtupping (141) Dec 26, 2007 - 07:15 pm
| "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
5 threads are nothing.
Threads can be either time-sliced or multi-processor threaded. Currently, my quad core with firefox and acrobat open has between 745-752 threads open with 1% CPU usage.
Don't believe me? Check your own machine. Open your task mangler and click on the performance tab. It lists the amount of threads your pc is currently processing. Flag this | Edit this post |
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