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24. September 2009 @ 00:03 |
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Rich, the second phone is given to you by Roman, after the second or third mission. At least I think so LOL! It was a few months ago when I accomplished that. He mentions getting a better one after the first mission I think...
Suffice to say, the second or better phone(I think there are more phones)is needed to use cheats.
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24. September 2009 @ 06:50 |
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Ignoring the price for a moment, I think the HD5870 is a fabulous product. It is hands down the single fastest GPU there's ever been, it scales very well in crossfire and paves the way for the rest of the DX11 generation. It has landmark changes in power consumption for that level of performance (especially idle). The only negative against it, apart perhaps from the card length (but fitting an 11" card into most cases IS doable, it might just be a squeeze) is the price, which was always going to happen if there was no competition for it. You have to remember, The HD4870 was released after the GTX280 came out, so the pricing of the 4870 was rather strictly enforced by the fact that a faster card was already out. At the moment no such thing exists bar the dual cards, the 4870X2 and GTX295, and in a few games (the ones were CF scaling is dubious at least) the 5870 beats the X2, and in a few it comes very near to the 295, and remembering what I said all along about the GTX295 at 30" res, if anything the 5870 is a better card than it. It uses much less power, performs not far behind, has no dual graphics scaling issues and doesn't fall to pieces at 2560x1600. Two 5870s is a force to be reckoned with, unmatched by pretty much anything out there (MARS 295 SLI included, bizarrely enough) in all but the most nvidia-exclusive titles. The scaling of quad crossfire, while reasonable, real world just won't stack up against the absolute power of the 5870 GPU combined with the better scaling of having only 2 GPUs. I expect STALKER Clear Sky and Left 4 Dead to be the only games where two X2s would beat two 5870s.
Considering how rare 4870X2s now are, and when you do find them they're at least £280, the 5870 only being £20 more at £300 isn't really that much of a stretch when you consider the advantages it offers over the X2 card. (Another bizarre point to put forward is you should be able to crossfire 5870s in XP, you don't need vista or win7 to do it). The GTX285 now it's finally been cut to a sensible price is a slight poke in the backside for the 5870 as it's generally only 20-30% behind and only costs 20% less at £250. Still, £50 extra for that much of a performance benefit is better than what I'm used to seeing in the high end sector of the market.
Long story short, I am liking the 5870.
A few examples of where the 5870 is already starting to show promise:
Far Cry 2 - has essentially no support for any more than 2 GPUs - allows 2x5870s to gain a 55-60% lead over two 4870X2s.
Also, two 5870s are 20-50% ahead of GTX285 SLI. This trend continues in left 4 Dead, HAWX and Sacred 2 - to a greater or lesser extent.
Crysis Warhead - two 5870s slightly outperform two GTX285s even in this title. Only problem is, immature drivers mean performance drops for minumum frame rates at the moment - once that's fixed, nvidia's best single GPU offering in SLI mode will finally have been bested at Warhead :P
Stalker Clear Sky - one 5870 beats the GTX295.
Dawn of War 2 - one 5870 beats the GTX295 handsomely.
Call of Duty:World At War - due to the Crossfire minimum frame rate bug (as yet I'm unable to tell if it will affect crossfired 5800s) one 5870 triples the minimum frame rate of a 4870X2
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24. September 2009 @ 14:09 |
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on ebay i see them goign from 160 to about 220.
if the 5870 can hit about £250, its VERY good. i see the 5850 being a good price at £200 hopefully it can ge tto £180.
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24. September 2009 @ 18:04 |
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Originally posted by shaffaaf:
on ebay i see them goign from 160 to about 220.
ebay is cheap for a lot of things, so that's irrelevant. I scored a 4870x2 from ebay for £255 back when they should cost £370 - it's luck of the draw. I never mention ebay prices when comparing how good value products are - there's nothing stopping you from potentially getting something 1/4 of the price it should be - that doesn't make it good value for everyone else.
