Deus Ex 3

Scotch_Lufkin · 2011-08-22T13:47:47.000Z

Tom McNamara:

Putting your SSDs in a RAID is like putting a spoiler on a rocket launcher. It might look neater, but it just ain’t gonna make much difference.

What does this have to do with the price of tea in China? Who said they were going to do this?

Royal Fool:

Also, remember that the scale is from 1.0 to 7.9, not 10.

I’m aware the score in Windows 7 goes to 7.9, I never meant to indicate otherwise, I was simply stating my score is 5.9 for what it’s worth, as I was talking about load times, where HDD access time is the most relevant data.

JM1 · 2011-08-22T14:09:52.000Z

Tom McNamara:

Really, a marketing video? How about some real numbers. That’s just the first page of charts. The overall results go back and forth with no clear winner.

Yes, really. It’s a funny video and I’m sorry it upset you.

That’s a pretty odd test they’ve got there. “Hey, we picked two lousy SSDs and tried to make them better by RAIDing them”.

Tom_McNamara · 2011-08-22T14:39:37.000Z

BleedTheFreak:

What does this have to do with the price of tea in China? Who said they were going to do this?

http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showpost.php?p=2813404&postcount=1803

JM:

Yes, really. It’s a funny video and I’m sorry it upset you.

I appreciate your compassion, but I think I’ll recover eventually.

Jafisob · 2011-08-22T14:46:51.000Z

Did I somehow stumble into the Hardware and technical stuff forum?

Scotch_Lufkin · 2011-08-22T14:51:19.000Z

Wow, two thoughts about that link Tom provided to the link of the Gamespy reviews.

Yeah, RAID SSD sounds like a waste, very odd.
Is 40 seconds really THAT long? I guess I’ve a bit more tolerance. I suppose if I saw them frequently that would suck, but I don’t think they come up that often (loading screens, I mean).

Then again, I was going to play on Hard, so maybe I’ll be singing a different tune this time next week.

John_Reynolds · 2011-08-22T15:15:26.000Z

Checked on Amazon to see if my pre-order has shipped and it’s now saying the augmented edition is not available for the PC version. This confirmed?

JM1 · 2011-08-22T15:18:11.000Z

Wouldn’t surprise me - we’ve been unable to source any copies.

TurinTur · 2011-08-22T15:19:31.000Z

BleedTheFreak:

Is 40 seconds really THAT long? I guess I’ve a bit more tolerance. I suppose if I saw them frequently that would suck, but I don’t think they come up that often (loading screens, I mean).

40 seconds is king of too long, yeah. Doing memory of the last dozen games i have played, loading times are usually 5-25 seconds. It’s something it has improved in the last years thank to multi threading and data streaming.

Now, if it’s really 40 seconds in a high end machine (and if the guy had an raid ssd, he surely have also a bitching computer in all the components), we are talking more of around 60 seconds on a more average computer.

60 seconds is worse, and he mentions the problem being the loading every time he died. So… it’s not the loading time when you start a new big open level like a city hub, but every time you quick load, even being the same level.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2011-08-22T15:48:18.000Z

Fair enough. But again, I played the beta (presumably older code than the release) and I didn’t think the load times … well, I didn’t really think of them at all, which to me means they didn’t register as very long (or short). I guess we’ll know more in a few hours…

Scotch_Lufkin · 2011-08-22T17:47:38.000Z

Speaking of loading times - IGN compared the loading times between the various versions of the game HERE.

(no PC times here though)

See, now THESE times are more in line with what I experienced playing the beta - about 22 seconds after death (that’s the installed 360). Looking at that, my recollection of the PC version is about where that is. Maybe that guy RAIDing his SSD’s just doesn’t know what he’s doing and he has a setting all messed up somewhere, LOL.

Tom_McNamara · 2011-08-22T18:03:59.000Z

According to the Frys ad in today’s newspaper, they’ll have the PC version on sale for $40, and the console versions for $50.

Also, Green Man Gaming is selling their Steam codes for $42.50, and new customers can use coupon code 20SUM-MERSA-VINGS to bring it down to $34.

Dunno if the game is going to be as good as the reviewers are generally saying it is – just passing along information :)

Jason_McCullough · 2011-08-22T19:35:48.000Z

oh god oh god oh god that RPS review

Angrycoder · 2011-08-22T20:23:10.000Z

So this isn’t unlocking till midnight PST? I thought it was going to be EST.

bah humbug.

lordkosc · 2011-08-22T20:30:51.000Z

yeah says 4 more hours for me :(

Lunch_of_Kong · 2011-08-22T21:04:30.000Z

Take a nap. set your alarm.

not in that order.

Angrycoder · 2011-08-22T21:20:22.000Z

I am pretty sure if you go to sleep after 11pm it isn’t considered a nap anymore.

Calm · 2011-08-22T21:36:51.000Z

Bah, tried to take advantage of that Green Man deal and now I think both my credit cards have been flagged for possible fraud use, can’t use either of them to buy it. What a hassle.

Blips · 2011-08-22T21:38:32.000Z

Less than 2.5 hours remain until the game is unlocked and destroyed by hype.

Morberis · 2011-08-22T21:43:19.000Z

I was on the fence about whether I should wait for a sale or not given my backlog, but with RPS’s WOT article and the greenman gaming 15%+20% off I pulled the trigger.

Much appreciated to those of you that have brought the sale up in here.

I have stayed far far away from the media frenzy so should have the hype train crash my party.

Phydeaux · 2011-08-22T21:45:42.000Z

Blips:

Less than 2.5 hours remain until the game is unlocked and destroyed by hype.

I can’t wait to be disappointed, again!