Non hybrid drive here, Windows 8.1 (yes, yes, I'm a masochist and am using it to test shit with), bargain basement haswell CPU (i5-4430), 8 GB of RAM, and the drivers for my GTX760 install in a few minutes like normal. Your computer is borked dude.
Never mind that typically most monitors that could do 1600x1200 in the 90s could only do it at 60hz, which would send you fucking blind with the flickering.
Not sure why you think 37 fps on a shooter is unplayable, I completed many of them running at less than that - both back in the day before GPUs and also afterwards when my hardware was in need of an upgrade. Kids these days...
Yeah, but if steamOS deems intel as supported, then they should start getting a heap more optimized. Besides, Ivy Bridge is old hat now. SteamOS will be running on Haswell and Broadwell onwards. Which are significantly faster than ivy bridge.
Nah, all cars tend to get bigger so they can put improvements from the previous model on the spec sheet. Until eventually the car becomes something other than the original intended design and a new smaller model car is released to fill the void that the old models of the car did. E.g., BMW 3 series -> 1 series. Compare an E30 3 series to an E92. Massive difference in size, and even the 1 series is bigger than the old E30 3 series. Same with the Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic (Jazz = bigger than the original Civic even), etc.
On surfaces without debris piling up in front of the tyre, friction is drastically reduced once the wheels lock. It's not just steering authority you lose with a locked wheel - on non-loose surfaces, the rate of deceleration is reduced as well.
vs. a good driver properly executing threshold breaking: true. vs. the average muppet in a panic situation when they look up from their phone and realise they need to emergency brake and just mash the pedal to the floor? not so much.
Depends on the surface. Once a wheel has started to slide on asphalt, the co-efficient of friction between the tyre and the road is reduced. As anyone who has done a burnout before will attest - breaking the traction and getting the wheel so spin/slide on the pavement is the hard part, keeping it spinning once traction has been broken is much easier.
Sure, snow/gravel where the is material piling up in front of the wheel may be different, but a non-locked wheel stops a car quicker than a locked wheel on good surfaces. That's not to say ABS is better than a competent driver threshold braking. But the vast majority of drivers in an emergency situation are NOT good drivers at that point in time.
Changing the rules and banning things does not reduce costs. It just means the money gets spent elsewhere, looking for another advantageous design or technology that hasn't been banned yet. The money WILL be spent.
Racing tech does still trickle down. You might not recognise it, but stuff like direct injection, dual clutch transmissions, launch control, traction control, engine management, etc. were all developed on track first.
Nah, active suspension or not, the latest I've seen is that it was actually component failure that caused the crash. Active suspension = additional complexity, may have even been more likely to fail. It was just bad luck.
Yeah but it doesn't work. All the R&D money just goes into research to make the engine last long enough at a higher power level now. Fuel restrictions, engine quantity limits, etc. just raise the R&D required and make the tolerances smaller.
The cost to stamp out X copies of an engine is the cheap bit. The expensive bit is the R&D to develop said engines. Engine and fuel limits in the name of cost saving is a total farce.
Senna's death was nothing to do with traction control, the last theory I read was that he ran off track due to suspension component failure. Plenty of things have been banned in F1 to slow the cars down - displacements and cylinder counts have been reduced, turbocharging has been banned, ground effects have been banned, active suspension has been banned, active aero has been banned, wing sizes have been reduced, grooved tyres were mandatory in the mid-90s to slow cornering speeds, etc.
"saving money". ha. Whatever regulations they instate, the teams with more R&D resources will do more R&D. All changing the rules does is give a new set of parameters to the engineers to work with.
The Porsche GT would be perfectly safe (safer than most cars on the road, in fact) when driving at the speed limit, and not deliberately mashing the accelerator. The car is not the problem, the driver is.
This is merely a choice of ROM. No real technical reason it won't run 2.1 as well or instead. 1.3 is compatible with far more games than later versions.
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Your 6 year old machine is not the target platform for SteamOS.
Because they can't be arsed putting out a working driver themselves?
Non hybrid drive here, Windows 8.1 (yes, yes, I'm a masochist and am using it to test shit with), bargain basement haswell CPU (i5-4430), 8 GB of RAM, and the drivers for my GTX760 install in a few minutes like normal. Your computer is borked dude.
A couple of dodgy NVidia driver versions do not rate the same level of fucktarded-ness as 2 decades of AMD/ATI driver incompetence.
