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Quake Wars Only Requires Radeon 9700 to Play
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damn dude why the insults to 9x00 owners?
Min Reqs mean you can run it on min settings at 30fps sustained.
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Kenny do you have any idea what this game will look like in min graphics ? 
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I know what minimum graphics looks like yes, in this game no. Lower res textures, lower poly counts, no aa/af. Hell I can play oblivion on mid settings 800*600 on a 9600xt, a 9700pro isn't as bad as you may think.
It sure as hell won't be pretty but it will still be pretty as hell for the guy who just barely got enough money to buy the game and gets to play it without dumping $200 or more into his rig to update.
Plain and simple this is the coding we need more often. Too many games such as FEAR, DiRT, etc need to have more options so you can scale the game down to low spec computers. I wouldn't say crysis will be a big problem as crytek games are so well optimized you can run it on almost anything.
The main aim of having low req's these days isn't for the desktop people either, its for the people who only own laptops (that group is ever growing too), who can't upgrade graphics. Being playable on a 3 year old laptop opens up a huge market for those who want to be able to play a game or two on their lappy instead of just sittin on the net "because the game won't run".
It sure as hell won't be pretty but it will still be pretty as hell for the guy who just barely got enough money to buy the game and gets to play it without dumping $200 or more into his rig to update.
Plain and simple this is the coding we need more often. Too many games such as FEAR, DiRT, etc need to have more options so you can scale the game down to low spec computers. I wouldn't say crysis will be a big problem as crytek games are so well optimized you can run it on almost anything.
The main aim of having low req's these days isn't for the desktop people either, its for the people who only own laptops (that group is ever growing too), who can't upgrade graphics. Being playable on a 3 year old laptop opens up a huge market for those who want to be able to play a game or two on their lappy instead of just sittin on the net "because the game won't run".
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Kenny games are ment to give us eye candy graphics and realism or least thats how i see it. Im looking forward to the day when Games will reach reality in terms of Graphics and Physics , no matter what the requirements.
True we need games that can be played by old hardware but if the time it will take the team assigned to built the game isnt enough and if coding it for older hardware means that they cant make it as realistic and eye candy as possible then no i dont agree with that. As i dont agree that someone can give 40$ to buy games that can be played with his rig but at the same time cant afford to make an upgrade for 4 years.
True we need games that can be played by old hardware but if the time it will take the team assigned to built the game isnt enough and if coding it for older hardware means that they cant make it as realistic and eye candy as possible then no i dont agree with that. As i dont agree that someone can give 40$ to buy games that can be played with his rig but at the same time cant afford to make an upgrade for 4 years.
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For some people it isn't for the shallow pretty shiney effect of games, its about having fun.
If you want to dump thousands into your computer so you can always play the latest games at 1920*1080 maxed go right ahead. nVidia and ATI enjoy taking money from you.
If a game dev is too lazy to make a game run well on anything but the top spec, I don't want their shit on my hard drive.
If you want to dump thousands into your computer so you can always play the latest games at 1920*1080 maxed go right ahead. nVidia and ATI enjoy taking money from you.
If a game dev is too lazy to make a game run well on anything but the top spec, I don't want their shit on my hard drive.
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Resolution has nothing to do with the eye candy.....Well it may have but in a very small percentage. And i do have more fun with Battlefield 2142 than i had with DOOM......
And it has nothing to do with them beeing lazy, it has to do with deadlines.
And it has nothing to do with them beeing lazy, it has to do with deadlines.
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Ahh so you like products rushed to completion so devs can make money and never patch the issues that still exist... They already have your money, a patch isn't required anymore.
From your comment I suggest you run 640x480 in every one of your games and see what impact you think it has then.
I miss the days when games were completed before they were sold. The days where there was no patch for an issue, because there were few if any issues to be fixed.
I don't mind if a came comes out a year late, but it had better be bug free if I'm going to pay them for it.
By the way coding a game to run on older hardware isn't coding just for the old stuff, its called optimization. A game that will run well on an older system will run even better on a new one, compared to a game that was coded for a 8800 to be the minimum req.
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Kenny back in the old days we had 2 CPU types , 2 Chipset based motherboards, 2 GPU types, 1 Windows system and that was that. No need to release patches ofcourse. Now it aint the same. And no, i play all my games in 1680x1050 all maxed out and thats good enough for me 
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Yes we know 2 weeks now
However since most here tried the open beta and some even the closed beta the demo isnt something new. The full Game however may be interesting.
However since most here tried the open beta and some even the closed beta the demo isnt something new. The full Game however may be interesting.