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[palaste]

This thread is for showing us your computer hardware specifications so people can envy you.

Main computer: Fedora 7 Linux
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 Processor 2800+ at 1.8 GHz
Memory: 1010.8 MiB (0.987 GiB)
Hard drives:
(1) ATA Maxtor IDE hard drive: 76756 MiB (74.96 GiB)
(2) ATA Maxtor IDE hard drive: 152625 MiB (149.0 GiB)
(3) LaCie USB external hard drive: 305243 MiB (298.1 GiB)
Total: 534624 MiB (522.1 GiB, 0.510 TiB)
NEC DVD-RW drive
1 HD floppy drive
Ethernet cards:
(1) D-Link RTL8139
(2) Realtek Semiconductor RTL8169
Samsung SyncMaster 206BW 20" TFT monitor
Cherry Linux USB keyboard
Logitech optical mouse

Amiga 4000: AmigaOS 3.9
Processor: Motorola 68060 at 50 MHz
Memory: 2 MiB CHIP, 48 MiB FAST
Hard drive: Seagate IDE hard drive: 20 GiB
CD-ROM drive
1 HD floppy drive and 1 DD floppy drive
Amiga Ethernet card
Amiga M1438S Multiscan monitor
Amiga standard keyboard
Wizard Amiga three-button mouse

Game consoles:
(1) Amiga CD32
(2) Nintendo Entertainment System
(3) Super Nintendo Entertainment System

This post has been edited by palaste: 16 September 2008, 20:15

Reason for edit: upgraded my monitor

[predaking]

It seems you were right about the thermaltek, Knut. It's usually dead quiet, but sometimes (apparently at random), it starts to make a LOT of noise. I'm altogether happy with the hardware, except I still can't play Crysis on medium settings with a decent framerate, even in 1280*720. Sheesh. There must have been a lot of lazy coding going on at Crytek. Bioshock, for instance, runs super smooth with everything cranked up to the maximum.

[Skybolt]

It seems you were right about the thermaltek, Knut. It's usually dead quiet, but sometimes (apparently at random), it starts to make a LOT of noise. I'm altogether happy with the hardware, except I still can't play Crysis on medium settings with a decent framerate, even in 1280*720. Sheesh. There must have been a lot of lazy coding going on at Crytek. Bioshock, for instance, runs super smooth with everything cranked up to the maximum.

There's heck of a lot of sloppy PC game coding. Just look at Ace Combat 6 Fires Of Liberation for the 'old' Xbox360 it's beautiful (outshines Crysis in graphics) and it show what you can accomplish with some proper coding.

This post has been edited by Skybolt: 8 February 2008, 16:15

[Thunderclash]

It seems you were right about the thermaltek, Knut. It's usually dead quiet, but sometimes (apparently at random), it starts to make a LOT of noise. I'm altogether happy with the hardware, except I still can't play Crysis on medium settings with a decent framerate, even in 1280*720. Sheesh. There must have been a lot of lazy coding going on at Crytek. Bioshock, for instance, runs super smooth with everything cranked up to the maximum.

There's heck of a lot of sloppy PC game coding. Just look at Ace Combat 6 Fires Of Liberation for the 'old' Xbox360 it's beautiful (outshines Crysis in graphics) and it show what you can accomplish with some proper coding.

Frank: I made the mistake of buying a Thermaltake PurePower 680W PSU based on the manufacturer's numbers and a few independent tests. It didn't take long until I found out that the claims of near silent operation were a bit off. My Thermaltake PSU is now resting in its box. I bought a modular MIST 600W PSU as a replacement; that one is working great. The newest versions (revision 3) are even better.

Skybolt: If severely bugged games were released on the consoles, they would not sell due to bad reviews and potential buyers avoiding them like the plague. However, on the PC, games publishers seem to be more willing to take chances and release games that have not been fully tested and debugged, just because they can release a downloadable patch at a later date. For some reason this is accepted by the industry. Take PC game "Company Of Heroes", for example: Fine game, but how many patches so far? Close to 15 (over 2 GB downloaded), if I'm not wrong. What if they waited to release the game until if was finished? The game is still being tweaked and the latest patch was released in December 2007, well over a year after the game's initial release. You can't do this on the consoles; you have to make sure that everything is a-okay before you set a final date for release. For the most part today games are ported across the different platforms, but if the publishers concentrate their efforts on the console releases (that's where the big money are), precious little extra time will be spent to streamline the PC release. And it doesn't help that many PC users aren't willing to pay for full-price games, even great games, because they can download it for free from the 'Net, thereby undermining their own gaming platform of choice. I'm confident we would have seen both a wider range and better quality games if games publishers dared to invest more in games developement for the PC. Whenever you see a PC game being hailed as a classic with 5+ million units sold worldwide, then think about how many millions pirated copies that are also out there. The PC platform has a severe image problem that won't go away until (a) people start respecting copyright and actually buy the games, making more games publishers see the potential income and investment possibilities in new games technology on the PC platform, or (b) games publishers come up with a copy protection method that actually works perfectly...
NB! Sorry for derailing on the topic.


