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Forums - Gaming - MGS 4 using only 50% of power?

obieslut on 16 August 2008
Jo21 said:
well they base their % in how many spe they use
square enix says their white engine (a very powerful engine as seen in recent scans)

only use 4/6 spe, meaning just around 66-70% of the power of the ps3 power.

 

a good post. but why the hell wont a dev just use all of them for gods sake i want to see what my baby can do



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obieslut on 16 August 2008
Viper1 said:
Sqrl said:

Any time someone says "It uses x% of the consoles power!" they are wrong and they are very very silly for saying such things.

Consoles and PCs simply do not work in terms of usage percentages, there are far too many parts of any system that can be the bottleneck in any number of scenarios within an application for any number like this to be anything but pulled out of someone's ass.

Its a nice soundbyte for consumption of those who don't know better and are willing to gobble it up. Outside of that its useless...utterly.

Please read this people. It's really ridiculous to claim you're using X% of a systems power because X% of system power is a metric that cannot be calculated.

Using 50% of the available SPE's does not, I repeat, does not mean it's using only 50% of the PS3's power.

 

but it does mean that you are not using a good amount of the processing power



dtewi on 16 August 2008

It was also only using 34% of the controller, and 6% of the PS3's fun factor!



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Profcrab on 16 August 2008
Sqrl said:

Any time someone says "It uses x% of the consoles power!" they are wrong and they are very very silly for saying such things.

Consoles and PCs simply do not work in terms of usage percentages, there are far too many parts of any system that can be the bottleneck in any number of scenarios within an application for any number like this to be anything but pulled out of someone's ass.

Its a nice soundbyte for consumption of those who don't know better and are willing to gobble it up.  Outside of that its useless...utterly.

 

I believe you used only 75% of the boards capabilities with that post.

I give that post a 9.8.



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