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Video Card Thread (Mostly Gecube x1950xt)
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harvrdguy
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31. July 2008 @ 20:00 |
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Hah, how'd you do that before me. I just did the same thing. Here they both are again 700 wide - yours at the bottom has been cropped.
Can you see all the extra detail in yours!! :D I'm dyin for you to get that river shot!!
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harvrdguy
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31. July 2008 @ 20:02 |
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Duhh! I've been saying Under the Radar, and putting it in the posts - it's the episode before that, Riding Shotgun. I'll get it right one day!
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31. July 2008 @ 20:03 |
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Then help me find it! lol
Ok, Riding Shotgun, the beginning of that section?
Oh and I know how much you like shotguns, check this out:
Note to mods: Is this considered too graphically violent for minors?
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31. July 2008 @ 20:23 |
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harvrdguy
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31. July 2008 @ 20:32 |
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Hah Hah! Dude, I LOVE the shotgun for Half Life 2 - I use it half the time, it's my fav right after the combine rifle. I JUST learned in EP2 that you can hit the right mouse button and fire BOTH barrels at once - can you believe I never knew that - I never paid attention to that - that's why they tell you how to do everything again, for dummies like me. So all EP2 I've been right-clicking the shotgun in close encounters of the combine kind. Down they m**f**ing go! Alyx says "Nice shot!" You bet they dive to the ground with two barrels at point blank 4' range. I'm lovin' it.
By the way, when I'm in a hurry sometimes I use shotguns to open boxes, like when Hunters are on my ass. Sometimes I use them to blast manhacks. But a lot of people don't know, I'll bet, that the easiest way to get rid of manhacks is to grab them with the GG and shoot them against the nearest hard object like the wall. Way better than shooting - if you're not too busy with a hunter on your ass to Q quick change to the gg from the combine rifle or whatever you're popping to slow that screaming big b*tch down.
But anyway, why I'm laughing - I looked at that picture of yours with the shotgun, then I read your note to the mods, and I thought - What's violent, did he just shoot that bush? And then I looked closer at the "bush" and you blew a zombie's head off, you evil guy! BAN HIM ... BAN HIM!! Hahahaha! (I thought it was a bush, am I retarded???) Lol
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harvrdguy
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31. July 2008 @ 20:34 |
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Oh man how'd you sneak that in there while I was ranting about manhacks! MAN OH MAN WHAT A BEAUTY!!!!! Let me post this quick while I take a closer look.
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31. July 2008 @ 20:34 |
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Lol that's one thing I did know, and used to great advantage. Huge ammo eater though!
The gravity gun method of killing Manhacks just seemed obvious to me, and I've been using it since the very beginning of Half Life 2.
I didn't think to use the grav gun object kill on the Hunters though - worked a treat for me when I was trapped in the house!
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harvrdguy
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31. July 2008 @ 20:41 |
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Sam, I saved the full size. I see the one you posted is 1024 - but that stretches all the posts - forcing the use of the bottom scroll to read anything - can you re-size it to 800 wide. By the way, did you ever load Ulead - how's it working for you?
It is almost a shame to post your shot, and not have a link to the full size at the same time, so I think that's how I'm going to do it. What a beauty! I think I said that already - bears repeating. NIIIIICE!!
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31. July 2008 @ 20:43 |
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Hmm, sorry. I presumed 1024 wide would be enough for anybody.
I haven't really used Ulead for ages, I haven't had the need for it. I still have it though, it will certainly become useful at some point I'm sure.
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harvrdguy
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31. July 2008 @ 20:45 |
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Ah hah! Gravity Gun throw on the Hunters. Oh, sweet yes! Did you cary an extra radiator down to the basement for today's Hunter battle??
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31. July 2008 @ 20:48 |
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I fought two of them upstairs together. THAT was hairy! :)
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harvrdguy
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31. July 2008 @ 20:48 |
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Well maybe it's just me. I run 1024 x 768 on all my desktops. So 1024 for a picture on the post becomes too long because they have to provide room on the side for the side scroll bar. Maybe 900 would be better - we, meaning estuansis and I, so far have been throwing up 800 wide for the forum. (other thread)
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31. July 2008 @ 20:50 |
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1024x768... :O
No wonder these pictures seem big!
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harvrdguy
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31. July 2008 @ 20:52 |
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Oh, well I just grabbed a steam radiator and headed down to the basement in wait. I tried it earlier but with just the radiator that was there, then after every shot as I grabbed the first radiator by mistake I often grabbed a little piece of a broken box which had zero effect on the Hunter - he wasn't amused. After dying several painful deaths, I said "Hell with it, haul some more radiators down there and grab throw, grab throw. They go down fast. How'd you do it with the two of them?
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31. July 2008 @ 20:54 |
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Use the same radiator a few times for the first. The other took a grenade and a clip of machine gun...
