I think I speak for all of us when I say we do not care about your sexual preferences.
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Okay ladies and gents, I just read about Sims Medieval at Game Spot.
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I've played way more of Sims 3 than I care to admit to any human beings iRL. You know, you guys are Special. [e digicons]O:)[/e] I'm also pretty damn bored of it now, so just uninstalled it. I can definately see buying this in short order, but I'm waiting to see if it shows up on other download services before buying. No point in preordering if they're just gonna turn around and paste it elsewhere afterwards.
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[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="17" id="2907090"] I used to use Chrome and I have little preference between the two, but Chrome 10 seems slower than Chrome 9 on my box. Needless to say, they both seem slower than IE9. I am glad I am not the only one that has noticed that. Chrome is ok, but no speed demon. [/quote] Oh I disagree in general. I think they enabled some security features and 'app' stuff that slowed it down a bit. Anyway back on IE9 I
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I like it more than any other browser. I used to use Chrome and I have little preference between the two, but Chrome 10 seems slower than Chrome 9 on my box. Needless to say, they both seem slower than IE9.
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Already installed IE9 and uninstalled Chrome on all my systems. I don't know why anyone cares who sticks with XP. They can install a different browser. I don't see why this is even an issue.
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[quote who="kentsfield" reply="24" id="2906520"]Its pretty safe to write off the DX9 market. If they haven't upgraded to 7/vista and a DX11/10 card by now then like shit you are going to be able to sell a game to them. Battlefield 3 will pave the way. [/quote] Stardock makes games on a limited budget with nowhere near the graphical fidelity of your average FPS. If Stardock were to write off the DX9 market they'd probably die. Valve has yet to make a DX10 game, and t
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And yet, inexplicably for several months it's said 56% for DX10 users. I think it used to be monthly but they changed it.
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When I first played I didn't realize how much ya needed caravans going about their biz
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I asked Steam support about it and he said the survey only actually runs once a year, which would be really weird. Would explain why the numbers rarely change though.
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[quote who="Darvin3" reply="15" id="2904190"] Uh... 56% is a very bad number. You're talking about throwing away half your potential market by developing for DX10 exclusively. You'd have to double your sales with the remaining market in order for this to pay off, which is highly unlikely.[/quote] Who said exclusively? I can assure you very few of these lack in DX9 support. (Just Cause 2 being the only one that matters that does.) <a href="http://en
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I gather Steams hardware survey doesn't match up with the numbers Impulse gathers on system specs. It's as good an info source as any though, since it's the only publicly available one.
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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-03-10-biowares-mike-laidlaw-a-defence-of-dragon-age-ii-interview Have a link
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I should also mention once Windows 8 comes out it's highly likely devs will start dropping support for XP entirely.
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[quote who="coreimpulse" reply="8" id="2903739"]Since consoles make up for the biggest platform big games are published on, why would developers work on a dx that only runs on high end PCs? [/quote] Because Vista/7 and DX10+ cards make up a significant chunk of the market now, and it's only growing. They won't be able to ignore it forever. I expect Bioware is not the only one who's moving up this year, though we'll have to wait and see.
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[quote who="bonscott" reply="118" id="2903764"] Ummm, but that's what Dragon Age is all about. Not so much in DA2 though. Can't tell you how many times a battle I paused in Origins (just like good old Baulder's Gate). There are many encounters where it's pretty much required. [/quote] I set up the tactics menu and let them at it. Rarely do I have to intervene...either game. I might install DA1 again when my SSD comes in but I haven't decided.</p
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I thought that might be what was tripping me up. Bah, I dislike micromanaging party members.
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[quote who="CariElf" reply="5" id="2903697"]I believe that D3D9Ex is only supported on Vista or higher, which is why we didn't use it for Elemental. [/quote] I was just mentioning it as (yes, it only runs on Vista and 7) I'd think it wouldn't need two seperate renderers, or if it did the work to implement it should be much smaller.
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I'm on the expedition myself and I can't get past the second giant creature. I even turned it to Casual difficulty and I still can't. Doh!!!
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[quote who="CariElf" reply="1" id="2903545"]As long as we have to support XP, we have to support DirectX9. And while it's possible to create an engine that can be initialized with DirectX9 or higher, it's a LOT of work, which means more cost to develop. [/quote] Naturally. I'm not dissing Stardock or anyone else with limited resources, I'm just wishing DX9 would go away. I thought D3D9Ex was also supposed to handle alt tabbing better, but if I had to gues
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This isn't entirely a surprise considering his recent history but heh. Speaking to bit-tech for a forthcoming Custom PC feature about the future of OpenGL in PC gaming , Carmack said 'I actually think that Direct3D is a rather better API today.' He also added that 'Microsoft had the courage to continue making si
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EA has done it before. Personally I rather like it when being an asshat is a punishable offense, but I'm sure there are occasions when it's not done right. And I'd definately prefer it if they decouple the forum accounts from the store.
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So I was wandering around minding my own business when DUDE WHAT THE HELL IS THAT! [e digicons]:omg:[/e] Crazy ass boss creatures [e digicons]*_*[/e] Right on.
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[quote who="Krazikarl" reply="97" id="2902897"]Luckman - The graphics problems are on your end. My game looks NOTHING like the screenshots you posted. Its much much much better. You might want to play with graphics settings because you have something messed up if that is what you are seeing. --- There is some serious drama queening going on about this game IMO. If people spent a little time thinking about it, they would realize that
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[quote who="kona0197" reply="11" id="2902487"]Have you ever had to fix an older generation computer that was made around the Pentium 4 days with XP and less than a gig of memory? Auto updates slows those kind of machines down to a crawl. There are other issues with auto updates. How about the machine rebooting itself out of the blue after downloading updates? Sometimes people lose data during the reboot. There are also some updates I would rather not use. [/quote] Not that I reca
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[quote who="kona0197" reply="9" id="2902442"]Yes I know Malewarebytes has new definitions daily. However that program doesn't sneak behind your back and update itself in the background and drain resourses while it updates. The other problem I have is MSE turning on Windows updates to automatic. Waste of time and resourses. Windows auto updates slows most computers to a crawl. [/quote] It does? I've never had a machine with that problem.
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