The difference between a 7950 and a 7970 was 5% performance and $200 when it first came out. I got mine for under $150 after the card was out for a while. For whatever reason, an AMD CPU and a 7970 sucked ass with Rage. (An Intel CPU and a 7970 didn't have any problems.) Another factor might have been the AMD 690 motherboard chipset that glued everything together, but I didn't see anything in the comments regarding that. Ironically, the budget Nvidia 720 video that I got came out shortly after the 7970 hit the market.
ID Software's Rage was an epic fail on my Radeon 7970 video card, the opening gameplay chugging at 2fps. I got the game three years after it came out at a Steam Black Friday sale for $2.50, and ID still haven't fixed there AMD support (or lack thereof) for this video card. I wasn't too upset that I couldn't play the game on a video card that exceeded the minimum specs for the price I paid. (I would be royally pissed if I got the game at $60 and it didn't work.) This year I got a Nvidia 720 video card and the game works perfectly fine. Go figure.
But if my HD7750 could run it over 30FPS for the entire game? Yeah....he's doin it wrong..
My suck ass configuration was an AMD Quad CPU and a Radeon 7970. (Intel CPU users didn't have any problems with the card.) New drivers, old drivers, special drivers. None of it work. Replaced the video card with a Nvidia 720 and it worked like a charm with no changes to the game. Gee, I wonder why.
BTW, I bought the game three years after it came out for $2.50 at a Steam Black Friday sale. You would think ID Software would get their AMD support straighten out by now.
I picked up ID's Software "Rage" a few years ago for $2.50 from a Steam Black Friday Sale. I had a Radeon 7960 video card at the time, which far exceeded the hardware spec for the game. Got into the game and it chugged at 2fps. Nothing could fix it. I replaced that video card this year with a Nvidia 720 budget card. The game works fine, albeit with lower graphic settings and some visual tearing. Go figure.
I used to play video games on the Atari 2600 in early 1980's. Heck, I even played Pong when it first came out in the mid-1970's. But we're not talking about the 1970's and 1980's, and the 1990's weren't that long ago. If we were, you can off my lawn. Like 40 years ago.
A few years ago I had a Radeon 3870 video card on my system. For shake and giggles, I ran Quake in 640 x 480 and turned on the frame rate speed. I got ~500 fps. The last time I played Quake was on a dual Voodoo 2 SLI set up at 30fps (IIRC) in the late 1990's.
I buy my video games for a couple of bucks when Steam has a Black Friday sale. Most games are five years old, but my current gen video card that I got for $60 runs them just fine.
No need to go to a range. Just put the hard drives on the back fence, sit down by the porch door and aimed at an upward angle to miss the neighbor's roofline.;)
When did Master of Orion for the Cloud (MOOC) get announced?
I had a roommate who would play MOO2 by keeping everyone at bay long enough to build out 36 Death Stars and then systematically wipe out every enemy planet one by one. Now that's shock and awe.
To this day, I can't find one asshole on line that trolls about Windows ME yet can name one specific technical problem they had with it, yourself included.
As a video game tester when Windows ME came out, it had horrible video game support. This was a time when DOS games were more common than Windows games. Hence, I'll quote Wikipedia on the technical fault.
Windows ME is a continuation of the Windows 9x model, but with restricted access to real mode MS-DOS in order to decrease system boot time.[8] This was one of the most unpopular changes in Windows ME, because applications that needed real mode DOS to run, such as older disk utilities, did not run under Windows ME (although the system could either be booted into real mode DOS using a bootable Windows ME floppy disk or the configuration could be tweaked manually to reenable access to the underlying MS-DOS).
English, Math, History and Basic Science textbooks don't change much from year to year. If a subject was on the cutting edge in an advanced class, an extra handout might be added to the reading assignments. For many subjects, a ten-year-old textbook would work fine.
When I was going to college in the early 1990's my English instructor blamed Ronald Reagan for rising textbook prices. Publishers used to get a tax deduction for storing textbooks in a warehouse. That text deduction disappeared with the 1986 tax reform bill. Publishers could no longer afford to print a million copies of a textbook, store them in a warehouse forever, and ship them out when needed.
The school systems are often the first entry point for the prison industrial complex. Some schools already have metal detectors and armed security guards that treat students as prisoners and/or future criminals. After passing thumbprints into the federal database, don't be surprised if full prints and DNA samples are next. The sooner that the government identifies a future criminal, the sooner someone can get them into the prison pipeline to make money off of them.
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The difference between a 7950 and a 7970 was 5% performance and $200 when it first came out. I got mine for under $150 after the card was out for a while. For whatever reason, an AMD CPU and a 7970 sucked ass with Rage. (An Intel CPU and a 7970 didn't have any problems.) Another factor might have been the AMD 690 motherboard chipset that glued everything together, but I didn't see anything in the comments regarding that. Ironically, the budget Nvidia 720 video that I got came out shortly after the 7970 hit the market.
