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so for the moment, there's very little reason to use more than an HD4870X2 anyway, with the exception of Age of Conan, and possibly Lost Planet: Colonies, although even that I'm dubious of.

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gm it's called flav - you know, flava flav?? Anyway I learned it all from shaff - "GTFO OF MY RELIGION" and other shaffisms like that. :D

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One 4870X2> 2x GTX280

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Estuansis, very nice analysis of crysis - once I get my 3850 (yeah I'm still back in the stone age compared to you guys) I will buy the crysis full game - I've played the demo already. So you're actually telling me that at night, in crysis, you don't get shadows in light beams, like vehicle lights, or flashlights, or camp lights? Hmmmm. How could they have left that out? Also, I could google, but what is HDR again - you were making a comparison to COD4 which I am very familiar with. Thanks, Rich

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Lost:Planet colonies is an nvidia only titles,Estuansis, on an 8800 you'd do alright, but ATI cards take a good 30% performance hit from it so find it difficult to max the game. A GTX280 would still struggle at 2560x1600 with AA though, the game is pretty demanding.

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What I'll say about the graphics of Crysis is that they have great potential - for two reasons, firstly the obvious, how badly it runs, but secondly, the errors. A large proportion of the game is nice, and if only the Anti-Aliasing was a little more effective (such that it actually anti-aliased more than a quarter of the textures) and there weren't random 640x480 textures in it, it would be nice. You have this beautiful environment with all these high res textures in it, then out of the blue comes this Quake 3 look-a-like. Why do that?

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If you use Vista or hacked settings, you can have very high shadows, but anything other than very high is pure ass on a stick, the resolution of shadows is appalling, they look hideous, so I turn them completely off and earn myself some higher shader detail, which does make the game look a lot better (had to turn it back down again after Core though, from then on the game halves in speed) - As far as faces go, I think Crysis takes the biscuit, I've not seen faces quite like those in any game yet, they're pretty good in titles like Rainbow Six Vegas, but the rest of the graphics are naff in that game, so irrelevent really.

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It's interesting that you mention Quake 4, that game can look seriously good, and can still seriously whore a system to its knees, it got pretty demanding, even in multiplayer sometimes, I think it's due to the memory involved, Quake 4 is number two in the list of game
s that eat video memory.

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