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The Official Graphics Card and PC gaming Thread
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3. July 2009 @ 12:54 |
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LOL Keith! I wasn't trying to cripple anything. Im familiar enough with the registry, in that I can explore, delete, etc with minimal discomfort LOL! I did say IF I WERE YOU, I would comb the registry. The registry should never be fooled with lightly. Unless one knows what they're doing, or backs it up :P
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3. July 2009 @ 13:32 |
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I thought I knew what I was doing and I did back it up...
I simply deleted settings from old versions.
Then re-installed Catalyst Control Centre and on the bit where the screen goes black then comes back it stayed black. So I left it to finish installing in the dark. And on re-boot the screen froze on the boot screen where it *should* swap to the Welcome screen and of course proper driver. Still got to hear 7's nice jingly start-up noises though.
Rather annoyingly this meant I couldn't get to my registry back-up and had to system restore (you can't remove Catalyst in safe-mode WTF).
-Fuel PC is now being torn to shreds especially as someone has found a file containing the following:
// !!!!! To be removed for final submission !!!!!
//EnableL2R2
//EnableDebugViewport
//epm on
//adhud
//cheatcode
EnableDebugTools
// **********************************************
Still waiting for my copy LOL. And its in the post so I can't cancel...
Also Asobo (who ACTUALLY make the game)'s website is 'down for maintenance' yeah right ok then.
Finally the game says it has AA but it doesn't work at ALL!
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 3. July 2009 @ 13:44
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3. July 2009 @ 13:50 |
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Ive had my screen go black for a LONG period of time during install, tripped me out! LOL! But it ended up recovering from it. This was with my last card. Haven't had any trouble with drivers for quite some time. Im afraid ive never dealt with catalyst before. More than likely eventually! My brothers computer runs onboard ati HD3300. Plus my next card will probably be ati. Eventually... eventually...
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3. July 2009 @ 14:17 |
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I wouldn't of minded had I not known Nvidia drivers CAN be uninstalled in safe-mode.
Why am I so filled with nostalgia while looking at my parents PC specs (that where years beyond my time) and why the hell did my uncle build them a gaming PC???
Pentium 4 HT 530J 3.0GHz
512MB 200MHz DDR RAM
Gigabyte GA-8I915P-MF i915P
Saphire Radeon X600 Pro 256MB DDR
The original hard drive blew and i can't remember what it was lol
The date on the mobo box is 10/08/2004 which makes sense but this appears to be one kickass PC bearing in mind my dad has only ever used office/checked his E-mail
(I'm not sure how bad my spelling is but I'm Chrome and thus spell-checker less)
I could put something funny here but I cant be arsed. Now GO AWAY!
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3. July 2009 @ 21:31 |
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Hey sam,
How well does Left 4 Dead upscale? When I move to a 2560 x 1600 monitor, is it still gonna look super...BETTER? Properly upscaled, I believe that Nintendo 64 Roms look pretty good indeed. Though that may be a bad example. Graphics for N64 are pretty rudimentary when one thinks about it :)
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rick5446
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4. July 2009 @ 01:30 |
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Got my problem worked out...Changed Video Card to MSI Nvida N9400GT,works great. Now all I've got to do is get a longer HDMI Cord for sound on TV
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4. July 2009 @ 02:17 |
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Im happy for you Rick. Glad you got that worked out. No headache worse than a nasty computer bug LOL!
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4. July 2009 @ 02:27 |
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LOL talking about computer bugs. What about viruses that are so invasive a removal of the drive and external scan with a separate PC won't cure them? I just spent 6 hours on and off trouble shooting a customer's PC before he was finally convinced I could just back up his stuff if I reformatted. "Doesn't that like, require special equipment?" Nope, just my 4GB flash drive XD
And the whole time he's pressuring me because he needs it tomorrow and he's calling every couple hours to check on it. And in between I'm swapping out a PSU on another PC, upgrading RAM, dealing with a pesky McAfee install, and trying to calm some irate customer because he's sure we effed up his HDTV because the color settings got reset.
I've earned this beer and bowl XD
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4. July 2009 @ 02:44 |
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Estuansis, YOU GO... You go buddy! Hell yah you earned it :D
Well...I think the "Tank" gets angry about propane tanks too. Fire is a given. But I think the propane tank was a new kind of anger LOL! I totally see what you mean by "A.I." now. That tank can be smart when he wants to be.
