It has been over seven months since Firing Squad last took a look at Windows Vista performance versus Windows XP. In that series of articles, Firing Squad found that both AMD and NVIDIA's Vista performance was lacking in comparison to Windows XP, although NVIDIA's showing in Vista was much worse: Vista performance was in some cases substantially slower than Windows XP, features were missing, and SLI was unsupported entirely. Meanwhile, AMD's biggest problem was the OpenGL portion of their Vista driver, OpenGL-based games like Quake 4 scaled poorly in performance in comparison to WinXP and Firing Squad encountered numerous visual artifacts. CrossFire support was also limited.
As you can imagine, in the span of the past seven months quite a bit has changed on the Vista driver front and Firing Squad received quite a few emails asking to revisit the topic.
The fourth game in the ‘BioShock’ series has been in development for more than a decade
Bioshock is one of my favourites franchises. I love all 3 games and have played each several times. I even have a room in my house that is loosely decorated around the theme of Bioshock (with a Lighthouse, coral models and postcards styled as though they are from both Rapture and Columbus).
And yet I am going to find it extremely difficult to get even remotely excited about any future episode in the series after all the problems this has had in its development cycle.
Leave the franchise alone. Remaster them again if you have to. Then put whatever talent you have to use on something brand new.
Since ken levine isn't involved i'm not surprised what's going on. i'm more excited for his next game which looks like bioshock. Yet he still works under take2 and they are making bioshock 4 without him, strange situation.
Yes. Judas. Looks brilliant, but it's one of those games that seems to never have had a release date. Instead it's had release windows that keep getting pushed back.
Once it's ready, I'll be there for it though. Ken Levine is an excellent developer.
I get the feeling he dissolved Irrational Games simply so that 2k couldn't tell him what to do. It seems it will pay off, but I feel sorry for those who worked as part of Irrational before it was dissolved, who hadn't independently made a name for themselves.
"Remaster them again if you have to"
Well apparently they were doing a remake but that got cancelled
It sucks this game is in development hell because I love BioShock and would love a 4th game. I hope it turns out great, but I guess we'll see.
It's been in development hell since 2014. This is nothing new. It saddens me because it's one of my favorite series. At this point, Judas may end up releasing first.
Bioshock 4 (if it ever comes out) will probably still look and play like a Bioshock game, but without Kevin, it might miss that spark that made the originals so special. Honestly, Judas might end up feeling more like the real spiritual successor.
IGN : How does the new The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered, released in 2025 for Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC, Steam, and PS5, compare to the original 2006 Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion released on Xbox 360, played via Xbox Series X/S Backwards Compatibility?
With The Elder Scrolls 6 still far into the future fans have been taking matters into their own hands with projects like Skyblivion.
I purchased a new laptop with a high spec graphic card and it couldn't even run Sims 2. After a barrage of patches and new software drivers it limped along. Hell, I want to play games not stuffing around with installing more software just to get the software I purchased to run.
...drivers and updates all the time, all the different hardware versions, patches, etc, etc, etc. Give me the similicity of console gaming any day of the week.
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umm did you make sure you un-limited the laptops performance mode? because most probably it was in battery saving mode, which is why it limped in sims, OR your high performance laptop was high performance 6 years ago.
This is a one of the reasons I will never be a big PC gamer. It's just too much hassle. The only games I really play are action RPG's and RTS on PC. I'm a technology hog and I know how to build and configure gaming PCs but going through this is ridiculous when you have consoles. Then you are restricted by software activation. I'll stick with my consoles.
Building a PC just for games is frigg'n lame, do what everyone else is saying, buy a darn console. With the money you used on your gamming only PC, you could of gotten a 60" DLP, SXRD, LCD, maybe even a plasma, whichever is your preference and a PS3, 360 or even both. Seriously, we have enough stupid people, don't add to the group.
been debating wether to get vista since it release but still havent even tho i own a Dx10 card, sure its 'pretty' but it just seems like more hassel than its worth at the minute.