They posted a new QR code today :-

Whacked through a mobile phone camera it comes out as a crap load of 1's and 0's (too big to paste here). The nearest match any one can make with this new QR code is this site :-

http://www.sis.gov.uk/output/sis-home-welcome.html

So god knows what the British secret service has to do with all this :?

On a related note and remember this is a RUMOUR it seems SCEE Russia has tweeted that the teaser footage is actually ME 3 :-

For the VideoGameAwards, the company BioWare have shown a teaser in which we can see the first shots of MassEffect 3SCEE Russia Translation

Source : http://alturl.com/xht74 (apologies for the short url, but gamespot has limitations with some weblinks).

This is the direct link to the twitter posting by SCEE Russia :-

http://twitter.com/playstationru

So make of that what you will, could we have seen the first footage of ME 3 ? and what does the British Secret Service have to do with it all ? and will the British Secret be chuffed about thousands suddenly visiting their website out of the blue :D

However you spin it, both companies are flogging the dead horse Nintendo branded a long time ago."

If I could navigate windows with Kinect on my 32" TV, count me interested.

D1zzyCriminal

Your wish is my command ;) take a look at this video :-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho6Yhz21BJI

It is more a proof of concept at the moment but the video does show Kinect being used on a PC to move photos around and do that multi touch thingie you can do on the iphone/ipod (you know pinch to enlarge).

There is no reason why Kinect couldn't be used to control a PC via motion and voice control (remember Kinect supports voice as well) but I really can't see it being accurate enough to replace any of the legacy control methods we currently use.

I may come across as a hardcore PC gamer but in reality the main reason I stay a PC gamer is that I love the mouse and keyboard control scheme. So at least for this gamer until the consoles can reproduce the accuracy, flexibility and control that a mouse and keyboard gives me then I will stay a PC gamer.

WOW I kicked up a hornets nest :roll: I don't particular want to get into the whole "consoles are taking over PC's" rubbish simply because there is no end to that damn argument. The PC is the most dominant gaming platform on the planet even 5 - 6 years after the "next gen" consoles have been released it still remains the most dominant gaming platform on the planet.

Now this topic is meant to be about Kinect supposedly going to hurt PC gaming, from what I have seen of Kinect it offers a "novel" way to play a few types of game. I find it hard to see how you could use Kinect to play a first person shooter (the most popular genre by far) so until they can come up with a way to use Kinect to play ALL games with it then it will remain a "novelty".

Sony's Move is a different story, the move controller does work very well with FPS games or so I hear and you can use the Move controller to control nearly all games that come out on the PS3 so it could easily replace the joypad. The issue with Move is that it does not come "as standard" with consoles. You still have to buy Move on top of getting a console so it really depends on how many PS3 users actually adopt Move as their controller.

As I said I don't believe the motion control systems on the 360/PS3 are any danger to the PC. It is more likely they are a danger to the Wii and to the actual consoles themselves. People game on a PC for specific reasons that do not involve "motion control" so I can't see Kinect or Move having much of an impact on PC gaming.

HD consoles already did that.

D1zzyCriminal

Wow when did they start releasing HD capable consoles ? :roll: Last time I checked the biggest game on the consoles at the moment isn't even in HD. As for Kinect, I doubt it will hurt PC gaming. Perversely I can actually see Kinect and Move hurting console gaming more than it will hurt PC gaming.

The PC will carry on regardless because it offers a gaming experience that the consoles still fail to reproduce and probably will never have the capablility of producing.

That time of year again where the "Koroush Ghazi! anti piracy bible" gets whipped up as set in stone facts. No one knows the true facts except this, despite the apparent problems of piracy we are still getting a boat load of games on the PC and the only ones we never see are games that tradtionally bomb on the PC or are held off the PC by console specific deals.

So let me see if I have got this straight ? Retailers that have neglected the PC and reduced PC titles to a grotty little bin in the corner of the shop are going to boycott steam games. The retailers that employ staff that actually LAUGH at you if you buy a PC game from aforementioned grotty little bin.

Well all I can say to that is "too little too late" and "you made your bed Mr Retailer now **** lie in it". I will continue to buy games from steam and it will have the added bonus now of knowing it annoys the hell out of retailers :D

To be fair I don't think the PC version is the only version messed up big time. It seems the PS3 version is plagued with horrible bugs as well :-

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=274851

Now it is fairly understandable for the PC version to have problems due to the the many different configurations but seriously problems on a console with one set configuration ? What makes it even more laughable is both MS and Sony have a certification system that is supposed to prevent games being released with these kind of amateur schoolboy errors.

One final thing that did make me laugh is that the minute problems occured with the PC version that was cue for the media to scream "it's a sign PC gaming is dying" :-

http://pc.mmgn.com/Articles/Call-of-Duty-Black-Ops-is-the

Oddly enough I don't see any one screaming "The PS3 is dying because COD BO has technical issues"

[QUOTE="FPS_Gamer123"]With the new patch, it says that it fixed "severe performance issues with DirectX". Do we still need to use the d3d9.dll? -wildflower-

I took it out and it seems to be running fine. Then again, I was never having the issues that some people were having so your mileage may vary.

I did have a problem with Fallout NV performance when the game first came out (quadcore + GTX260) the D3D.dll fixed most of the stuttering and made it playable. I have just downloaded the patch and removed the D3D.dll, performance wise it feels a hell of a lot better about the same as if you still had the D3D.dll installed. So I would say have a go without the D3D.dll if performance isn't great then put the dll back but I think you might be pleasently surprised.

I am surprised about the size of the patch though, only 15mbs I was beginning to think we would get a 1.5gb patch :P

Surelly the 4650 is not a monster like TC said but still its a capable card for running less demanding and older games at mostly high settingsadamosmaki

I am not arguing it isn't capable of running less demanding or older games at mostly high. However we are talking about Fallout NV here which was released less than 2 weeks ago. I am quite happy to say that the card would run Fallout NV at low/medium at a res of 1280 x 720 and he will get reasonable framerates. I get the feeling though the TC isn't running at those settings and is trying to max everything out with 8 x AA at a res above 1280 x 720. In short his eyes are too big for his card.

Oh great so now we are using wikipedia as proof :roll: I really do not care to take this argument further, if you honestly believe that the 4650 is a capable card then there is just no arguing against that kind of thinking. If you check this link :-

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?cpu=Mobility+Radeon+HD+4650

That is a chart ranking based on thousands of performance tests (not just some text anyone can edit on a wiki page). It clearly shows that the mobility 4650 is clearly weaker than the eqiuvalent gpu in the 360 (roughly an x1900xt) and the GPU in the PS3 (roughly a 7800gtx).

At the end of the day I know I am facing a losing battle, those that think the 4650 is a "capable" gaming card will not be convinced no matter what proof is shown. Now I am not saying that the 4650 cannot run Fallout NV I am just saying that you should be running Fallout NV on the lowest settings possible if you want decent framerates out of a machine equipped with a mobility 4650.