thus all you ms bashers only use non ms products since it only makes sense. bill gates while a good business man, may be holding some of the desktop consumer os tech back due to the poor reason of making money. heck every business i DESIGNED to make money, thus ms is doing what it is supposed to. at least ms brought some standards to the desktop pc, while some may be ms slanted (like dx) for the most part its a good thing. i really hate the multi standardness of linux. things like no standard install uninstall system (i know of rpms, debs, tgz packages but face it thats already 3 methods of doing things in 3 different distros which place main config files in different places and even use different naming conventions and directory locations for apps). i am not bashin linux or saying the ms is a godsent. instead i am trying to get some of you ignorent ms bashing morons. who many actually use ms products instead of switching to something linux, maybe you should start using linux and stop complaining. heck, even the complaint about not being able to play the games you want because there are not ports to linux should make you want to use linux (or other non ms os)exclusivly even more so developers see a demand for linux (or other os) ports.

ps2 is a crap archtecture. too complex and poor use of bandwidth. 4mb of vram is pathetic considering that there is no hardware texture ocmpression. this greatly reduces texture quality, video resoultion, and model complexity. heck the hardware can transform and fill so many polys its actually quite ironic that you can only push 3-6 million once effects (like texturing and lighting in real game situtaions) are turned on compared to the single triangle benchmark numbers (66 million) that were used in ads. dreamcast has more power power (though definatly a lower fillrate). 8mb of vram, on the fly hardware texture decompression is more reasonable and allows better video resoultion (640x480 instead of many of ps2 games which run 640x240). texture quality/varity is much better as well, because of increased vram and compression. plus it can also push between 3-6 million polys in real world games. just look at shenmue2 or lemans racer.

ps2 is not better then current pcs for 3d games. while i do perfer the controller, playing on a larger screen and the games. my pc is able to handle smooth framerates and sharp 3d graphics. plus i have seen a few ps2 games that have jumpy framerates or framerates locked at 30 instead of 60.

[edited by - a person on April 13, 2002 2:19:55 AM]

The C modest god: "On PC the FPS always "dances" which makes the game feel less "alive" or it''s movements less pleasent to the watcher."

If the frame rate in your games is ''dancing'' try turning down the detail/tex size/resolution and turn on vsync (usually accomplished in Display Properties). There is nothing special in consoles that makes them have smoother frame rates than a PC. It''s just that developers can specifically target the hardware (as stated in other posts). Also, consoles don''t run at very high resolutions (compare to PC games), so they have the benefit of not having to draw as many pixels to the screen.

--Buzzy

If you could check the FPS on the Saturn, it would probably read 60fps. That is/was a very smooth game. Being that the human eye can only see between 60 and 75 frames in a second, I''m sure that there are games that run that fast on your computer. In fact, most games should run that fast. Perhaps what your thinking is smooth gameplay is in fact just a very nice set of animations in VF2.

--Buzzy