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| mckinnley |
 Aug 13 2007, 06:27 AM
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 my spoon is too big  Group: Members Posts: 2,389 Joined: 15-August 06 From: new york Member No.: 1,734  |
earlier today i was talking with these two guys. one was from sierra and the other worked for sony and they told me about a ton of shit that they probably shouldn't have told me. but one of the things that i can talk to everybody about (since it's no secret) is that you can run PC games on your ps3.
firstly, you have to have yellowdog linux installed on your ps3. if you have a 60 gig you should do a half and half partition on your hard drive because otherwise you won't have enough storage on your hard drive. i have a 120 gig so there was no problem with that. secondly, you have to have an installation disc for windows XP. using linux, you can install windows onto your ps3. thirdly, you have to have a pc game. that's it, all you have to do is put the disc in and install it and you can play it. i was playing halo on it (ironic don't you think? playing halo on a ps3 that is), the game ran perfectly. i turned the visuals, sound, resolution and everything else all the way up and i didn't run into a single problem. i was amazed to see it run so well. i then put battlefront 2 in and i turned everything up, once again, the ps3 ran the whole thing so perfectly that i nearly shit myself. my ps3 runs games better than my pc. i think this will help all those people that say that they can't keep up with the price of maintaining a good gaming pc. i can't wait for gears to come out for the pc so that i can royally pimp slap all of those 360 owners by playing gears on a ps3. i'll start playing all my pc games on it from now on. i won't get bio shock though until it comes out to the ps3. i would rather get the ps3 version than the pc version because they are going to upgrade the ps3 version a lot over the pc and 360 version. |
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Aug 13 2007, 07:29 AM
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Car Stealer Group: Members Posts: 225 Joined: 3-March 07 Member No.: 4,393 |
WOW! Gears on PS3. That would be so great! mckinnley, does I only need a 120 gb hdd to run windows on ps3?(I have only 60) and then I can put every PC game in ps3 and it will install in my ps3? that would be so cool. almost every exclusive xbox360 game later comes out on PC. and then I could play it on my PS3! that's so awesome.
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| mckinnley |
Aug 13 2007, 10:41 AM
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my spoon is too big Group: Members Posts: 2,389 Joined: 15-August 06 From: new york Member No.: 1,734 |
you just need to have a bunch of memory on the hard drive given to the linux/windows partition. so you can do it with a 60gb but you would have to do a 30 30 split and you still wouldn't have that much memory. so i would recommend getting a bigger hard drive. i'm going to sell my 120gb one to my friend and get a 250gb one so that i can upload a ton of games onto the ps3. the games run on the ps3 exactly the same way as they run on the pc, all you have to do is install all the crap.
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| itsme |
Aug 13 2007, 01:02 PM
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i call bullshit
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| rhd |
Aug 13 2007, 01:17 PM
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 The Shared Madness of Two Group: Moderators Posts: 2,479 Joined: 13-November 05 From: Bahrain Member No.: 597 |
If it is real then the PS3 is just starting to impress me, really......Can you post pictures mckinnley?
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| Poelwyk |
Aug 13 2007, 01:38 PM
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can u plug a mouse and a USB keyboard into it and will thay work???
PS Dont forget that the 8800GTX renders the PS3 GFX into the ground lol the ps3 has a 7800GT in it i think i was told but this someone or i read is some place still cool This post has been edited by MedalForces: Aug 13 2007, 01:42 PM |
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| Dudemanjosh |
Aug 13 2007, 01:44 PM
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Yes I have Ubuntu 7.04 on my PS3. (sucks i only have a 20gb) But you have to use a mouse and keyboard.
Edit: Crappy thing is I don't have a Windows XP disc... What about windows 98? lol This post has been edited by Dudemanjosh: Aug 13 2007, 01:46 PM |
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| Poelwyk |
Aug 13 2007, 01:48 PM
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Car Stealer Group: Members Posts: 265 Joined: 11-December 06 From: Werribee Australia Member No.: 3,017 |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS3
just read my pc DESTROYS this thing In every way but for the Blue ray drive :S so what anyways its a gaming console |
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| itsme |
Aug 13 2007, 02:48 PM
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what CPU are you using then?
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| snyder62 |
Aug 13 2007, 03:59 PM
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 Thanks to all that mercury you won't remember anything! Group: Members Posts: 2,280 Joined: 10-April 06 From: somwhere in, n.c. Member No.: 1,236 |
that is awesome so the ps3 has multiple purposes and it can play games from another console(pc) and the 360 can't even play pc games and they are both made by microsoft.....LOL.....
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| GtaUK |
Aug 13 2007, 04:10 PM
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hang on hang on when did sony let linux access the RSX which is the graphics chip? or am i missing something here? i didn't know you could install windows but i did know you can emulate windows 98 on linux.
If this is true i will be so happy and shocked! |
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| mckinnley |
Aug 13 2007, 04:36 PM
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my spoon is too big Group: Members Posts: 2,389 Joined: 15-August 06 From: new york Member No.: 1,734 |
yellowdog linux doesn't have full access to the components in the ps3. but when you use linux to install xp for some reason it runs it perfectly, it has full access to everything that's in the ps3. it's not an emulation, linux was designed to allow other operating systems to run along side it without any problems. i guess they just forgot to disable that in the ps3 version of linux or something. i'm sure you could install mac aswell but i'm not going to bother doing that. the guy that told me about it said that he ran oblivion for the pc and it ran better than oblivion did on the 360. just put the pc-dvd in and install it.
you have to have the usb mouse and keyboard, if you try to install it without them you will find it impossible. this is the regular operating system. and you can't plug a ps3 controller into your pc and control everything. it's the same thing with this. i don't have a camera so i can't show any pictures. i'll go online and see if my friend can take some pics of it so that i can show you guys. |
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| Dudemanjosh |
Aug 13 2007, 06:17 PM
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Mckinnley, does this work with Ubuntu?
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| itsme |
Aug 13 2007, 06:23 PM
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i still call bullshit, and the fact is its emulation. Windows is based on X86 architecture the PS3 uses CELL which is PowerPC oh and synder Microsoft don't make all PC games!
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| GtaUK |
Aug 13 2007, 09:17 PM
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QUOTE(itsme @ Aug 13 2007, 07:23 PM)  i still call bullshit, and the fact is its emulation. Windows is based on X86 architecture the PS3 uses CELL which is PowerPC oh and synder Microsoft don't make all PC games! but most pc games are for windows so they are made for microsoft windows it would be like playing gears on ps3, gears is made for 360 |
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