Only UWP will receive API updates(including DirectX), Win32 will stagnate and eventually be unsupported, rendering your back catalog useless, and the ties to Windows integration and MS services embedded in UWP will seek to usurp any Steam equivalents, and perhaps even cause incompatibilities and require workarounds for Steam, giving steam users and devs additional headaches compared to running the Windows Store Xbox Live versions
Nothing wrong with "original reporting," or witnessing, as long as it is documented and supported by contextual pictures and video, eyewitnesses willing to go on record, and alternative reports that happen to corroborate.
You don't need a scaler with a HDMI product like this, and I'm sure they could design a new model zapper that calibrates itself to your TV by flashing the entire screen as you pull the trigger to start the game. Anyway whatever.
Certainly it takes much more computational power, and therefore greater potential latency, to actually render the raw frame than to do motion compensation?
I find it sickening when it's disabled, as motion is much more jittery and stutters while panning on today's blur-free LCD panels.
On earlier TVs that would mask this with blurring or phosphor fade between frames, this was not an issue. Today's sets have high refresh rates with little artifacts and blur, so pans and motion appear full of stutter, especially on a large set where an object/person in motion travels larger physical distances between frames
I think you mean the NV1, which shipped in the Diamond Edge 3D. Many ports were based off of this software. It used quads and spheres to render instead of triangles, close to what the Saturn did.
If the guaranteed ability to put in a disc and play the game all the way to the end the first day you buy it is gone, then so is the advantage of a console. On the PC there are many times a game is released and isn't playable on a large portion of systems and needs to be patched, and these gamers have to wait an indeterminate amount of time to play the game they bought. Sure, you can return games on steam, but that doesn't solve the problem. You wanted to play that game at that moment for whatever reason.
Or maybe an OS or driver update completely breaks a certain game, one you wanted to go back to and play. Same case, you can't do much. On a console, a game will always be playable whenever you want, because it is specifically crafted for that hardware, and that same spec was used to test the game.
If that advantage is gone then it won't be worth it for me anymore. I don't have time/patience for such troubleshooting. At least Nintendo games are always reliable so maybe I will just stick to that brand.
"Why isn't the game properly optimized for the high end console? The low end is holding us back!"
"Why isn't the game optimized for the low end? I'm getting frame rate drops and the high end are kicking our asses online, ever since they launched the new consoles they don't give a crap how it runs on the existing user base's console, they just want to upsell us!"
The users will just be yelling at each other, at the devs, and at the console manufacturers. There's going to be even more crap than usual on forums now.
This shit isn't necessary, and even the people installing it don't think so as the equipment is sitting there unused. Use the money for better teachers, enabling the poor, etc but not for useless expensive contracts that ultimately don't even have a clear goal or function.
Congrats Mint team. Thanks for building what everyone actually needs to get things done, and for those of us who don't like mysteries and surprises just because of a UI designer's whim.
Why are you lumping systemd in with this, does the X-Apps initiative have anything to do with underlying daemons? Does systemd introduce incompatibilities at the desktop app level? If so it seems like things aren't properly abstracted...
I know a few people who only bought the Xbox One for the non-gaming purposes. But like any other MS product, if it doesn't pan out in the short term they're willing to completely give up on the long term growth, recognition, and loyalty that they would gain and instead piss off a group of people. As they keep repeating this I'm not even sure how they plan on even attracting people to new products without the looming fear that support could be yanked at any point.
And they get rid of it. The wife and I were planning to use it as a workout device, since it tracks you, heart rate, calories etc and we're tired of the old workout videos. There was a big selection on the Xbox One. I heard it worked great.
If MS was smart they'd package the Kinect 2 with hardware that only does the videos (like last generation's Xbox with no disc drive), throw up a simple app store, and workout tracking and sell it as the new Wii.
Oh:) Thanks never looked into it, I will now! Hope that will stop them asking me to enter a phone number about every 10 times I log into the web client
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Only UWP will receive API updates(including DirectX), Win32 will stagnate and eventually be unsupported, rendering your back catalog useless, and the ties to Windows integration and MS services embedded in UWP will seek to usurp any Steam equivalents, and perhaps even cause incompatibilities and require workarounds for Steam, giving steam users and devs additional headaches compared to running the Windows Store Xbox Live versions
Nothing wrong with "original reporting," or witnessing, as long as it is documented and supported by contextual pictures and video, eyewitnesses willing to go on record, and alternative reports that happen to corroborate.