I see the 5850 reaching £180 quite soon after release, perhaps around christmas or earlier. The 5870 may very well reach £250 once nvidia have something to rival it.
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24. September 2009 @ 18:11 |
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I love it when 2+ companies duke it out. The consumers are usually the ones to reap the benefits :D
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24. September 2009 @ 18:15 |
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Precisely - look at the price of all the CPUs AMD/Intel are rivalling on compared to the top end ones...
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25. September 2009 @ 00:49 |
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Originally posted by Keith:
The problem was I had to explain this every-time and in the same way as you have people would go hmm interesting...
Ahhh patriots America way of hiding the fact they have about 4 actual historic characters. :P
As an atheist I have the science-given right. :P
On a lighter note I'm off for a cup of tea and a game of cricket. ;)
I'm sooooooooo going to have to get round to buying GTA IV :-)
Yes, Keith, you should get GTA4 - quite entertaining.
Jeff, I normally can't take lag - and maybe Sam, you're right, the lag is what makes the driving tricky - but in general I don't seem to mind it that much. Now here's something interesting - combining my 10fps lag with Niko being drunk and the screen waving here and there - now that is one hullava interesting driving combination!! Hahaha.
Keith, back to you - what did you just say: FOUR HISTORICAL FIGURES!! WHAT!!
And just how many historical Brits are there?
I can only think of two off-hand - King Henry the 8th, and Margaret Thatcher. Whereas for Americans, we've got George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Winston Churchill, Sir Isaac Newton, and Barack Obama - and I'm just getting started.
Furthermore, you have every God-given right to be an atheist, if that's what floats your boat, and are you really telling me you're another of those cricket-playing limeys - the long lost Abuzar would cheer, while Shaff on the other hand is a big footie fan!
5870 HERE AT LAST
The 5870 is out and it is just about exactly equal to the 4870x2. Wow!! Let me say that again. Wow!!
Sam, great case for the 5870:
Originally posted by Sam:
A few examples of where the 5870 is already starting to show promise:
Far Cry 2 - has essentially no support for any more than 2 GPUs - allows 2x5870s to gain a 55-60% lead over two 4870X2s.
Also, two 5870s are 20-50% ahead of GTX285 SLI. This trend continues in left 4 Dead, HAWX and Sacred 2 - to a greater or lesser extent.
Crysis Warhead - two 5870s slightly outperform two GTX285s even in this title. Only problem is, immature drivers mean performance drops for minumum frame rates at the moment - once that's fixed, nvidia's best single GPU offering in SLI mode will finally have been bested at Warhead :P
Stalker Clear Sky - one 5870 beats the GTX295.
Dawn of War 2 - one 5870 beats the GTX295 handsomely.
Call of Duty:World At War - due to the Crossfire minimum frame rate bug (as yet I'm unable to tell if it will affect crossfired 5800s) one 5870 triples the minimum frame rate of a 4870X2
And what about that board that Shaff came up with - which Kevin also took note of - with the Hydra chip that load-balances across gpus. Sam, do you see any promise to that technology, or do you think it's a gimmick?
Originally posted by Kevin:
Rich, the second phone is given to you by Roman, after the second or third mission. At least I think so LOL!
Oh, yeah, I think I remember that. Yes, then if that's the case, I DO have the latest and greatest phone.
Originally posted by Kevin again:
The annihilator HELICOPTER code is: 359-555-0100.
Thanks again for that phone number!! Can you fly over the airport and shoot down 747s as they take off? Hahahaha!
(I seem to be in an evil "kill hundreds" mood - I just saw Hurt Locker about a bomb squad in Iraq - intense!)
Hey, speaking of seeing that movie last night, I went with - guess who - Mr. Valve animator dude Miles Estes. And when I got to his house to pick him up, just before we left, he sat me down in front of his Dell 30" (Valve took a tip from Sam and picked up those monitors for all staff eliminating the dual 20" monitors they had before that) to see the latest progress on Left 4 Dead 2.
