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| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/45 |   GX-Brandon (268) Sep 19, 2007 - 12:15 pm
| Okay fisherman Dan summoned me to answer your question.
IMO, the answer is going to depend on what your current setup is like, and if you're happy with its current performance. If you've got a decent rig now then yes, I would wait a few more months before upgrading. If you can't afford to wait though then you've got to do what you've got to do! Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17421 | GX-Brandon (268) Sep 17, 2007 - 10:06 am
| | froggz: The question is IF we get the Toshiba and Xbox 360. We'd like to include more players, but it's kind of impractical for us to go out and buy all of this stuff. And we can't use our own personal 360s because none of us on staff have a 360 w/HDMI, and we need HDMI to take the screenshots. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17345 | GX-Brandon (268) Sep 12, 2007 - 07:30 am
| | In hindsight yeah, I should have cranked the settings all the way up. I selected the default "high" settings, and then cranked up the lighting to high and the shader level to ultra, but I should have gone further than that. I started out testing the 8800 GTS 320MB and worked my way up, next time I will probably go the other way around. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/40 | GX-Brandon (268) Aug 29, 2007 - 01:00 pm
| Hmm. Hellgate London would be my #2 and Unreal Tournament 2007 would be #3.
The only reason I say that is because I want to see GPU-based physics in Hellgate London, and PPU-based physics in UT 2007. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/40 | GX-Brandon (268) Aug 29, 2007 - 12:58 pm
| | We can extend this chat session for another hour if necessary. All I'm sitting up here doing is trying to figure out how to get BioShock DX9 to run with FRAPS and GeForce cards. The game crashes as soon as I click the button to start my FRAPS run. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/40 | GX-Brandon (268) Aug 29, 2007 - 12:55 pm
| Well, back when the whole AMD-ATI merger was announced, I predicted that NVIDIA would get into CPUs eventually. Out of stubborness I'll stick with that prediction. It's an awfully expensive marketplace to enter though, so if NVIDIA were to do it, they'd need a partner.
Sony/Toshiba and IBM would be the perfect partners for NVIDIA imo. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/40 | GX-Brandon (268) Aug 29, 2007 - 12:49 pm
| I'm hoping for good things, AMD and ATI have some really sweet products in the pipeline coming out in the next 3 months in the short term.
I'm still not convinced the merger was a good thing for the industry as a whole though. Back when the deal was announced I asked them why they just didn't take a stake in ATI, I still think that would have been the wiser strategy. The article is online here somewhere in the hardware section I think. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/40 | GX-Brandon (268) Aug 29, 2007 - 12:46 pm
| » DX10
On another note, I should also mention after all this BioShock madness is over I'm going to revisit Lost Planet DX10. Capcom has added several enhancements to the DX10 code with the latest patch and I've been told that not only is IQ up, so is performance. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/40 | GX-Brandon (268) Aug 29, 2007 - 12:37 pm
| I don't think it will. I think the reason there's so much doom and gloom right now is because the consoles are at the beginning of a new life cycle, but as time passes on the PC will just pull further away from consoles and the segment will grow as gaming in general grows. The PC market may not grow as quickly but it will always be there.
What does disappoint me a little though is hearing companies like id talking about dumbing down their idtech 5 engine for consoles. The old id wouldn't do something like that imo. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/40 | GX-Brandon (268) Aug 29, 2007 - 12:24 pm
| BTW: An update on BioShock testing. The 2900 XT is scaling TREMENDOUSLY under 32-bit now that I'm forcing DX9.
I'm still having problems getting FRAPS to work with the GeForce cards. Everytime I start FRAPS the game crashes. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/40 | GX-Brandon (268) Aug 29, 2007 - 12:22 pm
| Zane: The OS reports a lower figure but it does recognize all your RAM. I'm surprised Microsoft didn't fix this with Vista, WinXP had the same problem.
With so much system RAM, I doubt you'll see any benefit from Readyboost. You might as well take that 1GB flash drive and use it for conventional storage. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/40 | GX-Brandon (268) Aug 29, 2007 - 12:17 pm
| | I don't think so. Waaay back in the days we the editors at FS would challenge other websites and even companies to matches of Quake/Counter-Strike. That was a loooong time ago though. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/40 | GX-Brandon (268) Aug 29, 2007 - 12:16 pm
| I've successfully swapped out the motherboard without getting the BSOD in WinXP before, but it's a crapshoot. I always recommend a fresh format before re-installing the OS although I do realize it's a bit inconvenient.
Your RAID question depends on the motherboard you are upgrading to. If you're upgrading for example from an old nForce mobo w/RAID to a Bearlake mobo with RAID it's not going to work. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17093 | GX-Brandon (268) Aug 24, 2007 - 10:37 pm
| | No matter what I do, I cannot get my DX9 water to look that bad. My best guess is that's not using high quality graphics settings, or perhaps that video comes from the BioShock demo and it doesn't have the water of the final game, because my water definitely doesn't look that bad. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17093 | GX-Brandon (268) Aug 24, 2007 - 08:08 am
| | I wouldn't say you need DX10 to get nice smoke. Really it all depends on how the developer chooses to implement it. I know Crytek is using DX10 for effects like motion blur, and the geometry shader has been mentioned in the past for use with things like better vegetation and fur. Flag this | Edit this post |
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