You'd think he'd have looked up the system requirements ahead of time....

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Jarlath said:

You'd think he'd have looked up the system requirements ahead of time....

For many, ehen a good deal comes their way it's normal to jump on it, then figure out if it will run or not. The amount of games I've bought on steam with this mindset is saddening

So far I still have no need to get a VR set.

Would be cool in driving games but I kinda need to see the damn wheel and stick.

Jarlath said:

You'd think he'd have looked up the system requirements ahead of time....

For real. And he's lucky he didn't have to replace his motherboard. If I want to upgrade my computer any further, I'm going to have to do that. (I always try to "future proof", but I didn't expect to have basically the same computer for 12 years...)

FWP said:

So far I still have no need to get a VR set.

Would be cool in driving games but I kinda need to see the damn wheel and stick.

I may be alone in this, a light-gun game in VR makes a lot of sense to me.

NWSiaCB said:

For real. And he's lucky he didn't have to replace his motherboard. If I want to upgrade my computer any further, I'm going to have to do that. (I always try to "future proof", but I didn't expect to have basically the same computer for 12 years...)

12 years? What motherboard do you fucking use? Only hardware part that ever survived that long for me was the HDD from a early Win98 pc that I still have lying around.

Saladofstones said:

I may be alone in this, a light-gun game in VR makes a lot of sense to me.

How would that work?

FWP said:

12 years? What motherboard do you fucking use? Only hardware part that ever survived that long for me was the HDD from a early Win98 pc that I still have lying around.

How would that work?

An Asus P5N-E SLI. My old 240 gb hard drive actually just failed me a month ago. It had 13.5 years of spin time on it (it started out in an even older computer) before it died on me for good. Western Digital at least used to make some extremely reliable HDDs.

The only part I've needed to replace in this computer is the graphics card - they don't seem to last more than about 7 years, and I've become intimately familiar with the signs of failing GPUs - but everything else (besides half the RAM, which was an expansion) is at least 10 years old.

And it works because ever since CPUs hit their physical limits for miniaturization and everything started going for multiple cores, demands on computers haven't really gone up like computers would become geometrically more powerful every two years in the past. I'm using an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.00GHz, but it still runs everything, even when I'm below the nominal minimum specs. Having a relatively modern graphics card even means I can run most modern games at medium settings just fine.

Just make sure you don't do anything silly like overclock it (I even set lower-than-standard throttling thresholds just to be safe), have good airflow, keep an eye on its maximum temperatures (I've come to recognize when my computer is getting hot when the sound of the fan changes pitch), and be sure to wipe the dust bunnies off the vents every few days and spray compressed air inside every couple years whether it needs it or not, and any equipment you buy from a reliable manufacturer has decent odds of staying in service for a long time. (Every company produces defective products a certain percentage of the time, but those tend to rear their heads relatively quickly.)

NWSiaCB said:

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I only buy from reputable companies and everything except simple cables I get from well reputed companies, I just seem to have a entropy field that destroys hardware.

Which makes me happy I buy from reputable companies since those actually honor the warranty and either get my shit fixed or a replacement.

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Saladofstones said:

I may be alone in this, a light-gun game in VR makes a lot of sense to me.

Many don't realize the benefits from holding your aim still AND looking at your surroundings in a competitive game. Neither about having a true omnipresence view as in 2D games. Not everything VR has to be a first person perspective while shaking random objects around.

(Random rant) Also, stereoscopic 3D a dying fad? Please, basically any current gen console, smartphone and computer has the property of processing two frustum outputs at the same time. Just because a transitional technology like 3D smart TVs don't exist anymore it doesn't mean it is dying everywhere else. VR is here to stay... finally!

Zekana said:

For many, ehen a good deal comes their way it's normal to jump on it, then figure out if it will run or not. The amount of games I've bought on steam with this mindset is saddening

It's not the first time he fucked up by buying hardware he couldn't use...

That's why I said you'd think he'd learn from the last time he bought VR gear.

FWP said:

I only buy from reputable companies and everything except simple cables I get from well reputed companies, I just seem to have a entropy field that destroys hardware.

Which makes me happy I buy from reputable companies since those actually honor the warranty and either get my shit fixed or a replacement.

Just because of how manufacturing takes place, there's always a bit of a gamble. In general, mid-tier CPUs come off the assemblyline as high-tier CPUs that start to fail when put through testing at high speed that just get clocked to a speed they won't fail at, and sold for slightly less. The manufacturing process is so fine in such miniaturized parts that the manufacturers honestly don't know whether they built something functional or not without testing them, which is why warranties are definitely the order of the day. Nevertheless, for a given generation of electronics and a given manufacturer, you can find overall reports of how many fail within a given timeframe online.

FWP said:
How would that work?

I'd imagine something like h3, (hotdogs, horseshoes and hand grenades) where you can hold and aim with virtual guns. In this case, you still have the preset movement of a light-gun game but with the ability to manipulate the guns like a VR game.