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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20860 |  goku2100 (130) Sep 19, 2008 - 01:45 pm
| | Steam isn't any better b/c in say 10 years, valve goes out of business, gets taken over, etc. the service is potentially compromised. Remember, nothing is guaranteed and so you're at the mercy of the companies which I feel is completely unacceptable when you fork over money for something like this. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20833 | goku2100 (130) Sep 09, 2008 - 11:57 pm
| | Quite impressive and it looks like AMD has either got its act together or they simply have figured out first that a large monolithic core is not the way to go. Either way, AMD has come out with a card that has good value, saving money for both AMD and the consumer. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20728 | goku2100 (130) Aug 01, 2008 - 01:41 pm
| | Yeah but when the specifications were finished for these consoles, they were bleeding edge at the time. You can hardly blame a 2 year old+ console for having old hardware now can you? I like PCs because of the backward compatibility, something consoles consider a low priority. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20493 | goku2100 (130) May 28, 2008 - 10:29 pm
| No, what ati wants to do is what intel and amd has been doing with their CPUs, have multiple processors instead of one monolithic one. They've realized multiprocessor is the way to go and they're applying this to GPUs now. It'll work a lot better with GPUs than CPUs due to the nature of graphics being parallel. It's actually a lot harder to use parallel processing for general computations that PC games require. That's why PC games are slow to optimize for multiprocessing which is why SLI and Crossfire work quite well and are much easier to implement. SLI and crossfire has been much more successful than multiprocessing using multiple CPU cores.
What they'll probably do is create artificial SLI/Crossfire links between the GPUs. They'll basically use the Crossfire/SLI concept and shrink it down into that of a single GPU package but with multiple cores. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19982 | goku2100 (130) Mar 15, 2008 - 04:01 am
| | While I do agree that creative is slow to release drivers, vista took out all the hardware audio acceleration, something that isn't creative's fault. I guess I'm SORT of glad they did this, because if anything, we need to move from Direct X and Direct Sound and to OpenGL and OpenAL. The more games made with Open GL/AL the better for everyone. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=19414 | goku2100 (130) Feb 06, 2008 - 06:08 pm » Edited on Feb 06, 2008 - 06:10 pm
| Putting physics on a GPU is fucking useless. Great we'll have more pretty effects when playing a game, who cares? You people don't understand that GPU physics means second order physics while having the ageia PPU add-in card meant that you could have first and second order physics. Second order physics calculates particles, "eye candy" things that add nothing to the game while first order physics actually affects gameplay. This nVidia takeover is only going to mean second order physics from now on, they've fucked us over. I couldn't care less about second order physics and neither should you, if they want to really improve gaming, then we need to push first order physics.
If nVidia does exactly what I think they're going to do, then I'll be sure to never support their products again because they'll have destroyed the best thing that could've happened to video games. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Matrix Blog Link » /matrix/blog.asp/67615/1327 | goku2100 (130) Feb 02, 2008 - 04:39 am
| | I don't like it at all. And it's not that I don't like it cause it will affect my chances of winning, I just simply don't like it. For the nvidia givaway the grand prize was given away to the guy with the haiku. Flag this | Edit this post |
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