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soulkids wrote:

Johnlenham wrote:Picked up Guild Wars 2 for £20. Nice that I wont have to pay again to play it.
I do want to play the last of us and bioshock infinite but I just cant be arsed right now.

it's a great game, been playing it for the past 4 months. which server u on??
love the fact that you don't have to pay on a monthly basis and you still get tons of updates & new content. only thing is the eng game content is a bit stale, it's basically either the endless search for new skins or forging a legendary. also some classes are a bit useless in PvE especially in difficult dungeons (new aether dungeon is just.......), as I'm playing a necro which is just practically useless when it gets down to dps.
gotta get back to pvp & wvwvw when I'm back home.

Im on Storm something on the USA side. Another forum I go on merged their USA and EU guilds so people are on 24 hours a day which is pretty cool. Only up to like level 10 on a Charr warrior.

I've been playing Dead Space, I'm on the first one atm and enjoying it so far. Wouldn't call it "scary" just jumpy, although I can see it shitting me up if i play alone at night with headphones. The visuals are nice for a 5 year old game as well.

gαммα wrote:still i dont understand why anything more than 2-4 cores is worth paying for when 80% of the apps you use won't utilize it

best to just get an i5 2500k and overclock it

That was what I went for and I have never looked backed.

pete bubonic wrote:

hugh wrote:

collige wrote:

gαммα wrote:to be honest i dont see why intel and amd are pushing for this "fit as many cores as possible into 1 cpu" attitude - people think that 8 cores = 8 times more powerful than 1 core
when really extra cores usually add less than something like 25% extra processing power, and thats with applications/games that ARE optimized for multiple cores.

they should work more on making the cores themselves more powerful

but i could be chatting shit i dont know much about producing microprocessors


and axed i think its just because programming for multiple cores/threads is VERY difficult/time consuming

Tbh it's more AMD than Intel that has been pushing for more cores. Though for gaming they might actually become more useful in the future since both the XB1 and PS4 have multicore architecture.

most non indie games that are released today (that aren't pure console ports) tend to support at least 2 core processing, if not 4.
8 is only useful if you are running servers, however most modern advancements in CPU tech tends to be more with the use of logic gates and other "intelligent design" that speeds up the CPU cycles.

My knowledge level is layman at best when it comes to this, but I was under the impression that because during the pentium years, Intel pushed for smaller and faster circuitry they hit a heat wall and power usage was extremely uneconomical around the 4ghz chip design, they couldn't push it further. So instead of giving us 5ghz chips, they went with multi cores?

They went with Multicores because multicores are the best way to run 2 or more processes at once. A CPU has to make "round trips" for every bit of new data it processes, so if it is hopping between two different processes whilst doing this, you start to get really large increases in processing time. The main development towards the time when they hit the heat/power problem was mostly done by increasing cache size and actually improving the architecture of the CPU itself. I'm not an expert on that kind of stuff and it starts to get a bit muddy in my head but I think a lot of it has to do with removing "hang times" associated with fetching data from the CPU cache.
Multicores are a nice way to improve processing speed, but they ultimately are still quite limiting in terms of increasing overall system "speed". The performance improvement is certainly not linear. If you play a game that supports 4 cores on a 2 core system then switch to the same rig but using 4 cores, you will not see a doubling of processing capacity, or even anywhere near, within that program. Unforunately, 4 cores seems to be the most we will be able to use for now in order to get a performance boost, but the boost isn't as big as we would like and the ceiling has already been hit in that respect.


My Uncle actually works in Zurich on superconducters, he is one of these guys who is trying to move away from using silicon as the chip base. If we can use graphene based chips or similar, we will eventually start to see absolutely insane processing speeds, but that's years away at the moment

Ah cool! I read a little about graphene based chips, sounds amazing. Dunno what on earth I would use something that powerful for.

pete bubonic wrote:Ah cool! I read a little about graphene based chips, sounds amazing. Dunno what on earth I would use something that powerful for.

