--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > [...] > > The nice thing about that is that even a low-end PC will be able to > > render video, multi-track music files and 3D raytraced animation > > quite quickly compared to today. The average person home power user > > can even rely on lower-end hardware for the average jobs. > > > > > Yeah, but cutting edge computer games will STILL overwhelm the current hardware no matter > how fast it gets. When EverQuest II was first released, they had a special graphics mode you > could click. A warning would pop up asking if you really wanted to do that. If you said yes, it > would go into a mode that was so detailed that it was drawing about one frame every 120 > seconds on my computer which was top-of-the-line at that point. > > The warning said that there was no existing hardware that could handle the drawing modes > they were using in real-time. It was just to give you a glimpse of the current graphics > capabilities of the game as they would appear on future hardware. The shadows from > multiple light sources, and so on, were quite nice, but they were right: .0085 FPS isn't > playable.
uh, I am betting the 80 core processorthat Intel has on the drawing board -- and I am sure AMD has similar coming up, particualry if on a quad mother board, and equivalent graphics processors, and 100 GIGS of fast RAM, will yield a pretty satisfying game experience. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
