@mikeslemonade
It's likely true only half of the people on steam have machines capable of current gen settings or better but there are 130 million steam users. Now, add in half of the people buying physical copies instead of using steam and half the people using competing online services instead of steam like amazon, Gamersgate, Greenmangaming, Bundlestars, Gamesrocket, GOG, Origin, Getgames, Humblestore, Uplay, Gamerepublic, Direct2drive, Desura, etc and how many people...
It's understandable that the author has tried to frame this as a gameplay vs framerate debate, the Halo devs did say that they couldn't deliver splitscreen because they wanted to maintain 60fps after all. But framerate isn't the culprit here, in fact a higher framerate IMPROVES gameplay which is the reason the Halo devs don't want to give it up.
This is actually a gameplay vs graphics discussion. The halo devs could easily deliver a 60fps splitscreen mode bu...
@spacedelete
"just another lie from a sleazy dev."
Meanwhile, in the article:
As for the chances of XCOM 2 making its way to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 at some point in the future, Solomon wouldn’t rule it out, but it won’t happen any time soon. “We're certainly not opposed to that, but I can assure that's something we're not even discussing yet,” he said. He added that the PS4 and Xbox One would likely be technically capable of running X...
I hate it when I jump on the gun
For those that haven't seen it yet, the teaser trailer is awesome!
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
I'm really not surprised to see this going pc exclusive, turn based strategy, real-time strategy, 4X strategy... These are all bread and butter genres for pc but there's a reason things are that way. The X-Com reboot was really well done but you can't shake the fact that it was on the strategy-lite side of things. Deep strategy games go hand in hand with really complex user interfaces and really complex user interfaces are, frankly, downright cumbersome to navigate with a cont...
"Ian - as you have been quite open about DX12, what would be the benefits for project cars utilising DX12?"
"About 30-40%"
"I'm not exaggerating."
"30-40% is on PC where the lack of multithreading ability in DX11 restricted us most."
"It could be fully 40% especially on slower CPU's with quad cores."
That's the original question and Ian's comme...
That's why G-Sync/Freesync monitors exist. The monitor displays the framerate that the GPU outputs and everything is silky smooth, no tearing or stuttering when the game doesn't run at exactly 30/60 fps. In this example, the ps4 dropped below 30fps a few dozen times in that 4 minute video, was consistently dropping frames in the town scenes and was even down in the low 20's a couple of times. A television stutters for all of that.
The PC pics aren't 5k, they are only 2560x1600 and about 1MB each. That is only a quarter of original 5k resolution and a highly compressed version of the actual screenshots which are 5120x3600 and 50MB each. You can find the real screenshots on the original website at the bottom of this article.
http://www.pcgameshardware....
I'm surprised anybody on pc still buys retail to be honest... Sins of the solar empire was the last game I bought before I went full digital and that was in 2008 (I had to look that up!) Can't believe it's been 7 years since I switched completely to digital...
I'm sorry but I just don't buy the whole 'consoles are better optimized' rhetoric that people keep tossing out there. It just doesn't hold any water when you make actual apple to apple comparisons.
Comparing the ps4 at 1.84 TFLOPS to a 7850, almost 2 years older and only 1.76TFLOPS, you would expect the PS4 to easily outperform the 7850, especially if it was better optimized.
Evolve:
Digital Foundry has the ps4 running at 1...
@shinmaster
None of those sites stream anything above 1080p 60fps and most people won't even see anything above 1080p 30fps that you get through a regular browser viewing youtube on a 1080p monitor. Some stream at higher resolutions but only 30fps and highly compressed. Show me a 1440p 120fps or a 1600p 60fps stream posted on any of those sites. Show me a triple monitor stream. I personally own a 21:9 3440x1440 ultra widscreen monitor. Go ahead and show me 3440x1440 6...
Good point... except you bought a PS4 and then ran over to your PC so you could tell everyone about how much cheaper gaming on console is... while using your PC... which probably also cost more than your PS4... wait, what was your point again?
http://cdn.newadnetwork.com...
I don't think it's a coincidence that the minimum requirements are pretty close to the specs of the ps4... expect the consoles to be sitting pretty close to what you get out of a min spec pc.
@abizzel1
Fair enough on the tdp being limited to only 5 watts for mobile devices.
@abizzel1
1GHz * 2 FP 16 * 2 FMA * 256 = 1 TFLOPs. When you layer in 64 more cuda cores, double the texture units, and four times the ROPs, a boost in clock from 950 to 1000mhz, and a maxwell based architecture using DDR4 based memory that's what you get and benchmarks are showing roughly double the performance of the A8X at 60% of the power consumption. 1TFLOP is nipping on the tails of 'next gen' consoles!
Remember when you couldn't read the comments section without hitting dozens of comments signed off with "ps4 is a beast!". What a joke.
Actually, blackmagic, I built my computer 5 years ago and it still outperforms the ps4 by a large margin which was pretty surprising to me when the ps4 launched.
It's a good pc with dual 2GB 5850's, 3.2Ghz quad core X4 955 and 8 gigs of ram but at the time even AMD was building better parts like the 5870 and 965 not to mention that Intel and nVidia were making parts that even better than that.
Having said that, my 5 year old pc, that cost me about $...
It's true, the vast majority of PC gamers will have windows but the op specifically asked to see a $400 build that would play this game which is exactly what I did, and I did it in one sitting. If I had sniped deals over a week period then it could easily be another $25-30 cheaper, include a mouse and keyboard, have a better power supply and maybe even snag a bit better processor or ram.
Asking to see a $400 pc is not a fair request though. The ps4 costs $400 + $50/yr ...
Honestly, a 32 lumen projector will produce a 14fL image at about a 20" image size which is a usable brightness in a light controlled room. In a room with ambient light you would want something around 25fL. A 32 lumen projector would only be able to do that at about a 15" display size. At those image sizes, the listed resolution is basically a talking point at best.
I think that for $380, a projector such as the Optoma ML300 (300 lumens, 1280x800) would be a much...