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Re: Ask a Question, Get Deep!

Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 2:03 pm
by Deepfreeze32
Got it to copy my games and launch them from the hard drive, and replaced the hard drive with a 300 gig one.

Oh, and I could do other things.

Just haven't yet.

Re: Ask a Question, Get Deep!

Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 4:10 pm
by Pheonix
So Rust in Peace full album is coming next week to Rockband...

Awesome?

We already have Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? if you didn't know already.

Re: Ask a Question, Get Deep!

Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 4:43 pm
by Deepfreeze32
Nice.

I knew Peace Sells was there, but Rust in peace.....

...dang, probably my favorite (or close to it) Megadeth album.

Re: Ask a Question, Get Deep!

Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 10:27 pm
by Chozon1
Would it be possible to use an X-Box to play PC games?

Re: Ask a Question, Get Deep!

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 7:11 pm
by Deepfreeze32
It can play some DOS games, yes.

Anything newer......you start over-working the Xbox's CPU.

Re: Ask a Question, Get Deep!

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 4:46 am
by Chozon1
I was talking like...OK, Area 51. It's on both platforms. Taking the PC version and making it work for the X-Box?

Re: Ask a Question, Get Deep!

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 2:32 pm
by Deepfreeze32
Afraid that doesn't work.

believe it or not, video game consoles have less powerful components than a PC of the same generation does. So, for example, Area 51's PC version wouldn't work on Xbox due to a couple of reasons.

1, the Xbox doesn't meet the minimum specs required to run Area 51.

2, it would require different software/hardware architecture to run, so you would need a virtual machine or something like it. And those things are like emulators. They seem small, but on a low-end PC (I.E. lower than yours) it can mean that you can't run any games.


Just for your information, here are the specs of an original xbox.

CPU: 733 MHz Intel Pentium III
Memory: 64 MB of DDR SDRAM @ 200 MHz
Graphics: 233 MHz nVidia NV2A
Hard Disk Drive: 8-10 GB


Yeah.

Re: Ask a Question, Get Deep!

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:01 am
by Chozon1
Schnap. O_o What kinda fancy magic's did they do to make it capable of running Half Life or Halo 2?

Re: Ask a Question, Get Deep!

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:08 am
by Deepfreeze32
First, Halo 2 was made for the Xbox.

Secondly, it's called Software Porting.

What they do is copy the resources and rewrite the code to work on the new platform.

There's more, if you like. just ask.

Re: Ask a Question, Get Deep!

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:09 am
by Chozon1
I knew Halo 2 was designed for the Box, but the PC port of it required much higher specs than that...And as far as I know, looked the same. Same with HL2.

More?

Re: Ask a Question, Get Deep!

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:20 am
by Deepfreeze32
Well, there's optimization.

From what I hear (And I know you have more experience with the Xbox port of HL2) HL2 runs more choppily than the PC version.

Also, a console has no other tasks running in the background, so it can run things on lower specs.


Also, Halo 2 on the PC did look better. IMO anyway.

Re: Ask a Question, Get Deep!

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:29 am
by Chozon1
I'd say it was the other way around. But I was running HL2 PC on a terrible computer. XD

House?

Re: Ask a Question, Get Deep!

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:33 am
by Deepfreeze32
I live in one, yes.

Re: Ask a Question, Get Deep!

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:49 am
by Chozon1
House the book?

Re: Ask a Question, Get Deep!

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:57 am
by Deepfreeze32
Oh.

Never read it.

Library doesn't have it and I'm too lazy (And cheap) to buy it.