--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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. >
Sure, but by then, they'll have a NEW "future-shock" graphics mode that will STILL play at only .0085 fps. It will be 2011 or later before the current mode becomes playable since you need at least 10-15 fps to give even a plausible feel of animation, which means graphics cards 1200 to 1800 times as fast as the top of the line 2005 cards. For the "real gamer's goal of 60fps, you need something 7200 times as fast as the 2005 cards, which will exist about 2014 or 2015, if they can sustain the pace for another 10 years, which may be pushing it. 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/