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rick5446
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4. July 2009 @ 03:21 |
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omegaman7: I'd still like to work out the problem with my ATI Card..No matter what catalyst I use no TV Screen, even just the Video Drivers screw it up..Uninstall all and the TV shows up fine, Monitor fine,,But its not as Crisp
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4. July 2009 @ 04:28 |
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Well...it sounds like you have it figured out then. Drivers/catalyst are whats causing the problem. Are you sure your installing the right/appropriate software/drivers? I know, I know. I gotta ask. Ive been known to make some silly mistakes in life. In fact, believe it or not, ive made one of the largest mistakes. I won't go into that here though.
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4. July 2009 @ 09:01 |
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Is it a standard def TV? because if it is then the highest resolution it will properly support is 1024x768.
Keith: Downloaded FUEL, haven't tried it yet.
Omega: Whenever I update catalyst, a black screen while windows loads of 30-90 seconds is normal.
Left 4 Dead does look excellent at 2560x1600 because it has nice textures that actually work at that resolution. N64 games are very rudimentary, the reason they look good is they don't really use textures per-se, or rather, the textures they use are so simple, they're just shapes, which upscale brilliantly, because there's no detail to lose!
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4. July 2009 @ 11:59 |
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sammorris: Is this directed at me ?
[Is it a standard def TV? because if it is then the highest
resolution it will properly support is 1024x768.]
My TV is an Olevia 1080p 47in : Standard TVs would not have VGA or HDMI Hook-up,only S-Video & AV Lines
Also that just happens to be the resolution (1024x768)that I prefer,so even my Comp Monitor is set to this
I think I posted this earlier
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4. July 2009 @ 12:15 |
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How do you put up with it? :o
I literally can't stand anything but native o.o
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4. July 2009 @ 12:41 |
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Rick: No it wasn't directed at you, it was directed at Keith, from page 157.
As for the TV, using a resolution of 1024x768 may not help (it shouldn't matter, but I can't guarantee it) - use the correct resolution for your displays.
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rick5446
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4. July 2009 @ 12:46 |
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I FIXED IT ALREADY, I put in a Nvidia Video Card works like a charm
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4. July 2009 @ 14:20 |
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Yes its HD!!! I can feed the PS3 in at 1080i but I don't think it actually supports it as its 19" and it was cheap LOL.
1024x168 works but its REALLY bad quality
1360x768 Is even worse
1920x1080 Isn't shown and I can't work out how to force
1680x1050 Again isn't shown
1280x720 Is a severe cripple that makes my Start bar off the screen
1440x900 I note is shown as Recommended and looks the best by far!
Estuansis: Ever heard of ComboFix? It seems to fix even the most pain in the arse virus's but is a real make or break thing and should only be ran if everything is backed up and if your ready to reformat.
4GB!!! I've filled 257GB of my 297GB (usable) drive which i should really get to backing up...
Fed-up of job hunting again. I went round businesses explaining how I'd had experience as an IT technician and would work for pennies. And possibly because I'm 16 they didn't believe me at all. What's the point in work-placement if you can't use your job that sprouted from it.
I could put something funny here but I cant be arsed. Now GO AWAY!
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4. July 2009 @ 14:26 |
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It's a 19" monitor/TV hybrid. It supports 1440x900, but not 16:9 resolutions as its not a real TV, they get rescaled, so they look rubbish.
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4. July 2009 @ 14:30 |
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Fair enough it was advertised and bought as just a telly with a VGA in which is a tad odd.
Although it does explain why the PS3 looks so bad on it.
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4. July 2009 @ 14:34 |
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Yeah, it's actually a 19" basic VGA monitor with TV functionality added in. Proper 19" TVs don't go anywhere near as high as 1440x900 a lot of the time.
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4. July 2009 @ 14:45 |
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That reminds me I was gonna moan but forgot Play.com didn't have FUEL in stock for time of release so you've got before me!!! Not cool.
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4. July 2009 @ 14:48 |
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I've had it for nearly a week, since the US release dates are earlier than ours. Yet another example of piracy winning out over legitimate consumers...
