Forsaken

Strange, I heard that when Carmack complained about DirectX at first, the MS people prooved to him that DirectX is cool. But that was a long time ago. Anyway, well, Carmack can write in Fortran and use Glide for his games if he thinks it's a better choice. But writing in C++ only because it is much more useful in a master's hands is virtually the same as dropping out of Universities because Bill Gates did. Not all people can become millionaires in this sphere. Carmack uses C. Should everyone use C now? You'll write better in C# than in C if you are not a doctor in programming. But if you here are all experts - well sorry. I thought if you WERE you wouldn't need a DooM 3 Engine.

Management(managd?) DirectX is a DirectX library especially for .NET(C#). DirectX regular is not supposed to work for C# at all. Or works badly. I'm not sure about that, there is just some problem with it.

Does C++ actually make sense anymore? Management DirectX seems to be gaining speed...

I'm an IRC flooder. I'm so bored with its empiteness that I write stuff just for the sake of it.

Maybe that term is not used on foreign forums... Flooder - someone who writes useless posts.

Well, that's why I asked. Looking at iXBT statistics, two NVidia best cards in SLI mode are higher than the most powerful Radeon alone, but NVidia is lower than Radeon otherwise. The problem is, buying two video cards for performance only slightly higher than a Radeon one is a waste of money in my opinion. Old motherboards and AGP is not a problem - no one has those anymore, at least in the DooM 3/Quake IV players area. But one card costs much enough, why buy two is the performance will fade away later anyway, why not get the Radeon?

Why is there no reputation on this forum! "The only way any outsider can learn to speak welsh, is to contract influenza or an equivilent chest infection, so it just isn't worth it." - rubbish. Being in a country speaking the language you are trying to learn is the best possible option if you want to learn. And I know that from my own experience. To Dram - what kind of flamer/flooder/leaker are you? Do you ever stop?

What use is a SLI video card, anyone tell me? Radeon rulez!

...and there is Dram, leading all topics offtopic...

I wonder what you are on about. You have just enough information!

Well, that sounds scoundrel.

Is it true that if I don't have a sound card, the second CPU will take care of the sound so it won't slow down my computer along with the video?

Is a dual core CPU help with games at any rate?

Downloading it... My mom should check it out then.

Lineage II is not free, is it?

Is "socirty" the same as "society"?

I wonder if I get this one ever. Didn't hear anything bad said about it. Only I don't get what genre it is...

And there is always the difficulty level.

Didn't notice anything interesting in Lineage. To advance to next class you need 20 level... Who makes games like that? OK, they could have at least made this single player part more interesting, but here it seems to be worse than Diablo. Absolutely nothing to do but bash enemies. No items, no herb collecting, no special quests, no plot, no miniatcivities, nothing! Skills? Well, I don't know, if Iron Fist can be called a skill. Simply improves your attack slightly once in a while... Even in Diablo II you had many different skills at the beggining of the game - summoning sceletons or wolves, roaring on enemies, and conjuring of auras... Is it so hard to include something like that in a MMORPG? Because from what I have heard, the improvement from level one to level 20-30 is a boring process that exists there for I don't know what and must be passed by everyone? Horsecrap.

Hmm, and you think you are in a bad situation?

What is the interest of that? Shouldn't PvP just be a possibility? Besides, how do they fight - there is no battle control in MMORPG's I have seen so far. I always imagined MMORPG's like Morrowinds where you can also meet real people, and maybe follow some plot with them together, but then it turned out - stupid process of rising to the 20 level. In fact, the game design is empty. Just open fields with mindless scatterings of minsters around. Stupid monotonous quests, low monster AI, and, of course, complete destruction of any atmosphere by hordes of ugly language...

Heh, maybe someone will explaine me what sense is in a game like Lineage?

There is nothing wrong with cars. I hate buses, subways, trilleys - I had enough of that. Walking to work? Phrrh. We walk to schools in Russia, isn't good at all. Especially with all the dangerous people around. The thing that is more or less wrong is control of all this. We have half of our problems solved by a car. Speaking of greenhouse effect - well, we can as well disable all machienes and factories, or go over to electrical cars...

Well, when people drive while drunk they may think that they won't be caught at all. So it may have no influence. It may even backfire. Overhigh laws end up badly too. I would leave it as it is. What should improve is how many drunk-drivers are caught. In Russia, every now and then someone get's killed by a drunk driver, because all those drivers need to do to get away with something is pay the police. But in America, you'll really get in trouble. And there aren't a lot of those drivers anymore... So catch more, that is what will scare them.

Well, looks like we were arguing about nothing because I pretty much agree with that...