LEFT 4 DEAD 2
I sat in stunned amazement, watching a trailer that was far more realistic and detailed than anything we've seen to date - at least 50% longer than the Left 4 Dead opening video in the current game. When it was over, I said "Wow, that is awesome. Is that the new trailer?" He said, "Nope, that's the game-opening video!"
It was unbelievable! It looked very finished and very high res. Totally movie-quality like something from Lucas Films.
Miles was talking to me about normal maps, where they take a very high-res face for example, with detail at the pore level, and lay it over a more manageable low-res model, and then compute a normal map that is a texture map of sorts, which tells where the apex of each polygon is, and where the polygon sits in space, and this normal map, when laid over the low-res image, produces a light reflecting image that looks just like you have a very high-detailed model.
I was asking about colors, and he said that there is a separate color map. Also there is a shininess map, and several more types of maps that can be laid over the model in layer after layer, as they make each successive pass to define the frame.
I asked him if this was also done in real time when one is playing the game, and he said he wasn't sure - he was mainly talking about the movie department and how they produced the video he had just shown me.
The video starts out with the four people - the gambler in white suit, burly black guy named "Coach", young black girl who wields an axe, and young white guy in baseball cap - who are going through some kind of store - maybe a gun shop. They are reading notices about the zombies. The baseball cap guy says something to the effect "Well, I'm just gonna blow them all to hell" as he burnishes a pump shotgun.
Next thing you know . . . . . (I can't say anymore - sworn to secrecy - you'll have to wait til November, lol) but rest assured they wreak zombicidal mania!
(Hahaha - that reminds me - Sam also remembers Carmageddon - what a trippy game. Miles worked for the company that made Carmageddon in Irvine, Orange County, Southern California, as his second job out of college, on the game "Run like Hell." He used to complain to me every week when we had lunch, about what a miserable bunch of management he was surrounded by making terrible decisions at every step of the way - changing to a different game engine halfway through the development. The company ultimately failed, and Miles had long left by the time that game came out. The game was awful - I sent him a review where the author wrote "Space is empty and nobody can hear you scream that you want your money back!" LOL)
One more tidbit: At one point the coach yells, as he man-handles a zombie "This USED TO BE a nice neighborhood!" Okay, that's all!
Miles says the game is about 60 days out - something like November 17th. Which reminds me. Did they ever download the new September freebie - the small little level that happens after the hospital helicopter crashes?
Rich
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Yes keith, You should definitely get GTA IV. Its very entertaining. Don't let anyone tell you different. When I get off work, and need to unwind...You know, one of those nights where everything is against you! LOL! GTA IV can sure make everything feel better again :)
Rich, im afraid I've only had suicidal missions in the Helicopter LOL! I almost landed on a cop one time. I was laughing like crazy imagining how he would have reacted :D
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25. September 2009 @ 07:12 |
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Are you having a laugh Rich? lol, you say there are hardly any historical british figures and then when you reel off a load of supposedly american historical figures you list a load of british people! I suppose what you must mean is people who are commonly referred to historically in your country, in which case there's too many to count, far too many. You have to consider that people like Joseph Bazalgette are important historical figures as well (constructed most of London's sewerage system in the 19th century).
Benjamin Franklin's an interesting one, because his father was english, born in Northamptonshire.
As for the Hydra technology, I am essentially praying it's not a gimmick, I don't really see why it would have to be - its success would obviously depend on how successful it was in terms of games compatibility. If anything, I'd buy one just for the PCI express bandwidth on the P55.
As far as I'm aware, the opening videos for Valve titles are 1280x720 video files, they certainly aren't game renders. So "High res" wasn't in fact that high res at all, heh - unless perhaps you were watching the original before transcoding.
With regard to the normal mapping, I could be wrong at this, but as far as I know most of those processes to create, say a face, are used in-game, but rather than do them one at a time they're done simultaneously.
