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The Official Graphics Card and PC gaming Thread
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26. November 2009 @ 09:58 |
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The Crossfire bug is livable, it's the fact that the AI is among the worst I've ever seen coupled with the random bugs that puts me off. How you can live with the AI in that game I do not know. Co-op or no-op as far as I'm concerned.
As for MW2, can't say I've had that issue, but then I don't recall alt-tabbing, I just remember closing the game because of how irritating the performance was.
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28. November 2009 @ 04:11 |
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Well my wrist is doing much better. I'm thoroughly enjoying Left 4 dead 2! Liking the new enemies, weapons, gameplay in general! Only one thing worthy of noting was a rather repetitive line by one of the guys! "Get this thing off my back, Get this thing off my back, Get this thing off my back... I thought that was rather irritating, but shrugged it off after hearing it a few times. Are the witches slower about reacting in this one? I swear it seemed like she was rousing from a Drunken Stupor last time I saw her LOL!
LOL! I think he says, "Shoot this thing on my back" :P
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28. November 2009 @ 06:09 |
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I know what you're saying, though I don't think I've found it as repetitive yet. Considering the L4D1 alternatives were either 'get it off' or 'get it off me' it's not much to complain about.
Were you playing at daytime? Remember the daytime witches wander around aimlessly, though I do have to say I think the new witches take a bit longer to hunt someone down. They have done so successfully though, with the same deadly results.
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28. November 2009 @ 09:31 |
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HD5000 series stock
Scan
HD5750: XFX (512MB only)
HD5770: Asus
Ebuyer
HD5750: XFX (512MB + 1GB), Powercolor (1GB)
HD5770: OEM, XFX (B-Grade), Gigabyte
Aria
HD5750: XFX (1GB), Sapphire (1GB)
HD5770: Gigabyte, VTX, Sapphire
CCL
HD5750: Asus (1GB), Sapphire (1GB), XFX (1GB)
HD5770: OEM, Sapphire, HIS, XFX
OcUK
HD5750: Powercolor (1GB), Sapphire (1GB), XFX (512MB)
HD5770: HIS, Powercolor, Sapphire
Tekheads
HD5770: XFX, Sapphire
HD5750: Sapphire (1GB), Asus (1GB), VTX (1GB), Powercolor (1GB),
Specialtech
HD5750: XFX (512MB + 1GB)
HD5770: XFX
Dabs
HD5750: Sapphire (1GB), XFX (512MB)
HD5770: Sapphire
Novatech
HD5750: OEM (1GB), HIS (1GB), Sapphire (1GB)
HD5770: OEM, Sapphire, XFX
HD5870: HIS
At almost £400 delivered, the HD5870 from Novatech is not cheap, but the fact that it's in stock shows just how effective removing the HD5800 category from the 'browse by' section of the site is for consumers.
The popularity of the HD5700 series is taking its toll on stock, but fortunately it's not enough to create any problems - you can still buy either the 5750 or 5870 from pretty much any of the UK's component retailers from a board partner you like.
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28. November 2009 @ 11:07 |
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the prices are insane an not worth it!
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28. November 2009 @ 16:36 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Were you playing at daytime? Remember the daytime witches wander around aimlessly, though I do have to say I think the new witches take a bit longer to hunt someone down. They have done so successfully though, with the same deadly results.
That's interesting. I don't recall ever acknowledging that fact. I suppose it was around daytime when I spotted her...Hard saying, I was a bit intoxicated last night LOL! I can't believe a grenade launcher didn't take her down! Followed by a shotgun blast however... ;)
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29. November 2009 @ 04:16 |
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That's interesting. I don't recall ever acknowledging that fact. I suppose it was around daytime when I spotted her...Hard saying, I was a bit intoxicated last night LOL!
LOL I get ya! I drink very seldom, but when I do I more than likely end up playing L4D :P
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29. November 2009 @ 09:30 |
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I could put something funny here but I cant be arsed. Now GO AWAY! |
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29. November 2009 @ 09:32 |
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Synthetic benchmarks. Think about those two words very carefully.
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29. November 2009 @ 09:35 |
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Yeah but such a gap must stand for something in the real world!
I could put something funny here but I cant be arsed. Now GO AWAY!
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29. November 2009 @ 09:37 |
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No, not necessarily. The Samsung HD502HJ scores higher than OCZ Vertex SSDs and WD Velociraptors. That's a 16MB cache 500GB drive. The test is meaningless.
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29. November 2009 @ 13:28 |
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Oh no! Not SSD talk again. You guys are gonna make me drool and jealous LOL! :P
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29. November 2009 @ 22:06 |
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LOL! Guess it didn't work this time...
