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2. June 2009 @ 08:11 |
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Yeah, I began to discuss some of the things you mentioned to me with my mates once they told me about the Left 4 Dead 2 info that was put out. I'm keen to see L4D2 be a bigger title than the original, else there's little to justify another sequel so soon, as technologically it will likely be very similar.
If somebody sends you an invite over steam, press Shift+Tab to bring up the Steam community menu and click the 'click here to join' link that appears in a chat window.
As for being upstairs, whenever we play Versus we stay upstairs in the house. The rock is still the best trick for the campaign though as AI zombies aren't smart enough to realise. Of course, neither are AI survivors, it has to be done with 4 humans.
I can clearly see that all the models are just that, models, but they are among the best I've seen in a game (that goes for the original L4D too)
The fourth level of Death Toll (The Streets) is an amazingly long level for a start, and is indeed particularly difficult as the survivors.
So far the best I've been able to do for the L4D2 teaser trailer is a laggy 540p quicktime video from Gamereplays.
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2. June 2009 @ 18:45 |
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Kevin, I somehow didn't see your post - yeah that's it! Go back to the bottom of the last page for Kevin's YouTube link, or in the next paragraph in this post, is the FilePlanet link where you can download the 118 mb high def trailer, if you want to see it in all its beauty! (It's worth downloading IMO, lol.)
Originally posted by sam:
So far the best I've been able to do for the L4D2 teaser trailer is a laggy 540p quicktime video from Gamereplays.
Hey, go over here, guys, and download the high definition L4D-2 trailer, which they posted yesterday. FilePlanet has fast servers - this is 118mb and I think it's the same movie miles played for me - I played it on the laptop, but not yet on the big dell. (I downloaded it on one of the free servers and I waited about 10 minutes. The new download manager doesn't require you to be there to press the button like they used to do - just come back later and you'll have the file.)
Originally posted by sam:
If somebody sends you an invite over steam, press Shift+Tab to bring up the Steam community menu and click the 'click here to join' link that appears in a chat window.
That part I know, Sam, but my problem is that when I'm in a game - I don't see the invites. So I don't know anybody has sent me an invitation. Am I turning something off that I shouldn't be turning off - like "inform me in-game when I have an invitation" or something like that? Do you guys get invitation announcements in the middle of playing a round?
Yeah, "The Streets" is hard hard hard. It's mostly the hordes coming from all directions - they just wear you down so you're not doing so well by the time the tank shows up. Yes you do get health packs for the mini gun defense, but we had trouble getting that far. I am wondering if A. ducking into doorways is the best strategy, or B. if the 10-foot rule works best - nobody goes 10 feet away from the team.
Edit: Wow! Over there at FilePlanet just now, getting the Cod Modern Warfare 2 trailer - I noticed a crysis 2 trailer! Hey hey hey! Downloading that too!
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2. June 2009 @ 20:34 |
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2. June 2009 @ 21:38 |
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Shaff, I'll be on tomorrow. Nobody has told me how to get your invites while I'm playing, so I'll try to do shift tab each time I get to a safe house, I guess, to check "my messages" lol.
Otherwise - tell me how to get your invites while I'm playing!
Yeah Sam, they said they were going to have MORE CONTENT in Left 4 Dead 2 than in the first one. I guess sales of the first one went pretty well, from what I read, with all the advertising bucks they put out there - more bucks than they had ever done before! The loyal Valve base chipped in, so now more great stuff is on the way!
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By the way, Shaff, the God of War looked gayish. (just kidding.)
No, actually it looked okay. If you're into gayish things like flying people and mythological monsters, lol.
Sorry, I'm just into realism - things that really exist. You know, like zombies! :P
How do I get your friggin invites when I'm playing? Hahaha.
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2. June 2009 @ 22:06 |
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The Crysis 2 teaser literally tells you nothing - It's gunna be designed using CryEngine 3 and will be for PC, PS3 and 360 - Loads of people are worried the PC version might suffer because of this, but Crytek have always developed for the PC in the past and so I think they'll put that version first.
Don't get me started on everything I'm looking forward to after E3 :)
BTW, Nintendo's press conference sucked so unbelievably bad (they did redeem themselves a tiny bit at the end but not enough) Anyway, in no particular order:
On PSP - DIRT 2, Little Big Planet, Gran Turismo 5 Mobile, Resident Evil Mobile, Jack and Daxter, Motorstorm Arctic Edge, Fat Princess, Metal Gear Solid, Socom Fireteam Bravo 3... Maybe a couple more I can't remember.
