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| News Comments > Deus Ex: Human Revolution TGS Trailer |
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Re: Deus Ex: Human Revolution TGS Trailer |
Sep 16, 2010, 13:43 |
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I think people love the original Deus Ex for a lot of reasons... It had extraordinary attention to detail in all areas, it was fun, it had some meat to it, it had a lot of unique characteristics even though it was clearly inspired by other works, it had plenty of memorable moments, and it struck an excellent balance between being accessible and having some more hardcore game systems - better than System Shock 2 IMO. Many of us have come back to it after years and seen how it still stands up as a darn good game.
I seriously doubt any sequel will approach the original, but I'd still love to be surprised. |
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| News Comments > New Steam Client |
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Re: New Steam Client |
Aug 31, 2010, 19:58 |
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| The fullscreen game is still running fine, I just get pulled back to the desktop with the Steam update notice window getting focus. Yes, NVIDIA. Haven't updated the drivers in awhile, they're 196.21. |
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| News Comments > New Steam Client |
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Re: New Steam Client |
Aug 31, 2010, 00:40 |
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| Steam pulled me out of my fullscreen game to tell me about this update. It's done this with the previous two updates too. Seriously, wtf Valve. Is this happening to anyone else too? Running Windows 7 64-bit. I swear this didn't start happening until the last month or two... |
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| News Comments > AMD Dropping the ATI Brand Name |
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Re: AMD Dropping the ATI Brand Name |
Aug 30, 2010, 17:49 |
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Mashiki Amiketo wrote on Aug 30, 2010, 15:57:
Tom wrote on Aug 30, 2010, 13:34:
Yay for anecdotes. My ATI 9800 Pro's fan died and my 1800XT cooked itself (terrible heatsink design, thanks ASUS!), forcing me to put up with artifacts and underclocking/undervolting to keep it stable while I shopped for a new gfx card. My NVIDIA cards have never failed me. So that would be an asus problem because they followed the bare minimum for cooling design. Or would that be an ATI problem because they made the chip? Kinda lost here. And apparently you've never seen nVidia cards so hot you could boil water on them, or have you? Those dual slot cards nvidia was pumping out a few years ago sucked for heat, heat failure, and design issues.
Then again overall GPU's are heavy on the transistors, usually 2-4 times more than a CPU now. That's a lot of heat in a small area.
I blame both ATI and ASUS for my 1800XT's failure. It's ATI's fault for having no thermal throttling on their chips - the only way you find out there's a problem is after it's irreparably damaged? Poor design. CPU vendors got over that a long time ago. It's also ASUS's fault for using an inadequate heatsink that became even less effective over time.
I haven't seen an NVIDIA card get up to 100C. The highest I've seen is about 80C. Have some of them gotten up to 100C? I don't doubt it one bit, but it hasn't happened to me (yet).
I understand the problem with anecdotes and was attempting to help illustrate it. Anecdotes push people to believe something in the world is one way or another, but they are not valid evidence of the truth. Only intelligently collected and interpreted data with a sufficiently large sample size can serve as valid evidence of the truth. Unfortunately such evidence is hard to come by, while there's no shortage of anecdotal evidence. |
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| News Comments > AMD Dropping the ATI Brand Name |
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Re: AMD Dropping the ATI Brand Name |
Aug 30, 2010, 13:34 |
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Yay for anecdotes. My ATI 9800 Pro's fan died and my 1800XT cooked itself (terrible heatsink design, thanks ASUS!), forcing me to put up with artifacts and underclocking/undervolting to keep it stable while I shopped for a new gfx card. My NVIDIA cards have never failed me.
Of course, after my 1800XT failure, I started maintaining strict monitoring and control over temperatures and fan speeds. The default settings are ridiculous and would have you cooking your GPU just to make the card a little quieter. I maintain the perfect balance between cooling and noise level by reprogramming the fan controller with RivaTuner. Sure it's a PITA to set up, but that's a one-time bit of setup work that lasts years. And I'm not talking about discrete temperature thresholds that trigger different fan presets, but rather fan controller parameters that affect instantaneous fan speed adjustment based on changing temperature. |
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| News Comments > Evening Tech Bits |
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Re: Evening Tech Bits |
Aug 27, 2010, 10:34 |
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As much as Intel graphics suck, they suck a whole lot less than they did a few years ago. It's nice that even the lowest end Atom-based netbooks have basic DX9-compatible 3D graphics... not good enough for gaming but good enough for simple use in apps. They can run DX9 and shaders. In the past it would've been like "Intel graphics? not useful for anything, app won't run, or we need a software renderer". Now it actually does something.
