Yea I know that S3TC is outdated but it looks great (from what I've seen of it in UT99) and performs well.
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 3:18 PM, tribaljet <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah THEfog, ps3 has 8 cores but only 7 are dedicated to the software. > I firmly believe that multiplattform should be watched over carefully > because before games began flying all over different systems we didn't > have so many games with untapped potential that would hardly be put to > use. I don't know what are your desktop specs but for crysis to run on > dx10 with at least 1680x1050 and graphic setting above medium, you > have to have some serious number crunching by your side. Oblivion on > the other hand is much much lighter when compared to crysis. > > @Angelic: At the time I tested nfs:mw I just tried stock drivers > without idamt so maybe I'll give it another shot. Btw, carbon worked > for me out of the box, with the menus dragging by but the races > working at a minimum pace. > I'm also with you about God of War, it just rocks, just like Devil May > Cry did, and there's not much more praises to it that haven't been > said before :) But both ps3 and xbox360 have top of the line gpus, > only from older generations, and while xbox has a regular high end ati > slapped in, ps3 has a custom gpu there, but anyway neither one of > those so called next gen gaming systems really left my jaw dropping, > of course in a year or two when developers work with the whole > potential of the systems the conversation will be a bit different. > What bothers me the most is games on consoles with 30fps. Seriously, > what is that? A console is like its own name, dedicated to the single > purpose of playing games. And don't tell me they do more now because > that's no excuse for them to not step up their game. > > @Espio: S3TC did have their time, and while playing serious sam and > UT99 I had a blast, which always amuses me that back then for serious > sam to be played with max settings you had to have a matrox parhelia, > or wait a decade for the geforce gtx 4 series to come out ^^. If you > compare S3TC with FXT1 and a few of DXTC forms you'll see that there > are very small performance steps between them while the texturing > itself does worsen quite a bit when on those legacy formats. > > On Jun 13, 8:49 am, "THEfog ." <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ummm you guys obviously do not know bad coding, my gaming desktop can run >> crysis (2007 game) @ ultra high at above 30fps, and on the otherhand >> oblivion (2006 game) @high/highest (dosn't even effect it for some reason) >> and I struggle to keep a playable framerate in heavy fight scenes without >> using things such as RAM hacks, code enhancements, mesh optimizations, alpha >> and parallax buffers etc. So you tell me now that crysis has bad coding, lol >> but seriously now how can a next gen quadcore pc struggle to play a 2006 >> game haha. But yeah gta4 is a bad port from what I heard (havn't ever played >> it). Btw dosn't the ps3 have 6 or 8 cores? Not 9. >> >> THEfog >> >> On 13/06/2010 12:53 PM, "AngelicTears" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> lol, since u are a Xbox360 owner..u should know that S3TC texture outdated >> way~~~~ back..lol...i loved to get hands on and next gen console...i respect >> PS3 for it's extreme 9 Cores..plus im a God of War fan..and Xbox360 for it's >> hardware tansellation and advance graphics and controls...god, one day im >> gonna have one of those ... >> >> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Espionage724 <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > I kind of wonde... >> >> -- >> 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS > > -- > 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS > -- Espionage724 Has A Signature... -- 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