As far as the telling us what happens in the intro video goes, don't spoil it!
For one, I want to see it, and for two, I'm pretty sure that's not going to sit well with Valve you having posted exactly what happens in the intro video eight weeks before the game is released.
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25. September 2009 @ 08:47 |
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That blew up.
It was a gentle joke that proved quite offensive to someone.
My cricket reference was me making a joke about my own race to prevent this very situation from occurring. If you weren't so fast in jumping all over something I assumed a well educated person would not take quite so personally you might have noticed this.
On a side note: 'Assassin?s Creed 2 PC has moved to the first quarter of 2010' :'(
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god i cannot stand cricket. if anything can put me to sleep faster than farcry 2, this is it.
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25. September 2009 @ 11:42 |
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lol I'm only just patient enough to put up with various motorsports and on rare occasion I go and watch the ice hockey.
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25. September 2009 @ 11:44 |
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Originally posted by shaffaaf:
god i cannot stand cricket. if anything can put me to sleep faster than farcry 2, this is it.
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25. September 2009 @ 12:46 |
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Hardly anyone i know likes watching cricket... And if they do, well, i should consider not knowing them :D
Sooo excited about the HD5870, simply because it's the start of the next generation, and considering how impressive it is in benchmarks (and the fact it's DirectX 11 and the rest of it), it's priced quite competitively. Can't wait to see nVidia's contribution :)
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25. September 2009 @ 15:11 |
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http://vr-zone.com/articles/ati-hemlock-...8.html?doc=7738
OH MY GAWD!
soa 5850x2 and 5870x2?
i assume the 5850x2 will be $500 and $600 for the 5870x2, BUT this means price cuts for the 5850 by 50$ and 5870 by $100. (hopefully)
12" CARDS!!!
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but "only" a 6+ 8pin connector.
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25. September 2009 @ 15:19 |
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Cool a whole foot of graphics card ;-)
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25. September 2009 @ 15:23 |
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I'm sure my case could house it :P But the price...I think i'll wait til after I purchase the 30" dell monitor, and see how the GTX 260 can handle it :) Im sure its gonna have trouble at the 2560 resolution...
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25. September 2009 @ 15:50 |
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Only a 6+8 because the 5870 uses exactly as much power as a 4870 thus, 4870X2 should ~~ 5870X2.
12" though, glad I bought the HAF!
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26. September 2009 @ 01:13 |
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Originally posted by sam:
Are you having a laugh Rich? lol, you say there are hardly any historical british figures and then when you reel off a load of supposedly american historical figures you list a load of british people!
Haha. Yeah, that was pretty much tongue in cheek. As a former physics major - Newton is as highly revered as Einstein - the early "god" of science (don't get offended Keith) and inventor of calculus.
But regarding your famous Brits list - I sure never heard of that sewer guy! However, regarding Old Ben, that was quite interesting to get that tidbit about the dad of our much beloved author of Poor Richard's Almanac!
Originally posted by sam:
With regard to the normal mapping, I could be wrong at this, but as far as I know most of those processes to create, say a face, are used in-game, but rather than do them one at a time they're done simultaneously.
Well, you are probably more up to date on that than Miles would be.
So you think the hydra might really work? Me too I'm hoping. Lots of pci-e lanes - was it 45 in all?
Over the last few years I have always thought that multiple gpus should work without the game title even knowing anything like that is going on. That thought came from the original 2-gpu 3dfx attempt to compete with Nvidia, where they split the page horizontally, with one gpu handling the top, and the other handling the bottom of each frame. Game titles didn't know anything like that was going on.
As we all know, Nvidia put them out of business anyway. It's sure good to see Ati/AMD hanging in there now with the strongest gpu of all! I think the price is fine - I hope they make some good profitable dollars before the green guys move forward again. I'll happily buy two of those for the new build, at the present price, if I have the money by Feb or March.