I'm working on a specialized 3D engine and so far the main thing I've had to implement just for Intel graphics has been 16-bit indices instead of 32-bit. Not a big deal, and probably helpful for other GPUs anyway. What has driven you crazy about them? |
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| News Comments > Valve Would Like to Make the Half-Life Movie |
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Re: Valve Would Like to Make the Half-Life Movie |
Aug 26, 2010, 22:46 |
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Valve has consistently been hiring talent from the community and turning their work into commercial success. There have been some promising HL shorts from people in the community. I bet Valve could be successful with this if they brought in some talented and motivated people to do it.
Good thing they had the sense to not go with Hollywood. *shudder*
Btw, HL never really had any good story or dialogue. What made the game good was the atmosphere and the gameplay. I hope they understand that at least. I feel like the TF2 characters are more developed than Gordon and whatsherface. |
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| News Comments > How Steam Saved Introversion |
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Re: How Steam Saved Introversion |
Aug 25, 2010, 10:19 |
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starmonkey wrote on Aug 25, 2010, 02:47:
Looking forward to subversion. I hope they use SVN for source control!
Srsly, they use git, that's a NO SALE right there. ZOMG RRAAAGGGHHH!!  |
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| News Comments > On APB Support |
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Re: On APB Support |
Aug 19, 2010, 15:53 |
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| I think many businesspeople hate to keep their failed products alive. They would rather put it completely in the past and devote all available resources to something new that will hopefully work out better. |
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| News Comments > Age of Empires Online Announced |
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Re: Age of Empires Online Announced |
Aug 17, 2010, 16:35 |
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mag wrote on Aug 17, 2010, 16:21:
bhcompy wrote on Aug 17, 2010, 13:12:
Freelancer was the last decent starfighting game in a genre that is in dire need of more attention
You shut your whore mouth. Freelancer didn't even support joysticks!
Hey, he did say decent. Try naming a decent space sim released after Freelancer. |
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| News Comments > Mafia II Demo |
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Re: Mafia II Demo |
Aug 11, 2010, 09:30 |
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I think Doma is right on the money, except for saying the cops don't care. They were always after me for everything. And once I was "wanted", I was marked for death. They definitely didn't forget me either.
I'm expecting this to still be a good game, but ya, they seem to have sacrificed a lot of good stuff from the first one. It's especially disappointing that all weapons seem to have perfect aim. Hopefully this is due to the auto aim which is a setting but seems to be stuck on for the demo (why?). |
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| News Comments > Mafia II Demo |
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Re: Mafia II Demo |
Aug 10, 2010, 14:04 |
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If it's anything like the first game, there's plenty of terrorizing the environment and its inhabitants to be done.
Looking forward to trying this tonight. I loved the first one and fully expected its sequel to be console crap. |
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| News Comments > Morning Consolidation |
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Re: Size Matters (for BluRay |
Aug 2, 2010, 16:15 |
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Tumbler wrote on Aug 2, 2010, 14:57:
Meh. As long as the PS3 stays 720p as their native res for everything it's a dead heat. Their big oppurtunity would be if they could exploit 1080p and make their game look significantly better. So far they can't. Everything runs in 720p at max.
Not true. The Last Guy runs at true 1080p. Hindustan Electronics Co., Ltd. FTW! Oh, but that's just a small time game, you say? How about Gran Turismo 5 (Prologue and otherwise) then? They support 1080p with various levels of trickery depending on the situation (for example, in-car vs. showroom). Even 1080p w/ AA at 60fps. Not bad for such an old GPU. |
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| News Comments > More on StarCraft II Preorders |
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Re: More on StarCraft II Preorders |
Jul 26, 2010, 13:04 |
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I canceled my GameStop pre-order after they wouldn't give me a beta key. I downloaded the whole thing from Blizzard and will activate it tomorrow or whenever their servers are working. No big deal if it takes some time.
As for the following previously mentioned grievances:
* the missing LAN support - "I don't care"
* the battle.net requirement - "I don't care"
* Blizzard's greed to sell one complete game for the price of three - "I don't care"
* lack of innovation in this game - "I don't care"
* the sky is blue - "I don't care about any of that" |
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| News Comments > Quarter-Century Amiga Retrospectives |
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Re: Quarter-Century Amiga Retrospectives |
Jul 26, 2010, 09:57 |
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Hey, I loved the book, I just wish it had been a bit more professional. Its constant attacks on Apple and extreme glorification of Chuck Peddle had me wondering. When I had my father read the book, who built his own computers during those times and got me the first pre-made computer I can remember, the VIC-20, HE told ME to watch out for the bias (even though I'd already finished it). Biased doesn't mean it's full of lies. But whenever there was a chance to tilt things a little towards one side or the other, do you really think this author took the high road and stayed neutral?
Anyway don't just take my word for it, look at reviews of the book and you'll find other people pointing out this flaw. Sure, some of them clearly identify themselves as Apple fans. I am certainly not. All of my computers beyond the VIC-20 have been PCs and I don't own iAnything. |
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