The TC is correct like many people have pointed out. The power used to create the extra pixels could be used to make the lighting and effects better. People who are PC gamers understand.
[QUOTE="duxup"]There is a good documentary series / book called Guns Germs and Steel that tries to explain that.duxup
This. The Eurasian civilizations were mostly located latitudinaly. So they had a similar climate which made it easier to have more triad. This is because it is easier to travel/live in one or similar climate zones. As a result they developed more technology. Of course this also meant better weapons. It also explains why they Europeans stayed in South Africa and never really took over central Africa. They did not have the immunity to the tropical diseases and their crops were not suited for tropical climates. If Africa was oriented the same way Eurasia it would have probalbe been more advanced. Well that comes in later, but also important earlier than that was the availability of foods you can easily farm, and animals who can be domesticated and provide food and work. Yes I agree. Ease of food cultivation and farm animal for the food and their viruses.
There is a good documentary series / book called Guns Germs and Steel that tries to explain that.duxup
This. The Eurasian civilizations were mostly located latitudinaly. So they had a similar climate which made it easier to have more triad. This is because it is easier to travel/live in one or similar climate zones. As a result they developed more technology. Of course this also meant better weapons. It also explains why they Europeans stayed in South Africa and never really took over central Africa. They did not have the immunity to the tropical diseases and their crops were not suited for tropical climates. If Africa was oriented the same way Eurasia it would have probalbe been more advanced.
Ray tracing is unefficient for any form of gaming.Dynafrom
That is true at the moment but the future of realistic graphics is ray-tracing. DirectX 11 will support it and there is even talk of phasing out graphics cards in favor of multi-core CPUs. Apparently Nvidia is not to happy about this. But ray-tracing is what Intel, Microsoft and AMD/ATI are going to be pushing. Here is a link.
Like some of the posters said before me, if you want the most realistic graphics you need to mimic real life. This means using ray-tracing and physics. From what I understand the process we use now is getting too expensive because there are to many artists and animators involved in game development.
Not including anime. Farscape, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, Space: Above and Beyond, Stargate SG-1, Star Trek, Firefly, Earth: Final Conflict, Highlander.
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