@Mordraneth If it was impossible to pirate games many ppl would simply turn away from playing games altogether because as u said its not important. They cant afford it but dont consider downloading it a problem and would easily do without it if necessary. I dont think not being able to afford it should mean they cant play it; u have to ask the persons who made the game what they think about that ( i wouldnt mind having ppl enjoy what i made as a part of the game development team but the actual pubishers really only care about revenue). Obviously ppl do download games just because they can but i would imagine most gamers who do cant possibly afford what they pirate. Its not really about sympathy, just have to appreciate that the end result is a profit for someone and, in the case, no loss. The publishers are fooling themselves if they think drm will help sales even when the games remain average. Most games i imagine ppl wouldnt even consider playing besides pirating them. If ppl couldnt download it, i doubt most would save up to buy it.
@Mordraneth Except the copy you download is not the only one in the world. If i copy a friends game he doesnt all of a sudden not have the game anymore, now if i STOLE that game from him... well now he is out of something. Publishers lose nothing from someone who didnt have the money to buy the game, if that person pirates it so go easy on lriscal.
Four out of the five ALUs are simple, capable of executing one FP MAD instruction per clock cycle, and the fifth ALU can execute complex instructions like SIN, COS, LOG, EXP, etc. This architecture is highly flexible and scalable, but depends heavily on software optimizations. Although each Radeon HD core contains a special task dispatcher, its efficiency depends directly on the efficiency of the shader code compiler, which is part of the driver. The superscalar architecture offers its highest performance when all the ALUs are busy computing independent operations but it is hard to achieve that because in 3D applications many operations depend on the results of previous operations. That's why Radeon HD GPUs require application-specific optimizations in the driver. Unfortunately, AMD has problems with that as it doesn't have access to the innards of games participating in Nvidia's The Way It's Meant to Be Played program. They have to optimize the driver after the final release of the game. It is more difficult and, sometimes, not as successful as we might wish. Perhaps ATI's vision of the future of GPUs is indeed more progressive than Nvidia's, but game developers are always oriented at the most popular architecture, not the most innovative one, and this architecture is currently represented by the scalar cores of the GeForce 8 series. AMD has to cooperate more with game developers in order to overcome this problem. It also has to offer new high-speed graphics solutions in due time and reduce prices for its products when necessary. Such measures would make Radeon HD cards interesting for end-users and popular among gamers " the company's reputation on the consumer 3D market would be restored then. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd3870-hd3850_4.html
the 3 ultras are better... if price doesn't matter. They switched to am2 on me too.. soon after i bought my s939. But then soon after my s939 died... and i switch to intel... so oh well. i want to see if there will be a performance improvement for ati cards over nvidia cards with the dx10.1 update. From what I've read it looks like the amd cards were built with dx10.1 in mind
phenom isn't that far behind intels quad core... but yeah they have a few bugs to workout. Why trust nvidia and their promises either? Crossfire is definitely going to be supported by this card but no one said ppl must run out and buy 2 now. For all we know when CF comes out for it the price will go down. G80 is dead... we wait for the nvidia response.
dual 8800ultras... LOL. unfortunately for u this card in crossfire will Sh*t on ur dual ultras. LOL. Nvidia has had cards out for how long u say and this is just finally beating all of nvidias cardsu say. So that means it doesn't matter? Well i say AMD had a good response already in the hd series... just couldn't surmount the nvidia stranglehold on the industry of game development. And maybe some crap drivers.. whatever. Nvidia hasn't responded as yet and that is because they delayed their new cards... why? who knows. Might be making some last minute OCs, trying to get their gx2 to match and surpass the x2 cause they are lacking in engineering know how. But if they had this wonderful years lead u'd think they'd be able to release something in time.
weird way of saying the guy is ok... calling him a jew. U could simply have said i respect him as a person. And microsoft has nothing much to do with the GPU prices. The cost is reasonable... its not like all GPUs cost so much. Just the high end ones, which makes sense. http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/30/nvidia-tries-snow-financial nvidia... can't trust em for sh.. "You will notice that the vanilla 3870, a $250 card, spanks the Geforce 8800Ultra, a nearly $700 card, in several areas." w00t. quote from the article "Nvidia found out about the ATI R600 specs 90 days prior to the release date. They responded by overclocking the 8800GT product beyond reasonable thermal limits for a single slot cooling product and released it in order to compete at a similar price point. Whilst a good product, it is simply not appropriate for a cheap single slot cooler. Interestingly ... these have been volume released in the Northern hemisphere first ... as there is little impact at present with the weather. Those of us who are in the Southern Hemisphere (and in the middle of Summer) are finding these cards cannot sustain high loads and are crashing, and failing due to inadequate cooling. I imagine it will be around 4 to 5 months before those of you up North will realise just how NVIDIA has ripped you off in order to pip the HD3870 in benchmarks. Is perception everything? How bout we just mention the image quality difference too?? Lowering the image quality makes the benchmark results go up ... " Quote from a reader
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