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29. November 2009 @ 23:04 |
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^ wow that looks way better then on the 360 XD
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29. November 2009 @ 23:06 |
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Thats been downscaled a great deal too ;) Almost cut in half!
I also tried throwing puke at her. She didn't like that LOL! She started glowing pinkish purple.
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30. November 2009 @ 08:23 |
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Or rather, the game highlighted her pink because you biled her....
Boomerbiling the tanks works a treat, especially if you throw a pipe bomb into the mix too.
Wow, the finale for The Parish is hard. On Advanced it took us 7-8 attempts at least, maybe over a dozen, I lost count. Suffice to say, all 4 preceding levels we did on the first try...
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1. December 2009 @ 03:37 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Or rather, the game highlighted her pink because you biled her....
The game has a conscious? :P
Hey sam, any idea's why windows XP is not giving me as many options for the 16:9 Resolution settings, as Windows seven gives for a 16:10? I think XP only gives me 2 actual 16:9 resolution settings, where Windows 7 gives multiple 16:9 settings for a 16:10. Im a bit at a loss here. My drivers are up to date by the way.
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1. December 2009 @ 10:22 |
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HDTV support enabled in the graphics driver?
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1. December 2009 @ 12:38 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
HDTV support enabled in the graphics driver?
Didn't really think about it that way. I guess we'll see when I hook that one up to windows 7. No time for that today to hook it up to my machine, but I suppose I could wait, and just hook it up to hers. She'll be running windows 7 inside a couple weeks on her machine.
You know whats funny? My 5 year old CRT has more settings than this new 16:9 monitor!!! 1280 X 720 actually looks pretty good on it too.
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1. December 2009 @ 13:02 |
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It should - CRT monitors have all sorts of image sizing options that LCDs don't need because they are perfectly accurate. With CRTs you have to fiddle with the positioning, size, pincushioning and so on to get a nice rectangular picture. LCDs are 1:1 pixel mapped since they produce the image digitally. Advanced technology they may be, but they're a lot simpler in reality!
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2. December 2009 @ 09:56 |
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You all were talking about Tactical Shooters a few pages back. How about Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter?
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harvrdguy
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2. December 2009 @ 10:44 |
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Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter - is that the one in Mexico City?
I played 2/3 through that and then gave it to little Fernie - but I have been thinking about picking it up again - Steam had a bundle of several of those games for very cheap.
So does that mean, Boozer, that you finally now have a gaming rig?
Haha - so Jeff and Kevin like to play L4D a little bit toasted, huh? I too would be surprised a grenade launcher couldn't take out a witch. I jumped on late last week, and asked the new team to play something other than the first campaign, saying I had gone through Dead Center and nothing else, so they switched to Dark Carnival - and then in 20 minutes Miles, of Valve, jumped into the empty Coach position. Had we stayed in Dead Center he might not have jumped in. We were playing Advanced and finally finished it, but I told Miles later I'm sticking to normal on L4D2 until I thoroughly know the game.
Hey, anybody know if any of the melee weapons is more effective than any of the others. For example, the problem that I have with the melee weapons is getting used to the striking repetition - I am wondering for example if the Katana (spelling?) is more effective for example, than a frying pan - in other words, does it strike faster enabling more successful zombie defense?
This L4D2 has all these sections where you now have to turn off the alarm, so you are running and dealing with zombies. I am thinking that maybe a melee weapon works better than a gun - shottie or otherwise - in that scenario - what do you guys think?
Regarding the ending of Parish on Advanced - that must be crossing the bridge - never finished it - jumped in with teams playing it a couple times and found it quite challenging. Congratulations Sam!
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2. December 2009 @ 10:53 |
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Haha nope. One of my Macbook Pros has a REALLY old video card so I can play REALLY old games. But I play GRAW and GRAW2 on the xbox360.
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2. December 2009 @ 11:00 |
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The secret to the Parish finale is just to be as fast as you can. Never mind taking out every zombie coming at you, they aren't going to stop. Apart from the obligatory anti-Smoker/hunter/charger etc. saves, just leg it to the other side. Sadly, I got chargered on our attempt, so although we finished the campaign I didn't actually get the achievement for it. Not that it matters though, the achievement system for Valve games is almost always very buggy within the first couple of months of the games being released.
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harvrdguy
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2. December 2009 @ 14:57 |
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Sorry to hear about the charger - but I'll keep that in mind. Just RUN as fast as you can over that bridge.
Boozer, with the new xbox 360, you can play just about every new title out, isn't that right? What kind of a TV set do you have - oh, yeah, you have two big-screens at your house, right? Which one do you play on and what are the specs?
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