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Originally Posted by skwasjer
*cough* maerean_m, need... multi... core... *cough*
But I know, I know...  |
Too many game developers use the "modern hardware excuse" for bad game programming.
If a game doesn't run well on a 3.2GHz single core, 2Gb of ram and a nVidia 7800, then it's not worth my time and money (a very good example is Crysis (and another one is DiRT which will only work with SSE2, not with SSE1)).
The same thing applies to Windows Vista. Why the heck does it need 2Gb of ram to display a taskbar? I recently installed Vista on a dual-core laptop and it's rubbish. It's waaaaay slower than my old desktop with Windows XP.
I remember playing on the old 486 DX2 (66 MHz, 4Mb of ram)... those were the days (and the games).
That's why i love the Orange Box and Bioshock. These are games, not technology demos.
I recently noticed the big fuss about FarCry2. All they do is shoot at trees so branches fall off. Ok, where is the game in that?
In the end, although I could get a quad core for the money I spent some years ago for this computer, I won't do that.
But I know you know