Originally posted by sam:
As far as the telling us what happens in the intro video goes, don't spoil it!
For one, I want to see it, and for two, I'm pretty sure that's not going to sit well with Valve you having posted exactly what happens in the intro video eight weeks before the game is released.
LOL. Naw - I'm not saying anything else - and what I posted were just a few tidbits - exclusively just for you guys: you, Shaff, Jeff, Kevin, Keith, and Shokz from down under. But don't tell anybody else - I don't want my source to get into trouble from my big mouth. Believe me, I didn't spoil anything - when you see it you'll love it!!
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It was a gentle joke that proved quite offensive to someone.
If you mean me - not at all, Keith, it was all in jest. As to your racist american comment (still kidding!) I planned that historical american list full of brits until it made me laugh thinking about posting it. Sam and Shaff know I'm a big kidder. And often I leave out the " :P " to be even more tongue-in-cheek about the whole thing. It's kind of an in-joke in the family - including video dude Miles, to say things that only the most ignorant redneck would utter, like somebody who didn't even realize Winston Churchill was British.
Originally posted by shaff:
god i cannot stand cricket. if anything can put me to sleep faster than farcry 2, this is it.
Hahaha. You see, I knew shaff was a footie guy. But shaff - what are you saying about far cry 2 that sits in the new game box waiting for the new rig - is the game THAT bad?
Wow Shaff - nice post - Hemlock - the 5870x2 already! Ok, I'll buy two of them - $1000 worth of graphics cards that finally should be able to rule Crysis at 2560x1600 - I see Kevin's got his eye on the 30" Dell too!
Sam are we gonna need hydra to make two of those cards perform on Crysis - since quad cf crytek support does not exist (nvidia sell-outs the whole lousy lot - just kidding!)
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Originally posted by Rich:
Over the last few years I have always thought that multiple gpus should work without the game title even knowing anything like that is going on.
As did I - I think it's incredibly anachronistic in this day and age to still have the profile system we do now.
Originally posted by Rich:
It's sure good to see Ati/AMD hanging in there now with the strongest gpu of all!
Rumours are that at a similar time to the HD5870X2 Hemlock release, nvidia will put out their GT300, supposedly a faster card of the order of magnitude of GTX280 vs HD4870 - of course, rumours are just that, rumours, and rumours also state that nvidia's yields on GT300 are even worse than that of the infamous HD4770... Ouch! That said, the stock levels of the 5870 are pretty dismal as well at the moment, though we are technically still before ATI's "readily available" date.
What also needs to be considered is the GT300 product will almost certainly come out at an nvidia "we're the best" sort of price, i.e. beyond what anyone bar the financially carefree and nvidia fans would be willing to spend.
Far Cry 2's not terrible but nothing happens for hours and hours of gameplay other than literally running around a vast open space killing random guys as jobs. Trust me, that's not as much fun as it sounds. Later on in the game I'm told it gets quite good by someone who stuck with it, but frankly I'm not sure I have the patience. The game's implementation of Quad crossfire is somewhat buggy too, so I didn't really experience smooth gameplay when playing it.
Originally posted by Rich:
quad cf crytek support does not exist
Actually not quite true, as of about catalyst 9.7 - QCF support for Crysis and Warhead is around 3.0-3.2x scaling in some areas now which isn't bad. Where ATI falls down is that triple SLI isn't far behind at 2.7-2.9x :P
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The 5870X2 looks badass. I love the cooler. They are definitely putting more effort in aesthetics lately. Some of the newest cooler designs are just awesome.
Oh yeah Cat 9.7 is sweet. Eliminated some minor issues and gave me 2FPS in Crysis which is a sizable increase :D
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agreed. very nvidia style.
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27. September 2009 @ 00:09 |
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Originally posted by Jeff:
Oh yeah Cat 9.7 is sweet. Eliminated some minor issues and gave me 2FPS in Crysis which is a sizable increase :D
What amazes me, Jeff, is how you can play any game at only 2fps. I thought you said my lousy 10fps in GTA4 was unbearable.
