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• • Anything better than WoW out there?

  • Originally posted by Camman321
    

    People can rag on WoW all they want, but stats prove it, over 10 million paying/active subscriptions.

     

     

    I stil think that number  is bullshit  10 million no other game even comes close to that. Maybe because a 5 year old can get the concept of the game as well as a old geezer cuz its so easy that s why they might have all those subs.

    But I  say there are a lot of games better,  I liked LOTRO, DDO, AO, EQ2 better than WoW.  It was just to kiddie for me, I just played because my friends did. But I got bored and now in playing GW and AO.  If you truely want a new game wait for AoC cuz thats what im doing. War is just not my cup of tea since Im trying to stay away from anything that remotely looks or feels like Wow, like its the plague.

  • Posted: 2/25/08 11:47 AM
    General Discussion
• • directx10 Intel

  • Originally posted by Psiho246
    

     

    Originally posted by 28days
    

    there's no difference between dx9 and dx10

    I agree with this guy, difference between DX9 and DX10 is minimum, and isnt worth changing OS or decreasing performance in anyway.

     

    DX10 is more of a marketing trick to get people to buy vista.

    IDK about that, I can see a difference in games using dx9 to dx10.  They may be little differences but those small things mean a lot to me. Plus im sure they havent used dx10 to its full potential yet. 

  • Posted: 2/24/08 8:36 PM
    Age of Conan
• • The graphics will make this game fail

  • Originally posted by solareus
    

    I can see the graphics failing the game as well, specially with the large array of new hardware coming as well the quad ATI / AMD spider systems coming don in price, that the graphics won't be full optimized, in the sense of driver  efficient tweaks.  The thing that I noticed about the game world right away is the dependacy on Dx10 to make it look as good as it does, I think that is going to break the game with users running xop not getting the same level of detail in shaders as with dx10.

    Way to much focus on dx10 , and that is going to kill this game.

    Yeah there is a difference in the dx10 but still dx9 looks pretty good.  Check out the comparison.

    http://www.legitreviews.com/article/487/1/

  • Posted: 2/24/08 8:27 PM
    Age of Conan
• • Looking for PS3 info

  • Here is a hardware comparison to the 360.

                                                       PS3                                                              360

    Graphics Core Clock Speed	550 MHz	500MHz
    Graphics Processor	RSX "Reality Synthesizer"	Custom ATI Processor
    System Memory	256 MB XDR	512 MB UMA (Shared with GPU)
    Video Memory	256 MB	512 MB UMA (Shared with CPU)
    Embedded Video Memory	n/a	10MB eDRAM
    Resolution	480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p	480p, 480i, 720p, 1080i
    Controller Ports	Supports up to 7 Bluetooth Controllers	Supports up to 4 Controllers
    Digital Media Formats	Compatible with CR-ROM, CDR+W, DVD, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD+R	DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD
    Game Media Format	Blu-ray BD-ROM	Dual-Layer DVD-ROM
    Integrated Communications	802.11 B/G Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0	802.11 A/B/G Wi-Fi ready, adapter not included
    Other I/O Connectors	Ethernet (RJ45), 6 USB 2.0, CF Slot (Type I, II), SD Slot (Regular, Compact), Memory Stick, Memory Stick Duo, 1 x Optical Audio	3 USB 2.0, 2 Memory Slots, Ethernet Port (RJ45)
    Plug and Play Storage	2.5in Removable Hard Drive (Unkown Size)	20GB Removable Hard Drive
    Standard AV Output Connectors	2 x HDMI, 1 x AV	n/a
    L2 Cache	512KB L2 cache, 256KB per SPE	1MB
    Processor	Cell Processor	Custom IBM PowerPC CPU
    Processor Clock Speed	3.2 GHz	3.2 GHz
    Built-in Features	Backward Compatible with PlayStation 2, Stands Vertically or Horizontally	Backward Compatible with Xbox (limited), Stands Vertically or Horizontally, Interchangable Face Plates, Xbox Live Service, Media Center Extender
    Memory Bandwidth	25.6 GB/s main memory bandwidth, 22.4 GB/s video memory bandwidth	22.4 GB/s main memory bandwidth, 256 GB/s to eDRAM, 21.6 GB/s FSB
    Surround Sound	Multichannel Output (software driven)	Multichannel Output (software drive

     

    These systems are pretty much head to head but there are a few things that set them apart.

    The ps3 uses 256 memory for both system and video for a total of 512. 360 has 512 of unified so it can use up to how much is needed. Unlike the ps3 if its not using all 256 of the video memory it cant sent the leftover to the main system memory.

     

    10MB eDRAM on the 360 is so that it can use 4x AA and take no perfomance hit, ps3 dont.

    Well the cell processor is basicly an p4 hyperthreaded  proccy on crack. All they did was just copy the logical processor more times. This confuses me since Intel stopped using hyperthreading when they started making Dual Core processors.

    So I dont know why Sony  wanted to use hyperthreading but thats no what I would have done.The 360  has 3 symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each and 2 hardware threads per core; 6 hardware threads total and 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core; 3 total

    Blue Ray is nice since now its the winner of the format wars. but you will be able to buy an add on for the 360 soon.

    But enough of the technical crap. It all comes down to which games you want to play. There are alot of games coming out for all systems. But Im am an Xbox guy but mine is having a hard time reading disks now  so that blows. I think It was from my roommate smoking cigarettes all the time.

     

    But Im actually not that much of a console player I love PC games and Im going to be spending money on a new build to play Age of Conan. But We will never know exaclty which console is better hardware wise till we get to the limits of the 360 and see if the ps3 can play that game any better or vice versa. But other than that it will come down to personal preference on games u want to play.

     

  • Posted: 2/24/08 7:32 PM
    General Discussion
• • AoC and *EHEM*

  • Yeah you can see boobs in RL and get laid but  like I said  In Game I would be RP there character not paying them to look at boobs for pleasure in RL.  Although maybe some people might and thats cool whatevers clever.

     

     

     

  • Posted: 2/22/08 12:56 PM
    Age of Conan