ID Software's Rage was an epic fail on my Radeon 7970 video card, the opening gameplay chugging at 2fps. I got the game three years after it came out at a Steam Black Friday sale for $2.50, and ID still haven't fixed there AMD support (or lack thereof) for this video card. I wasn't too upset that I couldn't play the game on a video card that exceeded the minimum specs for the price I paid. (I would be royally pissed if I got the game at $60 and it didn't work.) This year I got a Nvidia 720 video card and the game works perfectly fine. Go figure.
I typically wait until the Steam Black Friday sale to pick up old games for under $5 each.
But if my HD7750 could run it over 30FPS for the entire game? Yeah....he's doin it wrong..
My suck ass configuration was an AMD Quad CPU and a Radeon 7970. (Intel CPU users didn't have any problems with the card.) New drivers, old drivers, special drivers. None of it work. Replaced the video card with a Nvidia 720 and it worked like a charm with no changes to the game. Gee, I wonder why.
BTW, I bought the game three years after it came out for $2.50 at a Steam Black Friday sale. You would think ID Software would get their AMD support straighten out by now.
My bad. It's the Radeon 7970. Can't keep all these model numbers straight.
I picked up ID's Software "Rage" a few years ago for $2.50 from a Steam Black Friday Sale. I had a Radeon 7960 video card at the time, which far exceeded the hardware spec for the game. Got into the game and it chugged at 2fps. Nothing could fix it. I replaced that video card this year with a Nvidia 720 budget card. The game works fine, albeit with lower graphic settings and some visual tearing. Go figure.
I used to play video games on the Atari 2600 in early 1980's. Heck, I even played Pong when it first came out in the mid-1970's. But we're not talking about the 1970's and 1980's, and the 1990's weren't that long ago. If we were, you can off my lawn. Like 40 years ago.
A few years ago I had a Radeon 3870 video card on my system. For shake and giggles, I ran Quake in 640 x 480 and turned on the frame rate speed. I got ~500 fps. The last time I played Quake was on a dual Voodoo 2 SLI set up at 30fps (IIRC) in the late 1990's.
These new cards do a better job at wrecking your wallet.
I buy my video games for a couple of bucks when Steam has a Black Friday sale. Most games are five years old, but my current gen video card that I got for $60 runs them just fine.
Jupiter and Venus are converging this month!
That wasn't my impression when I worked at Google for a while.
Try translating ancient BASIC games into Python or another modern language.
http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/
No need to go to a range. Just put the hard drives on the back fence, sit down by the porch door and aimed at an upward angle to miss the neighbor's roofline. ;)
"Mongo likes MEAN!"
People disassemble, degauss, and shred those disks in those contexts.
Or used them for target practice. A hard drive with a bullet hole or two is quite unusable.
When did Master of Orion for the Cloud (MOOC) get announced?
I had a roommate who would play MOO2 by keeping everyone at bay long enough to build out 36 Death Stars and then systematically wipe out every enemy planet one by one. Now that's shock and awe.
To this day, I can't find one asshole on line that trolls about Windows ME yet can name one specific technical problem they had with it, yourself included.
As a video game tester when Windows ME came out, it had horrible video game support. This was a time when DOS games were more common than Windows games. Hence, I'll quote Wikipedia on the technical fault.
Windows ME is a continuation of the Windows 9x model, but with restricted access to real mode MS-DOS in order to decrease system boot time.[8] This was one of the most unpopular changes in Windows ME, because applications that needed real mode DOS to run, such as older disk utilities, did not run under Windows ME (although the system could either be booted into real mode DOS using a bootable Windows ME floppy disk or the configuration could be tweaked manually to reenable access to the underlying MS-DOS).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_ME
English, Math, History and Basic Science textbooks don't change much from year to year. If a subject was on the cutting edge in an advanced class, an extra handout might be added to the reading assignments. For many subjects, a ten-year-old textbook would work fine.
Been there, done that. Since Windows 3.11, 95, 98, 98SE, 2000, XP, Vista, 7 and 8. Only a fool would have installed Windows ME.
So Venus has hot flashes?
When I was going to college in the early 1990's my English instructor blamed Ronald Reagan for rising textbook prices. Publishers used to get a tax deduction for storing textbooks in a warehouse. That text deduction disappeared with the 1986 tax reform bill. Publishers could no longer afford to print a million copies of a textbook, store them in a warehouse forever, and ship them out when needed.
"This must be the wrong baby, Doctor," the parents would protest. "Our little angel would never ever commit a crime."
The school systems are often the first entry point for the prison industrial complex. Some schools already have metal detectors and armed security guards that treat students as prisoners and/or future criminals. After passing thumbprints into the federal database, don't be surprised if full prints and DNA samples are next. The sooner that the government identifies a future criminal, the sooner someone can get them into the prison pipeline to make money off of them.