Good game developers make games to run at reasonable performance on the most machines. it sells a lot more games that way...
But they won't go out of their way to implement special support for crappy hardware, because every game review and benchmark will be running on a high-end machine.
You may be the only person on Earth that sees high power consumption as a desirable feature.
You do realise that high-end CPUs and high-end GPUs use a lot of power, yes? You do realize that putting both in a single package would use even more power, yes?
Oh, obviously not, since you've completely mis-read the point of my post.
The article also notes that a lot of the tech in these is new, so older games don't necessarily take advantage of it. It would be interesting to see how this looks a year from now.
Game developers optimize to run best on the fastest computers out there, not slow CPUs with slow integrated graphics. AMD would have to pay them to put effort into optimizing for these things.
Windows 95 2D graphics drivers were still 16-bit, though they were likely to be 32-bit segments in a 16-bit DLL. D3D was 32-bit, but dekstop 2D rendering was continually switching from a 32-bit application to a 16-bit video driver that probably ran 32-bit code and would much rather have been 32-bit all the way down.
It was a horrible kludge for backward compatibility, and thankfully died with XP.
They had a really hard time convincing people that they needed more than XP, and they finally got it right with 7, when a decade did make XP clunky for modern hardware.
No, Windows 7 just wasn't worse than XP. About the only thing that made it better than XP from an end user's viewpoint was decent 64-bit support.
How many people die in traffic accidents compared to terrorist attacks?
If I remember correctly, far more people have been killed by police cars driving at high speed than by terrorists. I was almost hit by one myself some years ago while walking along a country road.
When I last visited the UK drivers drove like maniacs on the motorway. Speed limits seemed to be universally ignored. 100 miles per hour seemed to be typical.
And British motorways are among the safest roads on the planet, thereby demonstrating that speed limits have little to do with safety.
Unlikely... they'd get stopped and pulled over just like anyone else.
Pulled over for speeding? In the UK? Since when?
There were hardly any traffic cops remaining on the roads when I left the UK some years ago. Instead, they'll get a photo in the mail, and will presumably write back to say that actually they were a spy on important National Security business, and the police will just forget about it.
This whole "look how gr8 commercial spaceflight can do so much better than government!" stuff is nonsense propaganda.
Again, SpaceX built a new rocket engine and two new rockets and launched them into space for less than NASA spent to put a dummy upper stage on top of a shuttle SRB and launch it into the Atlantic Ocean.
Aerospace, except in perhaps the first 5 years of flight, has always been about the government making the long-term investments and R&D, and private companies delivering final products.
So, you're claiming that government developed and funded the 747 and 787?
If we assume ISS shouldn't just be deorbited as a waste of money, space policy is one of the very few things Obama got right. Possibly because he doesn't really care about it.
yes but now undeserving super rich people can go that high without years of experience and risk as test pilots or military pilots.
Yes, just like they can now fly across the Atlantic without having to climb on the outside of the plane to wipe ice off the windshield so they can see to fly it. The underserving bastards!
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Good game developers make games to run at reasonable performance on the most machines. it sells a lot more games that way...
But they won't go out of their way to implement special support for crappy hardware, because every game review and benchmark will be running on a high-end machine.
You may be the only person on Earth that sees high power consumption as a desirable feature.
You do realise that high-end CPUs and high-end GPUs use a lot of power, yes? You do realize that putting both in a single package would use even more power, yes?
Oh, obviously not, since you've completely mis-read the point of my post.
Good luck getting a 100W CPU and 300W GPU into the same package.
Well, OK, stuffing them in there won't be too hard, but cooling it will be a bastard.
The article also notes that a lot of the tech in these is new, so older games don't necessarily take advantage of it. It would be interesting to see how this looks a year from now.
Game developers optimize to run best on the fastest computers out there, not slow CPUs with slow integrated graphics. AMD would have to pay them to put effort into optimizing for these things.
Or the Japanese government could just stop spending like a drunken sailor on shore leave with terminal cancer.