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harvrdguy
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31. July 2008 @ 20:55 |
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Well it's one thing to run 2560x1600 for a game, but don't tell me you run that on your desktop!! LOL
I just looked at AOL and I see I have a horizontal scroll bar and I'm full-screen. So the rest of the world is running what - 1280? Maybe I should adapt to the times. :P
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31. July 2008 @ 20:59 |
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harvrdguy
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31. July 2008 @ 21:10 |
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Anyway, I suppose it's well past midnight over there, since it's after 6:00pm here. You got the shot, and I really think it's an absolute beauty. The full effect won't be there at 800 wide - maybe I'll check with everybody and see what size desktops they're running, if everybody's at 1280 then that's what I'll have to do too. Lol
So thanks Sam, maybe tomorrow's little project will be to post the comparisons on the graphics thread, at 800 wide for now, but also with a link to the full-size. Just waiting for estuansis' 1920x1200. We're going to have that potential cropping issue also when he gets his wide angle shot, since mine is 4x3 at 1600x1200, and the 1280x1024 that he took likewise is not a wide angle.
So maybe after posting 800 wide as they are, maybe your and his wide angle should be cropped like we just did with the big view at the end of Under the Radar. (I have to go back to the other thread and edit all my posts where I had the two chapters confused when I meant to say Riding Shotgun.) When all the wide angles are cropped, and dropped to 800 wide, then all the parts of the shots will be sized the same, and we can focus in on picture quality and detail - right? See you, Rich
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harvrdguy
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31. July 2008 @ 21:31 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Of course I do, why wouldn't I? :P
My desktop from February:
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/9282/desktop290208ut2.jpg
Anyway, it's 2am, glad you enjoyed my screenies, I'll upload the rest of them as a batch at some point for you to salivate over. Till then, gonna catch me some Z's....
Oh for crying out loud. How can you see those icons? That is a monstrous desktop.
I'm ashamed to post a picture of mine at 1024x768. Hey everybody out there - what horizontal are you guys running on your 4/3 desktops. I've been running 1024 for years but I see that AOL full screen has a scroll bar, which tells me that I should be at least at 1280 I guess. Sam can run a window with all of AOL in a little corner of his screen - well just kidding it would take about 1/3 the screen I guess LOL Here's sam's desktop shrunk to 1024 wide:
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31. July 2008 @ 23:00 |
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This is mine:
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31. July 2008 @ 23:17 |
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GTFO OF MY RELIGION!!
HAHA i kiddd. v.nice
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1. August 2008 @ 07:30 |
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Well, I can't see them in that shrunk version, but of course with that much screen space, they're normal size!
ebay Motors: Toyota, Abuzar?
I decided to do this for a laugh. This is 8 simultaneous simpsons episodes all showing their respective couch gags. They are all running at full rip resolution (512x384)
Unfortunately, you can't printscreen an active 3D render window, so one of them had to come up blank, which is a pity, but until I find a proper screengrabber program, this will have to do.
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1. August 2008 @ 07:54 |
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im sure the snipping tool in vista would do it
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1. August 2008 @ 08:00 |
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More results tables for those interested. This time comparing the best of the best single card, an overclocked GTX280, to the best value performance set, a pair of HD4850s.
Call of Duty 2560x1600-4xAA: GTX280 - 67fps, HD4850CF - 73fps
GRiD 2560x1600-4xAA: GTX280 - 50fps, HD4850CF - 31fps
World in Conflict 2560x1600-4xAA: GTX280 - 42fps, HD4850CF - 42fps
Rainbow Six Vegas 2 2560x1600-0xAA: GTX280 - 70fps, HD4850CF - 74fps
Half Life 2 Episode Two 2560x1600-8xAA: GTX280 - 67fps, HD4850CF - 83fps
Oblivion 2560x1600-4xAA: GTX280 - 79fps, HD4850CF - 94fps
Assassin's Creed 2560x1600-0xAA: GTX280 - 51fps, HD4850CF - 50fps
Assassin's Creed 2560x1600-4xAA: GTX280 - 39fps, HD4850CF - 51fps (different game section to above test)
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars 2560x1600-4xAA: GTX280 - 74fps, HD4850CF - 87fps
GRiD 1920x1200-4xAA: GTX280 - 72fps, HD4850CF - 105fps
Lost Planet Colonies 1920x1200-0xAA: GTX280 - 76fps, HD4850CF - 55fps
Crysis 1920x1200-0xAA Hi: GTX280 - 30fps, HD4850CF - 29fps
Crysis 1920x1200-0xAA VH: GTX280 - 20fps, HD4850CF - 22fps
Shaff: Not using Vista, I wouldn't know. VLC can capture screens of one specific video, but not a printscreen with the desktop and the screen simultaneously.
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1. August 2008 @ 09:30 |
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£220 vs £20 aswell.
id takethe 4850s in a heartbeat, IF i had the mobo. oh and id choose the HIS ones, so for about £270v£270 id choose the 4850 still.
and you cant SLI ont he x38/x48 for upgrade puropses down the line, and you can pair the 4850 with a 4870 later on or an X2 SO another reason for the CF 4850s
BUT the X58 will support SLI, withthe nforce 200 chip, BUT only if a mobo maker, (IE GB or ASUS or DFI ETC wants it)
still CF 4850s FTW
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