tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post6602154862006469575..comments2024-02-13T03:59:13.635+00:00Comments on Eat Electric Death: The state of PC Gaming [Slim]Slimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020308502156946280noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-28870093571921980532007-08-30T21:28:00.000+01:002007-08-30T21:28:00.000+01:00[22:52] my wifes watching tv AGAIN http://www....[22:52] my wifes watching tv AGAIN http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/30/red-ring-of-death-visits-orland-for-lunch/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-39116586038177909532007-08-27T13:12:00.000+01:002007-08-27T13:12:00.000+01:00This idea you 'see less' isn't really right though...<br><br>This idea you 'see less' isn't really right though. If you're zoomed in, you're seeing things in better detail further away. Widescreen doesn't mean you bought hardware that should show you a more zoomed out at all times. The developers wanted this view, saying vert- is automatically inferior has absolutely no basis in fact. At the end of the day, you move the camera around. You got a 4:3Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-39840954883371610942007-08-27T03:09:00.000+01:002007-08-27T03:09:00.000+01:00Halflife 2 actually improves the horizontal field ...<br><br><br>Halflife 2 actually improves the horizontal field of view when you run in a widescreen resolution, and your verticle FOV remains unchanged. This is known as horiz+<br><br>What the devs of bioshock decided to do was lop off the top and bottom of the screen for widescreen users, whilst leaving the horizonal fov unchanged. So widescreen users actually see less. Try to toggle between Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-24249488794486172862007-08-27T02:55:00.000+01:002007-08-27T02:55:00.000+01:00I've found that having Aero enabled under Vista ca...<br><br><br>I've found that having Aero enabled under Vista can eat a few FPS<br><br><br>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-47374457186996237312007-08-26T15:20:00.000+01:002007-08-26T15:20:00.000+01:00I reinstalled Vista on a spare partition. I needed...<br><br><br>I reinstalled Vista on a spare partition. I needed to install dxsetup even on Vista (9.0c for an OS that ships with 10?!) before it would even run. No crashes, pretty smooth. However under Vista alt-tabbing is pretty fucked and the frame rate is down a few from XP. The alt-tab issue is kinda annoying really but at least it doesn't crash all the time. I don't think that's an XP vs Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-74726178217079851272007-08-26T14:42:00.000+01:002007-08-26T14:42:00.000+01:00Steam update forced me to run dxsetup just now whe...<br><br><br>Steam update forced me to run dxsetup just now when I launched the game.<br><br>I did actually have one problem initially... my key bindings were lost. Twice when starting the demo, and once in the first few times I loaded the full game.<br><br>When it comes to the widescreen, as a 5:4 user I am seeing more scene than the 16:9 and 16:10 users, which is just wrong.<br><br><br>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-76464061048355263692007-08-26T13:31:00.000+01:002007-08-26T13:31:00.000+01:00I see what you mean about the settings now. Origin...<br><br><br>I see what you mean about the settings now. Originally I thought it wasn't saving my settings because it was crashing and settings were only saved on exit. But having played it fine for ages and over many games it crashed again and I lost the lot.I can see some merit in it. Essentially its taken you back into a safe mode of sorts. Or course that'd be fine if the defaults had Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-67649075217076401692007-08-26T12:10:00.000+01:002007-08-26T12:10:00.000+01:00The Bioshock FOV stuff is a bit of a red herring. ...<br><br><br><br>The Bioshock FOV stuff is a bit of a red herring. It's set to a similar level of other games. I thought it was a bit zoomed up at first but after playing it realised it was spot on.<br><br>There still doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to when the game crashes, what circumstances it crashes or what's different between it running on some machine that crashes and one that Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-60918799800769688532007-08-26T11:45:00.000+01:002007-08-26T11:45:00.000+01:00Crysis is going to be pretty fucked up. Its pitchi...Crysis is going to be pretty fucked up. Its pitching right at the 14-year-olds and they may as well put a bikini blonde on the front of the box. In this trailer you witness the following: Punching through solid walls Leaping onto a roof like Spiderman Stormtrooper Effect AI Helicopter shot down at 1000yards with near-recoiless AK-74 Leaping into a tank for a BF2-inspired Tank battleI'm not sayingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-56388447731406046432007-08-26T03:54:00.000+01:002007-08-26T03:54:00.000+01:00Steam released the game at 6am local time on the 2...<br><br><br><br>Steam released the game at 6am local time on the 22nd in Australia, mine finished downloading final files at 500kb/s and unlocked within 40 minutes and I was playing it by 6.50am. Only paid $50 USD for it as well, which was nice.<br><br>Running Vista w/ dx10 on 8800gtx, no problems at all, getting >60fps the whole time. Very happy I didn\'t have to buy an xbox360 and run inAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-5940684983688384272007-08-25T22:50:00.000+01:002007-08-25T22:50:00.000+01:00Couple of Turkish dudes in Germany set up Crytek. ...<br><br><br><br>Couple of Turkish dudes in Germany set up Crytek. Thing is, Farcry looked real nice but as an FPS I thought it wasn't worth playing. It just managed to do everything in a slightly weedy half-arsed way. Crysis looks amazing but I wouldn't be surprised to find there's a pretty naff game underneath. We've got UT2 coming up and TF2. So multiplayer wise we're stoked. Be interesting to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-27946379209634044952007-08-25T22:09:00.000+01:002007-08-25T22:09:00.000+01:00Here's hoping eh because as far as that other Futu...<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Here's hoping eh because as far as that other Future Of All Gaming title, Crysis, the latest video on eurogamer has got me going what the FUCK is it with the neo-neon clag-nut enemies?????! <a href="http://www.eurogamer.net/tv_video.php?playlist_id=4342&s=l">http://www.eurogamer.net/tv_video.php?playlist_id=4342&s=l</a><br><br>Are this lot french or isthat justAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-11884742119242930352007-08-25T22:05:00.000+01:002007-08-25T22:05:00.000+01:00Oddly I've played for hours today with no crashes ...