On PS3 - Sony Motion (un-named), God Of War 3, Gran Turismo 5, Fat Princess, Ratchet and Clank, MAG, Agent, The Last Guardian, Uncharted 2 and finally the two new Final Fantasy games (not played any of them before and would like to see what all the fuss is about)
On 360 (I don't actually own one of these yet, but I'm entertaining the idea, at least) - Project Natal, Alan Wake, the two new Halos, Metal Gear Solid, Forza 3, 1080p streaming of films and Sky, Facebook and Twitted integration (you might have just about noticed that these aren't games :p )
On PC - DIRT 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Bioshock 2, Crysis 2, Need for Speed Shift, Mass Effect 2, Modern Warfare 2, Half Life 2 Episode 3, Dead Rising 2 and Portal 2, if Valve ever decide to make one :)
On DS - Golden Sun.
On Wii (Don't own one of these either, never will, but still, they look good enough games) - Super Mario Galaxy 2, Metroid M, Dead Space Extraction.
Anyway, as you can see, Nintendo were rather rubbish overall and I feel, at least, that Sony stole the show on the game front. Microsoft clawed back a lackluster exclusive games list with Project Natal - If Microsoft can pull it off then they have something huge on their hands. Sony's Motion technology still looks great, especially the amazingly low lag with movement being transferred to onscreen, it doesn't seem as deeply involving as Microsoft's could be, but it has more real use in game.
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2. June 2009 @ 22:27 |
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Shokz I take back everything I said about you getting back into L4D. You obviously don't have ANY TIME in the day - look at how many goddamn games you are going to be buying!!! Hahahaha.
Single-handedly you are going to get the world economy back on its feet!!
(Episode 3 is coming, finally? Yay! Life after @%#$@ @#%#@ - play the game and you'll see - @%#%@ @%#@%$ :(
Why oh why oh why did that happen??? It's all Dog's fault!)
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2. June 2009 @ 23:52 |
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I for one, am excited to see how they further improve the Source Engine for Episode 3. They'll have it perfected I think :) It can't help but look better than Left 4 Dead, and as for performance, LOL bring it on. It's gonna be an awesome end to the story arc and I bet it'll be longer than Episode 2. IIRC it didn't take nearly as long for Episode 2 after Episode 1 was released, so they must have put some work into it :)
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3. June 2009 @ 00:58 |
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Yeah, either that, Jeff, or they had to drop every other goddamn thing they were working on and clean up the mess that was Left 4 Dead when they took over the project from Turtle Rock!! The vision and the essential framework were there - but some of the programmers Booth had helping him were not quite up to the very high standards of Valve in terms of how the coding was handled. From what I heard, some of the Valve guys couldn't believe the game actually ran at all. A lot of feathers got ruffled when the Valve guys jumped in to get the project packaged up and out the door for Christmas - those Turtle Rock people who started flaming their critics didn't stay with Valve when Orange County was closed down.
But in any case, gotta give him major major props, Turtle Rock founder, Mike Booth, who was cashed out very handsomely and is now full-time Valve (working like Miles out of LA - that's where Miles got the idea to ask Gabe if he too could do that) had a brilliant vision for a game that I saw being developed, and which I have to admit I was very skeptical about. That just proves that I don't have the kind of vision Mike has - the game never really appealed to me in very early playtest - or messing around on Miles' computer by myself with some helper bots - and now of course I'm addicted to the brilliantly executed final product.
Mike's vision came from this: Mike developed the bots for Condition Zero after Valve had several false starts attempting to create a single player experience for Counter Strike that would let players develop their skills before they jumped on-line. The Lost Episodes that used to ship with Condition Zero was a whole set of campaigns using Counter Strike weapons. There was a campaign in Vietnam for example. Another somewhere in snowy Russia. But Valve didn't like it - they paid off that third-party company and never released the material. Mike had some good contacts into Valve, and he had achieved some recognition for strong programming skills - he had developed some early games, I understand, that had gained him wide respect.
