Recent content by WaltC

Common misconception, actually...What ends next year is the gratis extra support Microsoft offers...updates and bug fixes for consumers, through the Windows Update site, as well as for paid service contracts, will continue until 2020--2020 is the actual "drop-dead" date for Win7. I had a...

The only time it made sense for Microsoft to skip from D3d 9.0c to D3d10 was in the XP-to-Vista versions change, because the D3d driver models were all drastically revamped for Vista--made incompatible with XP and <. This will not be true of Win10 in the slightest--I'm running Win10TPx64 (very...

I think you pretty much have it backwards--except for the line about the 9700P blowing away the PS2. The new consoles from Microsoft/Sony *are* PCs--100% "PC" according to AMD's definition of a PC, if you haven't noticed. That's because the PC, far from being "niche", is ubiquitous. The...

According to Peddie, nVidia is taking a beating in total gpu market share. http://jonpeddie.com/press-releases/details/amd-winner-in-q2-intel-up-nvidia-down/ The data as of 8/13/2013.

Yes, the mobile cell phone market (and to an enormously smaller extent, the portable tablet market) is quite large. But it's quite a sub-par to mediocre market all around when it comes to SOA gaming hardware and 3d games that take advantage of SOA hardware. For years we heard the lament that...

Yea, I see Mantle as possible only because of AMD's somewhat novel position in the consoles. I can't imagine a Mantle incompatible with either current high-level API--that would seem highly counterproductive as I don't see developers ever clamoring for a 3rd high-level API, but rather a tool...

I think it's certain that games that are Mantle-compliant will not be D3d non-compliant, eh?...;) That's another area in which the Mantle-GLIDE comparison crumbles. nVidia should have no problems there, or rather developers using Mantle should not pose a problem for nVidia & D3d games. (Things...

I'm not disagreeing with you, just pointing out the irony. There was a time when GLIDE and OpenGL ruled--3dfx vs. nVidia, respectively (and D3d had not yet been born or else was too immature to matter.) Most people railed against this and heralded D3d as the API that all IHVs could participate...

Maybe I'm just imagining this, but last night I heard the word "open" mentioned several times in conjunction with Mantle. It was my understanding from that, that if nVidia wanted to get in on Mantle AMD was not going to refuse them. The only problem may lie in what Mantle is...nVidia may want...

@ToTTenTranz & Lightman... Skyrim is great and I'm really enjoying it--but don't be so hasty to write off some of these earlier games. With the Mod community working with texture packs and other improvements--many of these old games play like new ones. Deus Ex: GOTY with the D3d10 renderer...

Ah, when the Earth was new!...Memories like these are hard to describe and properly pass along--unless you are talking to someone else who experienced them just like you did...;) The new pups may find our devotion to these archaic titles strange and inexplicable--but should they dare to step...

Yea-how perceptive is thine heart! I was but innocently, joyfully praising the gaming Pantheon as is want for all of us to do when out of a dark thunderhead Santa appeared and his madcap visage, his countenance of Angry Santa, blotted out yon sky as he screamed with the Voice of the quaking...

(In dollars...and unless otherwise noted, sale prices) From Steam: Skyrim: $40.19 Deus Ex: GOTY Edition $6.49 Max Payne Bundle (1&2) $7.49 Fallout New Vegas $4.99 Unreal Gold $2.49 Two Worlds II $19.99 From GoG: Baldur's Gate Original Saga $9.99 Lands of Lore...

Hopefully, you've got more than one browser installed. I had three installed before I uninstalled Chrome the other day--btw, Chrome I believe is still in perpetual beta (?) so you shouldn't be surprised by quirky/buggy behavior. I took Chrome off because I really, really dislike the google...

Yes, it's quite astonishing, really, to read the comments of some who have evidently forgotten that often it is the case, most especially with new architectures, that driver revisions dramatically improve performance and even image quality. Often with new architectures, dramatic improvements...