Because its beta, and they are trying to eliminate as many non-steamOS bug reports as possible. And NVidia's drivers are WAY, WAY better than AMDs.
Never mind that typically most monitors that could do 1600x1200 in the 90s could only do it at 60hz, which would send you fucking blind with the flickering.
Not sure why you think 37 fps on a shooter is unplayable, I completed many of them running at less than that - both back in the day before GPUs and also afterwards when my hardware was in need of an upgrade. Kids these days...
Yeah, but if steamOS deems intel as supported, then they should start getting a heap more optimized. Besides, Ivy Bridge is old hat now. SteamOS will be running on Haswell and Broadwell onwards. Which are significantly faster than ivy bridge.
Nah, all cars tend to get bigger so they can put improvements from the previous model on the spec sheet. Until eventually the car becomes something other than the original intended design and a new smaller model car is released to fill the void that the old models of the car did. E.g., BMW 3 series -> 1 series. Compare an E30 3 series to an E92. Massive difference in size, and even the 1 series is bigger than the old E30 3 series. Same with the Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic (Jazz = bigger than the original Civic even), etc.
On surfaces without debris piling up in front of the tyre, friction is drastically reduced once the wheels lock. It's not just steering authority you lose with a locked wheel - on non-loose surfaces, the rate of deceleration is reduced as well.
Sounds like a shitty ABS setup without EBD - which even high end Mazda hatch-backs were shipping with in 2002 or previous.
vs. a good driver properly executing threshold breaking: true. vs. the average muppet in a panic situation when they look up from their phone and realise they need to emergency brake and just mash the pedal to the floor? not so much.
Depends on the surface. Once a wheel has started to slide on asphalt, the co-efficient of friction between the tyre and the road is reduced. As anyone who has done a burnout before will attest - breaking the traction and getting the wheel so spin/slide on the pavement is the hard part, keeping it spinning once traction has been broken is much easier.
Sure, snow/gravel where the is material piling up in front of the wheel may be different, but a non-locked wheel stops a car quicker than a locked wheel on good surfaces. That's not to say ABS is better than a competent driver threshold braking. But the vast majority of drivers in an emergency situation are NOT good drivers at that point in time.
Driven legally, the Carrera GT is safer than pretty much any regular car on the road.
Changing the rules and banning things does not reduce costs. It just means the money gets spent elsewhere, looking for another advantageous design or technology that hasn't been banned yet. The money WILL be spent.
Racing tech does still trickle down. You might not recognise it, but stuff like direct injection, dual clutch transmissions, launch control, traction control, engine management, etc. were all developed on track first.
Nah, active suspension or not, the latest I've seen is that it was actually component failure that caused the crash. Active suspension = additional complexity, may have even been more likely to fail. It was just bad luck.
Yeah but it doesn't work. All the R&D money just goes into research to make the engine last long enough at a higher power level now. Fuel restrictions, engine quantity limits, etc. just raise the R&D required and make the tolerances smaller.
The cost to stamp out X copies of an engine is the cheap bit. The expensive bit is the R&D to develop said engines. Engine and fuel limits in the name of cost saving is a total farce.
Yes, but with a very low boost limit. They were running 5.5 bar in the 80s. The new limit is much, much lower.
Senna's death was nothing to do with traction control, the last theory I read was that he ran off track due to suspension component failure. Plenty of things have been banned in F1 to slow the cars down - displacements and cylinder counts have been reduced, turbocharging has been banned, ground effects have been banned, active suspension has been banned, active aero has been banned, wing sizes have been reduced, grooved tyres were mandatory in the mid-90s to slow cornering speeds, etc.
"saving money". ha. Whatever regulations they instate, the teams with more R&D resources will do more R&D. All changing the rules does is give a new set of parameters to the engineers to work with.
The Porsche GT would be perfectly safe (safer than most cars on the road, in fact) when driving at the speed limit, and not deliberately mashing the accelerator. The car is not the problem, the driver is.
No. I've been using airplay for several years now and it is seamless. It just works, and works well.
This is merely a choice of ROM. No real technical reason it won't run 2.1 as well or instead. 1.3 is compatible with far more games than later versions.
So, Google have done a deal with cloanto for the ROM licensing? Thought not...
Except... pulling the plug in a couple of years would be corporate suicide.