Official PS3 Discussion Part II

[Altimus]

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Has there been any word on whether or not the PS3 will support in-game custom oundtrack features...this is especially good for fighting/sports/racing games.

It has been rumored, but no confirmation yet and the only confirmation we will probably get is once we have it... or don't have it.

This week I ran Folding@Home for three days straight. Didn't play any games lately and might as well have it do something productive. I must say, I am impressed. No freezes or anything. Bravo Sony. The cooling system is amazing and Folding takes up a lot of resources so it really works the PS3. I know it can go way longer but seeing it myself was cool.

Once again, for Sony.

Also what happened to backbreaker? Haven't seen him post here in a while and miss his daily/weekly PS3 chatter.

[bcruise]

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I just realized I can use my PC controller in the PS3 (It is USB and analog, after all).

Hello APF mirror matches! (I did want to be able to play against my own teams, but I didn't want to buy a new controller just for that)

[mercalnd]

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I just realized I can use my PC controller in the PS3 (It is USB and analog, after all).

Really? I wonder if I can use my wired 360 controller? That'd be pretty funny. It works great on my PC.

[Vince]

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Exactly what is folding at home?

[Altimus]

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Exactly what is folding at home?

What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.

Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

You can help by simply running a piece of software. Folding@Home is a distributed computing project -- people from through out the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer makes the project closer to our goals.

Folding@Home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems thousands to millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.

<table align="center" border="0" width="580"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#dcdcdc"><td>OS Type</td> <td>Current TFLOPS*</td> <td>Active CPUs</td> <td>Total CPUs</td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#f5f5dc"> <td>Windows</td> <td>164</td><td>172818</td><td>1773237</td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#f5f5dc"> <td>Mac OS X/PowerPC</td> <td>7</td><td>9171</td><td>103901</td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#f5f5dc"> <td>Mac OS X/Intel</td> <td>12</td><td>3892</td><td>21308</td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#f5f5dc"> <td>Linux</td> <td>35</td><td>20607</td><td>240728</td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#f5f5dc"> <td>GPU</td> <td>40</td><td>684</td><td>3984</td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#f5f5dc"> <td>PLAYSTATION®3</td> <td>475</td><td>26239</td><td>214484</td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#dcdcdc"> <td>Total</td> <td>733</td><td>233411</td> <td>2357642
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[bcruise]

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Really? I wonder if I can use my wired 360 controller? That'd be pretty funny. It works great on my PC.

It's kinda weird....APF calls it a wireless sixaxis controller when (A)
it's wired and (B) it's not sixaxis, so it's a little buggy to say the least. Also, the controller is way too overly sensitive when it's on the PS3 - tilting it even the slightest bit causes full speed movement in that direction.

It's not something I could actually play a game with, but with the way APF did the teams, I needed another controller to pit my own teams against each other. And that's probably all I'll use it for.

[redxiiixi]

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So in the next month or so I'll finally have the finances to make the jump to true next gen and I'm pretty much 90% sure I'll be getting a PS3. Now that NHL is on the horizon and everything I've read or heard about it says it will be amazing I just can't wait any longer. Anyways I don't have an HDTV and don't really see the point in buying a 400 or 500 dollar set that will be smaller than the one I have now just so I can play in HD.

Dont kid yourself, playing on a 26 inch hdtv is a lot better than playing on a 50 inch standard. I bought a 23 inch smansung hdtv on ebay for $340, just find some bargains

[dave360]

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Do we have an OS folding at home team? If so, whats the info on it?

[ExtremeGamer]

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Do we have an OS folding at home team? If so, whats the info on it?

http://forums.operationsports.com/vB...d.php?t=207725

[countryboy]

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Has there been any word on whether or not the PS3 will support in-game custom oundtrack features...this is especially good for fighting/sports/racing games.

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2007/08/21/...acks-to-games/

[Rodster]

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http://forums.operationsports.com/vB...d.php?t=207725

EG that's one disturbed looking avatar.

[CaptainZombie]

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EG that's one disturbed looking avatar.

That movie sounds very intersesting.

[ExtremeGamer]

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EG that's one disturbed looking avatar.

The comic book ruled though, an amazing storyline. Can't wait to see if they butchered it for the movie.

[rudyjuly2]

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I read an article that says EA isnt even utilizing all the PS3. The SPE's which are availble to handle the work arent being used at all by EA. They are programming the Cell the same way they would program a PC.

So EA is doing the very minimum to make a buck. Im sure thats why they accepted cash from Microsoft to make PS3 games 30fps and a month later they are all 60fps (IMO)

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost...43&postcount=1

This was from another thread but the link had some good info in it.

[Altimus]

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Thing is, SPEs won't be needed too much in sport games. But EA mishandling the SPEs makes sense for lackluster games.