I'm sure developers will come up with something
Of course we can always get them to study genomes, work out complicated quantum mechanic problems, and other stuff like describing the universe accurately or the grand unifying theory.
The good thing about graphene chips is that they will make our computers so much more efficient. My uncle said first generation graphene chips could probably expect to use at the most 5-10% of the current power used by silicon chips to get the same performance. Pretty cool news for the environment anyway! As far as I know, they are already starting to superimpose graphene layers ontop of the silicon layer in place to act as a heat conducter and have managed to reduce power consumption by 25% just from that "simple" act.

Hopefully software catches up to the hardware leap.

wysockisauce wrote:Hopefully software catches up to the hardware leap.

hopefully, but the one great thing about the fantastic hardware capability available today means that developers, who maybe have a lot of great ideas creatively, but who may not necessary have the coding/scripting expertise to optimise games and programs brilliantly, can still put content out there to the masses. And so the discussion comes full circle

Dunno if anybody is still playing Rogue Legacy, but I just watched some guy beat the whole game start to finish in 25 minutes



Makes the 14 hours I have sunk into beating the first two bosses look rather pathetic

I'm lvl 97 and still getting twatted in the attic levels.

I'm having most luck at the moment just tanking with the barbarian and life steal items, lets me get a fair way through the whole castle, forest and some of the maya which usually nets me around 4-8K on most runs which is going ok.

Anyone still playing Terraria? I just started playing today and after getting my house built and finding a promising cave system, I decided to accidentally boot my PC tower over and the whole system crashed and I lost all my progress
d'oh

its crazy how small a gaming pc can get, you can almost fit it in your pocket.

yea i play terraria occasionally. got a bit bored of it though.

anyone bought an ouya yet?

looking at getting one for emulation. but i hear everyone is getting different results.

gta V gameplay looks so dope
this game is going to be fucking good man

OpenRA - http://openra.res0l.net/
(open source Red Alert clone/improvement/re-make)

Really good fun! It's more than just nostalgic, seeing all the old units and buildings in full 1920x1080 is next-level.
The AI is a bit easy but on a LAN against another person it's absolutely brilliant. Online is a bit sketchy unless you open ports so I use Hamachi.



Also a little bit of Killing Floor. A bredrin was harassing me to re-install it and I'm glad I did - they've improved it a lot since I uninstalled it.
(little downs to Tripwire for releasing every game broken. If they had their games reviewed 4 years after release they wouldn't get 7/10's)

soulkids wrote:

Johnlenham wrote:Picked up Guild Wars 2 for £20. Nice that I wont have to pay again to play it.
I do want to play the last of us and bioshock infinite but I just cant be arsed right now.

it's a great game, been playing it for the past 4 months. which server u on??
love the fact that you don't have to pay on a monthly basis and you still get tons of updates & new content. only thing is the eng game content is a bit stale, it's basically either the endless search for new skins or forging a legendary. also some classes are a bit useless in PvE especially in difficult dungeons (new aether dungeon is just.......), as I'm playing a necro which is just practically useless when it gets down to dps.
gotta get back to pvp & wvwvw when I'm back home.

I'm on ruins of surmia, really enjoying the game too

£10 Bag wrote:snip.

Ive been playing killing floor a fair bit too recently, good fun especially with your mates

started playing again monster hunter freedom 2 for psp, great game!

£10 Bag wrote:OpenRA - http://openra.res0l.net/
(open source Red Alert clone/improvement/re-make)

Really good fun! It's more than just nostalgic, seeing all the old units and buildings in full 1920x1080 is next-level.
The AI is a bit easy but on a LAN against another person it's absolutely brilliant. Online is a bit sketchy unless you open ports so I use Hamachi.

I was hosting a DSF server for a while on open RA, a few of us were playing for a few nights it was quite fun. Problem was these crazy good players kept crashing the party and obviously we just kept getting destroyed by them.

I think i got that installed, going to check it out again. Loved the old C&C games.

Been on a kick of Kenshi and a bit of Cube World, gonna tackle the Walking Dead DLC tomorrow.