Since Vista's release in fact. I have tried it with both onboard sound and Audigy 2 ZS
Symptoms:
Quicktime will not play local files with 5.1 sound. Causes BSOD or slowdown and no sound emitting from Movie file.
When Vista was first released Quicktime would not work at all unless you have Quicktime Alternative on. It even destroyed RAID arrays. Apple quickly released the 7.5 version that fixed that. However 5.1 sound still does not work even with AC97 Audio, which quite frankly is crap especailly 3 months down the line. All other media players work fine (Cyberlink PowerDVD, Media PLayer 11, Winamp, etc) all with Multi-speaker setup.
As such Quicktime is not even installed until they (Apple) sort this crap out, which will porbably be months away yet. The 5.1 sound was woefully broken in XP with Audigy for months before they fixed it whean Quicktime 7.x was first released with that feature, and I dont see it being any different here. Anyone saying its the OS's faul are just the usual bunch who want to diss on Vista without actually TRYING it for any length of time. Vitsa for me works fine, except the few "minor" apps like Quicktime, and until the venders sort out thier prodcuts it isnt going to change.
What this BIOS porbably does (apart form the mentioned updates on the webpage) is add the SLIC data for Toshiba into the BIOS. All OEM venders need to have the SLIC data in the ACPI section of the BIOS so they can use thier OEM Digital Certificates that they supply on the Install for Vista DVD's. The Digital Certificate allows Vista to be instantly activated on a PC with the SLIC data, VLK, and Digital Cert.
They are just covering thier own backs that on the slight chance that the data changes in the ACPI could cause some crap on other OS'es. The user probably set a password, or corrputed his BIOS during the flash phase, and is pointing fingers at anyone else so he no longer looks like a dumbass.
I get this all the time with people who bring thier CellPhones in for repair becuase they locked thier phones and forgot thier password. They state clearly that they never changed it, and when I load the phone into my PST's and retreive the code the look of realization comes over them and say, "oh yeah, I remember it now"
and thats why you are all anonymous cowards... because I am the troll and you are Trolling cowards??????
asswipes
Isnt it funny....
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AMD's New DRM
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How when you mention DRM on any/. article the salvering masses come out of the woodwork and say "AMD is gonna die for this" or "Microsoft made them do it" or "Im jumping to Intel Right now coz AMD are assholes", etc etc ad nausium
Fact: AMD isnt going to die/lose customers
Fact: Its not M$'s fault its the MPAA et all
Fact: its probably not going to affect 98% of AMD's Customer base as it is anyway.
its the same with Vista and its DRM, the slavering masses came out of the woodwork again saying that Vista wont let you do jack all. Totally untrue and all FUD.
I can in fact rip a DVD in Vista and burn it and play nonDRM video files just fine in Vista. What I CANNOT do is to use Windows Drag and drop copy to copy my protected DVD Content to the ahrd drive. But a little tool called DVDDecryptor (which is old as dirt and no longer in development) still works in Vista and with one click of a button I have copied content to the hard drive for porcessing and burning.
Im 100% sure that someone will make software that will do the same thing (do what you are not supposed to do) in this case too. Its only so AMD can keep MPAA, Sony etc happy. Intel will probably be the same if/when this comes to light. so what are you all gonna do then? all start breaking out the Commodore Amiga's and C64's so you are DRM free..
Please if you dont have anything good to say, or just are going to spread FUD, then please do us all a favor and STFU.
Do I need to start posting links to articles that show that AMD have less heat than Intel and have done since the AMD64 was released?
The heat argument died when the AthlonXP did which was the biggest culprit of heat. Just running that chip without a heatsink properly seated would burn the chip (seen it personally).
Please do some fecking research before posting crap dated arguments that mean nothing you troll, thanks..
Yes and when your iPhone battery has "bit the dust" you cant just get a replacement from the shelves like any other phone... No you will have to send it to Apple, and usually when a battery wears out its "out of warrenty" because its longer than a year in most cases, so you WILL be paying those Apple premium prices just to get a simple thing like a battery replaced.
