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I have to say, I just upgraded my computer less than 3 months ago to a near top of the line box. It's rediculous, a new game just came out by the name of Oblivion came in contact with my ultra speedy box...
Then Oblivion introduced itself...
And made my fine box bow to it's knees.
7800 gtx 512 MB Ram was the fastest card on the planet 3 months ago... now? sitting on it's knees with it's pride hurt.
I'm getting 30 - 35 fps on average on this game, 30 to 35 fps! Granted everything is cranked up to the max... and it's going to stay that way, because I just wouldn't have it any other way.
Anyway, i'm pissed not because the 30 to 35 fps I normally get, I'm pissed because of the 20 fps I get in rain and fog with thick forests...
It's just not right, and that's my rant for the day.
Thanks for taking the time to hear it.
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Posted By: Normalized Vector Posted on: Apr. 2, 2006 at 4:54 PM  6 Comments
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Apr. 3, 2006 at 01:54:33 AM
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| I'm fully aware of pushing system requirements, and believe me, I'm all for it, because without it, we wouldn't have games like Oblivion today. Search for it and find some screen shots, the game is the best looking game I've ever seen. The game Fear pushed my box, but it didn't push it anywhere near as hard as oblivion does, I was tempted to overclock, but I quickly decided against it because I didn't think the performance gain would validate the risk. Anyway, great game if your box can run it. I can live with a few choke points. It's the choke points that make me remember Quake 2 and realize how far games have come over the passed few years. And about my next upgrade, PCI Express will be around for a while, so my next upgrade will probably be another video card in SLI mode and a beefier processor, and maybe another couple gigs of memory... I'm a sick man. |
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Apr. 3, 2006 at 07:16:16 AM
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| A moving article Norm. I personally enjoied every word of it. I was on the edge of my seat right to the end. This is riveting stuff... I have no idea what you said, but I gave you a 10 for technical knowledge. |
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Apr. 3, 2006 at 10:04:52 AM
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| Thanks for your support AA, I'm glad the article was suspensful enough for you to hang on for dear life. It's ok that you had no idea what I was talking about because only video game junkies like me know what the hell I'm talking about. We're a sick breed, but it beats watching television:) |
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Apr. 3, 2006 at 04:39:45 PM
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| It all revolves around fps (frames per second) double A. Flick, flick, flick, flick … It's addicting, Norm. And that's fascinating. No one could have identified this particular addiction in all of human history, until the last quarter of a century. But it was lurking there waiting to be unleashed. Makes one wonder what else is hidden in the human makeup just waiting to be unleashed. |
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Apr. 3, 2006 at 05:09:04 PM
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| The addiction has always been there. The addiction is not in video games, the addiction is in the activity which provides entertainment. Way back when before the advent of electricity, old ladies would sit in their rocking chair knitting, while the old men were carving wood statues, or out fishing, or what ever it was that they chose to do with their spare time. Then came televion and created the couch potato. No interactivity what so ever until .... the remote control which in turn created the channel flipper! The remote control let the user have some activity, but there was not much brain stimulation.... Until, they hooked up their VCRs, DVD Players, Surround Sound and had 3 different remotes and then... the universal remote. Anyway, sometime in that point, came the Atari 2600, Coleco Vision and the comadore 64 (if I remember right). Before then, the only options people had were pong and pin ball machines. Anyway, all those activities found junkies in the form of couch potatos and stoners who played pin ball all day. People are addicted the entertainment value a specific medium provides them, not the medium itself. If it's not one, it would be another. Just like all of us on this site entertain our selves on this site, are we addicted to this site? ... Or are we addicted to the entertainment value that this site provides. Like I tell my girlfriend, at least I don't entertain myself at the bar or strip club every night;) |
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Intel told Microsoft (and software developers in general) around the beginning of the ‘90s not to sweat the hardware requirements any more because the hardware speed and capacity were going to stay ahead of the curve henceforth and forthwith unto the end of silicon technology.
In fact, as I recall it, there was a tacit agreement between the players in the industry that the software requirements would drive the demand for top of the line boxes and the exploding hardware speed and capacity would stimulate demand for ever rainier and foggier software. Open the floodgates, as it were.
Chin up. The next upgrade of your hardware system has to be just around the corner.
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