Am I the only one who thinks this game and L.A. Noire look like they belonged on my PS2 about 7 years ago?
Duke Nukem Forever PC Specs Revealed
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Find me a same-socket Pentium and Celeron where the Celeron gets better performance.pokepuke said:
I've known people that made the "upgrade" from a lower frequency Pentium to a higher frequency Celeron... The point is, higher numbers in the product name don't mean better cards. Of course, you shouldn't make hardware decisions based on product name alone...
I'd expect it to run. notebookcheck.net is pretty sweet site for looking up hardware.Sgt_Jakeman214 said:
This looks like your card:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-ATI-Mobility-Radeon-HD-4570.13885.0.html
If you click the pluses next to the individual benchmarks, you'll see what cards ranked. The 2600 and the GeForce 7600 appear on some of these.
Just keep in mind it's based on benchmarks. They are not perfect or absolute measure of hardware performance. Driver versions, game engine, settings, and test system all make a difference. Sometimes one brand of card runs much better than another, normally better card... Cards also come out in a lot of slight hardware variations.
With enough benchmarks, and consistent settings, and similar test systems, the effects of these become minimal.
Again, it won't give you an absolute measure of performance, but it gives a good ballpark figure of how your hardware compares to others and how the game will run; ie: "high", "med", "low", or "won't run".
There's also that "can you run it website", but I have no clue how good it is since I'm always browsing in Linux (no aActiveX, no loss).
D'aww shucks, seems like my computer can run it, but why would I ever want to? It's clearly not going to have realistic graphics D:
You are correct! That was an odd mistake to make. (Believe it or not, I am familiar with the term "adieu" as it's properly used.) Anyway, thanks for the heads-up.kurupt87 said:
Third sentence, actually, but good try. I'm sure that it'd be close enough to count as a hit on the console version.Mr. Omega said:
Actually (to the both of you) you'll find a lot of PC gamers requests for higher marks are because of a few simple connections.Nikolaz72 said:
Firstly, building a gaming PC is -NOT- nearly as expensive as people claim. Mine cost about the same as the ps3 did on launch, and it's a bloody titan. Of course if you're building and you happen to see a very good part sold at the same price as your budget, you buy it. That of course means you can run better games, meaning you experience and enjoy things at a higher and more demanding quality.
Perfect example, Metro 2033 at maximum visuals, lighting, shadow, 16 x AA and many other complicated terms.
Because of that, and through no 'evil' on the gamers behalf, they have a powerful machine. Is it so wrong to want games that really kick in to make the most of that?
Sure there are console games, and I don't mind console ports that share the same quality between all versions, but I'd at least like a button that said "press here for extreme quality management" as opposed to the 'low/medium/high' switch you get in regular ports.
So yeah... pretty much that. Nothing elitist about it.
I like you. You explained why PC gamers like higher specs without resortin to bein a dbag. I salute you...mostly because its far better than my argument of "Because I like my shiny stuff to be friggin shiny!"ZombieGenesis said:
Edit - On an unrelated note there's an alarmin number of people who think these specs are high. For reference, the first 8 series cards came out in late 2006. Thats just a year after the 360 came out. The Intel Core Duo was anywhere from 2006-2008 (Really have no idea which version had what speed). Buyin a computer that reaches those recommended specs would cost you about as much as a 360 did when it first came out, pay a bit more and you'd prolly be able to max out the settins of DNF and get a higher fps than our console brethren will enjoy.
I have a laptop with an X1400 chip...Thedutchjelle said:Pretty light? Wut? My ATI x1600 can't run it.
I hate my gaming hobby for this. Tech bought now is obsolete in just a few years. And it's always the goddamn videocard. Never do they push the audiocard to it's max or whatever. I match everything on that list but the videocard. Sigh.
Well I guess DNF won't come to me then this year
It was my only PC for almost 3 years. (Now I have something with graphics 20 times faster.)
And yep. It's always the graphics. But you can blame the human brain for that as much as anything else.
at least 1/3 of our brain is dedicated exclusively to processing visual input.
It makes sense then, that you can cut corners on things like sound much more easily than you can with graphics without anyone even realising it's what you've done.
Game sound has been 'good enough' for 15 years, from a technical perspective, and most improvements barely get noticed.
Graphics haven't even gotten to 'good enough', and people notice minor differences all the time. - Don't expect this problem to really go away for at least another 10 years.
At that point, it might stop being meaningful.
Because by developing for consoles, you limit yourself in what you can do because of the inferior hardware; a problem that wouldn't happen if you developed for PC and then ported it to consoles.Azaraxzealot said:
Also what are you talking about? C2D and 8800 GTS is hardly high end anymore.
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Wow please be more ignorant.Nikolaz72 said:
This about sums up my thoughts about this game for me ever since i first heard the term 'vaporware'... optimistic scepticismKhushal said:
This about sums up my thoughts about this game for me ever since i first heard the term 'vaporware'... optimistic skepticismKhushal said:
Wait, I can actually play this on my computer? *The clouds open up and a heavenly chorus starts*
Ditto - my jaw actually dropped when I read the original article and saw such a blatant insult to a large portion of this website's traffic sitting there plain as day. What is it with this attitude? PC gamers and console gamers share *the same hobby*. It's like arguing whether needlepoint is better than tapestry. Go with what you like.flakmagnet said:
Consider me, as a (predominantly) console gamer, insulted =(