Nvidia Says PS4 and Xbox One Are Good News For PC Gamers
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Yeah, getting back to my original point, I'm one of the many that's strongly considering finally making the jump to PC. Just gotta save up enough money to get a decent rig...which might be tough considering I got laid off last week. xPStrazdas said:
If I do end up going console, it's definitely going to be a PS4 if for no other reason than to "vote with my wallet", as the saying goes. I refuse to reward MS purely on the principle of how awfully they're handling this whole deal. Internet connection isn't a problem for me, but even I was greatly offended at the pure snobbish arrogance of Mattrick coming straight out and saying "Fuck you if you don't have a good connection, we DON'T want your money."
Which implementation of PhysX are you talking about? The CPU-bound one that many PC games utilise, or the GPU-bound one that about 30 PC games utilise?Strazdas said:
Exactly. Better games for the pc and we should begin to see the market progress in hardware since games are the only thing really pushing the market forward with video editing not increasing in resource demands at the same rate as games.
Though, this will also mean that your 8GB i7 machine will become average or even perhaps inferior in just a few years.
Though, this will also mean that your 8GB i7 machine will become average or even perhaps inferior in just a few years.
They are both PhysX. How else do you suppose that games that use the PhysX API's can also be played on AMD cards? Such as Metro: 2033, and Mafia II, etc. Answer: a stripped down, bare-bones version is ran on the CPU that is enough to satisfy API calls, but doesn't give any of the extra fidelity that full GPU bound games do.iniudan said:
Ok feel free to PM me then, has to not derail the tread. It possible to find something, without too much trouble, in those price range. Just give me more detail of what you want like screen size, minimum resolution, any need of an actual battery duration (for non-gaming task while on the move), need to plug it to the external monitor and other thing like that you can think of.Norix596 said:
The ironic thing is, if there were no consoles around to drag the bar down, we wouldn't have to wait 8 years for that "bump" to continue to push forward with the raw computing power available to us. Funny, that.
I look forward to upgrading my i7 to an i9 or i11.Lightknight said:
WROOOOONG!
PS4's switch to off-the-shelf PC archiecture is the good news, yes.
Micro$oft's not so much. They gave zero positive news. Their hardware was already fairly compatible with the PC. What we DO know about M$ is that they have tried to stifle and dry out the PC market for the last 7 years. Sometimes even directly, but usually with the usual bogus by keeping their dev's tied to X-clusives. Sure, they've made plenty of assurances that they are coming back to PC gaming... when the new OS's are about to be released and Steam made headlines. But their attempts have yielded piss-poor results (GfWL, DX exclusivity) bordering on being insultingly hypocritical.
Microsoft WILL keep on attempting to choke out the PC fatty while they have a console on the market.
It'll be interesting to see whether AMD/ATI's problems will still plague the consoles. They too have a reputation of sorts.
PS4's switch to off-the-shelf PC archiecture is the good news, yes.
Micro$oft's not so much. They gave zero positive news. Their hardware was already fairly compatible with the PC. What we DO know about M$ is that they have tried to stifle and dry out the PC market for the last 7 years. Sometimes even directly, but usually with the usual bogus by keeping their dev's tied to X-clusives. Sure, they've made plenty of assurances that they are coming back to PC gaming... when the new OS's are about to be released and Steam made headlines. But their attempts have yielded piss-poor results (GfWL, DX exclusivity) bordering on being insultingly hypocritical.
Microsoft WILL keep on attempting to choke out the PC fatty while they have a console on the market.
While true that it's a significant loss, they have held the upper hand on the PC market for quite some time and garnered plenty of technologies and good reputation from many industries that AMD/ATI just don't have.Jamous said:
It'll be interesting to see whether AMD/ATI's problems will still plague the consoles. They too have a reputation of sorts.
Uhh, you misunderstand greatly. That excess power is not going to waste. It will allow developers to use new techniques, abstracting and automating many processes. Meaning better looking games and shorter development cycles.tardcore said:
More expensive then.. what? Nvidia is lonely at the top when talking about the more powerful cards. Also CUDA.Twenty Ninjas said:
I kind of don't like this. It's always the lower spec computers that suffer when it comes to graphics and considering most nowerdays out power a 360 or ps3 they really shouldn't. It's like designers get lazy when designing for pc.
Not to mention AMD GPUs are actually pretty good. The Radeon 7970 when properly clocked (most can take 1100mhz on core without even adjusting voltage), meet or beat the Nvidia gtx 680 while costing less. At least that was the case when I bought mine, I think the newer cards have brought the gtx 680 down in price.Charcharo said: