NovaDudely

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by NovaDudely 3y ago
I always remember Flash being really fast at the vector calculation but and absolute hog on output rendering. So higher screen resolution hammered the CPU even though everything was setup.
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
Oh yeah it did. The amount of times when you are writing something in Word, then figure it has been 15 minutes, I should save. Only to move the mouse to the save icon only to have the entire system just stop. No error just a total lock. Thi
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
Theories without data are just Philosophy in mathematics based drag. It doesn't make it pointless but one has to treat it for what it is. It was like String theory, it was all well and good but without a meaningful experiment to test i
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
To add to this another little theory I have about the original Xbox compatibility. When Xbox first came out MS wasn't too strict on the TRC of titles, this is why you saw some stuff that seemed to punch above their weight. Wreckless re
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
Oh yeah, when I picked up my 360 and Ps3 recently, just judging by the time frames of the models and how little save games were on it - they didn't have a hard life. My Ps3 only had save games for a WWE game and GTA 5 from 8 years ago.
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
I will preface this with - I have never done it. It looks like a decade long game of trail and error. I suppose you start at the basics, getting an interpreter purely for CPU code. So PPC to x86 code. Then onto more complex stuff like float
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
Oh yeah, you fire up Vice City - the first track in the games should be Michael Jackson... nope, gone!
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
Yep, Ps2 was a beast of interconnected timings, data transfer and cache oddities. I still find it so funny that they figured the best way to run the GPU was to have 2560 bit wide data bus on 4MB of RAM. So you could go fill rate crazy but o
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
If I was to wager a guess... they are using a form of static recompilation. This is why they need to have the binary downloaded to function. It would also explain how they could reconcile the differences between the PPC floating point lengt
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
Seeing as this looks like the finally moved over the Firefox Quantum codebase, it will possibly be faster provided you have the memory to support it. Like FF Quantum, it was definitely faster than the previous version but the memory usage j
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
I'm not a religious person but folks that produce emulators are doing gods work. Xbox 360 as a whole is in a half dead state nowadays. It is partially supported by Xbox One/Series X/S and if you want to get specific non suppo
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
Windows has been a decent development platform for Linux via Proton. ;) Maybe they are just worried about the long game of Proton eventually eroding MS's share? But this looks more like propping up Xbox and Gamepass than Windows losing
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
I don't think they really care what people think until it becomes a really major issue. MS has been through this these fazes so many times in the past and look at were they are. It doesn't seem to have slowed them down that much.
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
You don't just cut it off in a single go, Microsoft make their platforms more enticing. Heck they can do game companies used to and have timed exclusive releases. COD dropping on Xbox 2 months before anyone else. Microsoft are REALLY g
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
You don't just cut it off in one go, you squeeze them out slowly. Embrace the business (with money), extend the functionality (Xbox exclusive features), Extinguish the competition (drop support).
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
MS is the definition of a Slippery Slope in action.
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
Sony vs MS lawyers... that would be messy... and fun to watch. grabs popocorn Would they just build a COD that is dependent on specific MS tech so they cannot release it on competing systems? Why not try and rebrand Call of Duty so that
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
10 years... I give them 3. Either they will just break the deal and pay the fines (I'm not sure of the exact details of the punishment) or they will just give themselves enough technical advantage to make the competition versions unfav
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
> argues that this deal actually helps consumers I'm listening... > by speeding up the transition to "streaming" games and cloud gaming Ewww... no thanks!
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
While some decent examples have been provided in another response, it is kind of telling when most Libre/open multiplayer FPS titles are still built on Quake 3 engine. And they are not exactly to most vibrant communities. But it will r
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
I completely get the point you are making but I wish I had a business that was "failing" like Xbox is. :P You are right about the exclusives, they have not had anything that has really grabbed peoples attention long term for a lon
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
In an age when the average desktop was 800x600, it was astounding the first time I saw Win 98 running at 1600 x 1200. I mean, how could we ever fill that space? It was like when we jumped from software rendering 3D at 320x200 unfiltered tex
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
It is still running a 2.4ghz 2nd gen i5. The battery is in decent condition but because it was a second hand machine, I am not sure what its life was like before it. I do find it odd that it is struggling with video content, it doesn't
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
Yes, yes, YES! I think you just summarized Douglas Rushkoff's last book in 4 words.
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
Things like the Dell Optiplex Micro and Lenovo Mini ThinkCenters can provide a similar experience. Generally I have found that they haven't had any major noise issues but a part of that was being very conservative with clock rates. NUC
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
I think you are taking the idea of hardened neural pathways as being absolutely unbend able. If that was the case, smart phones would have been the realm of people in the early 20's and below on release. But even the elderly figured th
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
I am running a T420 and 99% of the time it is so cool the fan doesn't even kick in. But yeah when you start to push it - it can get toasty. Work load really determines a lot here.
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
You could well be right, it is far too early for any of us to call when this will happen. Most likely we will only know once it is in full swing.
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
Compute power has never been an issue for me, but I generally try to max out the RAM as much as my budget allows. This is why I still have a 2010 Macbook that is more than fine. Started with 4GB and was barely usable for heavier even when i
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by NovaDudely 3y ago
Many have called this the come trough of AI disillusionment. It is the same thing that happens with a lot of new technology. A cool new technology is introduced, many folks go crazy over it, there are wild broad predictions of what it can d

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