There is a program called MSDNAA (the name might have changed). Many universities take part in it. It basically provides you with free MS software (Windows, Visual Studio, Servers, Expression, etc) for your classroom and research purposes.
Once you'd also get this from ACM or IEEE membership, but they closed access to Windows 7 due to mass abuse (you can still get Vista Professional, though).
I don't need the ultimate versions. Windows 7 professional is more than enough for me. (And it's free as a student, too!)
Ultimate seems like a Ferrari to me, which you don't actually need, but buy it anyways, since you have the money.
From steam updates history:
Fixed "Installation incomplete (53)" when launching Left 4 Dead 2 or Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Fixed "Incomplete Installation" error for Bionic Commando and Terminator Salvation
# Fixed issue where Steam can not be closed after playing Section 8
# Fixed Champions Online keys not always being available when Steam first starts
Added mod support for Killing Floor
Add D3D9E...
GPU is old I know. Xbox has Radeon HD2000 comparable GPU, while PS3 has gforce 7 series. We're at least three generations beyond them.
However the game indeed has very good graphics on many scenes (as shown on the comparison slides). Thus we know they already can do a better job. That's what made me think it's a storage limitation.
It means if they'd spent some more time on textures, or used Blu-Ray (this is coming from a 360 user), we'd have one of the best looking games of this generation.
In general it's still very good looking, though.
Can you name one game on the PS2 that has comparable graphics to MW2?
Updated demo is not on steam, yet. :(
That's supposed to be for developer workstations. Haven't you ever watched any developer interview videos? They all tend to have very large screens with very powerful systems.
You do not want to develop games on a machine that will be barely enough to run the resulting software. You'd probably want 4x extra power for debugging, and testing.
He's a known Nintendo-only guy. It's not bad to like a company, but there were and still are other platforms that great games are built on.
They're not "alternatives", they're basically what we should've been getting.
The maximum size for MS memory cards are 512MB. What datel sells starts at 2/4GBs and can be upgraded to 16GBs via SD cards.
But I found it "too good to be true" back in the day, and postponed my purchase. Fortunately I don't have one of those, and will not be losing my storage.
The game was great. Although I already had a Windows version, I bought the game again from their own store for a Linux copy.
This was really a completely polished product. Congrats to 2D boy for such an awesome indie work.
Ok, kidding, but except for the visual parts, the inside feels like what Vista SP2 should have been:
* Faster boot times
* Fixing the new audio system, by allowing multiple audio outputs
* Better software compatibility
* Better hardware drivers (=more stability)
* DirectX 10.1 based GUI (=faster, more responsive)
* More TV tuner support
* at lots of small, but useful, fixes all over the system
I love Windows 7, and made many friend...
Even for 1 day early special access option, Aion failed at the launch (I saw articles here mentioning 8 hours lines to get online).
They might be right to keep it safe. But they should really change the compression settings once the game launches.
It actually reinforces the one man army scenario in many cases. Now you can say "I saved the world myself, even with the constant obstructions of these three idiots".
Of course there are exceptions, but RE5 is a good example for this. (You have to keep watch for Sheva or she dies, even worse wastes your precious health packs and ammunition).
"You have 150 enemies I have to trek through to reach that switch to blow up your plant, why do you line up 1 by 1 (next to explosive barrels mind you) to take me out? Send all 150 at me at once and I have no chance."
You might be a distraction, and it does not make sense to send all your defense to a single location. But they should send a force in order of teams of 5. (It does in some games).
Standing in cover does less to healing than eating. Eating can actually heal you a bit (honey, food that has lots of vitamin, etc).
nVidia used to be cool when they actually pushed the envelope, and supported its customers (with great Linux drivers).
But nowadays I do not want to touch any nVidia hardware (except for Tegra). They knowingly sold faulty laptop chips. Many of my friends' laptops are overheating. One's motherboard was fried, another dodged it the last minute (Dell sent someone to fix it). As far as I know, they still sell those chips.
And now they are actively dragging PC gaming behi...
"i don't have enough free space
the should lower the hdd prices !"
How can someone disagree with that comment? I have a 20GB HDD, and have to micromanage my storage every time I need to do something big (download a demo, or install a game). I'd even pay $50 for a 120GB HDD, but they still don't want me to buy it :(
I bought a PS3 just to play MGS4. I remember those times. The game was totally great (except for the 3-4 hour ending, it never seemed to stop).
Anyways, I sold my PS3 after finishing the game, but still it was *not* overhyped, maybe a little bit *underhyped*.
I recently added 12 more months for $27 (eBay/Buy.com/Bing promotion). There is no way I'd pay a lot more than that (my max is $30, any more then I'll go silver)