By how much, my 128kb(might be 150 now) goes at an alright speed but it's no good for files over 500mb, especially if I'm downloading off a P2P network.
http://www.3drender.com/light/lens.htm
looks a bit crapy to me, maybe if you used it in a very subtle manner it would make a game seem more surreal and generally better looking.
Try looking in the EAX control panel, there's an qualizer effect in there, good for when you want your music tracks to all be the same volume but it completely buggers up anything else.
BTW I'm presumeing you have a sound blaster card.
Couldn't you "spray" the blade with dimond particles to protect it's surface from being sliced into or wouldn't it have any effect? Someone did it on robot wars :)
Oh and I think Fenrics comments are pretty insulting, it's more the kind of thing you would expect a forum troll to post not a mod.
http://www.guildwars.com/gallery/gwscreenshots/gw014.html
Is that really ingame?
http://www.guildwars.com/gallery/gwscreenshots/gw016.html
looks like either a very good use of HDR or photoshop to me.
Everyone hopes they are but the latest screens don't show it. We will just have to wait for E3. Looking at some older shots the latest screens really don't seem to have the same level of textural detail and the shaders don't appear to be on the same level of quality.
Me thinks it's part of...
I bought a sword for about £120 but customs took it of me :(
As for dipshits in cinema's, I normally stand up and tell them to STFU. Not such a good idea but I can only keep calm for so long.
geometry is sort of done on the GPU as well, along with any kind of colour blending operation, fixed fucntion Transform (i think thats geometry) & lighting and dynamic pixel/vertex shaders which replace the fixed function algorythms with programmable ones.
When it comes to geometry I'm not...