That's got nothing to do with the graphics hardware at all, it's crap programming. You can enumerate all supported display modes, and you'll generally pick either the highest one, or the current display mode (or offer a choice).
At a guess, I'd say that the game jumping to 60Hz is due to a fixed time step being employed within the update loop of the game (in general this is because physics engines don't work very well with variable time steps). If you do this kind of thing, you have to divorce the rendering from the game update - which some people are pretty bad at doing.
This sounds like it's a case of the game develeoper trying to optimise the code in pretty crap ways such as replacing this:
position += time_delta * 2.0f;// where 2 is speed
with this:
position += 0.03333333333f;
To remove a few mults at runtime. (my opinion is that that stuff just isn't worth doing).
Not really, everything has gone towards shaders, and it's trivial to port a GLSL shader to a HLSL one and vice versa.
The real problem for GL developers is that the API is lagging behind DX, and has been for a number of years. So, new features get added to D3D, and then ATI/NVidia will implement extensions for those into GL. About a year later, those may be unified into a single ext or arb extension. About 3 years later, they may find their way into the core SDK (at which point D3D would have had those in the core SDK for 3 years).
Developers aren't entrenched in D3D, they just find a much nicer API to work with.
However the DX11 spec has been out for about a year, so they've had a fair amount of time to prepare for it. The core spec hasn't actually changed that much, it's just added the new compute shader functionality and done a very minor re-org of the main Device class (by moving some of it into a device context). Given that there isn't a compute shader equivalent in GL just yet, I can imagine that part taking a little while - but the rest of it is trivial.
uhm, when you say third party app, do you mean the graphics card driver? (Since you only need to disable v-sync in the graphics card options and the problem is gone)
(In the UK at least) It's legal to make a copy for your own personal use. If however Lars downloaded it using a torrent, then it's likely that other people downloaded it from him in the process. If that's the case, then he'd be breaking the law unless he owned the copyright and was entitled to give it away for free if he wanted too.
Mind you, most people wouldn't want to hear any of the crap they've made post the black album - so I doubt he could give it away for free tbh.
though thinking about it, if he downloaded it using bit torrent, and in the process other people downloaded it from his PC, then he would be breaking the law.
I assume he owns an original version of Death Magnetic on CD (and maybe some gold/platinum version of it). If he owns the original album, he is allowed to make a copy for his own use.
(the MIDI output was nice, but how many people actually used that?)
If you had an atari and didn't use the midi output, you looked like a bit of a muppet with a pointless computer (On which the lemmings wouldn't say 'Oh No!' when they blew up - which is actually the only reason I bought an Amiga).
Anyhow, everyone who owned an ST used the midi output to ensure they didn't look like a complete twat. IIRC the school ranking was
Yes actually I do, though I'd call it crapware. Almost every PC I've ever serviced for a friend (read: re-install windows) has had the yahoo toolbar installed into firefox or IE. Normally I do a nice clean install sans the Yahoo Bar (You've got a google bar, so what's the point?). I've been surprised at the number of (sane and intelligent) people who for some maddening reason, actually want it back?!?
I'd call it crapware, but it's actually one of the most commonly installed bits of crapware you'll find...
A large metal wire cutting through the earths magnetic field is all you need to generate electricity (ask anyone who plays the electric guitar). All you need to do is find a way to harness the current that would be generated in the space elevator cable.
If you attempted to stick a current through the elevator cable, my primitive understanding of physics says, oscillations will start to occur in the cable due to the way magnetism and electricity are related?
uhm, whut? It's somewhat trivial to recycle PC equipment. Following your first port of call, there are a numberofschemes that will take those PC's for you. For components that are entirely defunct, the local council will take them off your hands and safely recycle the materials for you.
Throwing IT junk in the trash is not the best solution....
I had numerous problems with 32bit vista. I re-installed 64bit over the top, and everything's been going along swimmingly ever since. Occasionally you'll hit a minor niggle, but nothing that can't be fixed with some carefully chosen search terms for google. I'd almost go so far as to say that Vista 64bit is a good OS....
I work for a small software company, we do not provide software to dictators, and we do not undertake any business that could even remotely be called immoral - and as a company we are heavily affected by piracy in China (where we have never sold a single license, and we receive continual support requests).
Piracy doesn't just affect Microsoft and other multi-mationals, it affects every software single developer, big and small, working in every single corner of the world. You seem to be implying that it's OK to pick and choose which products you pirate - and for some reason you assume that you can be Judge, Jury and executioner when deciding if a company has involved itself in immoral activities - a decision that will be based on suspicion, or on implication (you're big, therefore must be immoral), but at no point would you ever have the full facts.
We get more support requests for our software from China than from any other country - and we've never sold a single license there.
If the people using the software have no qualms in contacting the developers directly, then it seems to be a fairly entrenched problem that's going to take an awful lot to stamp out. Whilst talking about this topic many people may think 'windows+office' the fact is that piracy is affecting every developer large and small (and I work for a small one). I applaud anyone who takes an interest in stamping the problem out at their office, though unfortunately it's not going anyway anytime soon...
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That's got nothing to do with the graphics hardware at all, it's crap programming. You can enumerate all supported display modes, and you'll generally pick either the highest one, or the current display mode (or offer a choice).
// where 2 is speed
At a guess, I'd say that the game jumping to 60Hz is due to a fixed time step being employed within the update loop of the game (in general this is because physics engines don't work very well with variable time steps). If you do this kind of thing, you have to divorce the rendering from the game update - which some people are pretty bad at doing.
This sounds like it's a case of the game develeoper trying to optimise the code in pretty crap ways such as replacing this:
position += time_delta * 2.0f;
with this:
position += 0.03333333333f;
To remove a few mults at runtime. (my opinion is that that stuff just isn't worth doing).
traditionally yes, but actually they aren't as bad these days as everyone says...
