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11/14/12 1:02:18 AM#61
Originally posted by Draron
Battery Life ??? I use a PC, I don't give a f*^k about some scrubs crappy laptop/tablet shitty battery up-time timer/charge rate.
Besides I was under the impression that the smartphone was the platform of the future, because the PC/Console platforms for gaming were supposed to be dead. |
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11/14/12 1:03:21 AM#62
windows 8 is junk . i see windows 9 coming in 2014 .
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11/14/12 1:24:05 AM#63
i did get win8 pro, installed it over xp, which, not entirely sure its much of an upgrade, but as i couldnt really afford to get 7 at the time, seemed like a relatively 'cheap' upgrade, the start screen, if you can call it that is just a gimmick, you can unpin/uninstall much of it, without it really affecting anything, the only important bit there is the desktop icon, which is really the only bit i use, it does seem to start up a bit faster than my old xp setup, but i can't say its really that much of an improvement in terms of boot up times, maybe its because my system is 'getting on a bit' though im sure if i had a SSD that it would be lightning fast, but you can say that pretty much about any OS that uses one.. i've been using this now for several weeks, games do seem to work on it okay now, though it has had quite a few teething troubles, one thing i will say for sure though, as soon as i can afford a copy of win 7 64 bit.. im upgrading again
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Ichmen
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Joined: 4/15/06
hatred enriches. |
11/14/12 1:33:30 AM#64
well all this is telling me is to wait for Win9 there by i get 3 things in 1 1) i dont have to fork out more money for another shitty OS 2) i get Dx 1-12 3) the next OS i get will be more stable then win8 :3 win all around for me. just need about 2yrs or so to wait lolol CPU: Intel Core i7 CPU 860 2.8GHz < |
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11/14/12 1:33:59 AM#65
Originally posted by VassagoMael No dude, its not about the bucks, its about Satan.
Im not sure if Linux is the answer and im a penguin myself since kernel 0.98. yeah, thats some years already. As an example, to play windows games on Linux, we still have to manually patch the wine sources. Solutions like Crossover are for office stuff and only scale on 2 cores here, my own wine scales over all 8 cores here. Then there is still a loss in quality - the reason, why i have a windows at all, games for windows are - due to DirectX - awesome. Windows is twice the age of Linux, so we have some gap to fill and when i see the overall development arround Linux, we have to say that its pretty cute because its nearly all free software.
In the long run, Linux will win. You better start your Linux today, it needs some time to handle a penguin properly. Cool game, btw ^^ |
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11/14/12 2:01:30 AM#66
maybe its time for openGL
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11/14/12 3:07:54 AM#67
Originally posted by CalmOceans [mod edit] If you wanted DX10 or DX10.1 when they came out, you had to buy Vista. If you wanted DX11, you had to buy Windows 7. Want DX11.1, you have to buy Windows 8. I paid $15 for the upgrade, Windows 8 Ultimate for the price of one month's mmo time. Hardly anything to scream about. Also, do you suddenly think all games will only run DX11.1? No more than all games only ran DX10, DX10.1, or DX11 when they were released. They can run on all of them, so you're not being "cheated" out of playing any new games. Unless you bought Halo 2 on PC, then you had to have DX10 to play meaning no XP. One game. Out of thousands. 8 years ago. So no, MS isn't nuts. [mod edit] EA CEO John Riccitiello's on future microtransactions: "When you are six hours into playing Battlefield and you run out of ammo in your clip, and we ask you for a dollar to reload, you're really not very price sensitive at that point in time...We're not gouging, but we're charging." |
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11/14/12 3:09:51 AM#68
Probably won't affect MMOs, but for other games this is the scenario that might occur...
Microsoft could build their next console based on Windows 8 and DirectX 11.1, which would mean that multi-platform titles from developers could be set to minimum spec of DirectX 11.1.
This isn't likely to be an issue in the short term, but given that a console's life cycle is extending with each generation, the upgrade to Windows 8 or whatever comes after it is inevitable if you want to continue playing the majority of games released. And we do not know what will come after Windows 8, Microsoft might learn from their mistakes, but they could just as easily make Windows even worse.
We already know developers spend less resources on PC versions of multi-platform games, how much will they expend on supporting older versions of DirectX or entirely different operating systems?
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11/14/12 8:25:14 AM#69
Originally posted by Torvaldr Yes, precisely because a lot of gamers still can't run DirectX 11. And that's even though porting things back from DX 10/11 to 9.0c means losing access to broad swaths of features as opposed to just minor tinkering around the edges. We might be soon approaching the time when games start saying, we're not going to port back to DirectX 9.0c anymore, and now you need at least DX 10 to run the game. |
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Reizla
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Joined: 12/09/08
MMORPGs are no longer about the mass multi-user anymore *sadly* |
11/14/12 8:32:46 AM#70
Originally posted by Draron Bioshock 2 and Fallout 3 for sure (updater told me so). Also thought Fable - The Lost Chapters wasn't supported (odd since it's a MS game). Then there are numerous tools not supported that I use: FRAPS, NERO 10, PCTools Regestry thingy to name a few. Not gonna buy updates for those programs to keep using them... Demigoth's RPG adventures ~ My blog ASUS M4N72-E |
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11/14/12 8:34:58 AM#71
This isnt the first time something like this has happened...
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11/14/12 8:35:43 AM#72
I have all of them working on windows 8 barr Fable 3.
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11/14/12 8:36:46 AM#73
microsoft usually always do this.. why would anyone be suprised.
Games are probally not gonna support it for a few years anyway by that time more and more people would have picked up windows 8.
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11/14/12 8:41:03 AM#74
Originally posted by lotaparty The roadmap from MS shows win 9 release in 2014 - it might get pushed early as win 8 isn't exactly selling great. |
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11/14/12 8:42:14 AM#75
Originally posted by VassagoMael I'm suprised you didn't also include..."go back to WoW" |
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11/14/12 8:45:59 AM#76
Originally posted by denshing there were how many dx 10 games before nvidia gpus became dx10? very few, how many games there were using dx10.1 which only ati gpus had , we had maybe 5 games how many of early dx10, dx 10.1 or dx11 ddint support dx9 , or for dx11 dx 10, , answer is zero.. noone will start producing games for dx 11.1 |
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11/14/12 8:56:26 AM#77
Originally posted by Mothanos Wait, you're saying that if you like something you'll pay for it, but if you dont you'll steal it? So, do you steal it first to see if its good and then pay for it? |
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11/14/12 10:14:36 AM#78
Originally posted by Rodentofdoom Cool story. Notice all the other examples I gave then. It seems most on this topic uses "Windows 8 sucks" without giving any real reasons. Get Windows 8, unpin all the apps from the start menu, pin the things you had pinned to the start screen in W7/XP and there ya go. No extra clicks to do anything while getting a faster OS. |
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11/14/12 11:29:26 AM#79
[mod edit] ya, way to make a stand! I hope you own a business so I can call your stuff crappy and just steal it while feeling justified. |
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11/14/12 11:36:22 AM#80
Can't wait until Windows 9 gets rid of the desktop all together!
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