Oh, wait a sec - do you mean +2 fps MORE????
Hahaha.
Ok, all seriousness aside, I'm reading all I can about this Israeli firm Lucid (more Israelis like the dudes who developed CORE and saved Intel from netburst embarrassment) who have heavy financial support from Intel.
Their web site says:
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Lucid is unique in finding a way to deploy high-level parallelism of graphics application with the best load balancing of the platform GPUs. It can decompose a complex scene, and then recompose each task into the correct final image. Achieving such challenges is what makes the solution "generic" and compatible with chipsets, GPUs and applications from any vendor.
That makes me realize that effects like AA, Anisotropic Filtering, etc. all will have to be applied by the Lucid guys - because the gpus will be handled polygon rendering tasks.
The founder of Lucid, Offir Remez, mentioned in one interview that he and his son are both avid gamers. Very cool! Several articles of theirs talk about the desire to create lifelike graphics solutions.
I hope their definition of lifelike is high enough in quality to keep everybody happy, because, as we can see, if hydra is at the front of the graphic request from the cpu, parcels out the workload, and then puts the final frame together giving it to the strongest gpu to render to the monitor, the hydra chip and its code will make all decisions regarding final image processing.
So forget about if you prefer the way that Ati renders, compared to the way Nvidia renders, that will all end. Everything will be "the way Lucid renders."
I suspect that they would strive to uphold the highest of all graphics fidelity standards regarding smoke, particles, bump mapping - everything that makes a scene realistic - high enough fidelity to keep Sam and Jeff happy.
Back to the only motherboard coming out that supports the technology (although Offir said he is talking with 3 of the top 5 mobo manufacturers) it looks like the MSI Big Bang will support i7 processors, but not in a 1366 format.
What does that mean?
Far Cry 2 takes hours of time pursuing single assassination missions. Hmmm. Sounds like GTA4 and the Wanted List. Right up my alley, lol. Thanks for the explanation - I MAY have the patience - if the landscape is pretty enough to wander around in. We'll see.
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27. September 2009 @ 00:53 |
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What amazes me, Jeff, is how you can play any game at only 2fps. I thought you said my lousy 10fps in GTA4 was unbearable.
Oh, wait a sec - do you mean +2 fps MORE????
LOL my rig running Crysis at 2FPS? Never :P
Yes +2FPS which is nice. The built-in Crysis GPU benchmark gets me 41FPS while regular gameplay sees me anywhere from 30-50 depending on the action.
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Far Cry 2 takes hours of time pursuing single assassination missions. Hmmm. Sounds like GTA4 and the Wanted List. Right up my alley, lol. Thanks for the explanation - I MAY have the patience - if the landscape is pretty enough to wander around in. We'll see.
Far Cry 2 is wildly beautiful and beats out Crysis for overall visual fidelity and performance. But IMO Crysis is better looking(eye candy wise) and more fun, despite the lack of AA. If you can get into it Far Cry 2 ramps up the action quickly enough. The first few levels are a grind for sure but it allows you some time to wander around and explore.
It's especially fun with a bolt action sniper rifle. Creeping slowly through the grass quietly and slowly scoping out the enemy position. Lining up that first shot then BOOM, you watch the guy grab his throat and go down. His buddies scatter so you break your aim, work the bolt, and get ready to line up another shot. BOOM, another guy's head explodes into a red mist. Now his friends are really freaking out and they dive into a building for cover. So you chuck a molotov cocktail into the bushes outside their hiding spot and throw in a grenade. Seeing the grenade, they rush out just in time to meet your bonfire. Their hesitation gives you another chance to peg one before you move in and finish the rest off with your Uzi.
Fun times :D
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27. September 2009 @ 01:15 |
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Well now...Far Cry 2 sounds interesting :)
Thanks for the tidbit :D
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