February 29, 2012 by
Savyg
Who's excited? I'm excited. I love the idea of the Metro UI to remove distractions and make computers more efficient (suspended apps will be taken off the CPU scheduler and most likely the video resources will only be in virtual mem). It was a little awkward on the Dev Preview but that isn't what the CP will look like anyway. Storage spaces is probably my favorite feature they've talked about so far. I'm not sure I want to ditch my Win7 install yet tho...
This isn't entirely a surprise considering his recent history but heh. Speaking to bit-tech for a forthcoming Custom PC feature about the future of OpenGL in PC gaming , Carmack said 'I actually think that Direct3D is a rather better API today.' He also added that 'Microsoft had the courage to continue making significant incompatible changes to improve the API, while OpenGL has been held back by compatibility concerns. Direct3D handles multi-threading better, and newer versions manag...
February 24, 2011 by
Savyg
Planning to get a PCI-E card with this on it around May if it's available, along with an SSD.
February 10, 2011 by
Savyg
http://www.winrumors.com/internet-explorer-9-release-candidate-rc-now-available-to-download/ On a side note, Impulse crashes every time I open it since I installed the RC. Huh?
November 18, 2010 by
Savyg
This game rocks...and the differences from Criterions previous game are quite striking. If anyone needs people to compete against, I'm at standoff79...don't play much multiplayer but definately wouldn't mind seeing some people on my autolog
I hope you Stardock guys and gals are looking at this. I've never been this impressed with a new download service. (Of course their selection sucks so far, but I love the experience more than I ever did with any other download service.)
This game looks DAMN good. It's hard to believe games are starting to look this good. Pretty dang fun too, though obviously not terribly deep.
December 22, 2009 by
Savyg
Athlon X2 4200+ with 4 gigs and a 4850 to Core i7 920 with 6 gigs and a 4850 (for now, plan to put a 5850 and an X-Fi in there. And soon enough an SSD.)
I've been using this since the beta opened up...there's no chance of me using a different antivirus product. Now that it's a public release...what's everyone else think?
As an intro, if you're wondering what 'smap' is, it's a playful take on 'spam' for those of us at nForcersHQ who like to talk crap with our friends. I find it fascinating when a company that drives much of what we call PC gaming can't keep up. I finally bought the Fallout 3 addons on GfWL and laugh that people love to complain about Impulse (for some of the stupidest reasons! But anyway.) The client installed my addons but refused to progress fr...