If you believe Microsoft...Prior to Microsoft’s “Big Picture” gaming showcase held today in San Francisco, corporate vice president John Schappert reminded us that, despite what you may have heard, the Windows PC is the world’s dominant gaming platform. Expect another big push from Microsoft to defend the Windows PC against game consoles.
We have to be realistic about the fact that PC gaming is threatened by hugely popular game consoles. And if you look at media coverage alone, it sometimes appears that high-end PC gaming is already being reduced to benchmarking CPUs and GPUs. Subjectively, the lion’s share of gaming talk these days appears to be focused on consoles.
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Keep the competition up.
Loving my 2 4850's I got yesterday (sold my 3870x2 on ebay for 90% cost lol) in crossfire bloody amazing.
Example
I installed SUSE Linux last night.
downloaded the driver from nvidia's website. It wanted to compile it self, but before it could do that I had to install the gcc compiler along with the kernel source code and the make command.
I tried Ubuntu last week, but after I would enable the driver I would get a black screen upon logging on that said something about unsupported resolution.
So I was researching my issue online and they said for me to go edit a config file. Well I'm going to stop right there because thats just retarted. And people wonder why linux has such a small market share.
They should just scratch all the distro bull ****, just focus ALL there efforts on a great 1 version of Linux with awesome compatibility and windows like driver and application installation.
Directx has evolved like no other gaming platform in the World
Windows is the king in this area
Like it or not my friend
Umm this is comparing to consoles not the operating system. Nice see you read it.
Example
I installed SUSE Linux last night.
downloaded the driver from nvidia's website. It wanted to compile it self, but before it could do that I had to install the gcc compiler along with the kernel source code and the make command.
I tried Ubuntu last week, but after I would enable the driver I would get a black screen upon logging on that said something about unsupported resolution.
So I was researching my issue online and they said for me to go edit a config file. Well I'm going to stop right there because thats just retarted. And people wonder why linux has such a small market share.
They should just scratch all the distro bull ****, just focus ALL there efforts on a great 1 version of Linux with awesome compatibility and windows like driver and application installation.
no because then it will be some garbage debian based distro like ubuntu or kubuntu or any of the other bloated distros around.
Yes, but you need to understand that the end-user is an idiot. And this system isn't idiot-proof.
Yes, but you need to understand that the end-user is an idiot. And this system isn't idiot-proof.
If you're moderately comfortable with a command line, it's not too much of an extra step to copy the original to a backup file and restore it if you screw it up. Also, you can just run #nvidia-config again to auto generate a new one. The text file only holds configs for X windowing, so you can't kill the command line, at least from that config file anyways.
lol irony
The end user doesn't care. That's completely irrelevant to them. What matters is that it doesn't work.
Either way, Microsoft wins because it entices developers to target those two platforms.
Either way, Microsoft wins because it entices developers to target those two platforms.
The 360 uses a blend of DX9 and DX10 technologies if i remember correctly.
While PC gaming may or may not be on a decline, it will never fall off the radar. The mouse and keyboard interface is still unbeatable for RTS and FPS games. Besides, how else are those 10+ million MMO subscribers supposed to get their fix?
However I just can't afford to spend the cost of a console every year on upgrading my PC. I'd love to, as I prefer it (tried C&C on the 360 and it just didn't cut it....)
However for £200 I can get a gaming rig that plugs into my surround sound and HD telly, comes with everything I need and I KNOW the games will work.
Same reason why Linux isn't popular with gaming enthuasists - there's a good chance it won't work out of the box. And when you get a game you don't want to spend time with config files or realising that there is no driver support. It used to be bad enough with Windows until XP/Vista. Whilst Vista just works regarding the vast majority of games (I was playing Theme Hospital earlier!
PC's will never die out for gamers. The ability to upgrade and have a better experience than console users alone is enough to ensure that. But in another generations time I wouldn't be suprised to see the mainsteam/casual gamer be solely on the PS/Xbox.
DNRTFA
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