{"id":1854,"date":"2008-09-03T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2008-09-03T13:14:46","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T18:14:46","slug":"see-next-months-minimum-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1854","title":{"rendered":"See Next Month’s Minimum Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"

The dire fate I predicted here<\/a> is coming to pass:<\/p>\n

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It’s a new graphics card from NVIDIA. Let’s see: <\/p>\n

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  1. It takes up the space of 2 internal expansion slots. So, you’ll need to use up a PCIe slot, and one beside it.\n<\/li>\n
  2. It’s numbered all crazy. There’s little new technology or functionality. It’s actually an 8800 series chipset with some different tweaks to the production and clocking, but they renumbered it as 9800.\n<\/li>\n
  3. It’s designed to be used in conjunction with additional cards, so you could put two of these things together. (Assuming you have room for a couple of these space heaters in your computer case.)\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I can’t wait until game developers have to list this stuff on the side of the box. We already have stuff like this:<\/p>\n

    Video Card - Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 128MB RAM (NVIDIA 6600 or better\/ATI X1300 or better, excluding ATI X1550).<\/tt><\/p>\n

    But now they’ll have to tell you what chipset, how much memory, what shader model, and<\/strong> how many cards you need. Maybe you’ll need two<\/em> 9800’s, but certain versions of the 9900 can do it alone, if you have it configured right and you have enough memory. You’ll need a degree in engineering just to understand if your computer can run the game or not.<\/p>\n

    Sigh. All this so we can play another five-hour tech demo about space marines that runs like a dead sloth.<\/p>\n

    We’re standing in front of the burning house labeled “PC Gaming”. Hardware manufacturers are holding a can of gas, and game developers are holding a lighter, and each is pointing at the other and crying about how it’s all his<\/em> fault. <\/p>\n

    Wasn’t this supposed to be about having fun?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The dire fate I predicted here is coming to pass: It’s a new graphics card from NVIDIA. Let’s see: It takes up the space of 2 internal expansion slots. So, you’ll need to use up a PCIe slot, and one beside it. It’s numbered all crazy. There’s little new technology or functionality. It’s actually an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}