"2x the power of the GC," can someone clarify what this means? (ERP)

For what it worth

I'd take any information about the Revolution GPU performances with a grain of salt, for the moment.

 

yep, one can definitely find many applications of the aux ram. while i personally am not a big fan of full-blown os/dashboard/supervisor layers running alongside your game, such activity can possibly be delegated to the aux ram. but the question is, would nintendo add abund amounts of aux ram to an already ~50% upped core mem? if they go for that, of course.

 

A wise advise.

 

If ram is as low as expected. Ram constraints should prove a substantial impediment.(heck 256MB of ram was considered lacking for this new generation, and 512MB barely enough for next gen content. 1GB of vram has been suggested as apt. for max detail on engines like UE3 on pcs.). When even some early titles for more powerful platforms ps3/x360 are having to resort to 30fps to achieve content worthy of the next gen title, I just dunnoh if rev. will hold up.

 

Ram on pc and console are don't function the same way. besides rev isn't using slow ass ddr ram 1-t sram Q is what the rev is using, read Liu mai psot on the efficenies of the ram

 

LiMuBai, as ever greatpost. IN your own thinking, do you think the Rev will come with 256 mg of Ram also the falsh memory I think will be upgraded to 1gb, considering the prices at which flash memory cost and nintnedo is in good partenrship with a flashmemmory producer Panasonic. I don't see why the can't opt for 1 or even 2 gig flash emmeory.

 

You seem to be forgetting that Revolution will be focusing on 640x480 resolution. Though if, by as low as expected, you mean 88MB then I'd agree. But then I don't expected that amount of ram in the final system.

 

I don't know what to expect, but I really would like 256MB. (or more )

 

Lets suposse they can, would they want? I mean 512Mgs is enought to have a few games saves, upgrades (online etc...) and a few DC (old games etc...) but probably not many of them, I mean this is enought for start gaming or for someone how dont play much or wants to save money but it is also little enought to make gamers buy additional memory cards.

 

i think the names of the team who made re4 should be placed in the eternal hall of gamedevs fame, and the guys themselves should be locked in a cellar, provided with unlimited amounts of wine and women and kept there until they release several more titles like re4 and thus justify the existence of this shit of an industry. yesterday i was re-playing it (for n+1 -st time) and the lighting and volumetric effects in this game are out of this world. and i'm saying this not as a fan of the game but as a professional.

you don't mean dreamcast games, do you? as in size they are mostly anywhere from 0.5 to 1GB.

 

lower resolution, lower texture resolution, lower physics, lower AI, more loading time
and depending on gpu, lower number of effects (HDR, etc)

if it will end near 2x the gamecube, with 128 MB of mem, its first software gen titles will be barely differenced by an xbox1 game of 3th software gen

 

I say this not as a professional, but as a fan of the game...what's really "out of this world?" I thought the fog was very nice (all I've played is the Cube version), and the water was cool, but I couldn't really put my finger on anything else.

 

the volumetrics are not just in the fog - they are an unobtrusive blend of volumetric lights and volumetric particles (dust and fog). in re4 they're a landmark.

diffuse lighting is done right - this is something 90% of the titles today can't brag about - it's a matter of the scene dynamic lightsources matching the pre-baked luminocity of the scene so that actors don't seem 'pasted' over from a different light setup.

then come the proper speculatities. although some corners are cut (pre-baked speculatities here and there) they're done with mastery and the important shapes have their specularities impeccably implemented through masked reflection maps.

overall, re4 is the sole game from last (i guess we already can say that) gen that i'd love to see ported to the current gen _without_ any fixes and enhancements in the presentation techniques, just with more texture memory (some textures here and there lack fidelity) and higher fill-rate for better anti-aliasing (necessary only at progressive).

 

i doubt that, nintendo stated they were also going for less load time, as withthe GC most GC games hard almost no load times.

 

there's few that you can do to avoid loading time
compression, compression, compression

but with 88-128 MB the loading times will be huge (decompression takes time too)

 

I can see load times being more frequent, due to this, but not longer. The limiting factor in loading times would be the speed of the DVD drive. Also, if the cache memory is smaller, loading times will be shorter. Filling a 40 MB cache will go much faster than a 256 MB cache.

So load times should be far, far shorter rather than longer.

 

I didn't see any specularities to speak of. Now I really wonder what you're talking about. I do wish the game had at least 2x FSAA...it's gotta be the jaggiest game on the Cube.

 

if you didn't see any specularities "to speak of" in RE4 then i'm affraid we'd be wasting each other's time discussing them *shrug* ([ed] i guess that's the effect on the general public from the recent wave of games which output in-your-face specularities as if the life of the game producer depended on those)

jaggies-wise, not much to be seen in interlaced mode, but i'd assume the game may exhibit enough over progressive output, that's why i said i'd love to see it in progressive with fsaa.