Wow 640x480. Well whatever floats your boat.
But you can't get DX9 with a Geforce 4 card anyway.
...unless your whole post was a joke...then I say HAHA good sir!
The '2 week rule' never made sense in the first place. It doesn't explain games like Unreal 2 and SWG that announced gold a mere few days before they shipped.
I'm happy that you do buy what you download, but you have to understand that as long as the software is out there, for every honest soul like yourself there are countless others who don't share your reasoning.
Obviously I know they would never do that. I would just like to see the warez brats get burned. So no, I'm not showing my age, mentality, or knowledge of the law. I'm showing my disrespect toward thieves.
Well nobody is taking my side on this, which is fine. There is still no reasonable argument FOR piracy that I've yet seen. If you think a product is overpriced, don't buy it. If you think it's a bad game, don't buy it. But downloading it makes you a common thief--end of story.
It's no...
THAT'S the pathetic rationalizion I'm talking about.
What you're saying is: "I hate that shirt, but I'm going to steal it anyway. The company doesn't deserve my money because I hate it. That OTHER shirt I like...I won't steal that one."
The way you worded it, it sounds like you think normal maps act like sprites. They don't.
Normal maps are very effecient at tricking your eye from any angle. There have been plenty of tech demos that prove that. Don't worry about.