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only if they are right, and this one's sort of self-fullfilling. We had already known from HeroCon that Ultra-Mode arriving separately of Going Rogue was a possibility.

heh. I should state that the while the screenshot is real, it's not an accurate indication of how the game looks / works now against Intel hardware.

One of the issues with Intel hardware is that their chips are largely graphics accelerators. They don't actually process all of the graphics data, rather relying on the main processor. This is why Intel's Larrabee wasn't exactly a big deal (for Intel internally). Intel's been doing software rendering for years because they can't make real, and we'll use that term loosely, graphics processors.

Because Intel doesn't really make anything that resembles a GPU, performance is pretty aweful, and you will take an image quality hit. Now, give me a few moments and lets see what's in the $650 range that doesn't have junk graphics.

Snaptooth?

Let me see if I can fully wrap my head around the complete and sheer idiocy of the statement you just uttered...

Somebody buffs you... and you wait for that buff to wear off... before fighting a mob?

Are you SURE City of Heroes is the game for you? I think you need to go play a game by Blizzard instead.

http://cpuid.com/cpuz.php

if you don't mind running this utility, then copying the information over (There should be an export to html option), that will tell us more about what's in your computer and what could be done with it.

*taps Pogo on the shoulder*

But Fedor and I are still here... now bring me a catnip milkshake and fetch Master Fedor his Hamster Ball of Rolling!

You already jumped on it full force and are trying to catch Richard Hammond.

You'd be waiting until Spring 2011 then... From what we know out of TSMC, Nvidia hasn't even placed orders for anything other than the 3billion transistor mega-chip top-end Fermi GPU. We also know from Thermaltake that Fermi is HOT. Getting the Fermi architecture to run at appreciable clock-rates and performance levels without playing the part of oven-roaster is probably going to require another die shrink... and that means cuddling up to either GlobalFoundaries or Intel for something smaller than 40nm.

While Fermi might indeed be a performance monster, from the information given to us by the companies working with Nvidia, Nvidia's pretty much knocked itself out of the mid-range and mobile segment for at least another hardware generation.

I'm guessing going to be the same as what laptops with the GTX 260's are running at right now. As far as I can research, the GTX 260 is the most powerful mobile chipset currently being sold.

(that and I don't know how badly the Ireland markets jack up relative prices for new hardware.)

Probably not. the mobile Geforce GT240 is basically a rebadged, die shrunk, downclocked version of the 9600 GT...

If you were searching for an Ultra-Mode compatible computer, start looking for laptops with the Nvidia GTX 260M, or wait for the game to launch, and you should be able to find a laptop with one of these GPU's: http://www.amd.com/us/products/noteb...y-hd-5800.aspx

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Edit: Whoops. I typed out the wrong card model. The GT240 mobile is closer to a desktop 9400 GT

... really.

Okay. To repeat what I've said in couple posts: YOU ARE MOVING THE DEVELOPMENT OF GOING ROGUE UP BY WEEKS, IF NOT MONTHS.

We, that's us, the player base, the people typing on these forums, were not supposed to know about Going Rogue until Fourth Quarter 2009, with the big reveal probably having been planned for HeroCon 2009.

The only reason we know about Going Rogue is that somebody working in a third party marketing screwed up. A mass email was sent out long before Paragon Studios or NCSoft were ready to talk about the game. Rather than simply trying to hide the topic, Paragon Studios and NCSoft simply bit a bullet, and put up the information about what they knew they'd be doing in the expansion.

That DOES NOT MEAN that the Going Rogue feature list or content list was by any means complete. Rather, giving the timing of development, it's not likely that the content of the game was going to be finalized until Forth Quarter 2009. Again, that was placing the determinations about what Going Rogue would have, and what it would not have around the time of HeroCon.

That also doesn't mean that the content, maps, textures, artwork, polygon build, sprites, NPC AI routines and everything else was done by HeroCon. Rather, lets look at City of Villains. The game was announced in April of 2007, and shipped in October 2007, so about 6 to 7 months.

If we assume a 6 to 7 month lead in from the intended Q4 announcement, the expansion is right on schedule for where it should be.

So your little two cents isn't two cents. It's not even a half pence of NOT PAYING ATTENTION. Get your timeline and your expectations straight. Now, if we hit 6 months from October, and there's still no open or closed beta, then you can bring up your two cents about no beta being ridiculous.

... Nvidia's been having issues with 64bit drivers for years: http://www.mepisguides.com/Mepis-7/h...ati-64bit.html

Short version, if you are using a 64bit OS, use an Intel or an ATi graphics card, or pray that Apple decides to contribute code to Nouveau.

Long Version: If you don't have the option of switching out your Nvidia for an ATi graphics card, you are going to be stuck with playing driver roulette and trying out different drivers from Nvidia's archive: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us : I'd suggest going all the back to the 180 series. Those tend to not crash as much.