The iPhone will go the same way as the T-Mobile Sidekick. An expensive "toy" for those who can afford it. Everyone else will buy the more function rip-offs coming out by LG and the like and they wont be restricted to just One carrier (Cingular, which BTW have about as much signal strength in our upper end of the state as Voyager one does now, Verizon and US Cellular rule this roost so the iPhone is not an option)
I couldnt care less if it failed to be honest becuase they locked into one carrier and quite frankly they are probably the worst carrier to be with.
Piracy of music goes up even further as people are no longer allowed to listen to Internet Radio for free... This kind of ruling is detramental. How long will it be before Radio stations run off shore like the Pirate radio of old...
You can just set the controlpanel to classic mode so it shows all the control panel applets... not setting windows to classic mode, I think you misunderstood me
I actullay like the new Areo interface and startmenu as well. I have a hard time going back to XP now
Yes I forgot... The point is he didnt look too hard. I dont know about you but if I ever get to work on a PC from IBM, Dell, HP, Etc they are filled with so much crap that its slows it down to a snailpace, crashes, etc... Just re-install the OS fresh and 90% of the issues go away..
Damn formatting
-The Control Panel is confusing and missing any kind of logic.
Sheesh SET IT TO CLASSIC MODE... are people really that blind?
-They replaced My Documents and now you can't move it to D in a simple manner.
Acutally you can. Go into the user folder and right click on the folders in ther you can assign a new location for all the folder.. Much better than just dumping it all in one. For example, My Videos and point to one folder and My Documents to another. Why this is worse than before is beyond me, I think its much better and you have more control on where stuff lives.. Didnt look too hard did you?
- UAC is so invasive and annoying, I'm puzzled they actually dared to turn it on by default.
Its no more invasive than having to do root or SU login in Linux to do system tasks. Once you have the PC set up and all your major stuff installed you see less and less of UAC. Quit Whining... You asked for a more secure OS you got it..
-Typing in a country name in the Weather-widget expecting to see a list of locations within the country crashes Explorer completely.
parhaps its because theres something else wrong.. You dont get a list, you type your City and Zip code into the Gadget (Not Widget, unless you are trying to use Apple stuff on your Vista). and thats it... its done.. No list.. it doesnt use Explorer.. You did something wrong.. Infact thats a made up problem totally.
I hate to do this, so....
- Despite having 1GB RAM, the laptop ran like a glued snail.
Maybe its just me but even Laptops that come from any Vendor preloaded with XP OR Vista run like a glued snail. They put so much crap on that even if you had the fastest hard drive and 4gb of Ram it would STILL run like a glued snail. Re-install the OS without the add-ed crap you dont need. You'd be suprised how much better it is.
- Network speed was inconsistent and seems to be bound to movements of the sun.
I havent had a single issue with networkspeed in Vista. Again its maybe because of the bloat.
- Many printers (including my HP 2600n) are still unsupported. Not sure if this is HP being their usual crap self or just a complete inability to get Vista to play properly with network printers.
This is HP, again... Look around you'll find they wont support most printers till "later this year" its not like Vista was in RC for like 12 months or anything... Im sure 12 months is MORE than enuff time to write drivers...
- Aero. Why?
Because it needs to look nice??.. It has to be at least competitve to OSX and some Linux Distros.. You arent froced to use it, you CAN turn it off you know... Totally invalid point..
- So many features like "Map Network Drive" have now been moved so they can only be access from specfic areas like "My Computer"
But its still there??... So they cant change how an OS looks? so whats the point of releaseing a new OS that looks just like the last one.. Im sure you'd bitch about THAT too...
- The updated XP style for control panel etc is really frustrating.
Again you can turn it off and use the nice detailed view... a pointless argument.
- When opening some MS Office 2007 applications, the screen would corrupt then everything would hang for about 3 minutes.
Obvioulsy a driver problem probably a BLOAT problem.. I would put a good bet on it that if you re-installed the OS and got the latest drivers again it would work fine. I have no such issues at all.
- Maybe a problem with Vista's sound libraries? Music sounded tinny through Vista, but cleaner in XP on the same machine.
Maybe its nothing to do with Vista and maybe you soundcard Vendor's Drivers are at fault???? Just a thought...
Actually if you can also mod your System BIOS so it looks like an OEM according to Vista (SLIC). Install Vista with OEM key (they are generic and some OEM's even use the same keys) Install the OEM's Digital Cert, Vista is instantly activated and will never expire... You can even get pre-modded BIOS's for most popular motherboards now so you dont have to do the hacking yourself.
This has been around for like 4 weeks now...
I'd give links, but Im sure its against the rules so I wont..
If they blacklist the current OEM keys' then most of the PC's sold thru Dell, HP, Asus will also be blacklisted. Wont be good PR thats for sure... and even if they do its only a matter of using Keyfinder on the latest OEM install to get a new key.
The Paradox one will probably be worked around as it modifies the (VISTALDR) Bootlader and it will only be a matter of time before M$ releases a patch to fix that.
Ah well.. Vista's AntiPiracy lasted what... a month.....??
Its because they are all reading Slashdot and for the gazillionmph time they read that every other OS is better than Windows. Slashdot - if we aint bashing Windows then its then end of the world... Seeing they just upgraded thier hive system to Vista, they read Slashdot and they all had a fit of depression and died.......
Or maybe its because I have been collecting those micro bee fibers from thier bodies and I am going to release a new line of clothing with my revolutionary "Bee-Weave" Material...
Really, perhaps its just because theres SO DAMN MANY of them that Nature may be culling the herd so to speak, just like its doing with the Human race with super diseases like AIDS etc.. Anyone ever think of that???
Screw Dpaint III... Give me a good port of Brilliance anyday over Dpaint. I actually preferred Dpaint IV over III then Brillance came along and stole its thunder..
Dpaint will never reappear due to EA still holding the rights etc for the app.. Could you imagine if EA released Dpaint now?... the program would probably need 2gb to run with a Gefroce 8800GTX just to display 256 colors:D
Yes they do and he failed to mention that...
For Example:
ATI X800 AGP X8 Card for Mac = $216.00 http://www.pagecomputers.com/store/product.asp?c atalog%5Fname=Video+Cards+%26+Adapters&category%5F name=33g33c201s1002&product%5Fid=918640
Same card for PC = $155.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N 82E16814102492
Absolute bargin.. Must upgrade to a mac so I can play the latest games on it and get ripped off when I want to upgrade. The argument is squashed. The PC is simply the easier and cheapest way to upgrade your video hardware and yes they DO run your games quicker.
I mean look at the Mac Pro - it has PCIe slots. It has SATA bays (four of them). It has USB and Firewire ports out the wazoo. So what is it I'm missing from upgrading that the PC offers? Heck on the lower end products I can still upgrade the memory, hard drive (much easier on a Macbook than most other laptops) and even swap out the processor!
Show me one instance where you can buy a Mac Video card online.. and a PCI Express one at that.. and running the latest tech... Show me one.. Please...
last I knew you COULD NOT plug a PC PCIe card into a mac and it just work.. in fact I dont think it runs at all.
But please if you can correct, post your results.. I'd love to see a Nvida 7900GTX2 running in a G5... Love to..
Piracy is killing the PC?? Pull the other one.
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Piracy Killing PC Gaming?
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The whole Piracy is killing the PC debate is dead as far as I am concerned. As well as the whole "we are going to move to consoles becuase they dont suffer from piracy" excuse too.
Just a quick look (google) and I found ALL the latest Xbox 360 games available (Prey, Battle for Middle Earth II, Tomb Raider, Burnout,... need I go on) via ISO format. So going to THAT console isnt going to fix the Piracy issue.
Oh look its the same for the PS2 (Ant Bully, Sensi Soccer, etc etc etc) again all available in ISO format. So THAT console is out...
Hell theres pirate games available (all latest releases) for the PSP, PS1, Xbox, Dreamcast, Gameboy Advance. All available on all major P2P networks all around the world. So what point is he trying to make exactly??? No matter WHAT platform you develop on someone is going to pirate it, period.
I remember discussing this very issue with Peter Moylenuex and Les Edgar when we was trying to get a game published by Bullfrog (They were actually trying to get into the publishing game until EA bought them out... little known fact). Peter said that the Amiga was being killed by Piracy and that the consoles would take over. The sad fact is that the Amiga didnt die from piracy, but from lack of innovation from commodores part and was trounced upon by the fast developing PC hardware.
The same can be said for the PC games market.. its the lack of innovation thats going to kill it rather than piracy that exists on ALL formats ALL the time.
So it DOESNT run it in full detail JUST like I said in the FIRST place. So basicly it looks like crap because its in Bloom and no HDR and No shadows..so it looks like Morrowind... See www.tweakguides.com for the comparisons of with and without..
You really need to READ my post before posting FUD. FUD. It DOESNT run it at full details because LIKE I SAID. the GFX hardware is SUB PAR.. With other games like Unreal 3 etc coming out the Mac as a gaming platform will die before it even started because Apple make as hard as fuck to upgrade your video hardware by intrgrating it all in the mainboard.
Snicker, yes you can dual boot your Mac to run windows, but I would LOVE to see the mac hardware even cope at eunning Oblivion with full detail... Face it the Video card for the Mac are pretty bunk when compared to most gaming PC's. The mac just isnt viable for gameing at all for that ONE reason..
I have personally not tried WoW or any other MMO's, ever since I got addicted to Everquest and realized after 6 months of playing that it was pointless and a waste of time (and money). Theres' never any game changing storylines in these games. (like for example wouldnt it be cool if a disease was brought into the game that started killing off players and someone had to find a cure, or if a mass army of evilness (like Sauron from lord of the Rings) Suddenly affected the world and every player was in danger (or could side with evil depending on the character).. No its not like that, its full of kids who shout pwned or TRAIN. or other crap. People arent even in character per se.
I would much prefer to sit down and devote hours to a game like Morrowind, Oblivion, etc than play a huge MMO with a bunch of retards.
Or how about Lucasarts gets round to re-writing Tie Figter or some release Freespace 3 or maybe a better Freelancer game. PLEASE!???!?!?
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That would have to be some overheat.... Between 500 degress f and up....
Felt a great disturbance in the Server, as if millions of files cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced...
Since Vista's release in fact. I have tried it with both onboard sound and Audigy 2 ZS
Symptoms:
Quicktime will not play local files with 5.1 sound. Causes BSOD or slowdown and no sound emitting from Movie file.
When Vista was first released Quicktime would not work at all unless you have Quicktime Alternative on. It even destroyed RAID arrays. Apple quickly released the 7.5 version that fixed that. However 5.1 sound still does not work even with AC97 Audio, which quite frankly is crap especailly 3 months down the line. All other media players work fine (Cyberlink PowerDVD, Media PLayer 11, Winamp, etc) all with Multi-speaker setup.
As such Quicktime is not even installed until they (Apple) sort this crap out, which will porbably be months away yet. The 5.1 sound was woefully broken in XP with Audigy for months before they fixed it whean Quicktime 7.x was first released with that feature, and I dont see it being any different here. Anyone saying its the OS's faul are just the usual bunch who want to diss on Vista without actually TRYING it for any length of time. Vitsa for me works fine, except the few "minor" apps like Quicktime, and until the venders sort out thier prodcuts it isnt going to change.
What this BIOS porbably does (apart form the mentioned updates on the webpage) is add the SLIC data for Toshiba into the BIOS. All OEM venders need to have the SLIC data in the ACPI section of the BIOS so they can use thier OEM Digital Certificates that they supply on the Install for Vista DVD's. The Digital Certificate allows Vista to be instantly activated on a PC with the SLIC data, VLK, and Digital Cert.
They are just covering thier own backs that on the slight chance that the data changes in the ACPI could cause some crap on other OS'es. The user probably set a password, or corrputed his BIOS during the flash phase, and is pointing fingers at anyone else so he no longer looks like a dumbass.
I get this all the time with people who bring thier CellPhones in for repair becuase they locked thier phones and forgot thier password. They state clearly that they never changed it, and when I load the phone into my PST's and retreive the code the look of realization comes over them and say, "oh yeah, I remember it now"
and thats why you are all anonymous cowards... because I am the troll and you are Trolling cowards?????? asswipes
How when you mention DRM on any /. article the salvering masses come out of the woodwork and say "AMD is gonna die for this" or "Microsoft made them do it" or "Im jumping to Intel Right now coz AMD are assholes", etc etc ad nausium
Fact: AMD isnt going to die/lose customers
Fact: Its not M$'s fault its the MPAA et all
Fact: its probably not going to affect 98% of AMD's Customer base as it is anyway.
its the same with Vista and its DRM, the slavering masses came out of the woodwork again saying that Vista wont let you do jack all. Totally untrue and all FUD.
I can in fact rip a DVD in Vista and burn it and play nonDRM video files just fine in Vista. What I CANNOT do is to use Windows Drag and drop copy to copy my protected DVD Content to the ahrd drive. But a little tool called DVDDecryptor (which is old as dirt and no longer in development) still works in Vista and with one click of a button I have copied content to the hard drive for porcessing and burning.
Im 100% sure that someone will make software that will do the same thing (do what you are not supposed to do) in this case too. Its only so AMD can keep MPAA, Sony etc happy. Intel will probably be the same if/when this comes to light. so what are you all gonna do then? all start breaking out the Commodore Amiga's and C64's so you are DRM free..
Please if you dont have anything good to say, or just are going to spread FUD, then please do us all a favor and STFU.
Do I need to start posting links to articles that show that AMD have less heat than Intel and have done since the AMD64 was released?
The heat argument died when the AthlonXP did which was the biggest culprit of heat. Just running that chip without a heatsink properly seated would burn the chip (seen it personally).
Please do some fecking research before posting crap dated arguments that mean nothing you troll, thanks..
errrm the iPod battery is not the same as the iPhone battery....
Yes and when your iPhone battery has "bit the dust" you cant just get a replacement from the shelves like any other phone... No you will have to send it to Apple, and usually when a battery wears out its "out of warrenty" because its longer than a year in most cases, so you WILL be paying those Apple premium prices just to get a simple thing like a battery replaced.
The iPhone will go the same way as the T-Mobile Sidekick. An expensive "toy" for those who can afford it. Everyone else will buy the more function rip-offs coming out by LG and the like and they wont be restricted to just One carrier (Cingular, which BTW have about as much signal strength in our upper end of the state as Voyager one does now, Verizon and US Cellular rule this roost so the iPhone is not an option)
I couldnt care less if it failed to be honest becuase they locked into one carrier and quite frankly they are probably the worst carrier to be with.
Piracy of music goes up even further as people are no longer allowed to listen to Internet Radio for free... This kind of ruling is detramental. How long will it be before Radio stations run off shore like the Pirate radio of old...
You can just set the controlpanel to classic mode so it shows all the control panel applets... not setting windows to classic mode, I think you misunderstood me I actullay like the new Areo interface and startmenu as well. I have a hard time going back to XP now
Yes I forgot... The point is he didnt look too hard. I dont know about you but if I ever get to work on a PC from IBM, Dell, HP, Etc they are filled with so much crap that its slows it down to a snailpace, crashes, etc... Just re-install the OS fresh and 90% of the issues go away.. Damn formatting
-The Control Panel is confusing and missing any kind of logic.
Sheesh SET IT TO CLASSIC MODE... are people really that blind?
-They replaced My Documents and now you can't move it to D in a simple manner.
Acutally you can. Go into the user folder and right click on the folders in ther you can assign a new location for all the folder.. Much better than just dumping it all in one. For example, My Videos and point to one folder and My Documents to another. Why this is worse than before is beyond me, I think its much better and you have more control on where stuff lives.. Didnt look too hard did you?
- UAC is so invasive and annoying, I'm puzzled they actually dared to turn it on by default.
Its no more invasive than having to do root or SU login in Linux to do system tasks. Once you have the PC set up and all your major stuff installed you see less and less of UAC. Quit Whining... You asked for a more secure OS you got it..
-Typing in a country name in the Weather-widget expecting to see a list of locations within the country crashes Explorer completely.
parhaps its because theres something else wrong.. You dont get a list, you type your City and Zip code into the Gadget (Not Widget, unless you are trying to use Apple stuff on your Vista). and thats it... its done.. No list.. it doesnt use Explorer.. You did something wrong.. Infact thats a made up problem totally.
You didnt look very hard did you??? Autopatcher Vista.... http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancement s/AutoPatcher-Vista.shtml
I hate to do this, so.... - Despite having 1GB RAM, the laptop ran like a glued snail. Maybe its just me but even Laptops that come from any Vendor preloaded with XP OR Vista run like a glued snail. They put so much crap on that even if you had the fastest hard drive and 4gb of Ram it would STILL run like a glued snail. Re-install the OS without the add-ed crap you dont need. You'd be suprised how much better it is. - Network speed was inconsistent and seems to be bound to movements of the sun. I havent had a single issue with networkspeed in Vista. Again its maybe because of the bloat. - Many printers (including my HP 2600n) are still unsupported. Not sure if this is HP being their usual crap self or just a complete inability to get Vista to play properly with network printers. This is HP, again... Look around you'll find they wont support most printers till "later this year" its not like Vista was in RC for like 12 months or anything... Im sure 12 months is MORE than enuff time to write drivers... - Aero. Why? Because it needs to look nice??.. It has to be at least competitve to OSX and some Linux Distros.. You arent froced to use it, you CAN turn it off you know... Totally invalid point.. - So many features like "Map Network Drive" have now been moved so they can only be access from specfic areas like "My Computer" But its still there??... So they cant change how an OS looks? so whats the point of releaseing a new OS that looks just like the last one.. Im sure you'd bitch about THAT too... - The updated XP style for control panel etc is really frustrating. Again you can turn it off and use the nice detailed view ... a pointless argument.
- When opening some MS Office 2007 applications, the screen would corrupt then everything would hang for about 3 minutes.
Obvioulsy a driver problem probably a BLOAT problem.. I would put a good bet on it that if you re-installed the OS and got the latest drivers again it would work fine. I have no such issues at all.
- Maybe a problem with Vista's sound libraries? Music sounded tinny through Vista, but cleaner in XP on the same machine.
Maybe its nothing to do with Vista and maybe you soundcard Vendor's Drivers are at fault???? Just a thought...
Actually if you can also mod your System BIOS so it looks like an OEM according to Vista (SLIC). Install Vista with OEM key (they are generic and some OEM's even use the same keys) Install the OEM's Digital Cert, Vista is instantly activated and will never expire...
You can even get pre-modded BIOS's for most popular motherboards now so you dont have to do the hacking yourself.
This has been around for like 4 weeks now...
I'd give links, but Im sure its against the rules so I wont..
If they blacklist the current OEM keys' then most of the PC's sold thru Dell, HP, Asus will also be blacklisted. Wont be good PR thats for sure... and even if they do its only a matter of using Keyfinder on the latest OEM install to get a new key.
The Paradox one will probably be worked around as it modifies the (VISTALDR) Bootlader and it will only be a matter of time before M$ releases a patch to fix that.
Ah well.. Vista's AntiPiracy lasted what... a month.....??
Its because they are all reading Slashdot and for the gazillionmph time they read that every other OS is better than Windows. Slashdot - if we aint bashing Windows then its then end of the world... Seeing they just upgraded thier hive system to Vista, they read Slashdot and they all had a fit of depression and died....... Or maybe its because I have been collecting those micro bee fibers from thier bodies and I am going to release a new line of clothing with my revolutionary "Bee-Weave" Material... Really, perhaps its just because theres SO DAMN MANY of them that Nature may be culling the herd so to speak, just like its doing with the Human race with super diseases like AIDS etc.. Anyone ever think of that???
Screw Dpaint III ... Give me a good port of Brilliance anyday over Dpaint.
:D
I actually preferred Dpaint IV over III then Brillance came along and stole its thunder..
Dpaint will never reappear due to EA still holding the rights etc for the app.. Could you imagine if EA released Dpaint now?... the program would probably need 2gb to run with a Gefroce 8800GTX just to display 256 colors
Dan Silva come back... all is forgiven..
Yes they do and he failed to mention that...
c atalog%5Fname=Video+Cards+%26+Adapters&category%5F name=33g33c201s1002&product%5Fid=918640N 82E16814102492
For Example:
ATI X800 AGP X8 Card for Mac = $216.00
http://www.pagecomputers.com/store/product.asp?
Same card for PC = $155.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=
Absolute bargin.. Must upgrade to a mac so I can play the latest games on it and get ripped off when I want to upgrade. The argument is squashed. The PC is simply the easier and cheapest way to upgrade your video hardware and yes they DO run your games quicker.
I mean look at the Mac Pro - it has PCIe slots. It has SATA bays (four of them). It has USB and Firewire ports out the wazoo. So what is it I'm missing from upgrading that the PC offers? Heck on the lower end products I can still upgrade the memory, hard drive (much easier on a Macbook than most other laptops) and even swap out the processor! Show me one instance where you can buy a Mac Video card online.. and a PCI Express one at that.. and running the latest tech... Show me one.. Please... last I knew you COULD NOT plug a PC PCIe card into a mac and it just work.. in fact I dont think it runs at all. But please if you can correct, post your results.. I'd love to see a Nvida 7900GTX2 running in a G5... Love to..
He probably uses a driver now since his arrest in 1977. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/gatesmug1.ht ml maybe he squashed some grannies then as the details of it are now lost.. ;)
The whole Piracy is killing the PC debate is dead as far as I am concerned. As well as the whole "we are going to move to consoles becuase they dont suffer from piracy" excuse too.
Just a quick look (google) and I found ALL the latest Xbox 360 games available (Prey, Battle for Middle Earth II, Tomb Raider, Burnout,... need I go on) via ISO format. So going to THAT console isnt going to fix the Piracy issue.
Oh look its the same for the PS2 (Ant Bully, Sensi Soccer, etc etc etc) again all available in ISO format. So THAT console is out...
Hell theres pirate games available (all latest releases) for the PSP, PS1, Xbox, Dreamcast, Gameboy Advance. All available on all major P2P networks all around the world.
So what point is he trying to make exactly??? No matter WHAT platform you develop on someone is going to pirate it, period.
I remember discussing this very issue with Peter Moylenuex and Les Edgar when we was trying to get a game published by Bullfrog (They were actually trying to get into the publishing game until EA bought them out... little known fact). Peter said that the Amiga was being killed by Piracy and that the consoles would take over. The sad fact is that the Amiga didnt die from piracy, but from lack of innovation from commodores part and was trounced upon by the fast developing PC hardware.
The same can be said for the PC games market.. its the lack of innovation thats going to kill it rather than piracy that exists on ALL formats ALL the time.
Erm.. lets see
.. See www.tweakguides.com for the comparisons of with and without..
No HDR - Check
no Shadows - Check
So it DOESNT run it in full detail JUST like I said in the FIRST place. So basicly it looks like crap because its in Bloom and no HDR and No shadows..so it looks like Morrowind.
You really need to READ my post before posting FUD. FUD. It DOESNT run it at full details because LIKE I SAID. the GFX hardware is SUB PAR.. With other games like Unreal 3 etc coming out the Mac as a gaming platform will die before it even started because Apple make as hard as fuck to upgrade your video hardware by intrgrating it all in the mainboard.
so next time YOU do some research ok?
Snicker, yes you can dual boot your Mac to run windows, but I would LOVE to see the mac hardware even cope at eunning Oblivion with full detail... Face it the Video card for the Mac are pretty bunk when compared to most gaming PC's. The mac just isnt viable for gameing at all for that ONE reason..
I have personally not tried WoW or any other MMO's, ever since I got addicted to Everquest and realized after 6 months of playing that it was pointless and a waste of time (and money). Theres' never any game changing storylines in these games. (like for example wouldnt it be cool if a disease was brought into the game that started killing off players and someone had to find a cure, or if a mass army of evilness (like Sauron from lord of the Rings) Suddenly affected the world and every player was in danger (or could side with evil depending on the character).. No its not like that, its full of kids who shout pwned or TRAIN. or other crap. People arent even in character per se.
I would much prefer to sit down and devote hours to a game like Morrowind, Oblivion, etc than play a huge MMO with a bunch of retards.
Or how about Lucasarts gets round to re-writing Tie Figter or some release Freespace 3 or maybe a better Freelancer game. PLEASE!???!?!?