vegas bloopers/advertising

[MindlessOath]

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/in-game-advertising/clips-rainbow-six-vegas-blooper-easter-egg-226196.php

check it out... what do ya guys think?

i dont like it much, it just shows how much time was wasted. im already pissed that they made this game using sm3 without any regard for people with older hardware. i just spent 300+$ on a top end video card for its time (x800xt pe, ya its sorta old, but should be powerfull enough to power this game if it wasnt sm3).

what is the money going to go to? i mean wasted time better spent on something else is just wasting money in the first place.

[Ronin]

That's the first time I've seen that.  That guy head butting the rappeling point is pretty funny.

GeForce 6XXX series cards support Shader Model 3.0.  You can get a 6800 for a pretty good price these days if you can find one.

You can also get a GeForce 7600GS AGP 8X with 512MB of VRAM for less than $200.  And in some places less than $180.  That's _much_ cheaper than having to build/buy a whole new rig.  It's not as fast as the PCI-Express version but it will run at the full speed of AGP 8X.  And the 512MB of VRAM means you can use the high res textures if you want.  I bought an AGP version of the 7600 above back in October just after I got GRAW.

I finally decided to bite the bullet and build a Socket 775/PCI-Express system a month or so ago.  It cost me around $800.  But what I have is at least upgradeable when the stuff that's high priced now comes down in price.  It's not a bleeding edge system but it plays R6Vegas, SCDA and GRAW okay.

It _FLIES_ on older games like OGR and Quake 3 Arena.  It also plays Quake 4 and Doom 3 quite well with everything maxed out.

I have the 7600GS 512MB PCI-Express 16 in my new rig and it's really not much faster than the old rig with the AGP 8X version of that card.  I think the machine is really only faster because it's a 3.2Ghz P4 instead of a 2.8Ghz P4 with faster DDR2-800 memory instead of DDR-400 memory. Both machines have 1GB of RAM.

[Aramis]

Problem is if you're still on an AGP board like me. Ubi went to SM3 on a few of it's games and I don't see them going back anytime soon. Expect them all to be that way. SC was too.

[Ronin]

Problem is if you're still on an AGP board like me. Ubi went to SM3 on a few of it's games and I don't see them going back anytime soon. Expect them all to be that way. SC was too.

You can buy GeForce 7600 cards that are AGP 8X right now.  These support SM3 quite well.  Even the GeForce 6X00 cards support SM3.  (I played through SCCT using SM3 on a GF 6600).

The GeForce 6600 will run R6V but just barely (frame rates are quite low even at  the lowest settings).

We're all going to have to move to the PCI-Express systems eventually if we want to keep playing new PC games.  I think the GeForce 8800 cards are PCI-Express only.  So the 7X00 line is the last of the nVidia AGP cards, I think.

I have heard of GeForce 7900 AGP cards.  But I haven't been able to find any for sale.  Anyway the price of the ToL cards (AGP or PCI-E) is still pretty ridiculous (i.e. $300+).

I played all the way through GRAW on an AGP based system. (GeForce 7600GS 512MB).  So there is still some room for new games.  But the next generation (within the year) will probably not run at all on AGP based systems.

I don't know what DX10 is going to do to us.  I already can't go back and recompile some of my code that was written using DirectX 5.

[BajaBravo]

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/in-game-advertising/clips-rainbow-six-vegas-blooper-easter-egg-226196.php

check it out... what do ya guys think?

i dont like it much, it just shows how much time was wasted.

I doubt much time was wasted. I'm sure the footage already existed from the development process and the product placement revenue more than made up for the effort to incorporate the footage into the game. Personally, I enjoy Easter Eggs.

[MONOLITH]

What he said.  ^

[Jason-Alaska]

I hadn't seen that one. That's great.

[Deep Nail]

where is this crap at any way mp? sp?