You do realize there's an amazon.co.jp, right?
America, with dozens of aircraft carriers and thousands of jet fighters and bombers, is extremely well prepared to fight WWII.
Just about seventy years too late.
You just described a business transaction, not a con.
In Lefty-World, they're the same thing.
Windows 95 had 32 bit graphics
Windows 95 2D graphics drivers were still 16-bit, though they were likely to be 32-bit segments in a 16-bit DLL. D3D was 32-bit, but dekstop 2D rendering was continually switching from a 32-bit application to a 16-bit video driver that probably ran 32-bit code and would much rather have been 32-bit all the way down.
It was a horrible kludge for backward compatibility, and thankfully died with XP.
How Windows 3.1 can be considered "good" in any sense of the word is beyond me.
Did you ever use Windows 3.0?
If you did, you'd understand why people thought Windows 3.1 was... GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT.
Ubiquitous computing. The ability to run the same applications on a huge range of form factors and have the applications adjust to the form factor.
You mean, the ability to run touchscreen apps designed for 5" phones full-screen on a 24" 1920x1080 display with a mouse and keyboard?
Who exactly was asking for that 'feature', again?
They had a really hard time convincing people that they needed more than XP, and they finally got it right with 7, when a decade did make XP clunky for modern hardware.
No, Windows 7 just wasn't worse than XP. About the only thing that made it better than XP from an end user's viewpoint was decent 64-bit support.
I met someone who had a Windows phone.
True story.
Of course they said they were plannng to dump it and get an iPhone.
How many people die in traffic accidents compared to terrorist attacks?
If I remember correctly, far more people have been killed by police cars driving at high speed than by terrorists. I was almost hit by one myself some years ago while walking along a country road.
When I last visited the UK drivers drove like maniacs on the motorway. Speed limits seemed to be universally ignored. 100 miles per hour seemed to be typical.
And British motorways are among the safest roads on the planet, thereby demonstrating that speed limits have little to do with safety.
Unlikely... they'd get stopped and pulled over just like anyone else.
Pulled over for speeding? In the UK? Since when?
There were hardly any traffic cops remaining on the roads when I left the UK some years ago. Instead, they'll get a photo in the mail, and will presumably write back to say that actually they were a spy on important National Security business, and the police will just forget about it.
Why should people that are themselves dependents have the right to create more dependents with no consequences?
Because they vote for Democrats.
The welfare state is all about building a captive voter base for the left.
This whole "look how gr8 commercial spaceflight can do so much better than government!" stuff is nonsense propaganda.
Again, SpaceX built a new rocket engine and two new rockets and launched them into space for less than NASA spent to put a dummy upper stage on top of a shuttle SRB and launch it into the Atlantic Ocean.
Aerospace, except in perhaps the first 5 years of flight, has always been about the government making the long-term investments and R&D, and private companies delivering final products.
So, you're claiming that government developed and funded the 747 and 787?
In other words,
Thanks, Obama!
If we assume ISS shouldn't just be deorbited as a waste of money, space policy is one of the very few things Obama got right. Possibly because he doesn't really care about it.
This is the first operational cargo flight for them, isn't it?
How long and how much money did it take SpaceX? Oh, that's right, a long time and a lot of money...
Less money than NASA spent to put a fake upper stage on top of a shuttle SRB and fire it into the Atlantic Ocean.
The age of humans will eventually fade away much like the dinosaurs and no one will miss us.
Well, duh. Who's going to miss us if we don't exist any more?
yes but now undeserving super rich people can go that high without years of experience and risk as test pilots or military pilots.
Yes, just like they can now fly across the Atlantic without having to climb on the outside of the plane to wipe ice off the windshield so they can see to fly it. The underserving bastards!
Window 8 is malware.
8GB is hardly a large amount of RAM. That's pretty much the minimum for a decent gaming PC these days.
And, since the new generation of consoles are basically just low-end gaming PCs, they're hardly likely to 'kill PCs'.