Are there still a lot of Windows games that write raw DirectX code?
If you're sensible, you'll wrap the API calls and then the only difference is the shading language. Really though, all the D3D C++ API lets you do is:
create/delete shader
create/delete buffer
create/delete texture
create/delete renderer state (blend/raster etc)
draw buffer
draw indexed buffer
finding the OpenGL equivalents is a relatively painless process (assuming you don't have too many vendor extension nightmares to deal with).
porting GL code to D3D is a PITA, but porting D3D to GL is (relatively speaking) trivial.
Not really, everything has gone towards shaders, and it's trivial to port a GLSL shader to a HLSL one and vice versa.
The real problem for GL developers is that the API is lagging behind DX, and has been for a number of years. So, new features get added to D3D, and then ATI/NVidia will implement extensions for those into GL. About a year later, those may be unified into a single ext or arb extension. About 3 years later, they may find their way into the core SDK (at which point D3D would have had those in the core SDK for 3 years).
Developers aren't entrenched in D3D, they just find a much nicer API to work with.
However the DX11 spec has been out for about a year, so they've had a fair amount of time to prepare for it. The core spec hasn't actually changed that much, it's just added the new compute shader functionality and done a very minor re-org of the main Device class (by moving some of it into a device context). Given that there isn't a compute shader equivalent in GL just yet, I can imagine that part taking a little while - but the rest of it is trivial.
uhm, when you say third party app, do you mean the graphics card driver? (Since you only need to disable v-sync in the graphics card options and the problem is gone)
and the result...
"error, cannot remove the root directory"
(In the UK at least) It's legal to make a copy for your own personal use. If however Lars downloaded it using a torrent, then it's likely that other people downloaded it from him in the process. If that's the case, then he'd be breaking the law unless he owned the copyright and was entitled to give it away for free if he wanted too.
Mind you, most people wouldn't want to hear any of the crap they've made post the black album - so I doubt he could give it away for free tbh.
though thinking about it, if he downloaded it using bit torrent, and in the process other people downloaded it from his PC, then he would be breaking the law.
I assume he owns an original version of Death Magnetic on CD (and maybe some gold/platinum version of it). If he owns the original album, he is allowed to make a copy for his own use.
I'm going to give it ago. Just prepping up a VM and will see what happens....
(the MIDI output was nice, but how many people actually used that?)
If you had an atari and didn't use the midi output, you looked like a bit of a muppet with a pointless computer (On which the lemmings wouldn't say 'Oh No!' when they blew up - which is actually the only reason I bought an Amiga).
Anyhow, everyone who owned an ST used the midi output to ensure they didn't look like a complete twat. IIRC the school ranking was
Amiga > Spectrum 48k > ST > Amstrad
There's a typo in the parent post, it's the new "Fcuk computer"
I wish they'd go back and start doing what they did best.
I think we can safely rule out anything ending in 'pad' - those are probably trademarked by tampax/bodyform/lil-lets et al.
Ah! Now I understand. Ensuring all Yahoo employees are well groomed men wearing fuzz free suits doesn't come cheap!
Yes actually I do, though I'd call it crapware. Almost every PC I've ever serviced for a friend (read: re-install windows) has had the yahoo toolbar installed into firefox or IE. Normally I do a nice clean install sans the Yahoo Bar (You've got a google bar, so what's the point?). I've been surprised at the number of (sane and intelligent) people who for some maddening reason, actually want it back?!?
I'd call it crapware, but it's actually one of the most commonly installed bits of crapware you'll find...
How about haskell-script?
A large metal wire cutting through the earths magnetic field is all you need to generate electricity (ask anyone who plays the electric guitar). All you need to do is find a way to harness the current that would be generated in the space elevator cable.
If you attempted to stick a current through the elevator cable, my primitive understanding of physics says, oscillations will start to occur in the cable due to the way magnetism and electricity are related?
uhm, whut? It's somewhat trivial to recycle PC equipment. Following your first port of call, there are a number of schemes that will take those PC's for you. For components that are entirely defunct, the local council will take them off your hands and safely recycle the materials for you.
Throwing IT junk in the trash is not the best solution....
hint: A famous book about hitchhiking in outer space.....
I had numerous problems with 32bit vista. I re-installed 64bit over the top, and everything's been going along swimmingly ever since. Occasionally you'll hit a minor niggle, but nothing that can't be fixed with some carefully chosen search terms for google. I'd almost go so far as to say that Vista 64bit is a good OS....
the inability to permenantly remove the toolbar warning that I do not have my security settings on
the solution is here
I work for a small software company, we do not provide software to dictators, and we do not undertake any business that could even remotely be called immoral - and as a company we are heavily affected by piracy in China (where we have never sold a single license, and we receive continual support requests).
Piracy doesn't just affect Microsoft and other multi-mationals, it affects every software single developer, big and small, working in every single corner of the world. You seem to be implying that it's OK to pick and choose which products you pirate - and for some reason you assume that you can be Judge, Jury and executioner when deciding if a company has involved itself in immoral activities - a decision that will be based on suspicion, or on implication (you're big, therefore must be immoral), but at no point would you ever have the full facts.
We get more support requests for our software from China than from any other country - and we've never sold a single license there.
If the people using the software have no qualms in contacting the developers directly, then it seems to be a fairly entrenched problem that's going to take an awful lot to stamp out. Whilst talking about this topic many people may think 'windows+office' the fact is that piracy is affecting every developer large and small (and I work for a small one). I applaud anyone who takes an interest in stamping the problem out at their office, though unfortunately it's not going anyway anytime soon...