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To: fyodor_ who wrote (37174)	4/24/2001 10:38:32 AM
From: Epinephrine	Read Replies (1) of 275872

<Apparently not ;-). I recently bought Grand Prix 3 (arguably the best F1 racing sim, released sometime last year) and I can run it absolutely perfectly with all options enabled on my home computer: 700MHz Athlon Classic + GeForce256 DDR.> Fyodor, What time last year? if that game was released last year and by that you don't mean just 4 months ago (ie 12/31/00) then considering development time your PC probably exceeds the state of the art at the time of game release. any much over 1 year ago there were no GHz pc's 700MHz was the fastest there would have been. The fact that the game runs flawlessly on your 700MHz system is probably because it was designed to run on systems with much less power. But all this talk of power and whether it is needed for 90% of consumers misses a point brought up by rsi_boy which is "Of course current software does not require 1ghz, software vendors have to cater to the installed base" meaning that the reason that software lags hardware is not because of lazy programmers or software developers it is due to the fact that just like every other successful business software companies must maximize their revenue by catering to the largest possible target market. This unfortunately means including many slower system speeds and has the inherent effect of obscuring the sense of immediate need for an upgrade. But fortunately the power gamers and the other 10% of users that need power fuel a constant market for faster systems. when systems get faster they do it across whole product lines and so the low end rises as well. Then when people upgrade and get a faster system that cumulative effect eventually raises the minimum performance bar of the installed base and applications can be written to take advantage of that power. Since we seem to have picked all the low hanging fruit and there is currently no raging killer app causing rampant immediate frenzied upgrades this process will not be immediately apparant to many people but although it may be painfully slow it is absolutely relentless and will be for a long long time. I can think of many things that will be added to and improved in pc's that will fuel this process but this post is already too long =) Regards, Epinephrine

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