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22. October 2009 @ 17:16 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Yeah I know, I see that a lot. Always makes me annoyed, but I never bother saying anything :P
LOL! I aim to displease. Nah, actually I agree. Since its generally used by many, thats what I say. But your 100% correct. :P
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22. October 2009 @ 17:19 |
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Originally posted by omegaman7:
But your 100% correct. :P
It's you're.
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22. October 2009 @ 17:25 |
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I do that sometimes :P Sue me LOL!
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22. October 2009 @ 17:33 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Originally posted by omegaman7:
But your 100% correct. :P
It's you're.
Oh my God I lol'd - I was totally thinking that xD
I tend to only correct people I know - I don't feel so bad about it then :p
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22. October 2009 @ 17:35 |
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If we were not corrected, how would we learn from our mistakes? :)
Know this, Im incredibly open minded. I will never explode on someone. Tell me what your thinking anytime. Correct me when you need to :) Pretty hard to push my buttons...
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23. October 2009 @ 03:02 |
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Quote:
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/10/06/n...igh-end-market/
Thoughts? (No fanboyism from either side required)
Is this real? Not even kidding I can't tell. Is that just a very well worded joke article or what? A name like semiaccurate.com makes me wary...
If it's real wow. Epic fail. Explains why we haven't seen a working prototype yet :P
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23. October 2009 @ 09:06 |
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That's what I'm thinking. It's way too subtle if it is a joke, and all of the history in the article is genuine. Nothing seems out of the ordinary with it. As the article says, the GTX285 and GTX275 are disappearing fast, the GTX260 is the only one of the three still available from more than a couple of brands.
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23. October 2009 @ 11:15 |
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Well, it's a bit odd... Didn't BFG only bring out a new GTX295 card at the end of last month? Surely they'd know if nVidia were going to stop production o.o
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23. October 2009 @ 12:53 |
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The GTX295 hasn't 'officially' been culled like the 260/275/285 but it may only be a matter of time. The new GTX295 architecture isn't THAT new.
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23. October 2009 @ 16:28 |
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Wow that is shocking. Aren't ATi still producing 4870s and they're on the verge of releasing a bunch of new hardware at the same time.
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23. October 2009 @ 16:30 |
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Nah, the 4870 has been pulled from production. They just made so many there are still plenty around (in the US at least). The HD4890 will remain in production for now. Not sure about the HD4850, I expect that's going as well, the HD4800 is being directly replaced by the HD5700, with the exception of course that the HD4870X2 has been replaced by the HD5870.
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24. October 2009 @ 11:54 |
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Getting a little bit more into dragon rising now I'm playing it, but it's very difficult to play due to the frame rate. 1680x1050 with no AA the max I can get once I've been injured is 16-17fps, which is tricky to play with.
Edit: Found the trick. If you get hurt or die, your frame rate is quartered unless you change res. Change the res and the frame rate comes back until the next time you get injured.
On top of this, I found:
Jeeps can't run over people
Jeeps explode on contact with water
Occasionally, walking forwards turns into walking upwards. Hold down sprint, and you'll bounce about 30-40 feet up in the air, still making the walking noise and animation.
Not impressed with this.
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24. October 2009 @ 13:59 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Getting a little bit more into dragon rising now I'm playing it, but it's very difficult to play due to the frame rate. 1680x1050 with no AA the max I can get once I've been injured is 16-17fps, which is tricky to play with.
Edit: Found the trick. If you get hurt or die, your frame rate is quartered unless you change res. Change the res and the frame rate comes back until the next time you get injured.
On top of this, I found:
Jeeps can't run over people
Jeeps explode on contact with water
Occasionally, walking forwards turns into walking upwards. Hold down sprint, and you'll bounce about 30-40 feet up in the air, still making the walking noise and animation.
Not impressed with this.
That's interesting because I played at 1680x1050 with everything maxed (and so did my friend) and neither of us had any problems and the frame rate was perfectly smooth. We're both still using DX9 so that could be the difference our experiences.
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24. October 2009 @ 14:39 |
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Hmm sounds a lot like a Codemasters game...
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24. October 2009 @ 14:43 |
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I thought it was a DX9 only game anyway... But yeah, I've had no problems with any slowdown either - ATI only problem?
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24. October 2009 @ 15:05 |
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I'm beginning to wonder if it's to do with FADE, the OFP copy protection system, since this isn't a genuine version of the game. I'll see if I can replicate it on the HD4830 PC.
Update: The HD4830 is not affected by the lag issue, which isolates it to one of four things:
DirectX10
Windows 7
Crossfire
Catalyst 9.10
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24. October 2009 @ 16:01 |
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Certainly not DirectX 10 or Windows 7 - I can vouch for that much :p
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24. October 2009 @ 17:55 |
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Think it might be crossfire related, but it's difficult to tell.
Catalyst AI disabled cuts frame rates to 17-21 at 1680x1050, 11-14 at 2560x1600, which given the 50-70 at 1680x1050, 37-60 at 2560x1600 I normall get, suggests CF scaling for the game is good. However, this doesn't change the fact that the lowly HD4830 singular gets 30-40fps or so at 1680x1050 on its own in XP. I haven't adjusted as many game settings in XP as Win7, so there might be a setting that's causing a bug.
It's also worth mentioning that in addition to the game's own bugs there are a fair few graphical glitches, the barrel of the gun is half-invisible and bullet streaks are various different colours (including pure green and pink sometimes).
The non-graphical bugs include the game's 5.1 audio mode not working with rear speakers but thinking they're connected (i.e. if you turn around the voices go mute as they should be coming out the rear but aren't), random voice messages not being produced (i.e. the text for subtitles appears but they aren't spoken), in-game chat messages are limited to 37 characters and that mouse movement only occurs once 3 subsequent frames have been rendered, so at 12fps it takes 250ms after when you move the mouse before your character moves.
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24. October 2009 @ 19:29 |
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im maxing it at 1920 with my 512 4870 and im getting no lagg. everything seems perfectly fine.
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24. October 2009 @ 20:30 |
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Never experienced any graphical glitches aside from the different coloured bullet streaks (and I think it's supposed to be that way - imitating tracers or something).
Can't comment on any of the other things aside from the controller latency - there's an option in the nVidia control panel that sets maximum number of pre-rendered frames and the default value is three - is there anything like that for ATI?
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24. October 2009 @ 20:33 |
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Shaff: Precisely it, from how my 4830 performs, that's what I'd expect from a 4870. I can only assume it has negative crossfire scaling with current drivers - a shame, as that's something the HD4000 series was meant to get rid of, and up until now it had. For the record however, I haven't tested it without 16x AF force applied. That comes next.
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24. October 2009 @ 21:36 |
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I haven't had a single one of the problems or glitches mentioned. And I have Windows 7 with Dx10, using Crossfire, with the Cat 9.10 drivers. Remember quad Crossfire has been difficult from day one so don't let that harm your opinion of the game. It must be at least mildly interesting if you've played it again.
Also it looks like the Cat 9.11 beta driver is out. Fancy giving it a try?
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24. October 2009 @ 22:17 |
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Actually no, Quad crossfire works with every game installed on my PC except this one, without incident.
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24. October 2009 @ 22:28 |
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Managed to bring the performance up substantially (82->250fps in menu, 45->90fps in game, 14-25-30fps when bugged) by cutting settings from Maximum to 'High', which as far as I can see, only cuts the shadow size from 4096 to 1024, nothing else. It's conceivable that by using High, or a lower setting, the low frame rate when shot glitch isn't causing the game to run badly enough to be noticeable.
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24. October 2009 @ 22:45 |
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How come not DX 11? Or is that what you mean...
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