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1. July 2009 @ 09:25 |
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Proms in 5 hours its fine! After party's going to be better then actual thing a lass who goes to my school got crippled by a hit and run and she's coming to it so she's going to be the constant centre of attention. Buying a crate of Carling :-)
Anywho back to the point I've just took it out shook it about a bit and it works! Haven't installed Catalyst yet though...
FIXED IT!!!! it does it if I disable geometry instancing whatever that is/does.
I could put something funny here but I cant be arsed. Now GO AWAY! This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 1. July 2009 @ 10:14
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1. July 2009 @ 21:19 |
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oh boy oh boy! I picked up a Crysis 3 pack at walmart today :D
Crysis + Crysis Warhead + Crysis Wars only 39.99! I'll be trying it out after I stop fooling with my Oc'ing LOL!
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1. July 2009 @ 21:34 |
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Very nice. Your PC should run it pretty well. It takes advantage of quad core even in XP. And the GTX260 kills at it already.
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1. July 2009 @ 22:10 |
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Looks like i'll be running updates and hotfixes first. Fairly large downloads too. Ah well. No biggie. I'll be having fun in no time LOL! :D
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1. July 2009 @ 22:24 |
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I think the latest patch is 1.3. Not too sure on the install order though read the patch notes. Here is a guide to the settings and tweaks for cheap very high settings and whatnot. You'll need it:
http://www.tweakguides.com/Crysis_1.html
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1. July 2009 @ 22:28 |
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I believe I understand the order they explained. And I think you mean 1.2!
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Crytek has announced that there will not be a future 1.3 Patch for Crysis
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1. July 2009 @ 22:29 |
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On the topic of Crysis - weirdest thing ever (someone else mentioned it about another game I think, but I forget who) - turning on anti-aliasing in Crysis Warhead literally has no effect on framerate; 0xAA and 8xAA give the same framerates and you can see the AA is on - these things baffle me.
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1. July 2009 @ 22:36 |
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Shokz: You're CPU limited then. AA does have a big impact on frame rates once you reach the GPU limit.
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1. July 2009 @ 23:09 |
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Crysis doesn't wanna give me any resolution settings above 1600 x 1200. Whats odd is I run a wide screen. Why would it even give that option! I must admit though, it looks pretty decent at 1024 x 768!
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1. July 2009 @ 23:16 |
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Drag the slider, don't use the scroll wheel :P
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1. July 2009 @ 23:32 |
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LOL!!! Thanks buddy! I cant believe I missed that ROFL! MUCH better. Looks pretty nice actually.
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2. July 2009 @ 01:11 |
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Originally posted by keith:
The thing is you can moan how much too much you paid but then if you spend time waiting for stuff to cheapen up your wasting time that could be used for gaming on a nicer system!
(not sure how well I explained that!)
I think you explained it just fine - it's all relative and based on one's priorities. For me, estuansis has inspired me to get my butt back to work - I just officially quit my company yesterday and I'll be working for a new real estate firm in about 60 days (I have to renew my license first.) Another thing that is happening is that my extra commission check is disappearing fast - so I am putting off the DFI and new build investment - but I won't have to count the pennies so much when I start selling more houses. Somehow that fits in with what you just said, Keith, but I don't think I explained it very well, lol.
Originally posted by Jeff:
LOL I'm the drunkest I've ever been. Don't mind me...
Hahahaha.
Should we put that under the category of "substance abuse?" Or should we put that under the category of pre-July 4th celebrating, since Jesus turned the water into wine.
Somehow that makes me think of Michael Jackson again. The fool was totally tripping on pain killers - major major addiction ever since his hair caught on fire in the Pepsi commercial. And of course, it's all legal. They tried to abolish alcohol - the roaring '20's. They have made herb illegal - not for long here in California - we're only backward when it comes to same sex marriage.
But the drug industry! Multi-billions! Big big business. They want to make national health care a reality like it is in Europe. How about national nutrition and exercise, and a healthy skepticism of prescription drugs? Oh no! Not gonna touch that one. Too much money at stake!
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Originally posted by jeff:
As previously stated, sorry for any apparently drunk posting :S
Hell - I think I missed some good stuff. Goddamn that edit key, lol!
Originally posted by shaffaaf:
Thanks for unbanning me :D
Good job shaff. But how the hell did you get that accomplished - and who were you talking to, DDP? Or creaky or loco? (I thought only binkie followed our thread.)
Originally posted by shaff:
ummm prom>PC forget ur PC and games, prom is somethign you jsut shouldnt miss, esp when there will be hott girls! :D
I thought you only went out with your cousins????
Originally posted by keith:
Anywho back to the point I've just took it out shook it about a bit and it works!
WTF! I never heard of that - you're a miracle worker - you should take Jeff's job in that PC shop. (I hope you didn't try that on the after prom party lass who was hit by the car - bad joke, sorry.)
Originally posted by kevin:
oh boy oh boy! I picked up a Crysis 3 pack at walmart today :D
Crysis + Crysis Warhead + Crysis Wars only 39.99! I'll be trying it out after I stop fooling with my Oc'ing LOL!
Omega, goddamn you and your walmart ways. Now I'm back to Keith's talk about spending money. Let's see: On ebay, I bought crysis and crysis warhead combined, for a fair bit MORE than that (and they're sitting in the box waiting for the new build) and no Crysis Wars. Why am I overpaying for everything!!!