Knut Ingar

This post has been edited by Thunderclash: 9 February 2008, 11:42

[Skybolt]

It seems you were right about the thermaltek, Knut. It's usually dead quiet, but sometimes (apparently at random), it starts to make a LOT of noise. I'm altogether happy with the hardware, except I still can't play Crysis on medium settings with a decent framerate, even in 1280*720. Sheesh. There must have been a lot of lazy coding going on at Crytek. Bioshock, for instance, runs super smooth with everything cranked up to the maximum.

There's heck of a lot of sloppy PC game coding. Just look at Ace Combat 6 Fires Of Liberation for the 'old' Xbox360 it's beautiful (outshines Crysis in graphics) and it show what you can accomplish with some proper coding.

Frank: I made the mistake of buying a Thermaltake PurePower 680W PSU based on the manufacturer's numbers and a few independent tests. It didn't take long until I found out that the claims of near silent operation were a bit off. My Thermaltake PSU is now resting in its box. I bought a modular MIST 600W PSU as a replacement; that one is working great. The newest versions (revision 3) are even better.

Skybolt: If severely bugged games were released on the consoles, they would not sell due to bad reviews and potential buyers avoiding them like the plague. However, on the PC, games publishers seem to be more willing to take chances and release games that have not been fully tested and debugged, just because they can release a downloadable patch at a later date. For some reason this is accepted by the industry. Take PC game "Company Of Heroes", for example: Fine game, but how many patches so far? Close to 15 (over 2 GB downloaded), if I'm not wrong. What if they waited to release the game until if was finished? The game is still being tweaked and the latest patch was released in December 2007, well over a year after the game's initial release. You can't do this on the consoles; you have to make sure that everything is a-okay before you set a final date for release. For the most part today games are ported across the different platforms, but if the publishers concentrate their efforts on the console releases (that's where the big money are), precious little extra time will be spent to streamline the PC release. And it doesn't help that many PC users aren't willing to pay for full-price games, even great games, because they can download it for free from the 'Net, thereby undermining their own gaming platform of choice. I'm confident we would have seen both a wider range and better quality games if games publishers dared to invest more in games developement for the PC. Whenever you see a PC game being hailed as a classic with 5+ million units sold worldwide, then think about how many millions pirated copies that are also out there. The PC platform has a severe image problem that won't go away until (a) people start respecting copyright and actually buy the games, making more games publishers see the potential income and investment possibilities in new games technology on the PC platform, or (b) games publishers come up with a copy protection method that actually works perfectly...
NB! Sorry for derailing on the topic.


Knut Ingar

I get you, but fact is this has been a problem since birth of the PC games even back in 97,98,99 where few people even could download a game were annoyed with several bugs. Also there's a hughe copying market for consoles too and different kind of boot chips are used like falcon for xbox360 etc... so the issue was with PS1 and PS2, a lot of people had copied games for those consoles.

But nevertheless if PC game developers were interested in making good coded games i'm pretty sure people would invenst in the also due to less steeper hw demands.

[palaste]

It seems you were right about the thermaltek, Knut. It's usually dead quiet, but sometimes (apparently at random), it starts to make a LOT of noise. I'm altogether happy with the hardware, except I still can't play Crysis on medium settings with a decent framerate, even in 1280*720. Sheesh. There must have been a lot of lazy coding going on at Crytek. Bioshock, for instance, runs super smooth with everything cranked up to the maximum.

There's heck of a lot of sloppy PC game coding. Just look at Ace Combat 6 Fires Of Liberation for the 'old' Xbox360 it's beautiful (outshines Crysis in graphics) and it show what you can accomplish with some proper coding.

Frank: I made the mistake of buying a Thermaltake PurePower 680W PSU based on the manufacturer's numbers and a few independent tests. It didn't take long until I found out that the claims of near silent operation were a bit off. My Thermaltake PSU is now resting in its box. I bought a modular MIST 600W PSU as a replacement; that one is working great. The newest versions (revision 3) are even better.

