Misconceptions about PC gaming.
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Basically you admitted you['ve stuffed your pc with a worthless secondary O.S, kind of like wearing women's underwear underneath a gucci suit and you bought the weakest gfx card in the 8800 family meaning you were too cheap to buy the GTX and perhaps a little too hasty to buy the gt, which means you're wearing cheap women's underwear under a nice gucci suit.Aries_Split said:
Nice Hard drives though.
Bulletinmybrain said:
Umm the duals work together to produce more power
a dual of 2Ghz will work together to be nearly as powerful as a 4ghz
The GTX is a minimal improvement on the GTS with a bout 100 dollar price difference. Does not justify the price.Decoy Doctorpus said:
The Dual boot is because my job requires certain programs that do not run on vista, but I wanted to see how it was, so I went dual boot.
I like the fact you want to have a teck discussion, but there is no need to be a prick about it.
Anyway I got a question about gaming
is there any Mac exclusive games because my friend Tri-Boots and I want to know if it is worth it
is there any Mac exclusive games because my friend Tri-Boots and I want to know if it is worth it
Power = Processing PowerAlex_P said:"Produce more power" is a pretty weird choice of words there.smallharmlesskitten said:
-- Alex
I was joking. Your choice to load vista makes you less than human though.Aries_Split said:
The GT seriously pisses all over the GTS and GTX for it's price.
The great thing for me about building your own PC is the ability to snag awesome stuff individually for ridiculous prices. I got an eVGA 8800gts SSC brand new for about 120USD when it was in stores for 300+ min, 4gb ram for 40USD, and a 320gb HD 7200 for around 50USD. With 2.8GHz x2 and XP Professional I don't have the greatest or most powerful rig, but I do have something that can run pretty much any game I come across smoothly at pretty high settings, if not the highest (though admittedly I haven't tried Crysis; I heard some terrible things about it from a bunch of people and decided to skip it).
Crysis is kind of like the ben croshaw of video games.
It does something outrageous (in this case demand a modern system) and gets publicity from it, when in reality it really is nothing special.
It does something outrageous (in this case demand a modern system) and gets publicity from it, when in reality it really is nothing special.
But you have to say it looks good as hell. And hells real perdy with the fires.Aries_Split said:
Man. That's a bit harsh. You may as well say Crysis is a bit fruity and wears a stupid hat too.Aries_Split said:
That being said the game does have a lot going for it behind it's bugs and annoying technical demands. Smashing through the roof of a hut and punching the occupants to death is always satisfying.
I don't buy many PC games anymore because I got tired of piss-poor quality control and K&M is the most uncomfortable way to play games IMO.
I get tired of PC games only to find that the game crashes contently do to being rushed with the devs basically saying screw you we have your money when it comes to patches.
My biggest beef is with controls, I don't care how accurate you are at counterstrike, I find the keyboard to be a complete mess when it comes to gaming. Movement is a joke with WASD, digital movement in 2008? ugg. then you have hotkey layout that has you tring to remember 20+ hotkeys. For most PC games defeating the interface monster is the hardest part of the game. Before some joker steps in with "just hook up a controller lulz" very few PC games support controllers and even less have good support, things like xpadder to map buttons to keys can help sometimes, but even then most PC games have such a reliance on the mouse to do anything that its too painfull to use an analog stick in its place.
In all fairness, some "games for windows" that are 360>pc ports have propper gamepad support for the 360 gamepad under windows which is awesome, and the poor quality controller monster sometimes rears its ugly head on some 360 games. If Microsoft would push quality control and require gamepad support for all games in order to get the "games for windows" it would be nice, but I guess they don't want to hurt the 360
I get tired of PC games only to find that the game crashes contently do to being rushed with the devs basically saying screw you we have your money when it comes to patches.
My biggest beef is with controls, I don't care how accurate you are at counterstrike, I find the keyboard to be a complete mess when it comes to gaming. Movement is a joke with WASD, digital movement in 2008? ugg. then you have hotkey layout that has you tring to remember 20+ hotkeys. For most PC games defeating the interface monster is the hardest part of the game. Before some joker steps in with "just hook up a controller lulz" very few PC games support controllers and even less have good support, things like xpadder to map buttons to keys can help sometimes, but even then most PC games have such a reliance on the mouse to do anything that its too painfull to use an analog stick in its place.
In all fairness, some "games for windows" that are 360>pc ports have propper gamepad support for the 360 gamepad under windows which is awesome, and the poor quality controller monster sometimes rears its ugly head on some 360 games. If Microsoft would push quality control and require gamepad support for all games in order to get the "games for windows" it would be nice, but I guess they don't want to hurt the 360
Exactly what I said. It's weaker than the gt and the GTX. Hence the weakest in the family. I wasn't talking about value for money, simply performance. I agree the gts is a slightly better choice than the gtx but both pale in comparison to a decent GT.Codgo said:
I'm not really saying it's bad, but nothing about it really made me wow. I never really caught myself admiring the details in it, like I did with oblivion. But I never found myself truly enjoying the gameplay either, whereas I nearly always had a smile on my face during Mass Effect.Decoy Doctorpus said:
Still, it's a matter of preference I suppose.
Also, what benchmarks are you looking at, because the 8800 gts (g92) is most definately more powerful than the 8800 gt. I think your thinking of the 320 or 640 mb version of the gts, rather than the g92 chipset variety.