![]() Look at that! Lighting! Actual shades of light and dark! Amazing! Note that now we can see that those big ugly squares from the previous images are really a road. ![]() Note the big squares of terrain on the opposite bank, and how the world looks like a big quilt. The distant terrain would pop up in places nearby and occlude nearby scenery. Anyway, this was better looking but unplayable. I guess by “distant” they mean “more than six feet in front of your face”. I turned on the “distant terrain” option and got this. Now, here is the exact same scene after a little messing with the settings: It seems we’re right at the edge of the world. Most of it has to do with the need for 2.0 pixel shaders, which are only available on newer cards.įirst off, this is what the game looked like right out of the box: The screenshots are kind of interesting as an illustration of what went wrong with Oblivion. I wouldn’t know, because I buy all of my computers online these days.Īnyway, I took some before / after screenshots for comparison’s sake. Now that I think of it, this might still be going on. In fact, I’ll bet the electricity used to keep the demo model running the eternal screensaver for all that time ate up most of their margins anyway. ![]() ![]() They couldn’t mark the old computer down any more without killing their margin. I’d see two-year-old (obsolete) computers sitting there for about the same price they were two years ago, next to a new computer for just a few bucks more. Wal-Mart and other places had this same problem throughout the 90’s with PC’s. Maybe in high-tech areas they have enough turnover for this to work.) (This may be more of a problem in lo-tech western PA than elsewhere. Allowing for the time it takes them to get a product to the store and get it onto the shelves for sale, this means they need to put cards on clearance almost the moment they arrive. A card might be introduced and subsequently supplanted within six months. ![]() The speed at which hardware moves is just too fast and retailers can’t operate on that sort of timetable. I checked out Staples, and they had my GeForce 5500 – for which I paid $50 a year ago – on sale for $100. You just can’t turn stuff over fast enough to keep up. As much as I hate this rapid evolution / obsolesence, the retail outfits must hate it ten times as much. ![]()
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