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4. July 2009 @ 14:50 |
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Hey! I resent that comment! LOL. Just funnin. ;)
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5. July 2009 @ 22:31 |
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Originally posted by shaff:
i wrote it in here by accident then transferred it over :)
as for the ban, yes it was my inability to spell apparently
Hey Shaff, I have a SPELLING TIP for you: Originally posted by Rich with a spelling tip for Shaff:
I used to copy my posts to a text file in case my computer froze before I posted - which happened once near the end of a long post. But recently I have been putting my posts in Word, which has the benefit of highlighting the misspelled words - occasionally I forget how to spel sumthin!
Kevin, I forgot to ask you before - on your new sig - what is that cool, wild blinking thing? And is that a quote from Shakespeare? - "do I not bleed?" And who the bleep do you think you are, Hamlet?? LOL
Shokz, you're trying to defend your 1440x900, and Sam has a million arguments against "the budget add-on," lol - shrunk vertical spacing for one. He's probably right, but check this out:
The monitor on the right was my "new" 1440x900 19" dell, when I decided last year to just pick up some equipment that my p4 could run adequately, before I did a reverse again, which I blame on Sam, and said "no, hell, I have to have the 30." Hahaha.
So I paid $168 for the 19" monitor from Dell, and it sits there on the table just like that, staring at the big monitor, which is the only thing I use now. I guess I'll have to put the 19" up on ebay, lol.
I will say this, though, Shokz. The monitor had the most beautiful color I had ever seen, and it ran COD4 MP fantastic!! I was blown away by the beauty of the image - also Estuansis had a 19" that he enjoyed quite a bit before he upgraded - ultimately to his beautiful 24" - and soon to his 40" HDTV!!
When I got the big Dell it cured me of my total COD4 MP addiction, because running it at 1920x1200, COD4 was very laggy on my equipment - and then I discovered Left 4 Dead loading on my steam games list, and the rest is history!!
(I can just barely run L4D at 1920x1200, fps in high 20s, sometimes low 30s, overclocking my 3850 to the max mostly-stable setting. I say "just barely" because when I dropped the gpu and memory clocks recently to get greater stability, after a couple crashes, I picked up perceptible lag - especially at critical points. So I went back to the highest setting that CCC recommended, cleaned all my fan filters, took out my kama bay filter and installed a removable filter in front of the kama bay, and improved the gpu air flow by removing a couple of the non-ventilated slot covers.)
The result was that I was able to play all night last night - after the neighborhood fireworks explosions had subsided - for about 10 hours, with everything SMOOTH!
I am running Expert now - and it is INTENSE! You can't let any random zombies get close - you lose 20 health just like that! You have to be ON YOUR TOES! (But if you blow their heads off, generally that slows them down.)
Yeah, Kevin, I'm learning new stuff about the tank all the time. You can't duck behind a car when he throws the concrete at you because somehow that gets you anyway right through the car - how is THAT supposed to be possible? Oh well, I just won't do THAT any more.
But I had an interesting tank situation last night, which went MY way for a change, when I DOMINATED with the minigun in "The Town", chapter 4 of Death Toll. (The TERRIBLE CHAPTER 4!!) For the fun of it, with kind of a new team, I jumped on the minigun, prepared to let go as soon as tankie-boy decided to target me with a rock, and I was just barely able to get him in my sights on the right above a corner of the TV truck. For some strange reason the ugly sonuvabitch didn't move at all - sort of stuck in wonderment I guess - and he died within 15 glorious gattling gun seconds, lol!
I was stoked!! I basked in my moment of cowboy glory and the rest of team was f**king speechless! If only Sam had been there! (Why didn't I take one of Kevin's screenshots! - 'cause I don't know how, that's why.)
Rich
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5. July 2009 @ 23:08 |
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This is how I take the screen captures. I LOVE this program LOL!
And the "Wild Blinking Thing" in my sig is a starfleet issue warp core LOL! Nah, I nabbed a few frames from season 1 episode 6 of "The Next Generation" and let Adobe Fireworks work its magic. Another one of my favorite programs. I think photoshop is by far my favorite. And I like it even more everyday. Im currently making some wicked looking space scenes.
I change my quote every now and again. That one was the first that came to mind recently.
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