You're really silly if you don't think that the fact that the majority of windows installs were xp up until recently had no effect on what DX developers used...
EDIt : I will say though that you've been the closest to the true nature of the DX versions.
winxp hasn't had dominant market share for the past 3 years according to steam hardware survery. win7 knocked it off about 6 months after release. :P
That's nice that one small self selective survey sample showed that. Large survey samples contradict steam..
You're really silly if you don't think that the fact that the majority of windows installs were xp up until recently had no effect on what DX developers used...
EDIt : I will say though that you've been the closest to the true nature of the DX versions.
If people don't specify where they get the frame rate then the information is useless. I get amazing frame times in Island of Dawn and horrible times in Fraywind.
About multi threading and cores:
There's several reasons why multithreading in games isn't applied much, but it's a matter that consumers will never understand. All I'm going to say is that multithreading usually needs synchronization between threads and synchronization is expensive when we are talking about processes that need to finish in under ~20ms per frame, so not everything benefits from having multiple cores and in fact sometimes it introduces a penalty so big that a linear process would do much better.
This is an architectural problem that has no simple solution and requires specific software design. When you consider that video game companies love not having to use new technology (cue how we've been stuck in "DX9" era for years and years because of console hardware feature sets) then it's no wonder we just don't see many games taking advantage of cores.
Being stuck in dx9 has very little to do with consoles and more to do with XP having such a massive userbase for so long. Vista was so terribad on launch that XP has only recently been surpassed as the most popular windows flavor (win7 succeeded).
Something people hate hearing but AMD 8-cores are better at gaming + streaming then intel at the moment. Though the difference between an i7 and AMD FX8350 will only be a few fps.
Also the general mantra spread around that intel is better then amd in gaming is wrong, the truth is intel in better in programs that only make use of 2 threads which I consider just plain bad coding (it's 2013 people quad-cores are the standard now). Though the majority of games are only dual threaded at the moment (might change with next gen consoles).
It's a toss up in my book, but I would say go with an i7. Also haswell is out later this year so it might be worth saving for an i7 4770k.
Oh god that's absolutely hilarious. Intel per core has a much more efficient processor right now. Since most games aren't really using anything beyond 4 cores you'll find Intel leaving everything but the latest FX chip in the dust. Even the FX-8350 is having a hard time with intel's high end chips.
I am a long time AMD user but they screwed the pooch when they went for more virtual cores vs Intel's more efficient core design. Those extra virtual cores don't mean much unless you're running developer software or specialized programs. No one is realistically going to try to do something like encode a blue ray video while playing a couple games at the same time (at which case the I/O hardware becomes the bottleneck).
That being said I hope AMD gets back in the game because they keep Intel honest on prices.
As for the OP bootcamp and install it to the internal hard drive. No problem.
Moltenous on 12/10/2012, 02:56 PM
Iniker on 12/10/2012, 02:52 PM
Buy a SDD, install your OS and boot from there.
Buy a seperate HDD, and install everything else non-OS there.
Don't invest in CF or SLI if you are an average - light gamer.
If you're going to use an Asrock mobo, don't use the driver installer CD that comes with the box.
Putting everything together can be hard, but doing it is a very rewarding experience. Consult PC building websites (such as http://reddit.com/r/buildapc) for tips and suggestions.
Cable management only makes things better, not worse.
Last but not least, don't buy Arienwhale if you aren't into artsy stuff.
Whaha all the foreign language. I assume this is something I can go bribe one of the programmers I work with with a free lunch if they help me :)
I hear Tiger Direct is a good place to buy parts?
And haha I'm a video game artist .-. So my graphics needs to me a bit better then most. I will say I'll miss my photoshop setup on Mac compared to the PC version.
Macs are running exclusively on PC hardware so there's absolutely no hardware difference outside of the TPS chip used on the mobo to authenticate that it's a mac. When Apple moved away from the RISC architecture they lost all the advantages they had.
Unless you're doing workstation 3d modelling you're not using anything a gamer isn't using already.
I do admit it's kind of funny to play games on a machine with a Quadro graphics setup.
The problem is an over abundance of DPS and a lack of tanks and healers to match up with them, even at a ratio of 1 healer and 1 tank per 3 DPS.
Funny thing. The other day I was on my warrior and since I only recently came back I wasn't comfortable tanking on it for the first run. After waiting for an hour in LFG I finally found a healer in the LFG channel. After talking to the healer we decided I should queue as a tank just to speed stuff up. So with a healer and a warrior tank we queued and waited 10-20 minutes while spamming LFG. Eventually we ended up finding enough DPS in the LFG to finish us off. The dungeon finder never popped even with a healer and tank as the party queuing...