He said "Why don't you guys just let me do this project for you?" He said his idea was just to take the 1.6 maps and add player bots that would play so well you couldn't tell them from real players. He did just that - they actually had some people trying bots, versus trying real players, and nobody could tell whether it was the bots they were fighting, or highly skilled players. Those Condition Zero bots also became the Counter Strike bots that you see when the server doesn't have enough real players. Booth's AI is first rate, and I believe he also originated the idea and initial programming for The Director, another brilliant AI concept, which creates L4D gameplay that is unique and different every single time, and ended up saving a ton of programming, because it is no longer necessary to pre-set when all the zombies will spawn on every single map - just create the spawn points and let the director handle it, and make necessary tweaks only to the director itself, not to every map.
Some of that is discussed in the Developer Commentary.
Of course, as Sam recently mentioned, AI is not quite as good as human, when it comes to things like knowing to jump up on the rock and stay there - or as I found out - jump up on the airplane wing and stay there. But in terms of moving around, shooting, no friendly fire at which they excel, healing everybody (love those bots for that!) and performing quite well, it's usually not critical when somebody goes idle for a smoke break!
Some of this following info also is shared in the Developer Commentary:
In developing the bots, Mike and his buddies used to like to divert themselves by populating the map with 50 terrorist bots armed only with knives, versus Mike and a couple of his coworkers. Have you guys ever done a round in Counter Strike where everybody agrees ahead of time: Knives Only!! Anyway, they found THAT gameplay great fun - and from that was born the idea of battling zombies.
So maybe Episode 3 took so long because it is SUPER good, or just because there were other priorities. In any case, even if L4D was the reason everything else was put on the back burner, if that's what happened, obviously I love how they tuned up the game. As far as EP3 goes, if they kill off any more of my favorite characters - like Barney, or Gman, or the old scientist with the little pet headcrab, or Alyx herself - then I'm not signing on for Half Life 3.
I'm just kidding of course!! LOL (But losing @#%^@#%@%$@ @%@%@%@% - play the game - @%@%@% #%^#@$@% didn't set right with me. Damn Dog!!) hahahaha
Rich
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3. June 2009 @ 01:05 |
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I dunno if I'll be around tomorrow for the usual L4D though. I have parties to attend and possibly another graduation. Everybody in my extended family is graduating high school this year it seems :P
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3. June 2009 @ 06:56 |
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Rich - you need to be a paying subscriber to access FilePlanet files without a 10-11 minute wait. Much like most files, if it's on fileplanet with wait, it's on filefront for free.
As for the Steam invites, you will hear a noise much like when you get a message, and when you shift+tab it'll be there, no more complex than that. If there's nothing there, the invites aren't getting through.
Yeah I remember hearing about Crysis 2, well, if we can't run the original properly yet, I dread to think what that will be like.
If there's a Super Mario Galaxy 2, I will definitely be buying it. The original was an absolutely incredible game. A Dead Space game on the Wii though? No thanks. Bugged control and all, I'd still take a PC version.
Ultimately none of the games on the PS3 really excite me much apart from GT5, as has always been the case with the PS3, no change here.
Rich: If anyone who intends to play Ep2 and hasn't, that's the biggest plot spoiler of all in that post. Probably ought to remove it :P
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3. June 2009 @ 07:28 |
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http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/20...3-840-x-2-160/1
Typical Asus. Let's show off what 4GB can do by using a crazy resolution only available on Special order $25,000 monitors. Oh look, no AA! Now I wonder what it is in Far Cry 2 that owns video memory? Is it resolution? A single HD4870 gets 26fps at 2560x1600. Doesn't look like it. Is it AA? Well, enable 8xAA and both Quad SLI and Quad CF get less than 10fps.
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3. June 2009 @ 07:33 |
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But what about Uncharted 2 and The Last Guardian? :p If you haven't seen those two in action I suggest you look up the E3 footage on YouTube :)
That aside, Gran Turismo 5 is looking amazing...
If you haven't seen the E3 footage of that either then this should be your first port of call :D The graphics manage to look even better than in Prologue, and there were a couple of amazing little reveals in the footage:
1) It'll have NASCAR (I don't care about that, nor does it seem any other non-american does, but I've seen some people getting excited about it...)
