Personally, I'm pissed past all recognition of the word seeing as how the damned console asshats get it NOW but PC users have to wait till the 15th just because lame ass nvidia (who I used to like until this bullshittery) wants to be able to package it with their new card.

*walks off raving incoherently*

edit : nvm about a new card, the cards are available right now. So I'll be damned if I can reason out why the hell they're releasing it at different times. Asides from just general idiocy anyway.

Alright, brace yourself. This is gonna be long.

I've had a handheld almost as long as I can remember, we'd have SEGA Gamegears, little portable things..well, technically not little, it was like 8 inches wide and took 8 AA Batteries to power if you weren't using an AC cord.

From there I got a PSX for Christmas when I was 7, and started off playing Tomba and Jersey devil, eventually graduating to better known games like Tenchu and FFVII+

A year later, I got an N64 and Zelda OOT, had those for years and amounted a fairly impressive collection of games.

Sometime in this period I also came across the GB, GB Colour, and eventually the GBA.

When the PS2/Xbox launch came years later, I asked for a PS2 for Christmas, and for whatever reason my mom convinced me to get an Xbox (No idea why) Got DoA3 and Amped as the two games for that...a month later for my birthday I got Max Payne and Silent hill 2..which scared the everloving shit out of me.
(I was the only person who had an Xbox out of all my friends, and we played the original halo so much I had to buy 4 different copies of it because of how scratched they got)


Year after that I got a PS2 for xmas, and FFX..and probably some other stuff that I actually don't remember.

Later in 2003ish, I bought FFXI and that's what started me down the road of MMo's, I bought it for PS2 and had a special Keyboard/controller thing that hooked into the USB slot for the console.

My xbox got moded because I rarely went on live, and the mod that was placed gave me a crapton of original NES and SNES games, as well as a few PSX rips.

I also got a gamecube, prettymuch for the sole reason of Smash bro's, but I also have a copy of fire emblem kicking around somewhere.

Acquired a PsP sometime in this timeframe aswell.

When the 360 was released in 2005, I bought the "Pro" console, and a copy of oblivion to go with it.

Some months down the road, my friend got interested in MMo's too, and wanted to try WoW, so we got the $2 demo disc and went our separate ways home to install it. Well, our family only had 1 shitty computer up til that point (it was bought in 2001) and didn't have a DvD drive, so I bought my own computer..can't remember the specs, but it was basically a piece of crap.

From there I played WoW consistantly for about 2 years, and off and on for another 3.

I also decided to upgrade my video card this year..Went and bought an ATI..something, got it home, installed it myself (Was the first time i'd ever opened my computer) and found out that my computer wouldn't turn on after that. Half hour later, went back to Futureshop and the guy told me that I needed to upgrade my power supply to a 450w to power the card.. wasn't happy, but I sprung for it.

After this, I installed and tried out Vanguard (to test the new video card with a brand new MMo) the day after, I uninstalled vanguard and set it on fire.

Nov 19, 2006. Actually lined up at a walmart to buy a Wii.. worst investment of my life.

In 2007 I bought a 60G Ps3 because they went on sale due to them only making the 20 and 80 after that.

2008 my 450w power supply died, and in attempting to fix it, I managed to fry a couple other aspects of my PC, and was forced to buy a new one.

I improved it to a 750w Supply and bought an extra 2 gigs of ram, and an Nvidia 8800 GTS 512mb, and tried AoC out when it launched, then WAR.

EvE, Richard Gariotts Tabula Rasa, CoH/CoV, FFXI(pc) Pirates of the Burning Sea, EQ2, and LoTRO all fit in there somewhere, too..but not sure where. So do NDS, NDSi, and an Ipod touch.

I've got a Pre-order for Aion (yay beta key!) and i'm currently working on Empire:Total War on my PC.

Overall..I'd have to say I actually prefer FPS' on console, I prefer twich shooting with my thumbs. RTS wins out PC, and some RPG's (Fallout, ect) are also on my PC..but the majority of my games fall onto my consoles.

..Overall, i've probably got over $10,000 worth of video game crap all in one room..

Cool...That made me dizzay!

Totally add some more dynamic lighting/texturing and post again!

If anyone wants to play around with stuff sort of like this, but you dont know how to code, etc.... download a program called Alice.. its free from carnegie melon and can animate things while showing you a little about object oriented programming. Your imagination is pretty much the limit.

"Free scripting and prototyping environment program for 3D object behavior. Runs on Windows 95/98/NT."


Your demo ran ok after locking up for a quick second on starting up the exe as you stole all my databases j/k.

Here's my baby's specs fyi:

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System Information
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Time of this report: 6/30/2009, 23:40:23
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.090302-1506)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Gateway
System Model: P-7801u
BIOS: Ver 1.00PARTTBL
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.3GHz
Memory: 4090MB RAM
Page File: 2338MB used, 6046MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 10
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 6.00.6001.18000 32bit Unicode

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Display Devices
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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce 9800M GTS
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_062C&SUBSYS_0696107B&REV_A1
Display Memory: 2797 MB
Dedicated Memory: 1007 MB
Shared Memory: 1789 MB
Current Mode: 1280 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)

Tags for this video have been changed from 'zombie, shooter, fps, nvidia, game' to 'zombie, shooter, fps, nvidia, game, tegra, touchscreen, ar' - edited by Zonbie

So the history of Nvidia is one demo from 1994 and then the opening cinematic from GRID?

>> ^vairetube:
add these graphics to a virtual helmet interface soon, and we're going to be gaming pretty


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wXx3vMy_AQ

You could also add NVIDIA's 3-D stereoscopic glasses (assuming you use an NVIDIA card and a monitor with a high refresh) and viola.

Yeah, Intel is currently the way to go wrt graphic stuff and linux unless you need 3d.

I've also noticed the bandwidth thing, but thought the problem was more due to the different geographical locations of youtubes server clusters. Some work fine, others you'll need to start buffering and come back half an hour later to get decent quality.

With ubuntu, things really took a leap forward for desktop linux stuff. The hard part is actually working through problems rather than just throwing up your hands and going back to windows. So kudos for hanging on; some things are still lacking but all in all the switch is worth it.

And I'm currently busy busy busy in the real world. Too many projects at work and so little time...

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Well the stutter problem came back a little. It only happens on certain video hosts too like YouTube and Metacafe. Vimeo and most others are fine. I did more research on the issue and learned that nVidia's drivers are problematic on a lot of Linux distributions. A bunch of Linux geeks even made an online petition begging nVidia to make their Linux drivers open source so that they could make them work better. Oh well.

I'm also switching my ISP so I can have a faster connection. It will be going from from 1.5 Mbps to 8.0 Mbps. I'm hoping that might help, because I've noticed that the longer it takes the video to buffer, the greater the chance the video will stutter or just plain stop. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Otherwise everything else is fine. It's easier to use than I initially thought it would be, and it only seems to be getting easier. Here's to brave middle-aged men.

Thanks for checking. Hope everything is going well for you.

In reply to this comment by srd:
Hey, just wanted to check back on how things are going with your adventures in linux land. Everything running smoothely I hope.

Well the stutter problem came back a little. It only happens on certain video hosts too like YouTube and Metacafe. Vimeo and most others are fine. I did more research on the issue and learned that nVidia's drivers are problematic on a lot of Linux distributions. A bunch of Linux geeks even made an online petition begging nVidia to make their Linux drivers open source so that they could make them work better. Oh well.

I'm also switching my ISP so I can have a faster connection. It will be going from from 1.5 Mbps to 8.0 Mbps. I'm hoping that might help, because I've noticed that the longer it takes the video to buffer, the greater the chance the video will stutter or just plain stop. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Otherwise everything else is fine. It's easier to use than I initially thought it would be, and it only seems to be getting easier. Here's to brave middle-aged men.

Thanks for checking. Hope everything is going well for you.

In reply to this comment by srd:
Hey, just wanted to check back on how things are going with your adventures in linux land. Everything running smoothely I hope.

^I just checked there and it actually does have the nVidia accelerated graphics driver installed. I bought the computer from Dell with everything fully configured. I think Llama might be right about there being a bug with Ubuntu. Thanks for the suggestion though.

And Ornthoron, thanks for the suggestion too, but I have both Firefox and Opera installed, and the problem occurs on both of them.

Hmm, just reread your original post. The UXA stuff is currently only relevant for intel GPUs, so scrap that since you're nvidia.

Did you install the proprietary nvidia driver? If not, do so and try again.

Well I was just going to come in and say "lol", but it looks like I need to say "lulz".

LULZ

I'll be under my bridge using my pc with it's crappy nvidia card and AMD cpu to play Crysis at max detail. Toodeloo!

_{/this is sarcasm for those that post before you read; reminds me of Fark and Slashdot! Oh, and, I hope you have a zoom function or something!}

Lets hear it for new huge price on 15 year old tech. Shutter glasses aren't new, they used to be given away with 3d cards back in the late 90's.


>> ^spoco2:
And my, hasn't Hollywood gone friggen 3D crazy? (Obviously in an effort to get people to come to the cinemas more)


They should try lowering ticket and concession prices, it might have more of an effect. Cost me $12.50 for a medium soda and a medium popcorn last week.

ROCK 670
2.4 Duel Core Intel
2GB RAM
100GB 7200rpm HDD
8600m GT 512MB
1GB Turbo cashe

Its awesome! except, it still does not work properly, now the HDD is SMART failed and the fecking nVidia chip is nuking itself

Pretty bollocks, but I will get a replacement system I think

CPU: Intel Core2duo 4300 (1,8 GHz) (used to have it overclocked to 3 GHz, but I stopped during the summer.. gets too hot)
GFX: NVidia GeForce 8800 GTS 320
RAM: 2 GB
HDD: 500GB
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 2232BW (22" widescreen lcd, 1680x1050)

Anything else is filler. A dvd drive, Logitech G7 Mouse, keyboard, speakers and such and such.

I've had no real problems running anything, though Crysis is one of the heavier loads.

DFI's LANParty UT NF4 Ultra-D motherboard
AMD 3800+
1,5 GB RAM
NVIDIA 7600GT 256MB
250GB WD hard drive
19" Compaq CRT