<br><br><br><br><br>Oddly I've played for hours today with no crashes nothing. Seemed to all surround the move to the new patch, had to start again and it was fine. Then again, that might not be it at all...<br><br><br><br><br>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-49378537663877064102007-08-25T21:33:00.000+01:002007-08-25T21:33:00.000+01:00Having returned from holiday, my first read of thi...<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Having returned from holiday, my first read of this had my heart sinking that I was apparently walking into a clusterfuck. Happily, for this individual punter in dx9 world, it has worked out of the box with no crashes in about 3-4 hours play so far. Oh the advantages of pissing about in Wales while the first 48 hours gets sorted out.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-25123876731037091942007-08-25T13:23:00.000+01:002007-08-25T13:23:00.000+01:00Another thing that's fucking me off, this unskippa...<br><br><br><br><br><br>Another thing that's fucking me off, this unskippable video shit that just appears to have become the norm in games now. I don't want to read three pages of random Take 2 legal shite in 18 different languages and I <i>especially</i> don't think we should have to watch the fucking NVIDIA 'way it's meant to be played' animation every goddamn time you start the game. Which isAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-80583050806460574612007-08-25T13:21:00.000+01:002007-08-25T13:21:00.000+01:00It's worse. It seems like some SecuROM service you...<br><br><br><br><br><br>It's worse. It seems like some SecuROM service you neither asked for nor were asked if you wanted to install it, is installed on your PC. It's not removed on uninstall. You will even get it if you install the demo. Worse still, they've used a nasty trick which makes it impossible to remove the keys with regedit (null character in the key name), so you have to download an Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-84400548240275714502007-08-25T12:55:00.000+01:002007-08-25T12:55:00.000+01:00So securerom do authentication & not steam? Th...<br><br><br><br><br><br>So securerom do authentication & not steam? That's a bit fucked. I was refering to not having a disc check through not having a disc really.<br><br><br><br><br><br>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-71489998784701638352007-08-25T12:41:00.000+01:002007-08-25T12:41:00.000+01:00Spine, you seem to be the only peon in the world t...<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Spine, you seem to be the only peon in the world that's avoided securom with Steam?<br><br>Anyways, it gets worse, apparently securoms now rootkitted you with an unremovable install, and not just with the retail release, but <a href="http://www.gamingbob.com/2007/08/23/bioshock-installs-rootkit-including-demo">the demo too</a>. This is bang out of order in my book.<br>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-70528014389028235952007-08-25T10:24:00.000+01:002007-08-25T10:24:00.000+01:00That's a good point Beej, any game with significan...<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>That's a good point Beej, any game with significant issues such as this dosen't deserve full marks. To be fair to the devs though, they are trying to remedy the fuckups. There's a pretty good interview with Ken Levine on Fridays PC Gamer podcast. It still sounds like QA should be shot though.<br><br>Out of interest, are the crash problems dx10 related, or is itAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-17626559358057125442007-08-25T10:02:00.000+01:002007-08-25T10:02:00.000+01:00The Steam Bioshock forums are buzzing with Steam d...<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>The <a href="http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=304">Steam Bioshock forums</a> are buzzing with Steam delivery and Securom verification hatred.<br><br>There's a fair bit of 360 jealousy there too, something we've not seen for previous Steam titles. Not just jealousy the launch screw-ups that PC owners have had to endure, but also Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-78693907030379917582007-08-25T08:27:00.000+01:002007-08-25T08:27:00.000+01:00Yeah, its piss poor it doesn't just save them when...<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Yeah, its piss poor it doesn't just save them when you change them. I finally got it working in the end and had a fun 2h worth. Turns out it was the High detail shaders that were crashing my machine. Once I turned them off it worked fine. Pretty shitty tho really. My machine is powerful enough to use them at lower res but even with the latest beta drivers they Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-77786688540957517012007-08-25T06:53:00.000+01:002007-08-25T06:53:00.000+01:00I'm also getting really fucking tired of having to...<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>I'm also getting really fucking tired of having to change the goddamn game settings back to where I want them every time it crashes.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-11295183737163651632007-08-25T06:48:00.000+01:002007-08-25T06:48:00.000+01:00Valve's distribution system is a bit crap for new ...<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Valve's distribution system is a bit crap for new games really. They gave me a counter saying this how long until it's out. Then in the last 3 hours the counter vanished and it was released maybe 5 hours after that point but I didn't know when, I just had to keep restarting Steam. Clearly this stuff ought to be built into Steam. A count-down and it goes andAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-45508597665547292522007-08-24T22:13:00.000+01:002007-08-24T22:13:00.000+01:00Hmph. I saw it was just at preloaded still so I th...<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Hmph. I saw it was just at preloaded still so I thought for about 0.0001 seconds and restarted steam. Bosh. Unlocked, no crappy SecureROM protection either. Played around an hour. Great experience, even without an uber dx10 card. There's a hack on the wide screen gaming forums to fix the fov already. The devs are working on a proper fov patch for the pc, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com