Sorry for the double, but I read further back in the thread.

Harvrdguy,

This is POM. Notice how the rocks in the ground texture are 3D? If I didn't know better, I wouldn't be sure if this was actual 3D models or not. The effect is that good.

With the TOD lighting mod installed too, FYI. Taken with the 8800GTS 512MB on my 17":






Sorry if the file is a bit big for those with dialup...

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Shaff, if you think that COD5, Americans versus Japanese, is going to be interesting, you should pick up Medal of Honor, Pacific Assault sometime - probably for $5 on ebay. Having played all of them - all the Medal of Honor, all the COD, all the Brothers in Arms, in my opinion, Pacific Assault is one of the very very best. Your name in the game is Tommy. Your team is constantly yelling "Wow, Tommy smoked that guy" and "Tommy get down!!" and stuff like that.
They do talk about some of the other guys too - but you really have the feeling you're part of a squad. I found it EXCELLENT and it was also very highly rated. Graphics-wise it is good - made about the same time as COD2 I think.

Dudes, don't worry about Left 4 Dead being a console game. As a family member of Miles, the main animator (who is now doing the re-modeling of the 4 main characters to end up with "not-so-hardened types") I can tell you that it is a total PC game - and if they're porting to X-box, it is for marketing and to expand sales. They are paying particular attention to graphics, and ambience, and it will be fully detailed, I have no doubt, at 2560x1600.



Boozer, that argument about not being able to tell the difference between 1920x1200, and 1024x768 is the same thing Ray used to say - with his 20,000+ 3dmark6 score. He used to run at - what was it sam - 800x600 or some such ungodly resolution. All that means is: You aren't looking closely at the picture! I remember when Half Life 2 first came out, and I ran it on my ATI9800 at 1600x1200, suffering through fps probably in the teens - for the CRISPNESS of the image! But I have a Sony monitor. Maybe Sam is right, maybe your monitor is no good if you can't really tell the difference! Ray is up to 1920x1200 now, at least, with his new monitor.

You do have a point Boozer, about consoles being "funner" - since you're playing on the TV, everybody can watch. I had a friend who used to come over and play Halo with his xbox, while I was on my PC. Sometimes I used to watch. I thought the graphics were "OK" on the Halo - kind of trick waterfalls, and interesting little machines you could fly on - but really - we were still just watching a TV - at what - 350 scan lines (it wasn't HD.) It's not as much a close in, intensive, personal experience. And it's not the same level of graphic excitement that estuansis talks about with crysis, for example.

When Sam says - playing at HD on a 60" screen might change some of that - maybe. You'll be at 1080 on 60", versus your 2560x1600 on 30". It will be sharp, but about half as sharp as what you're getting on your Dell. Still, everybody can sit back and watch.

At the Valve headquarters in Seattle, they have a big-screen plasma TV monitor in the conference room running off a PC. I saw Half Life 2 played on that monitor. They run scenes and take criticism and comments from the guys sitting around the table, as they fine-tune a game. It looked pretty good up there on the screen. But you're sitting way back - from 8 to 20 feet away - and you're not going to get the highly detailed experience that sam or estuansis get sitting 18-24" away from their LCD monitors.

Hey estuansis, I am going to be getting back to Battlefield 2 as soon as I get my 2gig sticks. Do you like Battlefield Vietnam better?

Wow, that POM crysis shot
on your 2 Sept post was awesome! So estuansis, you're saying that POM gives the rocks their 3d pop? Yeah, the effect is striking! (BTW what is the TOD lighting mod?? - where do you get it and what does it add?)

I just googled POM, and I see it's a DX9 feature. Here's a short video similar to estuansis' picture above - just f**king amazing!! POM video DX9 crysis
-Rich

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