The Increasing Demand of PC Games on PC Systems

In which Agamemnon of SlightlyRelevant.com examines the PC gaming market. "No, this is not the precursor to a topic discussion about political correctness. I’m talking about one thing and one thing only: PC games. That’s right, I’m that guy. I’m the guy that flexes his muscles at being a self-proclaimed PC gamer..."

[BeastlyRig]

I am gonna be building my first PC!! Im just waiting for may to see if AMD Bulldozer will be the ish!!

I don't want to suffer the BF3 blues so I needs me a personal computer!!

Edit: I here Medal of Honor will use FrostBite 2.0 next year hope it's true!

[chak_]

just go for a 2500K dude, AMD is cheaper, but performance are always lower.

[BeastlyRig]

Idk this time around.. I'll wait because Im interested in the tech behind it!!

Plus intel was never way ahead in games performance just benchmarks of programs from what I have seen..

[captain-obvious]

starcraft 2 got me back to PC gaming after along time of just playing on consoles
i think with games coming on PC and the games that just came out
PC gaming market is just shooting up

now what i think that we need is some OS
thats designed only for gaming
the OS is light and super fast and only uses the necessary things to run games
and of course backward compatible with all the other games out there
something like Windows 7 on a heavy diet
call it Windows 7 lite
and of course it should supports DX11, 64, and lots and lots of ram

so on your pc you'd have 2 operating systems
1 of them is the ordinary one and the other on is only for PC gaming

i hope MS or valve dose something like that
that would be GREAT and it'll let us get more out of our CPUs and GPUs

cant wait to play BF3
buying a new graphics card
and i hope i get a good deal
and i really hope for graphics cards price drops anytime soon

[ChrisW]

Just a quick FYI, many universities have reduced priced OS for students. For example, Win7 is $64.

If your not yet or no longer a university student, ask a friend or family member to pick up a copy for you.

[captain-obvious]

@ ChrisW
thanks for your consedration
but thats not what i meant

first of all i run windows 7 on all of my computers (1 laptop and 1 desktop)
is it great for gaming ?
hell yah
but i still think it uses up alot of ram and space and processing power that i don't need when i game
of curse by that i mean processing that run in the background to operate other programs that i dont need to run the game that in playing right now
all of that could go into the games which will make PC gaming experience much better IMO

[TOSgamer]

I'd go with a bulldozer even if it was slightly slower. I'm really sick of intel swapping sockets all the time.

[GrilledCheeseBook]

Don't listen to chak_
Just wait until around BF3
price drops could happen by then and better safe than sorry to see if Bulldozer is as good as the competition or better as it is being hyped to be

[imvix]

Well by the time BF3 is rolling out something faster will be on the horizon, hence he will always be waitiing then. I would suggest he builds it now if he plans to.

[nnotdead]

most of the time i would agree with you imvix. you could spend forever waiting for the next great thing, but this time i think holding off would be worth it. at the very least for current parts to get a price drop.

[GrilledCheeseBook]

I didn't say wait for the latest and greatest putting it off forever but to buy one around the release of Battlefield 3 since that is the game he is basing the system around and why spend more months before release when you can save a couple hundred around release from inevitable price drops from the release of Bulldozer and the impending 600 and 7000 series gpu

[plb]

All BF3 footage shown thus far has been from a single 580 card.

[captain-obvious]

sooooo
do you think a 560 ti could run the game on max ??
or at least high settings ??

cus im really thinking about getting me one of those

[ChrisW]

Building your own PC?

Remember, while credit cards are great for dropping serious cash into a beast of a machine, you might need to work some overtime to offset the monthly payments.

Or do what I did and [indirectly] have your university pay for one with grant money. LOL!!

[Queefy_B]

Stalker.. that is all.

[BeastlyRig]

Stalker 2 that is all.

[kevnb]

They dont test really old hardware, but you can usually put 2and 2 together. If it runs on a gt 220 then its not demanding. Despite the recomended specs, shogun 2 is better optimized then empire total war. stupid blog. Sounds like a guy who has to max every game for no good reason. By the way crysis 2 and oblivion dont run very nice on xbox 360, and both look like some pretty low settings compared to maxed out on pc.

[Garrison]

Well ive been gaming on my pc pretty well for 2 years now and every game that I've thrown at it it plays really well, and I bought my 4780 at off at best buy for a 100 bucks. Of course the rest of my pc is top notch but as far as graphics cards go honestly I don't know what the big fuss is about.

[bozebo]

this ^

My 9800gt still holds up great. Higher frame rates than consoles and similar graphics - no problem.

Upgrading regularly may have been an issue between 1999 and 2006 but since the dx10 generation of cards (not the api, the hardware though) there has been no real need to upgrade unless you want the graphics to be amazing. People just got an 8800gt and burned the crap out of it for years till it gave up, or until it is yet to give up. Then buy a 6850 and do the same again :/ Upgrading isn't expensive at all unless you do it wrong.

Fair enough though, sometimes developers don't do enough to support older hardware (they lock out some graphics settings or don't put proper attention into the LoD in the renderer). Usually that is the fault of console ports, really. Technically, crysis 2 should be able to run on a 6600gt if the image quality could be set that low.

[Sidewinder-]

I payed £750 for a pc in 2007. (worked my ass off for during college)

2.6 ghz quad. 4gb Ram. 9800gtx+

Never had to touch or upgrade at all.

It's runnin Crysis 2 on extreem clean as a whistle. I do get slowdown on Shogun 2, but it feels no different to what i had on Empire. I'm used to it.