Originally posted by sam:
Shokz: You're CPU limited then. AA does have a big impact on frame rates once you reach the GPU limit.
Good thing we have our resident Einstein to help sort these things out - I remain very confused about a whole host of things, lol.
Originally posted by sam advising Kevin:
Drag the slider, don't use the scroll wheel :P
I REST MY CASE!!! hahaha
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2. July 2009 @ 01:48 |
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Originally posted by sammorris + Rich:
Drag the slider, don't use the scroll wheel :P
LOL! I can see im not gonna see the end of that one for a while :P
Walmart is pretty convenient for people in the area I live in. And yes...they are generally cheap. I wouldn't buy your blank media there LOL!
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2. July 2009 @ 02:37 |
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Omega: Pretty much everyone I know who's ever played Crysis, myself included, was fooled initially by that one. Of course it took some of us longer than others :P
Rich: I'll just advise you that political discussions in threads tend not to go down too well here, so I won't take up the rant, but what I will say is that it's amazing how appreciative most americans are when they pay the UK a visit. On the train on my way back here from my parents house two weeks back, a guy called Fred from Los Angeles introduced himself to me and the poor guy sitting opposite me who looked like he was exhausted from a long day of work. Needless to say he was pretty talkative (that's not a general stereotype by the way), especially after he'd had several beers :P
I'm not sure why Shaff posted what he did in here, it's a carbon copy of what he posted in the main PC building thread, which is where it all happened. It's basically a good old fashioned case of the mods asking him to do something and it not happening. It's not what you did that's at fault, it's the principle of carrying on posting and not listening (it was about poorly written posts with a third txtspk, a third typos and a third properly written sentences)
Whoever posted about the crysis pack for $40: I'm pretty certain Crysis Warhead comes with Crysis Wars anyway. Crysis is a bit of a relic now, and warhead was never that much, so $40 seems about right.
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2. July 2009 @ 02:44 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Whoever posted about the crysis pack for $40: I'm pretty certain Crysis Warhead comes with Crysis Wars anyway. Crysis is a bit of a relic now, and warhead was never that much, so $40 seems about right.
Well!!! And I thought I got a good deal LOL! I suppose I knew the game was aging. I didn't mind paying it though. As much talk as the game has earned, and the astounding graphics, they really do deserve some return on the game :D
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2. July 2009 @ 04:14 |
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Meh, I figure I'll buy the game once I have a PC that can run it well. In the case of Warhead, that's certainly not yet the case. I can play the original alright, but Warhead is pretty much unplayable at any setting even with quad crossfire.
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2. July 2009 @ 05:20 |
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Warhead runs better for me than Crysis does :) And I paid £12 for Crysis a year ago and £10 for Warhead around six months ago - so technically I got the best deal ^.^
Sam's right about Wars though - it's effectively just multiplayer Warhead.
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2. July 2009 @ 05:21 |
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i wrote it in here by accident then transferred it over :)
as for the ban, yes it was my inability to spell apparently
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2. July 2009 @ 05:21 |
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Warhead scales convexly. It runs better than the original at low detail, worse at high detail. However, the 'maximum achievable performance' of warhead is far lower. If you've got really impressive top end hardware, Crysis will run really smoothly if you keep the settings reasonable. Warhead will not.
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2. July 2009 @ 05:33 |
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Hmm, on both games I set everything to high aside from objects, post-processing, game effects and shaders which I have at very high :)
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2. July 2009 @ 05:36 |
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Firstly, the resolution plays some part in that. nvidia cards are relatively uncapped graphically and can go quite far up the frame rate scale if you cut the res, ATI cards do not as the game is programmed against them that way (TWIMTBP at work). Additionally, smooth is relative. The frame rate that I get is reasonable, about 22-40, but not only does that vary wildly, but the game speed actually desyncs. With a constant frame rate the pace at which the character, and indeed the entire game moves varies, as if someone keeps playing with the fast forward button (though not as abrupt). It affects the enemy, and vehicles as well.
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2. July 2009 @ 05:53 |
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Technically 1440x900 isn't 'low' as such - it's the second or third most used resolution in the world (after 1280x1024 and possibly 1024x786) :P I don't experience slow down / speed up - but I do honestly hate how dense jungle etc it'll be 35 - 40 but then when you get in an area with lots of people and just boring old buildings it can drop to the low 20s... If I look straight at the ground it goes up to 55 - 60, so maybe I should just do that :D
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2. July 2009 @ 06:03 |
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1440x900 - nah, it's actually quite rare. 1280x800, 1280x1024 and 1680x1050 are more common.
When I look straight at the ground my GPU fans speed up, such that I can actually play a primitive song by moving the mouse up and down - simply because when not bound by the CPU limitations, the GPUs can actually work effectively for once.
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2. July 2009 @ 06:14 |
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I was going off the Steam hardware charts for the resolutions :) Well, what I remembered in my head, anyway - and I'd say it's only been in the last year that 1680x1050 has overtaken 1440x900 in sales as larger monitors are now pretty cheap, so I think 1440x900 still has a larger overall share, 1280x800 is very uncommon in gaming since it's a laptop resolution.
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2. July 2009 @ 06:25 |
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iirc 1680x1050 was introduced first, 1440x900 was a budget add-on later. The steam hardware charts don't reflect non-gamers, and let's face it, a lot of people only have steam to play games like CSS...
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