14th July 2010, 7:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 14th July 2010, 7:46 PM by A Black Falcon.)
No graphics options, really? I highly doubt it, I've never heard of that in a 3d PC game. I would be very, VERY surprised if there really weren't options somewhere. A separate graphics configuration program, perhaps? That is common.
Poor performance, though? That happens sometimes. One of my least favorite PC ports is Beyond Good & Evil, partially because of the awful framerates it gets for no reason and partially for the awful controls (no gamepad support? Really? And why were the framerates so much worse than the PC version of Rayman 3's, when both have fairly similar graphics? And that game has dual analog gamepad support, too...). There are others, though. Gear Works for the PC (an old DOS game), or at least the version of it we got, is broken and it's impossible to beat the first world... it just loops back to the beginning when you beat it. Now THAT is a bad port.
I am wondering, though... It's only a year old, but how good a videocard do you have? That is the question... Any PC gamer really should be spending at least $200 on their videocard, if they want it to last at all. (Laptops for serious PC gaming... forget it unless you want to spend a lot...)
This computer here is from early 2007, nearly 3 1/2 years ago, and can still run any game I've thrown at it so far at playable framerates, though on some titles I do need to turn down the graphics more than others; Shattered Horizon and Crysis definitely won't run playably at High settings, for example. They will run playably at medium settings or below, though. Why is it still doing okay as a gaming PC? Mostly because I spent nearly $2000 on it, no monitor included, I think... $300 video card, etc.
I mean, you can play PC games on a moderately powerful machine. Today a fine computer for today's games can easily be put together for under $1000. One of the most important things is to NOT USE INTEGRATED GRAPHICS! Even a fairly low-end actual videocard is going to blow away the horror that is integrated graphics...
Poor performance, though? That happens sometimes. One of my least favorite PC ports is Beyond Good & Evil, partially because of the awful framerates it gets for no reason and partially for the awful controls (no gamepad support? Really? And why were the framerates so much worse than the PC version of Rayman 3's, when both have fairly similar graphics? And that game has dual analog gamepad support, too...). There are others, though. Gear Works for the PC (an old DOS game), or at least the version of it we got, is broken and it's impossible to beat the first world... it just loops back to the beginning when you beat it. Now THAT is a bad port.
I am wondering, though... It's only a year old, but how good a videocard do you have? That is the question... Any PC gamer really should be spending at least $200 on their videocard, if they want it to last at all. (Laptops for serious PC gaming... forget it unless you want to spend a lot...)
This computer here is from early 2007, nearly 3 1/2 years ago, and can still run any game I've thrown at it so far at playable framerates, though on some titles I do need to turn down the graphics more than others; Shattered Horizon and Crysis definitely won't run playably at High settings, for example. They will run playably at medium settings or below, though. Why is it still doing okay as a gaming PC? Mostly because I spent nearly $2000 on it, no monitor included, I think... $300 video card, etc.
I mean, you can play PC games on a moderately powerful machine. Today a fine computer for today's games can easily be put together for under $1000. One of the most important things is to NOT USE INTEGRATED GRAPHICS! Even a fairly low-end actual videocard is going to blow away the horror that is integrated graphics...
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