Oblivion and graphics cards
Great quote from gamingsteve's podcast preview of oblivion
"Another funny situation occurred as he finally made his escape out of the cavern. As he walked out into the sunlight, he noticed a fight taking place right at the dungeon entrance. Apparently, an Imperial guard had been chasing a thief through the woods, and it had inevitably come to blows. Poor GamingSteve ( dense as he is ), didn't know who to help.. or even if he should interfere with "official empire business." After much deliberation, he pulled out his sword and attacked the guard, who looked at him like he was crazy and screamed, "NOT ME, YOU IDIOT! ATTACK HIM!!" So, they chased off after the thief, who raced to the top of a hill, throwing down insults at both the guard and GamingSteve. Eventually, they caught up to him and ran him through with their swords... and the Imperial guard was gracious enough to let Steve loot the bandit and keep all the goodies.
He emphasized that none of this was pre-scripted... it was all due to the incredible radiant AI."
If the artificial intelligence of the games caracters really is that good, it would be entirely possible to mistake the caracters for real humans :D
Nvidia will apparently launch it's new generation of graphics cards during computex tomorrow. The new cards will be 7900GT and 7900GTX and a replacement for the popular 6600GT that will obviously be called 7600GT. There will also be a 7600GS with less pipelines than the GT model. These cards are apparently just a dieshrink of the 7800 series, so only higher clockspeeds and less powerusage.
So no earth shattering speed increase. Both the 7900 models have 24 pipelines, the GT runs on 450 Mhz it's MSRP seems to be $299. Seems like it will have lots of speed for a resonable amount of money.
The 7600GT only has 12 pipelines and only 128 bit memory access and it's MSRP is apparently going to be $199. So x2 the performance for 1.5 times the money. ATI is going to lower it's prices when nvidia launch their new cards. So the next few months will be interesting for gamers that want/need to update their graphics card to play oblivion.
Oh right, and then there's the new unreal, crysis from crytech and lots of games based on the doom 3 engine.
So what card it the right one to get... whichever runs oblivion the best of course!! within a resonable price range.
Then there's also the question of which card will be best for the future. ATI or Nvidia, the one with shade model 3.0 done right or the one with shader model not done right from the beginning but that's apparently being done more correct with each driver updates until it will probably be shader model 3.0 done right...? Nvidia has slowly been increasing it's dynamic branching performance with driver updates. From the beginning they lost performance (~10%) when using dynamic branching compared to not, but now they seem to get about a ~30% increase from it.
Windows vista is lurking right around the corner looking fast, great and slim yeah right! maybe people that upgrade now will have to upgrade again for vista and then upgrade yet again just to be able to play a games on vista...
I feel love in the air, the love to hate microsoft. Feels like it's time to pull out one of those "what if microsoft was making cars analogies" therefore I shall end this post.
So there!
"Another funny situation occurred as he finally made his escape out of the cavern. As he walked out into the sunlight, he noticed a fight taking place right at the dungeon entrance. Apparently, an Imperial guard had been chasing a thief through the woods, and it had inevitably come to blows. Poor GamingSteve ( dense as he is ), didn't know who to help.. or even if he should interfere with "official empire business." After much deliberation, he pulled out his sword and attacked the guard, who looked at him like he was crazy and screamed, "NOT ME, YOU IDIOT! ATTACK HIM!!" So, they chased off after the thief, who raced to the top of a hill, throwing down insults at both the guard and GamingSteve. Eventually, they caught up to him and ran him through with their swords... and the Imperial guard was gracious enough to let Steve loot the bandit and keep all the goodies.
He emphasized that none of this was pre-scripted... it was all due to the incredible radiant AI."
If the artificial intelligence of the games caracters really is that good, it would be entirely possible to mistake the caracters for real humans :D
Nvidia will apparently launch it's new generation of graphics cards during computex tomorrow. The new cards will be 7900GT and 7900GTX and a replacement for the popular 6600GT that will obviously be called 7600GT. There will also be a 7600GS with less pipelines than the GT model. These cards are apparently just a dieshrink of the 7800 series, so only higher clockspeeds and less powerusage.
So no earth shattering speed increase. Both the 7900 models have 24 pipelines, the GT runs on 450 Mhz it's MSRP seems to be $299. Seems like it will have lots of speed for a resonable amount of money.
The 7600GT only has 12 pipelines and only 128 bit memory access and it's MSRP is apparently going to be $199. So x2 the performance for 1.5 times the money. ATI is going to lower it's prices when nvidia launch their new cards. So the next few months will be interesting for gamers that want/need to update their graphics card to play oblivion.
Oh right, and then there's the new unreal, crysis from crytech and lots of games based on the doom 3 engine.
So what card it the right one to get... whichever runs oblivion the best of course!! within a resonable price range.
Then there's also the question of which card will be best for the future. ATI or Nvidia, the one with shade model 3.0 done right or the one with shader model not done right from the beginning but that's apparently being done more correct with each driver updates until it will probably be shader model 3.0 done right...? Nvidia has slowly been increasing it's dynamic branching performance with driver updates. From the beginning they lost performance (~10%) when using dynamic branching compared to not, but now they seem to get about a ~30% increase from it.
Windows vista is lurking right around the corner looking fast, great and slim yeah right! maybe people that upgrade now will have to upgrade again for vista and then upgrade yet again just to be able to play a games on vista...
I feel love in the air, the love to hate microsoft. Feels like it's time to pull out one of those "what if microsoft was making cars analogies" therefore I shall end this post.
So there!
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