Computer Gaming

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Computer Gaming
Ben Graves Ryan Hogg Will Courtney Barton Engla
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Group 5-Section 11
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Sales

• US sales
• 6 billion dollars of video game sales
• 1 billion dollars of computer game sales
• 7 billion dollars alone in the US

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Video Games
-69 of Americas head of households play
computer or video games -62 are male, 38 are fe
male. -Avg. Age is 33 -25 of gamers are older t
han 50 -Avg. number of years a gamer has played v
ideo games, 12 years -44 of gamers are playing o
nline, up from 19 in 2000. -Video games by genr
e- 53 Everyone, 32 Teen, 15 Mature.
-42 of America have or expect to buy a video or
computer game.
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Playstation 3 X-Box 360 Nintendo Wii
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Most Popular Computer Games

• The Sims (16.08 million)
• Diablo II (14.5 million)
• Myst(entire series) (11 million)
• Starcraft (9.5 million)
• World of Warcraft (8 million)
• Half-Life (8 million)
• Warcraft III (7.6 million)
• The Sims 2 (5.21 million)
• Medal of Honor Allied Assault (4 million)
• Theme Hospital (4 million)
• The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind (4 million)
• Rollercoaster Tycoon (4 million for the original
  in North America alone)
  
• Unreal Tournament (4 million)
• Half-Life 2 (4 million)
• Command Conquer Red Alert (3 million)
• StarCraft Brood War (3 million)
• Warcraft II (3 million)

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War Craft

• PC System Requirements
• OS Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4) Windows XP
  (Service Pack 2)
  
• Processor Intel Pentium3 800MHz or AMD Athlon
  800MHz
  
• Memory
• 512 MB RAM,
• 1GB RAM is recommended
• Video
• Minimum 32MB 3D graphics processor with Hardware
  Transform and Lighting, such as an NVIDIA GeForce
  2 class card or above.
  
• Recommended 64MB VRAM 3D graphics processor with
  Vertex and Pixel Shader capability, such as an
  NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 class card or above.
  
• Sound DirectX compatible sound card

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War Craft

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War Craft

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How Gaming Works

• Main Components Involved
• Hard Drive
• CPU
• System Memory
• Game
• CPU
• Video Cards

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Video Cards

• Have their own onboard memory
• Video RAM
• NVIDIA SLI

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Frame Rates

• First frame rate was 6 fps
• on Monster Maze
• 30 fps (frames per second) is now the minimum
  standard
  
• NVIDIA or ATIs latest cards can reach 160 fps on
  a game such as F.E.A.R.
  

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Pixels

• This laptop probably runs at 1024x768
• (750,000 pixels)
• Monitor Resolutions
• 30 Dell monitor has about 4,000,000

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History of Virtual Reality

• First programmed in the 1950s by Douglas
  Engelbart
  
• Fear of nuclear attacks during the Cold War
  created a need for radar systems that
  instantaneously transformed data into images
  
• Aircraft designers needed more sophisticated
  tech. for Heads-up-display
  

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History

• VR sees extensive use by military in combat
  simulators
  
• Natural consumer was the entertainment industry
• Initial VR technology was not interactive
• High-performance computers of the mid-80s made
  VR more interactive.

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Uses of Virtual Reality

• Military Tanks, Planes, Ships
• VIRTOOL machine tools
• EMT/Doctors
• Commercial shipping and aircraft

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Gaming and Iraq

• Soldiers in Iraq claim that they were prepared
  for War by games like Halo and Battlefield
  
• Realistic atmosphere
• Trains natural instincts

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VR consumer history

• Bulky, expensive, and popular
• Faded away because of lack of compatibility
• New tech. is more advanced
• Equipment is smaller
• Major use is in First Person Shooter games

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Nanotechnology in Gaming

• Dramatic improvements in the processing power of
  computer chips and the capacity of memory have
  permitted designers to create increasingly
  sophisticated and lifelike games
• Moores Law

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LCD Monitors

• Many serious gamers have made the switch from CRT
  to LCD Monitors
  

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LCD vs CRT
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HD/LCD Monitors

• Some high end gamers using HD/LCD monitors
• Larger sized monitors which can double as both
  televisions and computer monitors
  
• Can broadcast/show game in HD quality
• HD has lower resolution than regular PC LCD
  monitors
  

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Performance

• Overclocking
• Water Cooling
• Halogen PC

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ConclusionAny Questions?Thank you