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Sweeney: PCs Good for Anything... But Games

[Mar 10, 2008, 9:11 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Unreal creator: Tim Sweeney PCs are good for anything, just not games” on TG Daily is a Q&A with the Epic CEO which, as the title of the article suggests, features some negative comments about the PC as a gaming platform. This is actually just the age-old complaint about PCs with integrated graphics, as he says that mainstream PCs are not suited to gaming:

Retail stores like Best Buy are selling PC games and PCs with integrated graphics at the same time and they are not talking about the difference [to more capable gaming PCs]. Those machines are good for e-mail, web browsing, watching video. But as far as games go, those machines are just not adequate. It is no surprise that retail PC sales suffer from that. Online is different, because people who go and buy games online already have PCs that can play games. The biggest problem in this space right now is that you cannot go and design a game for a high end PC and downscale it to mainstream PCs. The performance difference between high-end and low-end PC is something like 100x.

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The game is changing

Mar 11, 2008, 04:38

UnderLord

The new AMD 780G chipset manages rather decent integrated graphics performance, check out Anandtech or Toms Hardware reviews for the last week. Best of all it can use separate video RAM on the motherboard, avoiding the ugly bastard, never successful, cheap-arse, crappy, unified memory solutions. (You can tell I don't rate unified memory solutions, right?)

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Comment [quote="UnderLord"Mar 11, 2008, 04:38]The new AMD 780G chipset manages rather decent integrated graphics performance, check out Anandtech or Toms Hardware reviews for the last week. Best of all it can use separate video RAM on the motherboard, avoiding the ugly bastard, never successful, cheap-arse, crappy, unified memory solutions. (You can tell I don't rate unified memory solutions, right?) [/quote]

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