TLDR healer and warrior tank queued in LFG goes +30 minutes without a pop...
There's a UI FPS bug that's well-known. I had it for the longest time on a 6950 and then it magically disappeared. My guess is you got hit with it going to a 6850.
I've heard more than once that ATi GPU's give problems in most games. The other MMO I'm playing (GW2) has similar problems with these (newer) ATi GPU's. Not sure where these problems come from, but it might have something to do with outdated drivers that are not optimized for certain games/MMO's.
IMO better stick with nVidia for gaming. Most engines are optimized for those GPU's, and (more importantly), the drivers are updated on a very regular basis with a lot of optimizations for (newer) games.
Oh yeah? I heard you don't have a clue what you're talking about and when someone first offered you a cpu chip you tried to eat it...
Seriously your post is so full of steaming lies it'd take too long to go through them and document for you why you don't know jack.
The reality is the nvidia fanboys are mad because ATI finally figured out their driver issues some time ago and have been beating NVidia in the bang for the buck marker. Since Nvidia's newest chip design has been difficult to produce they've been forced into recycling their old chips in "new" cards and the resulting performance leaves some to be desired.
That said NVidia still has some issues with their drivers that haven't been fixed for nearly a year now which isn't a surprise because so does ATI. THe reality is right now ATI and NVidia are pretty much even when it comes to driver support and capabilities. Although I have to admit ATI's auto update system is much smoother then Nvidia's current system (BTW they are both actively updating drivers). Hardware wise ATI is holding the advantage till Nvidia gets their sourcing sorted out for their newest chips. As for the future it's hard to tell.
I've built several machines with high end nvidia or high end ATI cards and I can frankly say there's little to no actual difference in performance when matched up in price. Both cards have fairly solid driver support and despite some games saying they are "optimized" for NVidia there's very little difference due to graphics APIs being fairly standard.
AMD as a CPU maker screwed up by focusing on adding more cores where as Intel focused on making their cores more efficient. Since software and OSes are still mostly designed to use two cores with some using four cores pretty well the latest AMD chips are in effect underpowered because even using four cores effectively means you're only using half the chips capability effectively. Meanwhile Intel chips are mostly optimized two or four core chips which means with your average software you're going to see much better speeds. It was a strategic error on AMD's part and time will tell if they can recover and design more efficient cores.
TLDR : Cut the fanboyism ATI and NVidia both make great cards..
finally a post made by you that doesn't involve you crying about your enchanting record, but then you went and blew it by referring to latency as FPS, and telling EME to upgrade their servers because you have low FPS LOL
upgrade your PC champ
bro... it is not my pc... my gpu is at 10% usage and my cpu is only at 20%.
also, latency does not just mean ping(it usually refers to ping), however latency means slowing down... essentially. this can apply to both ping and framerate.
Then use the proper term which is HARDWARE LATENCY. Latency in gaming is traditionally understood to be communication latency. I highly suggest you spend a little time learning of the history of computer gaming and how hardware works.
What's funny is I'm running this game better on the lowest settings at 1280x1024 on my g41 e4400 system (oced 1066 fsb gma x4500 integrated graphics with 8gb DDR3) then what some of these people are claiming their uber systems are...
To be fair you do only have to render about 37% less pixels as them assuming they are going 1920x1080... but with an integrated graphics card I feel sorry for anyone who thinks they have an uber system but don't :P
I run two 24 inch monitors at 1920x1200 on high settings quite fine thank you. Just commenting that terrible systems when properly maintained can still play this game quite well..
finally a post made by you that doesn't involve you crying about your enchanting record, but then you went and blew it by referring to latency as FPS, and telling EME to upgrade their servers because you have low FPS LOL
upgrade your PC champ
bro... it is not my pc... my gpu is at 10% usage and my cpu is only at 20%.
also, latency does not just mean ping(it usually refers to ping), however latency means slowing down... essentially. this can apply to both ping and framerate.
Then use the proper term which is HARDWARE LATENCY. Latency in gaming is traditionally understood to be communication latency. I highly suggest you spend a little time learning of the history of computer gaming and how hardware works.
What's funny is I'm running this game better on the lowest settings at 1280x1024 on my g41 e4400 system (oced 1066 fsb gma x4500 integrated graphics with 8gb DDR3) then what some of these people are claiming their uber systems are...