Steam is working good right now and has been since early march late febuary. What is the problem you see?Johny Dread said:yeah I also know how much it sucks. You think they could meet the demand for HL2 when the thing is barely working as it is? Think.digitalwanderer said:Welcome to B3D, glad you ain't shy or nothing.Johny Dread said:
You HAVE heard of Steam.....right?
ATi's R420 launch and Half-life2, some thoughts.
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Ok, hmmmm......Johny Dread said:
The Dig gets a far away look in his eyes and a thought balloon springs unbiden from his head and starts filling itself up with words representing the Dig's thoughts!
"Steam sure did/does suck, I wonder if that's why they hired the guy who invented bittorrent last year to re-write it...nah, probably a tax write-off or something. And Valve CAN'T have worried about that at all or addressed the upcoming problem of everyone and their bloody mother wanting HL2 just as soon as possible, not to mention all the people out there like me holding a voucher in their sweaty little palms just WAITING to enter that serial number and help to melt their servers."
"Nope, this obnoxious and rude ghit who's telling you to 'think' obviously is better versed and more capable of forming a rational and compelling insight into what the future will hold....abide by him, learn from him, LOVE him!"
Wow, you're soooo right! Tell me more, which card will be better the 6800U or the X800 XT? :|
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depends on what you want. If you only care about speed in not so shader heavy games (current games) then the X800XT. If you want speed with games that use alot of high-class shaders and fancy special effects (future games) then the 6800U. 32 pixel shader units vs 16, no contest right? Pretty obvious.digitalwanderer said:Ok, hmmmm......Johny Dread said:
The Dig gets a far away look in his eyes and a thought balloon springs unbiden from his head and starts filling itself up with words representing the Dig's thoughts!
"Steam sure did/does suck, I wonder if that's why they hired the guy who invented bittorrent last year to re-write it...nah, probably a tax write-off or something. And Valve CAN'T have worried about that at all or addressed the upcoming problem of everyone and their bloody mother wanting HL2 just as soon as possible, not to mention all the people out there like me holding a voucher in their sweaty little palms just WAITING to enter that serial number and help to melt their servers."
"Nope, this obnoxious and rude ghit who's telling you to 'think' obviously is better versed and more capable of forming a rational and compelling insight into what the future will hold....abide by him, learn from him, LOVE him!"
Wow, you're soooo right! Tell me more, which card will be better the 6800U or the X800 XT? :|
...and what's with the third person stuff and "The Dig"? Unless you're a super-star wrestler then that's pretty lame... actually even if you are a wrestler it's still lame...
Johny Dread said:
No game currently uses "high-class" shaders. PS3.0 only offers efficiency improvments and allows for more instructions over PS2.0. Games won't need the instruction capabilities that 3.0 offers for at least another year. And you haven't even seen the specifications for the X800 yet. It may very well blow the 6800U out of the water in every catagory.
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oh? What if the game calls for something SM3.0 specific, or a shitload of shaders that'd make something look real nice but can only be done fast enough if you use branching? How would you be better off with the X800 then?BRiT said:
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oh, I guess I should have denoted my post with the terms "current games" and "future games" when mentioning those things... oh, wait...ANova said:
just because I'm an asshole doesn't mean I haven't see the specs or run benchmarks on the thing
True, but it does affect how we view/interact with you here.Johny Dread said:
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Johny Dread said:
You must be a brave man to come in here and have a go at THE DIGITAL WANDERER
What a tossa!
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about 12 months ago that might have meant something but B3D has gone from being a cool place to lurk and learn things to your typical fanb0y infested forum so fast that it's starting to make nvnews and rage3d look good.digitalwanderer said:True, but it does affect how we view/interact with you here.Johny Dread said:
Johny Dread said:
Oooh... sounds like trollspeak to me.
Do you see your current behavoir as helping to solve that problem, or do ya think perhaps it might just make it a bit worse? :|Johny Dread said:
Your statement seems to imply that you think this place is a fanboy forum and you don't want it to be, but your behavoir seems to indicate quite contrary to that. :?
Johny Dread said:
I'm reminded of three things:
1. The Last Remake of Beau Geste, Marty Feldman and Michael York: Q: "How's father?" A: "Still alive and dying."
2. Jean Francois Revel in "How Democracies Perish" observation that it is amazing that in spite of the warnings of his European friends that "the dark night of fascism was falling in America" that it seemed to him that "The dark night of fascism was forever falling in America, but for some reason it only ever touched ground in Europe." Replace fascism with fanboi-ism, America with B3d (sorry Dave, just for the purposes of the quote), and Europe (ditto) with Rage3d/NVN, and there ya go.
3. Every four years, CSPAN, at convention time, runs 'round the clock all the convention speechs of presidential nominees for as far back as they exist. One thing is perfectly evident if you engage in this exercise: THINGS HAVE NEVER BEEN AS BAD AS THEY ARE RIGHT NOW. And this is true for any speech you care to listen to for any year. I suppose this is technically possible on an unbroken linear powerdive, but seems unlikely. Unlikely here at B3D too.
I wonder if the Hotmail ban needs to go on again.
Johny Dread said:
You just don't get it do you. By the time future games come out that use the advantages shader model 3.0 supports the 6800 will be outdated. It may be able to run advanced games like Unreal 3 with all the new effects but it will run it slow. Have you not heard the rumors that both the R500 and NV50 are being pushed up?
You sure don't act like it, otherwise you wouldn't be arguing with us. In fact it seems like you have a bias towards a certain company that starts with n.
He's a troll yeah, but I don't know about the fan-boy bit. What he said wrt the X800 and NV40 seems spot on to me.
And this place has definitly got more fan-boys running around now than when it did when I first registered.
Dave, I think there's an option you can set so that people with @whatever can't even register.
And this place has definitly got more fan-boys running around now than when it did when I first registered.
Dave, I think there's an option you can set so that people with @whatever can't even register.
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