http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/74220
Thought this was an interesting read, and I think that the Titan as a ship should be an anti-capital ship moreso than an anti-battleship weapon. Probably FreeSpace-style beam lasers to blow the crap out of dreadnoughts and carriers (in siege/triage modes respectively) might be an interesting sight to see.
Holy crap, this is awesome:
Almost makes you feel sorry for the people who bought MG Exia. ^^;
Source: Official PG 00 Raiser Website
http://kotaku.com/5352295/mechwarrior-5-runs-into-legal-trouble
Get lost, Harmony Gold.
I took the time to rip the audio from the game, now it’s available for your listening:
This was done by feeding an optical audio cable into my Hauppauge HD PVR, which is then fed straight into my computer. As a result I get Dolby Digital 5.1 AC3 audio, which is as clean as it gets, short of extracting the game assets and converting it like that. Though upon examining the stream, it turns out the audio is 2-ch, with the back channels being nothing more than reverb. So the above files are only 2-ch AAC 192 kbps VBR audio, but enjoy!
P.S. I also normalized the audio tracks and did a bit of cleaning up with the Main Menu track to ensure it sounded great as a standalone track, but overall should be pretty much the same thing.
This time, we’ll be trying out Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit. These are the results:
DirectX 9:
DirectX 10:
Since it’s variable benchmarks, the results vary from time to time, so that these two manage to match each other is not too shabby.
Edit: On an extra note, the CPU usage jumped to about 80-90% on DirectX 9 and 10, hmm… I wonder if being on 32-bit before had bottlenecked MT Framework’s ability to use 4 cores? Or was it that my readings back on Windows XP 32-bit for CPU usage were inherently bad?
http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/node/1
Looks like this was created over the CRTC ruling that Bell can now charge all customers $0.75 per GB when they’re over 300 GB. This also includes customers classified under wholesale.
http://zepy.momotato.com/2009/08/16/indy-galge-stopped-from-distribution-on-xbox-live/
I did a bit of investigation and checked out the Xbox Live Marketplace… what I found was that 248 Indie games were available on the Japan marketplace, while some 408 were available on the US/Europe marketplace. And of those numbers, only some games were shared but not all.
Needless to say, I think this is more a problem on the author’s part for not checking content restrictions and restricting it to the region it’s supposed to be limited to. Otherwise, all 408 games would have appeared on both marketplaces, rather than this not so mutually exclusive (or not exclusive at all) state of affairs.
Edit: Just found this:
Games are now evaluated for “one world” or worldwide approval.
…
Each game has to match the standards of all countries we support – that means the strictest standard will be applied for all countries. A game must pass all criteria before being allowed for sale in ANY Xbox LIVE marketplace.
Guess it’s the way the games are made then. If this was the policy, why on earth did the author decide to put a galge like this on Indie Games…?
This time, with a Core 2 Quad, Q6700:
Same settings as before.
If you want to know how CPU-bound this game is… on my E6600, the CPU usage was at 100%. On the Q6700, the CPU usage only spiked at about 35-45%.
On a sidenote, my temperatures were 25 degrees idle and 35 degrees load. I think it’s because I screwed up my thermal paste application earlier (using OCZ FreeZe), and now I got it right. Ambient is also 25 degrees celsius, so this is pretty insane.
Terrible author. Run-on sentences all over the place, and his writing is so assholish that you wouldn’t even begin to imagine just how much of a pain it is to try and capture the same meaning…
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