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My old ATI 4850, whilst having been a total trooper, utterly stable and bug-free, is now (well) on it's way out.
The fan sounds like a diesel engine and on very regular occasions my telly goes black for a second or so - which is a mild annoyance during films but sometimes catastropic during games.
So I'll be fitting the new one this afternoon then opening my games one by one and sticking everything in 1080p and wanging the graphics settings to as high as they'll go...
...and there is my problem. My old 4850 pretty much runs everything I've got in 1920x1080 on high settings anyway. And that's on an old AMD Phenom II X3 BE that I've not even unlocked the 4th core on.
The graphics card is going to have half the memory that my PC has (a few years back 4Gb was a very decent amount).
What the fuck has happened to PC graphics? How have they stagnated so much? Xbox and PS3 surely aren't that big a market that developers can afford to simply bypass the hardcore gaming market?
The hardcore gaming market is exactly what this forum was born out of. In the late 90's there were certainly enough of us for development studios to get filthy fucking rich off the back of a single hit. Games were better then too - because they appealed to people with skill rather than the button-mashing retard majority. But now everything's cross-platform gayness.
But we haven't died! We're still here! Have the filthy-riches of the late-90's become not-filthy-rich-enough? Come on!!!
So. I've got this £180 gfx card turning up in a couple of hours. It's being delivered to my old house - which I now rent out to a mate, apparently between 12:30 and 1:30 today. It's less than a mile away - a 5 minute job on my mountain bike on this gorgeous sunny day. But I'm not sure I can be arsed to go pick it up (though I probably will). I'm not excited.
Remember when a new graphics card was exciting?
Fuck
The fan sounds like a diesel engine and on very regular occasions my telly goes black for a second or so - which is a mild annoyance during films but sometimes catastropic during games.
So I'll be fitting the new one this afternoon then opening my games one by one and sticking everything in 1080p and wanging the graphics settings to as high as they'll go...
...and there is my problem. My old 4850 pretty much runs everything I've got in 1920x1080 on high settings anyway. And that's on an old AMD Phenom II X3 BE that I've not even unlocked the 4th core on.
The graphics card is going to have half the memory that my PC has (a few years back 4Gb was a very decent amount).
What the fuck has happened to PC graphics? How have they stagnated so much? Xbox and PS3 surely aren't that big a market that developers can afford to simply bypass the hardcore gaming market?
The hardcore gaming market is exactly what this forum was born out of. In the late 90's there were certainly enough of us for development studios to get filthy fucking rich off the back of a single hit. Games were better then too - because they appealed to people with skill rather than the button-mashing retard majority. But now everything's cross-platform gayness.
But we haven't died! We're still here! Have the filthy-riches of the late-90's become not-filthy-rich-enough? Come on!!!
So. I've got this £180 gfx card turning up in a couple of hours. It's being delivered to my old house - which I now rent out to a mate, apparently between 12:30 and 1:30 today. It's less than a mile away - a 5 minute job on my mountain bike on this gorgeous sunny day. But I'm not sure I can be arsed to go pick it up (though I probably will). I'm not excited.
Remember when a new graphics card was exciting?
Fuck