what's up with kid's games

[Chewy]

a client/friend had me over setting up her broadband from aol dialup to dsl.
Uck then she askes me to get this game to work for her 8 year old

http://www.sierra.com/en/home/games/game_info.tab-global.prod-L2NvbnRlbnQvc2llcnJhL2VuL3Byb2R1Y3RzL2ljZV9hZ2VfMg%3d%3d.platform-pc.html

fine print said a 128 meg dx9c compliant video card, her ati 7500/64meg
dropped the ball!

[katzdvd]

I know what you are saying, Chew! My son was playing Halo online, & I was complaining that everything was so "dark". That was with my old ATI Radeon. (32 mb DDR)

Recently installed ATI All in Wonder/ 256 mb DDR & now the game looks like daylight! What a difference!!!

playing the continual pc componant upgrade game...

[drfsupercenter]

GameCube is a wonderful thing in this case

[Chewy]

just put (the game) on my #2 computer with the gf4 4200 64 megs very fast ram, does great, looks like i am going to have an ati 7500 vidcard.
I ain't putting a 150$ vid card in a 250$ computer.

[drfsupercenter]

GameCubes sell for $99 and all the games that need huge video cards work for free in them (assuming they make it for GC which they do)

[vw56german]

I doh'd myself in a similar fashion Chewy, not realizing I needed a minimum GForce 9200 card for my first PC to play one of my games. Pays to read the fine print I guess.

Along the same lines as Katz, when I upgraded to my current pc, transferred the vid card and reinstalled the game, I found another layer of back ground graphics I did not have in the slower pc.

I guess the makers have figured out kids wont settle for two paddles and a square ball........

[Chewy]

She's already invested 80-90$ bucks in kid's games that don't play well or at all, after I told her to throw away all the 95/98 lame ones when she upgraded last year. Problem was I couldn't even get into the settings to lame out the damn game. It installs maxed out, stupid sierra programmers.

[LT. Columbo]

parents these days should encourage kids to outdoor activities instead of video games and computers IMO.

[katzdvd]

I guess the makers have figured out kids wont settle for two paddles and a square ball

thats all i need!

parents these days should encourage kids to outdoor activities instead of video games and computers IMO

I hear ya, LT. You try prying a teenagers hands from the keyboard or gamepad, tho...see what happens!

@ LT, what happend to the cool cat avatar???

[drfsupercenter]

Me and athletics don't mix, my parents tried to get me off the computer, not working.

Oh well at least I have the brains to make up for it!

[LT. Columbo]

I hear ya, LT. You try prying a teenagers hands from the keyboard or gamepad, tho...see what happens!

@ LT, what happend to the cool cat avatar???

nothing a wooden stick won't cure

threw it in the bush for now.

[anonymez]

got an X800XL here, plays everything i throw at it with 4xAA, 4XAF. won't be upgrading till i need to turn them off


@chewy: movie based games are very often slapped together to make a quick buck, usually based on a dated engine, crappy graphics and requires very little to run.

[Chewy]

fine print said a 128 meg dx9c compliant video card,

like I said
also hardware transform and lighting capability and pixel shader support,
the 7500 totally lost the picture

forced reboot, couldn't even read the desktop