for the console I was talking about the fact that 90% of pc games are console ports right now so with a new generation of consoles the pc version should also be better optimized otherwise we will have a lot games that runs at 20 fps
I had a dualcore(E6600) for 5 years and pretty much every new game in the past 3 years can use two or more cores, even if it's just two you have to consider the other programs running in the background, for example on bad company 2 punkbuster had a bug that after a few minutes it would use 20-30% of cpu, the game itself uses ~90% of cpu and because of punkbuster there was a lot of stuttering, now I have a sixcore(3930k) and yeah maybe six cores are too much for games but some of them like bf3 can already use them and I think pretty soon most games will use at least 4 cores, we'll just have to wait for the playstation and xbox to go "next gen" once again
on the desktop both windows and osx have an integrated h264 decoder, on linux is probably just a matter of installing ffmpeg or something like that
I don't really want to pay more for a product, no one does, but I'd be one of those people who'd pay more for BF4. Why?
I wont be. Why?
Because Battlefield 3 was shit. Because they made the unlocables too lopsided, because after they charge you the US$70 which translates into no less then A$150 they still want $20 odd a month for premium which like unlockables, will be so lopsided as to make the game unplayable if you don't pony up the monthly danegeld, sorry, subscription fee.
BF 1942 and BF2 were works of art, BF Bad Company 2 was good, BF3 was just a huge steaming pile of unbalanced crap that I stopped playing after 3 days.
I think you are full of bullshit, how can you judge an online game if you played it for only 3 days, also pretty much all battlefields had dlc(they were called expansion/booster pack at the time) 1942 had road to rome, bf2 had special forces, euro forces and armored fury, 2142 had northern strike and bc2 had vietnam, if you don't want to buy them it's fine you can still play the game, there are tons of bf3 servers with just the vanilla bf3, the new unlocks included in the dlc don't give any advantages over the vanilla weapons, they don't give you nukes just another weapon with slightly different stats, also it was exactly the same in bf2 and 2142, you could unlock new weapons or gadgets for each kit if you had the expansion pack
Last but not least there isn't a monthly fee, there are 5 dlcs you can either buy them at 15€ each or buy premium which is 50€ and you get all of them plus some extra goodies(nothing special to be honest, just some skins and some game guide), I was a bit skeptical at the beginning because close quarter didn't seem very good, but it's actually quite fun if you want to play something different from time to time, again you are not forced to buy anything just like you weren't forced on previous battlefield
it's a bug/hardware compatibility testing, that's what pretty much all the free betas are for
the emulator is not perfect though, they only recently added multi touch support which is something that they should have done from the beginning
Yeah, but just price the system at around $10-15 thousand and it'll be viewed as a bargain to the audiophile crowd. They'll make a good killing off those morons.
only if the optical cable is gold plated
unfortunately the truth is that amd/ati isn't capable of making decent drivers on both windows and linux, their cards seems to be always better than nvidia in terms of price and performance but in reality they rarely works flawlessy, either the driver crashes or the game glitches and you have to wait for some hotfix, there was also a news here on slashdot just a few weeks ago that the windows amd drivers disable dep/aslr otherwise you get a bsod
obligatory http://xkcd.com/538/
- where PHP became a language of choice, with people writing things like: if (myfunc() == True)
honest question, I don't use php that much but what's wrong with that expression?
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