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Topic: Winter Orgy: 2009, The "Doesn't Quite Make up for this Crappy Summer" Edition (Read 60594 times)
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Cyrrex
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I'm in your boat. The wife is demanding an Xmas list and I've already picked up Fallen Earth, DA:O, Borderlands, Torchlight, and Risen, and I don't really care about Ass Creed 2. Anything else out there? Given next year, the top of everyone's Christmas list should be an ATI 5870. Is this another one of your subtle hints of something  coming our way, or am I missing something obvious? |
"...maybe if you cleaned the piss out of the sunny d bottles under your desks and returned em, you could upgrade you vid cards, fucken lusers.." - Grunk
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NiX
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Locomotive Pandamonium
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You clearly haven't been keeping up with ATI's PR over their EyeFinity line.
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caladein
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The 5870 is ATi's new $400 DX11 card. It's quite shiny, and does onboard what you'd need a TripleHead2Go to do previously. As I often frequent the WSGF, I know how much of a hassle getting games to not break hilariously with TH2G/EyeFinity setups is... so I'm not terribly excited. Hell, getting games to place nicely with one monitor at 1680x1050 is enough to send me into a rage at times. Edit: Grammar and rage-induction. |
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« Last Edit: December 11, 2009, 12:27:09 PM by caladein »
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"Point being, they can't make everyone happy, so I hope they pick me." - Ingmar"OH MY GOD WE'RE SURROUNDED SEND FOR BACKUP DIG IN DEFENSIVE POSITIONS MAN YOUR NECKBEARDS" - tgr
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Cyrrex
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You clearly haven't been keeping up with ATI's PR over their EyeFinity line.
Ah, I see now. Question, though: if games are not specifically developed to take advantage of it, won't it pretty much just be like sitting in front of a big ass tv? I suppose the resolution could be improved overall (massively, in theory), if the card can actually handle that much. Which seems a stretch. I'm seriously ignorant on the subject, so do tell. |
"...maybe if you cleaned the piss out of the sunny d bottles under your desks and returned em, you could upgrade you vid cards, fucken lusers.." - Grunk
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caladein
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Resolution vis-à-vis graphics card performance isn't really an issue. What's important to support on the games side is field-of-view.
Full-scene anti-aliasing already causes the card to render a multiple of the resolution displayed. The simplest example would be straight super-sampling where you render an image N times the target size and then shrink it down.
So, if you're running a game at 1680x1050 with 4x FSAA, your graphics card is already rendering a 6720x4200 image.
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"Point being, they can't make everyone happy, so I hope they pick me." - Ingmar"OH MY GOD WE'RE SURROUNDED SEND FOR BACKUP DIG IN DEFENSIVE POSITIONS MAN YOUR NECKBEARDS" - tgr
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Xanthippe
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Am I the only person who thinks Red Dead Redemption is going to be awesome?
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Azazel
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I hope it will be, but I wouldn't say "thinks".
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