You took that out of context. I said, and I quote; "expensive gaming PC". Not just a PC.TaborMallory said:
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According to my friend, W7 looks like Vista, but has none of Vista's problems and annoyances, and is much faster than XP.axia777 said:
One time he came over to my house and fixed something on my XP computer; he wouldn't stop complaining about how slow it was.
My apologies. But still, how does it defeat the purpose of an expensive gaming PC? As I've said, a little box couldn't possibly compare to a high-end PC in terms of computing power.Nincompoop said:
He said nothing about resolution, so he's guaranteed to be right. And "no problems" in this context is about the most subjective thing in the world. Some people feel 30fps average equals "no problems", some feel 60fps average equals "no problems", while some will not settle for less than 60fps minimum. Further depending on game, of course.axia777 said:
BTW, I have a slightly lesser PC than his, and Crysis at High seems to run well enough at 1680x1050. I understand the requirements go up sharply somewhere around mid-game, but unfortunately I haven't played for more than an half an hour from the beginning before getting bored, so I'm not sure how my computer would do in the later parts.
Hold on!Nutcase said:
Thank for pseudo standing up for me.
But
He framed me. I have never said anything about Crysis -.-. Can I report him for that? If you search for that comment, you will find that... Well you won't find it.
Well, you aren't playing the game, that's the point. A super PC in some warehouse plays it for you. It's like you have the mouse, keyboard and monitor with you, but the PC case thingy is somewhere else. All it does is sending the the images of the corresponding actions you make.TaborMallory said:
Then, if this works, good, it will thusly render a expensive gaming PC useless, because you won't need to upgrade with OnLive.
I'm not saying that this will work 100%, I'm saying give it a shot, wait and see.
What happened is that he quoted Rednog and fucked up removing the quote tags so that your name was left there instead of Rednog's. Happens all the time. You would have noticed it if you searched for that text snippet on this thread with your browser's text search. I think if someone wanted to frame you (?!?), they'd put something a little more controversial into your mouth than a claim that Crysis runs just fine on your computer.Nincompoop said:
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You stand in a dark basement, to the north you see a lot of boxes. To the south you see faint light. To the east you see a screwdriver
>Go east
You see a screwdriver. To the west is the middle of the basement.
>Pick up screwdriver
Screwdriver has been added to your inventory
> Go west
You stand in a dark basement, to the north you see a lot of boxes. To the south you see faint light. To the east you see a screwdriver
> Go north
You see a lot of boxes. To the south you see the middle of the basement.
> Open boxes
You open the boxes, you end up with a case, a motherboard, a power supply, a video card, a processor, a hard drive and memory.
> Open case
You open the case, you see a lot of slots.
> Examine slots
You see a slot that could fit the motherboard.
> Fit motherboard
You fit the motherboard, it fits nice and snug.
You see a case with a motherboard fit in one of the slots
> Examine slots
You see a slot that seems to fit the memory.
> Fit memory
You fit the memory, it fits nice and snug.
You see a case with a motherboard and memory fit.
> Examine slots
You see some weird connections, you notice they are the same size as your video card.
> Fit video card
You stand in a dark basement, to the north you see a lot of boxes. To the south you see faint light. To the east you see a screwdriver
>Go east
You see a screwdriver. To the west is the middle of the basement.
>Pick up screwdriver
Screwdriver has been added to your inventory
> Go west
You stand in a dark basement, to the north you see a lot of boxes. To the south you see faint light. To the east you see a screwdriver
> Go north
You see a lot of boxes. To the south you see the middle of the basement.
> Open boxes
You open the boxes, you end up with a case, a motherboard, a power supply, a video card, a processor, a hard drive and memory.
> Open case
You open the case, you see a lot of slots.
> Examine slots
You see a slot that could fit the motherboard.
> Fit motherboard
You fit the motherboard, it fits nice and snug.
You see a case with a motherboard fit in one of the slots
> Examine slots
You see a slot that seems to fit the memory.
> Fit memory
You fit the memory, it fits nice and snug.
You see a case with a motherboard and memory fit.
> Examine slots
You see some weird connections, you notice they are the same size as your video card.
> Fit video card
And so on, and so on, and so on.
I did find out minutes later, but I had no idea how to explain it. So I waited for your enlightenment.Nutcase said:
I agree that it would be a silly frame =P.
AT LEAST WAIT FOR WINDOWS 7. thats thats what im going to do before i buy a laptop as vista supposedly stresses them out. tho when my boyfreind build his PC (which is easy enough for even me to do) he ended up with a good PC(which can play crysis with no strain) but it wasn't cheap(£1600ish).
You are proving my posts right. Three days of research, 9 hours spent building, plus however long it takes when things go wrong?Tenmar said:
There is nothing that can possibly make building your own computer a good idea unless you are very much on top of things, can access spare parts in an emergency, and also consider the building and research to be entertainment. Otherwise, you should have it built, work an extra two hours or four hours or whatnot depending on your hourly wage to offset the cost, enjoy not having to do days of meaningless work and enjoy not having to take any risk.
I'm sure we are a little more advanced today. They sure have the money. I for one am gonna wait a year or two, and see how this will turn out.RAKtheUndead said:
It doesn't take 3 days of research to build your own PC, just a few recommendation articles and some common sense. That's all you need to pick parts (for example, not buying a $500 video card is that 5% better than a $200 video card). Then putting it together is as simple as following the manuals.Nutcase said:
Except that OnLive managed to fail their E3 presentation with lag, input delay and bad image quality when there was about 1 person on it. Also, Cevat Yerli thinks it's an awesome idea so it gets a few bullshit points right out of the box.Nincompoop said:
Back on topic:
Crysis is a very bad benchmark and here's why:
Unoptimized engine. Because Crytek spend more money on marketing then on development, there are several large holes in the programming, which make the game noticeably worse on hardware that wasn't out in 2007 and thus wasn't optimized for. IE, the more advanced your card, the crappier it's going to run. I actually went down in performace switching from a 8800GTS to a GTX260.
Memory leaks on max graphics. Because of some more crappy coding, running the game on the highest settings will generate an infinite amount of superfluous data stored in the ram as long as the game is running. Over time, it WILL crash your pc, no matter how good it is. More RAM increases the time before that happens but slows down your computer because more processing power is wasted on addressing all of it.
A PC that will run it on medium will set you back $300 around here. For high, try $500. No point in going above that because it won't work anyway. It all depends on how good you manage your system as well. You CAN run Crysis on medium/low with a pentium 4, 512mb ram and a geforce 6800. Other people(those who never heard of driver updates like recently converted consolers) complain about not getting it to work on an i7 and a 9800XXX.
Are you actually implying that a first presentation is equal to the final result? Give it a shot. Besides, the problems they experienced could have been local.Asehujiko said:
Maybe because 'one' isn't afraid to crack open a manual and dedicate 40 minutes to a task that some store dude would charge your hundreds of dollars for.Nutcase said: