I rarely post on slashdot, but i was surprised to see that The Forever War had not been mentioned yet. it fits well with the topical notion of examining war, and presents some interesting ideas like time dilation (thanks relativity!)
this could be a valuable text for examining the vietnam war, as well as examining current conflicts.
philip k dick is another, however holllywood seems to have raided his texts to the point where no-one can tell if they're hollywood stories or his storys (hmmm...that's almost apropos...)
anyhow, just my $0.02 but these amazing authors (dick and haldeman) always seem to get overlooked when people make lists of sci-fi books.
it is interesting that the time it would have taken to set up the system to take and process payments for downloading the mods for the PC probably cost more and took more time than producing the actual content...so if they released it for nothing it likely would have cost them less...
a small site with information for tweaking the FX5500 (and likely others have had success with other cards) so hopefully this will help those who don't have UBER hardware play the game at a higher FPS even on older hardware (I currently get 20-30 FPS for exterior locations, and 60 FPS for interior)
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I rarely post on slashdot, but i was surprised to see that The Forever War had not been mentioned yet. it fits well with the topical notion of examining war, and presents some interesting ideas like time dilation (thanks relativity!) this could be a valuable text for examining the vietnam war, as well as examining current conflicts. philip k dick is another, however holllywood seems to have raided his texts to the point where no-one can tell if they're hollywood stories or his storys (hmmm...that's almost apropos...) anyhow, just my $0.02 but these amazing authors (dick and haldeman) always seem to get overlooked when people make lists of sci-fi books.
it is interesting that the time it would have taken to set up the system to take and process payments for downloading the mods for the PC probably cost more and took more time than producing the actual content...so if they released it for nothing it likely would have cost them less...
Oblivion is a rather demanding game...but with some work even my machine can play it well:
2.2ghz processor, 1gig of ram, and an nvidia FX5500 video card.
not a hope of it running faster than about 4FPS in the beginning...but scouring the Oblivion.ini file i found a *wonderful* setting:
bForce1XShaders
with some searching, and some additional tweaking i've compiled this (still a work in progress):
http://daze.deymos.com/oblivion/
a small site with information for tweaking the FX5500 (and likely others have had success with other cards) so hopefully this will help those who don't have UBER hardware play the game at a higher FPS even on older hardware (I currently get 20-30 FPS for exterior locations, and 60 FPS for interior)