11/06 Rainbow Six: Vegas

[NiX]

heh, you're so adorable in a sadistic way.

[squirrel]

It's not a headshot without the gore.

Word. It's a HEADshot for christ's sake.

[Strazos]

Just got in a few copies of the PC version today.

The system rec's are...steep. Looks like if I ever own this game, it will be on the 360.

[NiX]

Does the highest res mode require a Phys-x card like GRAW did?

[Strazos]

I didn't see anything about a physics card in the spec box, but I did see the minimum CPU speed as being 3.5GHZ. Has any other PC game had req's this steep yet? This might very well be the first PC game my rig Could Not Run.

[Sky]

You know what's ridiculous? This game came out on the 360 - 720p native, 1280x720.

The PC version doesn't natively support widescreen resolutions...including 1280x720.

I thought the 360 was really going to help out my niche a lot, since I play games on a 720p monitor, but they can't even support an /option/ on PC that's /native/ on the console. That's a goddamned crime.

Some chap made a hack, I'd assume to a dll (that's how I got Bloodlines working widescreen, my first .dll hack). If some internet tards can hack the dll for widescreen, what the fuck is wrong with developers? Three years ago when I got my hdtv, I could understand, but now that Joe fucking Walmart has a 720p console in his living room, the high-end pcs have to hack the dll to get it? Double-you Tee Eff.

[Big Gulp]

I thought the 360 was really going to help out my niche a lot, since I play games on a 720p monitor, but they can't even support an /option/ on PC that's /native/ on the console. That's a goddamned crime.

Solution?  Buy a 360.  Trust me, you'll thank me later.  PC gaming is dead.

[Yegolev]

You know what's ridiculous? This game came out on the 360 - 720p native, 1280x720.

The PC version doesn't natively support widescreen resolutions...including 1280x720.

They want you to buy a 360.  This is what MS is up to with their Games for Windows thing, I guess.

[Viin]

Though I did read somewhere that MS was planning on moving the XBox Live online community to PC, so you can play people with folks on either Xbox or PC. Is that still suppose to be coming?

The 'xbox 360 controller for windows' thingy seems to be going that direction. Even supports the headset plug in.

[Trippy]

Though I did read somewhere that MS was planning on moving the XBox Live online community to PC, so you can play people with folks on either Xbox or PC. Is that still suppose to be coming?

Yes, though it's not so much "moving" Xbox Live as making it accessible from multiple platforms -- i.e. Xbox (of cousre), Windows Vista, Windows Mobile phones, Java-enabled phones, etc..

Edit: BTW it's called "Live Anywhere" if you want to Google about it.

[Furiously]

I've never seen a worse performing game on the pc. It just lags my video to hell like nothing else. (And I have a 7950 GX2.)

It is the worst console to PC port ever. Plus the network/multiplayer part is horrid. Takes like 3 tries to connect, then every match that shows open games is full, then you go to play one and the other person's server crashes.

BTW - it also has massive technology so you get to see ads for AXE body spray.

[Sky]

I've never seen a worse performing game on the pc. It just lags my video to hell like nothing else. (And I have a 7950 GX2.)

Also, because the game doesn't yet officially support SLI, the 7950 GX2 doesn't see the type of performance in this game that it should, and so it was omitted from our tests. We would have very much liked to have seen how quad SLI handled the game, but unfortunately we will have to wait and hope a patch or driver update will allow this.

http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2895&p=4

[Furiously]

I've never seen a worse performing game on the pc. It just lags my video to hell like nothing else. (And I have a 7950 GX2.)

Also, because the game doesn't yet officially support SLI, the 7950 GX2 doesn't see the type of performance in this game that it should, and so it was omitted from our tests. We would have very much liked to have seen how quad SLI handled the game, but unfortunately we will have to wait and hope a patch or driver update will allow this.

http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2895&p=4

In other words...It's the worst console port ever.

[MrHat]

Sky, there's got to be a way to force it to that resolution.

[Sky]

There's a hack. A guy made up some .bin files for different resolutions. I grabbed it and looked at it here on my mac (in textedit) and can't see what he did. Maybe it's visible on a pc and you could do it yourself. I don't like premade hacks ;)

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8072

[Furiously]

There's a hack. A guy made up some .bin files for different resolutions. I grabbed it and looked at it here on my mac (in textedit) and can't see what he did. Maybe it's visible on a pc and you could do it yourself. I don't like premade hacks ;)

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8072

Instead of storing the resx=1680 resy=1080, someone decided to store them as hex values.

[Sky]

Wonder why that didn't show up in textedit...I don't know why they did that. Goddamned developers. At least the Games for Windows thing includes widescreen support. About fucking time. I could understand the lack in 2003, I was a pretty early adopter. Who isn't buying widescreen monitors these days, the omnipresent Dells if not hdtv? And it's not like it's tough to implement or something, it's a 3d viewport. Bah.

[Furiously]

Wonder why that didn't show up in textedit...

Because they put the rezx and rezy in hex too.

[Yegolev]

Textedit is for babies?

[Sky]

Hm. What program are you seeing the hex in? (I can convert, I just can't see it)

[Furiously]

It's also little endian? or whatever the thingie is that makes the numbers backwards.

I'm using some shareware thingie that looks just like debug.