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Dell Partners with Square

Posted by Hemos on from the the-neal-will-be-so-happy dept.

zenintrude writes "Gameforms is reporting that Square has signed a deal with Dell that will secure new Dell computers to be shipping with Final Fantasy XI pre-installed. This comes on the heels of another story involving Square partnering with nVidia, in which certain aspects/details in Final Fantasy XI will only be able to be accomplished with a geForce4 card."

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  1. Re:No ATI? by stratjakt · · Score: 3, Informative

    Does nVidia have its own proprietary 3D api?
    Nope, it's pretty much DirectX or OpenGL.

    Of course it will. Probably look alot nicer on a 256 meg Radeon 9700 Pro, to boot.

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  2. Re:Why won't they move on? by ivan256 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why can't square move on from the Final Fantasy name?

    Bushido Blade
    Einhander
    Ehrgeiz
    Vagrant Story
    Xenogears
    Parasite Eve
    Chrono Trigger/Cross
    Driving Emotion Type S
    The Bouncer
    Kingdom Hearts

    I think that Square pumps out the quality non Final Fantasy titles, and you're just not paying attention.

  3. Re:I want a recompiled FF7 by Cecil · · Score: 3, Informative

    I can confirm that it doesn't work on newer cards (GeForce2+ and Radeon 7500+), because it claims to require 8-bit paletted textures. Which apparently newer cards don't support.

    It will still run in software mode, but it seems to crash a lot anyway (under Win2000, at least). I still insist that it's one of the best console to PC ports I've seen in a long time, in terms of preserving the 'feel' of the game, and the 'feel' of the console. (Particularily when using a good gamepad, like the Logitech Wingman series)

    Unfortunately it really is showing its age. I can't really blame it, considering it is just a port, but I'd love to see a patched version that works on newer systems.

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  4. Where? by Jrono · · Score: 3, Informative

    The deal was with Dell Japan, and I would imagine this is only going to happen with Dell's Japanese computers. Here is a relevant link at Dell's page, and another story in English.

  5. Re:Connections by tb3 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Silly Mods, this isn't insightful, this is wrong.


    Sony becoming a sleeper PC giant

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  6. Re:The REAL Story... No thanks to SlashDot... by delus10n0 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Since SlashDot doesn't automatically generate HREF's from URLs (wtf?), here's a nice link to the Dell website.

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