All Channels
Popular
200°

DirectX 10 Shootout: Nvidia vs. ATI

It's truth time. Now that the first games using DirectX 10 have appeared, Nvidia and ATI have to face the real world and answer the question - which card offers the most performance under Vista?

Read Full Story >>
tomshardware.com
Proxy6804d ago

Looks like PS3 and XBox 360 arn't the only ones in the middle of a fanboy war....

felman876804d ago

Man, these cards are expensive

Proxy6804d ago

$350 for a 8800 GTS 640 MB.

This is the mid range. Also happens to be the minimum recomended specs for Crysis if I remember correctly?

fermcr6804d ago

Actually the 8800 GTS, GTX and ATI 2900 are the recommended cards for crysis... the minimum are the cards 2 or 3 years back like the 6800. Get a 8600GT for 100... 120 bucks and i bet you play Crysis with good graphics

Charlie26886804d ago

@Proxy: Actually non of what you said is right, the 8800 series GTS/GTX are high end GTS is just the smaller brother of the GTX, the 8600 are the medium range, 8500/8400 are the low end

and in Crysis sys requirements the 8800GTS was in the recommend section NOT in the Minimum, the Minimum is a 6800

Proxy6804d ago

I was wrong. :*(

Am I allowed to use those 3 words in that order? I havn't seen it done before, maybe it's against the rules or something?

Torch6804d ago

Say, $350's pretty good for the 640MB of the card...I'm on my way later this afternoon to go pick up my 320MB XFX version, which I paid a cool CN$319...and I did look around.

Mind you, there was the EVGA 320MB version available for CN$298, but apparently, the XFX version, comes natively clocked at a higher rate, and is supposedly easier to overclock.

+ Show (2) more repliesLast reply 6804d ago
WilliamRLBaker6804d ago

neither company has gotten around to creating a better driver suite for vista users.

GIJeff6804d ago

I guess i will be getting a 8 series....oh wait, i dont have a billion dollars...my 7950 512 will have to do for now... :(

iMad6804d ago (Edited 6804d ago )

But sadly it will not possible in this GEN for PS3 and most likely for 360 too. 360 grapics inside can handle DX10 but lack of RAM.

Do you want Crysis? Well on today consoles it can't be possible! mainly becouse of small amount of RAM. Crysis needs 1GB of video RAM in minimum. So in 2009 it will be good to have updated console with backward support for old games from 360.

PS3? PS3 can never handle Direct10 level graphics. It has limited ram architecture (256+256 is bad becouse graphic schene should feet in 256 amount of video RAM) and RSX can't handle HDR, shaders 3.0 well. It is DX9 level. And Cell will not help becouse of his not gaming arhitecture. Parallel computing is a good thing...for scientists, for big simple and straight calculations with little amount of interruptions, with low amount of events to handle. But it has very little task to do well in gaming: physical callculations - good, graphics - bad. Who need good physics with bad grapics? You can say - "look at ray tracing on PS3! That's is graphics!" Well one single item raytraced on PS3 has nothing to prove. NOTHING. IN games we need about 100 items to be raytraced! In real games with modern technologies in computing full RAY Tracing for about 100 items will be available only in 10 years.

I want Direct10 level of graphics to run widely in 1 year! And it will! And then i could switch to PC and have beter games for just 200$.

PopEmUp6804d ago

why don't u say it to ps2?

I let you figure it out of what I means?

iMad6804d ago (Edited 6804d ago )

Becouse DX10 (Open GL XXX) is a revolution in PC(consoles) graphics.
When people will see games using this technology they quickly will buy hardware capable to run it. Just as they wanted a color TV when it first came. Becouse that's is really really good to play such a beatifull games with so complex graphics.

With PS2 the difference was not so high to XBOX and PC.

risk6804d ago

xbox/playstation have their own graphic API's just like how DX10 wont make it to console OpenGL 3.0 wont make it to Playstation 3 (even thou they could make it then people would be able ot make homebrew games for ps3's)

Show all comments (14)
120°

Next ‘BioShock’ Game Changes Leaders After Development Turmoil

The fourth game in the ‘BioShock’ series has been in development for more than a decade

Read Full Story >>
bloomberg.com
toxic-inferno298d ago

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.

Furesis298d ago

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.

toxic-inferno298d ago

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.

ActualWhiteMan297d ago

He didn’t even want to make 2, that’s why they did it without him.

Rebel_Scum298d ago

tbh it wouldnt be a Bioshock game without development hell. They all had it.

Michiel1989297d ago

bioshock 2 was 2.5 years after 1, so much of a development hell it was......

-Foxtrot297d ago

"Remaster them again if you have to"

Well apparently they were doing a remake but that got cancelled

Relientk77298d ago

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.

P_Bomb298d ago

Love Bioshock. It’s too bad what’s going on. At least we have Judas.

Yui_Suzumiya297d ago (Edited 297d ago )

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.

BABI-PANGPANG297d ago

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.

50°

Steam Deck Users Delighted as BioShock Remastered Can Be Downloaded for Free with Prime

Learn where you can get BioShock Remastered for free and enjoy playing it on your devices, including the Steam Deck.

130°

Netflix's BioShock Film Still In Development But With A Reduced Budget

Console Creatures writes, "The BioShock film at Netflix is still happening but with a reduced budget."

Read Full Story >>
consolecreatures.com
just_looken668d ago

Remember there past attempts at game based show's i do heck i still remember that teenage resident evil trash fire.

anast668d ago

ha. I almost forgot about that.

Jin_Sakai670d ago

Might as well just cancel it.

just_looken668d ago

Unless its batwoman were they right it off

porkChop670d ago

It's 10 years too late for a BioShock film. The world of Rapture would have been perfect for a film. It's actually a good candidate for proper utilization of 3D, for increased depth rather than bullshit popping out of the screen. It could really show off the underwater city that way. But BioShock as a brand is so irrelevant these days that a film just doesn't make sense. Especially considering it would need a big budget and top notch effects to really take advantage of the IP.

gold_drake670d ago

i agree on the bigger budget. all the cgi they'd need for the background.

but i think it would work better as a show. a movie would be too short to establish the story

TheNamelessOne670d ago

Netflix greenlights anything, so that shows me very little faith in the project. Enough to just crap something out as they're, more and more, known to do.

badkolo669d ago

its where b movies go to live, its run by democrats , dont expect anything good from netflix

Knightofelemia670d ago (Edited 670d ago )

I'll laugh if it turns out to be better then the Borderlands movie

Show all comments (14)