Skybolt: If severely bugged games were released on the consoles, they would not sell due to bad reviews and potential buyers avoiding them like the plague. However, on the PC, games publishers seem to be more willing to take chances and release games that have not been fully tested and debugged, just because they can release a downloadable patch at a later date. For some reason this is accepted by the industry. Take PC game "Company Of Heroes", for example: Fine game, but how many patches so far? Close to 15 (over 2 GB downloaded), if I'm not wrong. What if they waited to release the game until if was finished? The game is still being tweaked and the latest patch was released in December 2007, well over a year after the game's initial release. You can't do this on the consoles; you have to make sure that everything is a-okay before you set a final date for release. For the most part today games are ported across the different platforms, but if the publishers concentrate their efforts on the console releases (that's where the big money are), precious little extra time will be spent to streamline the PC release. And it doesn't help that many PC users aren't willing to pay for full-price games, even great games, because they can download it for free from the 'Net, thereby undermining their own gaming platform of choice. I'm confident we would have seen both a wider range and better quality games if games publishers dared to invest more in games developement for the PC. Whenever you see a PC game being hailed as a classic with 5+ million units sold worldwide, then think about how many millions pirated copies that are also out there. The PC platform has a severe image problem that won't go away until (a) people start respecting copyright and actually buy the games, making more games publishers see the potential income and investment possibilities in new games technology on the PC platform, or (b) games publishers come up with a copy protection method that actually works perfectly...
NB! Sorry for derailing on the topic.


Knut Ingar

I get you, but fact is this has been a problem since birth of the PC games even back in 97,98,99 where few people even could download a game were annoyed with several bugs. Also there's a hughe copying market for consoles too and different kind of boot chips are used like falcon for xbox360 etc... so the issue was with PS1 and PS2, a lot of people had copied games for those consoles.

But nevertheless if PC game developers were interested in making good coded games i'm pretty sure people would invenst in the also due to less steeper hw demands.

You wacky youngsters, you. The problem with game piracy dates back to the early 1980s, way before PCs could play any games beyond Solitaire.

[SureShot]

Or if the card and the game support it, all three displays could be active simultaneously?

99% of serious flightsims support multi-monitoring.

It seems you were right about the thermaltek, Knut. It's usually dead quiet, but sometimes (apparently at random), it starts to make a LOT of noise. I'm altogether happy with the hardware, except I still can't play Crysis on medium settings with a decent framerate, even in 1280*720. Sheesh. There must have been a lot of lazy coding going on at Crytek. Bioshock, for instance, runs super smooth with everything cranked up to the maximum.

There's heck of a lot of sloppy PC game coding. Just look at Ace Combat 6 Fires Of Liberation for the 'old' Xbox360 it's beautiful (outshines Crysis in graphics) and it show what you can accomplish with some proper coding.

Frank: I made the mistake of buying a Thermaltake PurePower 680W PSU based on the manufacturer's numbers and a few independent tests. It didn't take long until I found out that the claims of near silent operation were a bit off. My Thermaltake PSU is now resting in its box. I bought a modular MIST 600W PSU as a replacement; that one is working great. The newest versions (revision 3) are even better.

Skybolt: If severely bugged games were released on the consoles, they would not sell due to bad reviews and potential buyers avoiding them like the plague. However, on the PC, games publishers seem to be more willing to take chances and release games that have not been fully tested and debugged, just because they can release a downloadable patch at a later date. For some reason this is accepted by the industry. Take PC game "Company Of Heroes", for example: Fine game, but how many patches so far? Close to 15 (over 2 GB downloaded), if I'm not wrong. What if they waited to release the game until if was finished? The game is still being tweaked and the latest patch was released in December 2007, well over a year after the game's initial release. You can't do this on the consoles; you have to make sure that everything is a-okay before you set a final date for release. For the most part today games are ported across the different platforms, but if the publishers concentrate their efforts on the console releases (that's where the big money are), precious little extra time will be spent to streamline the PC release. And it doesn't help that many PC users aren't willing to pay for full-price games, even great games, because they can download it for free from the 'Net, thereby undermining their own gaming platform of choice. I'm confident we would have seen both a wider range and better quality games if games publishers dared to invest more in games developement for the PC. Whenever you see a PC game being hailed as a classic with 5+ million units sold worldwide, then think about how many millions pirated copies that are also out there. The PC platform has a severe image problem that won't go away until (a) people start respecting copyright and actually buy the games, making more games publishers see the potential income and investment possibilities in new games technology on the PC platform, or (b) games publishers come up with a copy protection method that actually works perfectly...
NB! Sorry for derailing on the topic.


Knut Ingar

I get you, but fact is this has been a problem since birth of the PC games even back in 97,98,99 where few people even could download a game were annoyed with several bugs. Also there's a hughe copying market for consoles too and different kind of boot chips are used like falcon for xbox360 etc... so the issue was with PS1 and PS2, a lot of people had copied games for those consoles.

But nevertheless if PC game developers were interested in making good coded games i'm pretty sure people would invenst in the also due to less steeper hw demands.

You wacky youngsters, you. The problem with game piracy dates back to the early 1980s, way before PCs could play any games beyond Solitaire.

Yea but we're talking games that actually are worth pirateing
Narh i too had some copies for my old Amstrad 128.

This post has been edited by SureShot: 25 February 2008, 18:52