By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close

Gaming - CONSOLEs vs PC - View Post

Xenobot on 06 November 2014
Edit Thread
Pemalite said:
Xenobot said:
Intrinsic said:
Pemalite said:
 


Consoles also do less at any one time.

Say WHAAAAAAT?
Like when? Are you computer or software engineer to say that?

I did study in electrical engineering, taught myself various programming languages starting with Beginners All-pupose Symbolic Instruction Code on the commodore 64, then moved to more "full featured" languages over the years, these days I mostly deal with objective C.

However, my argument is sound and is logical and I shall expand on my reasoning for why.

Is a console running a full featured, multi-tasking OS that has dozens of services running in the background and taskbar?
Are their games graphically at the same or better level as PC games?

If you answered "No" to both of those questions, then you are correct.

Yes a console can pull off better pictures with the hardware it has, only because it does less of everything, resolution, framerates, textures, lighting, shadows, Anti-Aliasing, Texture filtering, A.I and character counts, geometry, OS, API's, Drivers, various services like Steam... etc'.

So mr. software expert please explain me this:

Why CoD AW runs smoothly in 720p 30 fps on PS3, but you can't expect same result from Core i7, 4 GB ram and GeForce 7800 GTX (both PS3 and GF 7800 are based on Nvidia G70)?

Is it because of background tasks like steam?

Does steam and os services drain power from graphics card?

If I could turn of most of os services and background tasks can I get 30 fps 720p in CoD AW on GTX 7800?
You don't need antivirus, printing service, network service, indexing service nor explorer it self to run a game. You can turn them off.

and don't tel me it's DX 11 - PS3 and PS4 versions runs just fine without DX 11.

Both PC and PS4, Xbox One does the same: same resolution, same resolution, same textures, same lighting, same shadows, same Anti-Aliasing, same Texture filtering, same A.I and character counts, same geometry, same or similar API's, and various similar services like Steam, PSN, XBL. But PC OS and HW is highly compatible and PS4/XO HW and OS is highly optimized for gaming.