TS3 L&P
kiki:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2008 December 18, 12:44:22
Well, what'd you expect? It's like the base game, only the ENTIRE GAME IS A SINGLE GIANT LOT, so figure out how many RAMs that would take up.
See, that would shit me. I can see myself having a laser mouse spaz out and finding myself half way across the neighbourhood from the house I'm attempting to play.
zherok:
I get the impression from previews that you'd probably have to zoom upwards really far in order to get that sorta distance. Most angles you'd normally play on you couldn't see halfway across a neighborhood. It's a bit hard to tell though, since not one preview has showed actual gameplay. And I'm pretty skeptical that zooming is that seemless... That said, the latest preview showed a car sequence, and it looked like a slightly closer version of watching a car in SimCity 4. I imagine when you're looking at things on that level they aren't terribly detailed.
I don't want to sound like I'm defending the thing. My current computer won't even touch the game, and EA offering 4gb of ram as a potential requirement is pretty wtf inducing. I'm not skeptical as to whether that's realistic or not, particularly if you want things to be as seemless and fluid as their current previews do.
Mirelly:
I was amused to see that they claim support for the ati x1950. This proves they have no idea -- based on practical experience -- what hardware the game will work on. Many incarnations of the x1950 are plagued with fan-speed problems (including there being no way to force changes to fan speed control with standard ATI overclocking tools). The card is unique in being unsupported by all other overclocking tools (that I could find). The only effective way I could find to fix the issue was to overwrite the card's BIOS with a 3rd party effort. Since failure in that task would mean I'd need to get another PCIe card to see what I was doing to flash it back, I decided to see how it would last. It ran for 8 weeks at 88°C (when idling ... my bad!) before it finally fried in its own stupidity.) Last time I buy without first Googling the product's name along with a variety of sample problem words, like overheating, crashing, failure, etc..
kiki:
Quote from: Mirelly on 2008 December 18, 14:50:36
I was amused to see that they claim support for the ati x1950. This proves they have no idea -- based on practical experience -- what hardware the game will work on. Many incarnations of the x1950 are plagued with fan-speed problems (including there being no way to force changes to fan speed control with standard ATI overclocking tools). The card is unique in being unsupported by all other overclocking tools (that I could find). The only effective way I could find to fix the issue was to overwrite the card's BIOS with a 3rd party effort. Since failure in that task would mean I'd need to get another PCIe card to see what I was doing to flash it back, I decided to see how it would last. It ran for 8 weeks at 88°C (when idling ... my bad!) before it finally fried in its own stupidity.) Last time I buy without first Googling the product's name along with a variety of sample problem words, like overheating, crashing, failure, etc..
I have an x1950 from powercolor with the artic cooling fan (they mod the original fan off the radeon and put the arctic cooling one on to ship) - works like a charm and I've never had heating issues with it. I have 3 other case fans on that desktop, but my system with that GPU in it idles at approx 34°C in a non-air conditioned and poorly ventilated room.
zherok:
I'm sure you could find plenty of examples on the list that have problem spots. I've got a 6600 GeForce card that requires more power than the manufacturer claims and has all sorts of driver issues (as in, updating to the newest drivers is apparently a bad thing), but that's hardly EA's fault.
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