2) It's got rally - looks like they've even nabbed the WRC license (I'm excited about this one)
3) It's. Got. Damage. (I fail to see how ANYONE could not be happy about that)
Also, details of the PSP version were given at the Sony conference which gives us a rough idea of what we're going to be looking at in the PS3 version: There'll be 35 individual tracks (or 36, I can't actually remember which) with around 60 variations to those overall and... wait for it... eight hundred bloody cars :o
So, yeah, PS3 version should have even more than that :p
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3. June 2009 @ 07:35 |
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What is the extent of the damage exactly? I'm still a GTPlanet member but sort of stopped paying attention when it was revealed GT5 would be 5 years behind the 2-years delayed GT4, it's too long to keep eyeing up every little fact.
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3. June 2009 @ 07:47 |
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There pretty much hasn't been any info till now :p And we don't know - in the trailer it showed a rally car in one scene and when the camera panned round to the front of the car the bonnet was a bit crumpled etc. (looked like a low speed impact had caused it) As far as i know, no one knows anything more yet.
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3. June 2009 @ 07:54 |
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Also, oh dear.
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GTX285: 6-31
GTX275: 6-27
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3. June 2009 @ 08:20 |
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3. June 2009 @ 08:21 |
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See this is it, the last I heard was that damage would only be applied to rally cars...
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3. June 2009 @ 08:25 |
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Haha xD
Oh well, maybe they still can't stand the sight of their exotics getting a scratch on them :P Guess we'll have to see with time.
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3. June 2009 @ 08:48 |
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sony motion, the fusion of the wimote and natal!
nice idea, if i bit ripped off lol.
God of war 3 is teh sex, id take it over my shisha right now! and thats saying ALOT. im probably looking more forward to that than MW2.
MAG on the PS3 looks good.
MSG for the 360 looks brilliant aswell.
Soul calibur V should have kratos which would be just win!.
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3. June 2009 @ 09:19 |
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Yeah, there are way better levels on God of War 3 and MAG than the ones they showed off, off :p
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3. June 2009 @ 13:44 |
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Well you wait for a decent racing game to come along and then about 48 come along at once.
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3. June 2009 @ 14:17 |
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Actually, I think you'll find there's only 47 ;)
And one game I forgot to mention - Heavy Rain :o
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3) It's. Got. Damage. (I fail to see how ANYONE could not be happy about that)
Haha that's been a long time coming :P
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eight hundred bloody cars :o
Omg I can't play it now. Too much freedom of choice >.<
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GTX275: 6-27
HD4890: 7-20
HD4870: 7-18
Haha what causes that? I'm sure my rig could handle it higher than that. 1920 x 1200 was cake. Is it sucking video memory at that res? Also notice how multi-GPU is used better with higher settings. Are there high settings results?
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Wow... Well, that game's terrible anyway :)
Nah be nice. It was alright :)
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And here's a YouTube link to watch the whole thing :) Only two minutes:
OMG I thought I saw stock cars in there :O OMGOMGOMG now I'm excited :D
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3. June 2009 @ 15:25 |
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As usual I'm a day behind. You guys with your racing games! (I'm too uncoordinated to play games like that! No actually, I did try Need for Speed about 5 years ago - not bad! I outran the cops a couple times. I imagine they're wayyyy better now.)
Originally posted by Sam:
As for the Steam invites, you will hear a noise much like when you get a message, and when you shift+tab it'll be there, no more complex than that.
Now we're getting somewhere.
Please elaborate just a bit, Sam. A noise like a message. You mean a little tiny bell like on a cell phone text message - which I never know I have until months later? Remember, I'm the guy who can't yet hear the tank around the next bend. And when my headphones are on - it is VERY noisy in my little head - so what does a noise like a message sound like?
But still, thank you very much, at least that's a start!!
Originally posted by Jeff:
Everybody in my extended family is graduating high school this year it seems :P
Well that's better than "Everybody is dropping out of school and becoming a gang-banger" Hahahaha
Do they have gang bangers in Wisconsin? Estuansis, I'll catch you next week.
Tell me more guys, about this message noise. Maybe I can turn it up or customize it to play a rock 'n roll song or something that makes it different from ALL THE NOISE that is already going on in the game, lol.
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Rich: If anyone who intends to play Ep2 and hasn't, that's the biggest plot spoiler of all in that post. Probably ought to remove it :P
Duhhh! Right! That's the same thing I did last time. You know, I just thought that everybody would have played by now but of course I'm wrong - I will fix that in one minute, thanks. Christ - I had to fix two posts. "Get ya Spoiler City right he-uh!"