This is essentially what news reporting is.
Yes and that video must ONLY be viewed by Americans for some reason. Now that you've admitted to what is clearly a felony, prepare for extradition.
Seriously, I wonder why he is trying so hard to promote Apple and crap on his own company here, not a good strategy to upsell competitors
If it's lab grown then engineer it to taste better, even at the cost of healthiness. Then introduce low fat variants
That's crazy, I'll have to get a copy and try it myself
I suppose
More info on Duck Hunt BTW: http://hackaday.com/2015/11/16...
You don't need a scaler with a HDMI product like this, and I'm sure they could design a new model zapper that calibrates itself to your TV by flashing the entire screen as you pull the trigger to start the game. Anyway whatever.
An LCD with sufficiently low latency can do it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Certainly it takes much more computational power, and therefore greater potential latency, to actually render the raw frame than to do motion compensation?
I find it sickening when it's disabled, as motion is much more jittery and stutters while panning on today's blur-free LCD panels.
On earlier TVs that would mask this with blurring or phosphor fade between frames, this was not an issue. Today's sets have high refresh rates with little artifacts and blur, so pans and motion appear full of stutter, especially on a large set where an object/person in motion travels larger physical distances between frames
I think you mean the NV1, which shipped in the Diamond Edge 3D. Many ports were based off of this software. It used quads and spheres to render instead of triangles, close to what the Saturn did.
Quote from TFA "With nervousness at airports at an extreme, it's easy to have sympathy with the police."
What? Why would anyone be nervous with all the security measures and officers around?
Friends don't let friends use animated gifs for backgrounds and front loading 20 autoplay audio tracks
I wish they would have more political recommendations /s
If the guaranteed ability to put in a disc and play the game all the way to the end the first day you buy it is gone, then so is the advantage of a console. On the PC there are many times a game is released and isn't playable on a large portion of systems and needs to be patched, and these gamers have to wait an indeterminate amount of time to play the game they bought. Sure, you can return games on steam, but that doesn't solve the problem. You wanted to play that game at that moment for whatever reason.
Or maybe an OS or driver update completely breaks a certain game, one you wanted to go back to and play. Same case, you can't do much. On a console, a game will always be playable whenever you want, because it is specifically crafted for that hardware, and that same spec was used to test the game.
If that advantage is gone then it won't be worth it for me anymore. I don't have time/patience for such troubleshooting. At least Nintendo games are always reliable so maybe I will just stick to that brand.
"Why isn't the game properly optimized for the high end console? The low end is holding us back!"
"Why isn't the game optimized for the low end? I'm getting frame rate drops and the high end are kicking our asses online, ever since they launched the new consoles they don't give a crap how it runs on the existing user base's console, they just want to upsell us!"
The users will just be yelling at each other, at the devs, and at the console manufacturers. There's going to be even more crap than usual on forums now.
This shit isn't necessary, and even the people installing it don't think so as the equipment is sitting there unused. Use the money for better teachers, enabling the poor, etc but not for useless expensive contracts that ultimately don't even have a clear goal or function.
Congrats Mint team. Thanks for building what everyone actually needs to get things done, and for those of us who don't like mysteries and surprises just because of a UI designer's whim.
Who the hell was searching for "vr porn" before consumer vr headsets were on the market? I guess everyone has their kink...
Why are you lumping systemd in with this, does the X-Apps initiative have anything to do with underlying daemons? Does systemd introduce incompatibilities at the desktop app level? If so it seems like things aren't properly abstracted...
This is how they get people off Win32 and onto UWP as well. The Windows PC will end up closed and signed top to bottom one way or another.
I know a few people who only bought the Xbox One for the non-gaming purposes. But like any other MS product, if it doesn't pan out in the short term they're willing to completely give up on the long term growth, recognition, and loyalty that they would gain and instead piss off a group of people. As they keep repeating this I'm not even sure how they plan on even attracting people to new products without the looming fear that support could be yanked at any point.
And they get rid of it. The wife and I were planning to use it as a workout device, since it tracks you, heart rate, calories etc and we're tired of the old workout videos. There was a big selection on the Xbox One. I heard it worked great.
If MS was smart they'd package the Kinect 2 with hardware that only does the videos (like last generation's Xbox with no disc drive), throw up a simple app store, and workout tracking and sell it as the new Wii.
Oh :) Thanks never looked into it, I will now! Hope that will stop them asking me to enter a phone number about every 10 times I log into the web client