HAY GUYS

Guru · Local time: May 23, 2007, 11:59 PM

Something is wrong with your computer, Winter Storm. I have a 4 year old desktop with a 1.8ghz processor, 1gig of ram and a 64mb AGP card and it runs Oblivion just fine on max settings.

I agree with what Mikey said. It's silly to build PCs to be the best they can be just to play the latest games on max settings. That's going to cost more than an arm and a leg, and usually you're going to be spending all that money on unpolished chipsets that need a few months of bugtesting to actually run reliably and smoothly.

PC gaming doesn't have to be expensive. It's completely possible to just upgrade certain parts as needed, with medium-to-high end parts and keep going strong. I'd imagine it's feasible to get through 3-5 years on a PC with relatively little investment, and it's easy enough to build decent machines for around the cost of PS3. Reuse your cases, hard drives, DVD drives, keyboards, mice, and whatever else you can and you'll save yourself even more money...or you can take that money and put it into a faster video card.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Guru · Local time: May 24, 2007, 01:20 AM

Originally Posted by RacinReaver

I can't believe you run Oblivion with all settings maxed there Guru; I have a PC with specs significantly better than that and I still feel like I'm playing Wolfenstein 3D at times with how my settings are.

I don't know how I do it either, to be honest. But I do.

I guess it's just a nice little machine. But all the fans are very loud.

Edit: Guess I lied a little bit, I don't have the draw distance maxed. But I have all textures set on high, and all lighting effects turned on, and the game runs nice and smooth.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Guru · Local time: May 25, 2007, 12:59 AM

Originally Posted by flakpyro

ps3 just got PS1, PS2 and DVD upscaling last night..pretty neat stuff...and this is comming from someone whos more a PC gamer then a console gamer..but during this dry spell that seems to be changing..

Funny that the industry considers itself on the upswing. Although I guess if you're not a fan of MMOs, then you might be right about the dry spell thing.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.