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Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:51
It will kill us all! Oeh! Bejeweled gimme!
Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:47
So I've played through Portal, HL2, Ep1, Ep2. Last night I re-ran through Portal completing it in 3 hours with the Director's Commentary turned on (enlightening for anyone interesting in the evolution of a game's design).
Cannot recommend this package enough - I just wish one could change the controls for vehicle acceleration, as the final battle in Ep2 is a pig when trying to steer and gun the gas with the same stick.
I was expecting crippling slowdown during Ep2, as reported in the 'nets. However, I saw barely any slowdown in Ep2. The worst came during Ep1 in the water-filled basement, but it lasted all of a minute or two.
Clearly slowdown in a PS3 game when the 360 version was smooth is ridiculous, but for me wasn't all that bad.
The loading times, speshly in Ep2 last battle, are a joke of the frustrating, unfunny type.
Cannot recommend this package enough - I just wish one could change the controls for vehicle acceleration, as the final battle in Ep2 is a pig when trying to steer and gun the gas with the same stick.
I was expecting crippling slowdown during Ep2, as reported in the 'nets. However, I saw barely any slowdown in Ep2. The worst came during Ep1 in the water-filled basement, but it lasted all of a minute or two.
Clearly slowdown in a PS3 game when the 360 version was smooth is ridiculous, but for me wasn't all that bad.
The loading times, speshly in Ep2 last battle, are a joke of the frustrating, unfunny type.
Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:06
config wrote:
I was expecting crippling slowdown during Ep2, as reported in the 'nets. However, I saw barely any slowdown in Ep2. The worst came during Ep1 in the water-filled basement, but it lasted all of a minute or two.
I got some quite intolerable slow down in HL2, quite early on in the airboat section, when the helicopter was chasing me. It lasted about 10 seconds, but it was abysmal, especially when sections with apparently similar graphical complexity had no slow down.
Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:48
Seems the culpits are the section with large areas of water, 'cause I noticed the PS3's fan running at max during the Antlion caves in Ep2.
Surely the refraction/reflection effects are within the capabilities of the RSX, which is much more powerful than the old Radion GPU I had in my PC when I first played HL2.
Surely the refraction/reflection effects are within the capabilities of the RSX, which is much more powerful than the old Radion GPU I had in my PC when I first played HL2.
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