Call of Duty: Black Ops

Fumz said:

the game ships with multi-core CPU support turned off for some reason, as if a modern PC gamer doesn’t have a multi-core CPU at the heart of his or her rig. And yet at the same time, the game ships with multi-GPU support turned on. Everybody has a multi-core CPU, but finding someone with a multi-GPU setup is somewhat rarer.

Surprise! Game-Breaking Problems Mar PC Launch Of Call Of Duty: Black Ops


This revelation isn't as shocking as it should be. I wasn't holding my breath anticipating this CoD would be any different from the last CoD: a poorly optimized pos console port. In fact, I can't think of an fps that's come out recently that isn't a poorly optimized pos console port.

that is the kind of stuff that can be found out and corrected before the game release with a public beta

I knew since there was not going to be any demo or beta for Black Ops I didn't want to run out and spend 60$ at launch and have to deal with lag and bugs and then have to wait for patches to fix things on the PC version because it is a console port

these days I am more surprised when I am able to find a PC game that isn't a pos console port

That's one nice thing with console's. When I popped the game into my 360, the very first thing it did was download an update. Updates are fast and game systems are standard.

I bought it on sale from Direct2Drive for $45 and played last night for a couple of hours. it was pretty fun.

AstaLaVista said:

Well, I gotta say, that is pretty stupid of them to do. Did they say how to turn that ON or they left it out as well?

Now, while I agree with you on the poorly/unoptimized/ crappy console ports, I gotta say that MW2 is the best I have seen yet... compare to the others ones of course. I am talking about ports people not gameplay.

I have yet to read where/how this can be turned on.

As for MW2: no matter how well polished or how well tapered the turd is, at the end of the day, turd is still turd. That we debate which turd is the best turd only incentives them to produce more turds... because at that point, they know we'll settle for turd.

I'm voting no with the wallet on this one too... which is unfortunate, but, I'm tired of turds.

boohbah said:

Not long returned home with it , bugger is my lad has to wait until xmas to open it!

He'll have dl'd it by then

I thought I would check the price on a certain site I use to earn points and get discounts on all sorts of games, consoles and ton of other products.
To my surprise my points now could get me $100.00 off of a PS3 120gb or $75.00 off a Xbox 360 4gb Wifi.
But when I checked on COD Black Ops the same amount of points was only worth $12.00 off of $59.99
So I'm still going to wait and buy it used most likely from Amazon in a couple of months.
Till then I just reloaded MW2 and started paying it again while I wait.
Fabe