What Game Are You Playing At The Moment?

[TheInfamousBiGD]

Originally Posted by standardman

The important stuff is the processor, the memory (RAM), the graphics card and, to a lessor extent, the operating system.

Do me a favour, hit start -> run then type DXDIAG, click the 'display' tab and tell me what your graphics card is.

Card name: Mobile Intel(R) 45 Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.1)
Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
Chip type: Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
DAC type: Internal
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2A42&SUBSYS_02AA1028&REV_07
Display Memory: 781 MB
Dedicated Memory: 32 MB
Shared Memory: 749 MB
Current Mode: 1366 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor Model: unknown
Monitor Id: SEC5441
Native Mode: 1366 x 768(p) (59.998Hz)
Output Type: Internal
Driver Name: igdumd32.dll,igd10umd32.dll
Driver File Version: 8.15.0010.1749 (English)
Driver Version: 8.15.10.1749
DDI Version: 10
Driver Model: WDDM 1.1
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 7/13/2009 17:15:31, 3805184 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
WHQL Date Stamp:
Device Identifier: {D7B78E66-6902-11CF-4D75-A022A7C2C535}
Vendor ID: 0x8086
Device ID: 0x2A42
SubSys ID: 0x02AA1028
Revision ID: 0x0007
Driver Strong Name: igdlh.inf:Intel.Mfg.NTx86...1:iCNT0:8.15.10.1749 ci\ven_8086&dev_2a42
Rank Of Driver: 00EC2001

This it?

[Sheepy]

Originally Posted by Junkenstein

I remember what was my issue with Dead Space now. It's a very dishonest game. Sometimes you get out of fights out of pure luck, you cant build a strategy.

Isn't that the point? Everything's gone to hell and sometimes luck is the only way to survive. You never know when you'll be attacked, and that's what keeps it scary.

[Junkenstein]

Sure, but in good games it should be a learning process, ao after the ten thousandth time the big monster kills you you learn a way to get him.

I have the feelings that sometimes Dead space places you in front of things that are there just to scare you and you almost cannot fight. You get outy eventually, but almost by chance. Sometimes it's frustrating.

[standardman]

Gabe Newell just did his GDC speech, video here:



At the end of the speech, he got a blue screen of death. What the camera missed was that it was a custom BSoD:



The internets found out that:

The hex converted to decimal: 226 228 226 : 215 197 213 196 228 213 227 ( 201 ) + 211 197 197 197
If it's ASCII it's extended ASCII. Could it be EBCDIC (common mainframe encoding)?
Edit: It IS EBCDIC. It spells: S U S : P E N D ... U N T ( I ) L ... E E E (colon, dots for spacing, and parens added to roughly locate them in the source image.)

Suspend Until E3?

Originally Posted by TheInfamousBiGD

Card name: Mobile Intel(R) 45 Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.1)
Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
Chip type: Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
DAC type: Internal
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2A42&SUBSYS_02AA1028&REV_07
Display Memory: 781 MB
Dedicated Memory: 32 MB
Shared Memory: 749 MB
Current Mode: 1366 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor Model: unknown
Monitor Id: SEC5441
Native Mode: 1366 x 768(p) (59.998Hz)
Output Type: Internal
Driver Name: igdumd32.dll,igd10umd32.dll
Driver File Version: 8.15.0010.1749 (English)
Driver Version: 8.15.10.1749
DDI Version: 10
Driver Model: WDDM 1.1
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 7/13/2009 17:15:31, 3805184 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
WHQL Date Stamp:
Device Identifier: {D7B78E66-6902-11CF-4D75-A022A7C2C535}
Vendor ID: 0x8086
Device ID: 0x2A42
SubSys ID: 0x02AA1028
Revision ID: 0x0007
Driver Strong Name: igdlh.inf:Intel.Mfg.NTx86...1:iCNT0:8.15.10.1749 ci\ven_8086&dev_2a42
Rank Of Driver: 00EC2001

This it?

That's it and it's what I was worried out. It's an integrated graphics card - a chip built into your motherboard rather than a dedicated (and upgradable) graphics card.

It also shares RAM with your system, rather than using it's own. So that 2 gig you have of RAM is actually 2 gig minus whatever your integrated graphics is using. It's common in laptops as it drives down cost.

In short: you can play old or (very) undemanding games but you'll struggle with new ones. GOG.com is full of, well, good old games.

[Sheepy]

Originally Posted by Junkenstein

Sure, but in good games it should be a learning process, ao after the ten thousandth time the big monster kills you you learn a way to get him.

I have the feelings that sometimes Dead space places you in front of things that are there just to scare you and you almost cannot fight. You get outy eventually, but almost by chance. Sometimes it's frustrating.

I think as games become more advanced though, the AI is going to be increasingly random like that though. I think it increases the re-playability of a game. A little bit of frustration is fun. Mind you I'm saying this having played the game once... I should go back to it and see.

[Junkenstein]

I still love the game (how can you not love a game where you MUST cut your enemies limbs strategically in order to kill them. I know some people love to shoot the necromorphs like it's Modern Warfare. Whatever) but it gets fucking exhausting when it's clear that a giant multitentacular superstrong thing will pop out in the exact point where you cant fight back...

Anyway, thanks to the vicious dealer known as Standardman (who will be named to my heirs as the reason for my precocious bakrupcy) i discovered GOG and got the almight Sanitarium, one of the greates undiscovered adventure games from th 90's

Oh, and also Beyond good and evil, which is sooooooooo good.

[Sheepy]

Ok I do agree with that. The huge tentacle monsters were annoying as hell.

[TheInfamousBiGD]

Originally Posted by standardman

That's it and it's what I was worried out. It's an integrated graphics card - a chip built into your motherboard rather than a dedicated (and upgradable) graphics card.

It also shares RAM with your system, rather than using it's own. So that 2 gig you have of RAM is actually 2 gig minus whatever your integrated graphics is using. It's common in laptops as it drives down cost.

In short: you can play old or (very) undemanding games but you'll struggle with new ones. GOG.com is full of, well, good old games.

Well thanks! I guess I will have to wait until I buy the PS3 to play the good games. In the meanwhile what games from GOG you recommend?

[brighteye]

Originally Posted by Sheepy

Ok I do agree with that. The huge tentacle monsters were annoying as hell.

I have always some hate for huge tentacle monsters, from my first one in Parasite eve 2 to the latest in Bayonetta and Dantes inferno.

They are not that scary and really unoriginal by now, its due time to come up with new boss monsters, ( but i have to confess that some of the ones in Byonetta is really original.)

huge tentacle monsters... H.P Lovecraft did that hundred years ago, and Jules Verne.... and Robert Howard.
Time to make a new game with Clive Barker as writer, he can atleast com3e up with new stuff. ( yep, i played "his" game, Undying. )

[TheInfamousBiGD]

I know it's late but, yesterday I played FF Chrystal Bearers on the wii. At first I thought it was going to suck since I am not a big fan of the wii but, I ended up playing 7 hours in a row. Is far from the best FF Not really RPG line (It's tatics in my opinion) but, I did enjoy myself and look foward to beating the game