pc gaming is becoming extremely harD!!!

hi guys...i just felt so bad i couldn,t help posting it...
i was just reading an article about phsx card that are going to be the "FUTURE OF GAMING" or something and that looked extremely wierd... ,we all know that pc gamin is fun but it,s becoming hard!!!!
soon not only we'll have to burn a lot of cash on new vga,cpu,... but we also have to buy phsx cards in order to be anle to play some decent games?????that is totally insane ... i think this is why pc gaming is somehow DYING .... dont you think so?????

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PhysX cards are kinda dead. They didn't make as big an impression as originally thought and they kinda suck.

If someone came out with a generic physics card that interacted with all major physics engines and could be patched to support new ones that came along, then it might catch on, but PhysX tied their card to their physics engine and when their engine failed to really catch on, so did their card.

In all honesty it is cheaper to make a competent gaming rig now than ever before. Quit your whining and learn cost/performance ratios.

lol yeah i guess your right purplerat i read some tests and they don't have a real impact on performance/quality

Actually the hope is to simplify it all by combining Physics, AI, Video and standard computing all onto a unified multicore chip. When you also consider that things like on board sound, NICs and value RAM are all now perfectly fine for gaming things are really starting to look better. Even video cards are starting to come back down to earth. Cards like the 8800GT and 9600GT are examples of lower/mid tier cards that will suit most gamers just fine. If Intel is really commited to improving it's IGP and NVidia and AMD are both pursuing better integrated solutions it's all even better for PC gamers.

the job of a PhysX card can now be done by the videocard.

when the PhysX cards originally came out, they were bad because they only added a few more things like more junk flying around when something blows up but it also lowered the framerates because there was more to render, and it didn't add much to the game experience


console gaming is just more popular because videocards are not coming out every month or 2 and game developers are not making games that require a the latest cards so your not forced to constantly buy new cards
so console gaming will always be more popular as change comes more slowly. when chance comes more slowly more people are willing to change than when it comes out so rapidly that it gets annoying.

more people upgraded from socket 939, to socket AM2 than there were that upgraded their videocards

more people are willing to upgrade soundcards because you don't see a new one coming out every month

my audigy 2zs still handles the latest games with no problem

game developers are in a constant graphics race. they only focus on graphics because it doesn't require creativity. so instead of gameplay improving, graphics are improving and gameplay is suffering because you wont get as much action. most newer games have much less enemies to fight and when they add more, graphics for the enemies go down so they look ugly compared to the rest of the game

graphical improvement is good but not good when it is done so rapidly