Pretty graphics, YAY or NAY?

seafarer · 03-31-08, 01:37 PM

Well, I played SH2 on a Gateway PIII with a some old ATI card in it. I'd be pretty bummed if 6 years later, on a dual-AMD 64-bit machine with an NVidia 8800 graphics card with 512MB VRAM if the sim didn't look substantially better!

Seriously, would you be happy now if your desktop graphics in XP or Vista looked no better then a Windows 3 desktop in 640x480 display?

I expect that as the hardware improves to allow for more, that the whole package will improve - game play and graphics. What's the point of a nice big wide screen LCD display if it's filled with drab old VGA graphics? What's the point of GPU's that have more computing power and potential then your main cpu did back in 2001 if you are just going to have them idling 99% of the time?

I want it ALL, dangnabit!

P.S. I mean, companies are using NVidia 8800 series cards and NVidia CUDA tools to run Monte-Carlo simulations for research, and MATLAB has a CUDA plug-in to leverage NVIdia GPUs for parallel computations. At the least, I want mine rendering a decent ocean physics model

View Poll Results: What would you have though of SH4 if it was released with SH2 like graphics?
I dont care about graphics at all. No difference to me!	3	3.13%
Well, I would have still bought it, but I like it better with 2007 graphics	49	51.04%
No way! Keep your damn oldie!	44	45.83%
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03-31-08, 01:37 PM	#6
seafarer Commodore Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 622 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Well, I played SH2 on a Gateway PIII with a some old ATI card in it. I'd be pretty bummed if 6 years later, on a dual-AMD 64-bit machine with an NVidia 8800 graphics card with 512MB VRAM if the sim didn't look substantially better! Seriously, would you be happy now if your desktop graphics in XP or Vista looked no better then a Windows 3 desktop in 640x480 display? I expect that as the hardware improves to allow for more, that the whole package will improve - game play and graphics. What's the point of a nice big wide screen LCD display if it's filled with drab old VGA graphics? What's the point of GPU's that have more computing power and potential then your main cpu did back in 2001 if you are just going to have them idling 99% of the time? I want it ALL, dangnabit! P.S. I mean, companies are using NVidia 8800 series cards and NVidia CUDA tools to run Monte-Carlo simulations for research, and MATLAB has a CUDA plug-in to leverage NVIdia GPUs for parallel computations. At the least, I want mine rendering a decent ocean physics model __________________ My Father's ship, HMCS Waskesiu (K330), sank U257 on 02/24/1944 running SHIII-1.4 with GWX2.1 and SHIV-1.5 with TMO/RSRDC/PE3.3 under MS Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP1 ACER AMD Athlon 64x2 4800+, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 400GB SATA HD Antec TruePower Trio 650watt PSU BFG GeForce 8800GT/OC 512MB VRAM, Samsung 216BW widescreen (1680x1050) LCD