Originally posted by sam's article about the asus card:
A quick trip to the game?s option screen confirmed it was running at 3,840 x 2,160 with all the eye candy on. It looked enormous and played fairly smoothly too.
There it is, Sam's new monitor, lol.
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Typical Asus. Let's show off what 4GB can do by using a crazy resolution only available on Special order $25,000 monitors. Oh look, no AA! Now I wonder what it is in Far Cry 2 that owns video memory? Is it resolution? A single HD4870 gets 26fps at 2560x1600. Doesn't look like it. Is it AA? Well, enable 8xAA and both Quad SLI and Quad CF get less than 10fps.
That, forum buddies, is British sarcasm so thick you could butter your toast with it!! Hahaha!
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1920x1200 Cryostasis: (Minimum/Average fps)
GTX295: All High, 16xAF 08(single instance)12/42
HD4870X2: All Medium, no AF 02(Single instance)14/44
GTX285: All Medium, no AF 14/42
GTX275: Medium*, no AF 16/43
HD4890: All Low, no AF 07(double instance)13/32
HD4870 1GB: All Low, no AF 07(single instance)12/29
GTX260: All Low, no AF 09(single instance)13/37
* Normal Maps Low, Shadows Off
Cryostasis 1680x1050
AA/AF values not stated, non-forceable, estimated at 2x8 or 2x16
All nvidia tests performed with PhysX enabled due to broadband performance benefit
GTX295: All High, Motion Blur & Reflections On (note, they were off for all tests at higher resolutions), AA, AF 17/45
HD4870X2: All High, MB/R Off, AF only, 01(single instance)09(single instance)15/39
GTX285: All High, MB/R Off, AF only, 13(single instance)17/42
GTX275: All High, MB/R Off, no AA/AF, 11(single instance)15(single instance)16/38
HD4890: High Tex/SpecMap, Medium NorMap/Shadows, 12(single instance)15/36
HD4870: High Tex/SpecMap, Low NorMap, No shadows, 12(double instance)15/34
GTX260: High Tex/SpecMap, Medium Normap/Shadows, 14(single instance)16/39
PhysX Impact
GTX295, 2560x1600 Maximum
PhysX enabled: 12(double instance)15/44
PhysX disabled: 13(single instance)14(single instance)15/40
GTX295, 1680x1050 Maximum, AA+AF enabled
PhysX enabled: 18/45
PhysX disabled: 08(single instance)14(single instance)16(double instance)19/43
GTX285, 1680x1050 Maximum
PhysX enabled: 13(single instance)17/42
PhysX disabled: 10(single instance)17/40
GTX275, 1680x1050 Maximum
PhysX enabled: 11(single instance)15/38
PhysX disabled: 02(single instance)15/38
GTX260, 1680x1050 High [no specific settings info available]
PhysX enabled: 14(single instance)16/39
PhysX disabled: 05(single instance)11(single instance)13(single instance)16/39
Shader Model settings
GTX295, 2560x1600 Maximum
SM4.0: 12(double instance)15(single instance)16/44
SM2.0: 14(single instance)16/33
HD4870X2, 2560x1600 Maximum
SM4.0: 12(single instance)13/31
SM3.0: 02(single instance)04(single instance)08/18
SM2.0: 02(single instance)05(single instance)08/17
Top-end Maximum Settings comparison
1680x1050 Maximum, AA+AF enabled
GTX295: 19/45
HD4870X2: 13/36
GTX285: 10(double instance)14(double instance)16/32
High-end Maximum settings comparison
1680x1050 Maximum, no AA or AF
GTX275: 13(single instance)14(single instance)15/35
GTX260: 11(single instance)13(double instance)14/31
HD4890: 06(single instance)07(single instance)12(single instance)/13/28
HD4870 1GB: 02(single instance)10(double instance)11/24
Rich: The noise that Steam makes when you receive a message is damn deafening, it drowns out almost anything. It annoys me. If it came through, you'd have heard it.
Unfortunately, a P56QHD4 costs about $40,000. Granted, the fact that the UK currency against the dollar soared this week shaved the price of that by about £4000 made it a lot cheaper, but still, a bit too much even for me :P
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 4. June 2009 @ 11:35
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