The game has quite good visuals yet i'm running it maxed out with the resolution at 1680x1050 getting a constant 100+ FPS.

i know theres SOMETHING called a framerate which is related to the visual performance but i dunno the details or whether the framerate should be low or high .. thats what the FPS is isnt it?

I have the first one but I never really like it enough to finish it. I seen this one just made it out but I dont know if I want to pick it up, especially when there is another Red Dead game on the way, I might just wait for that one.

I really like this game. Brilliant plot too in my opinion.

" I have the first one but I never really like it enough to finish it. I seen this one just made it out but I dont know if I want to pick it up, especially when there is another Red Dead game on the way, I might just wait for that one. "

" i know theres SOMETHING called a framerate which is related to the visual performance but i dunno the details or whether the framerate should be low or high .. thats what the FPS is isnt it?"

" @c1337us said:

" I have the first one but I never really like it enough to finish it. I seen this one just made it out but I dont know if I want to pick it up, especially when there is another Red Dead game on the way, I might just wait for that one. "

Get it, it's great. "

Yes it's insane.  I got the original Call of Juarez for free with steam, and I could only play that game on about medium/high at 30 fps.  I was so shocked that I was able to play Bound in Blood at 50+ FPS on totally maxed graphics.  It looks so amazing too, they have a really good game engine that they made.

" @CL60: Can you post a full sized screenshot of this please? I whould like to see the game with highest settings. "

They're called Techland for good reason.  The 360 version performs well too, seems to go between 30fps and 60fps.  I'm more impressed with the amazing fidelity of the forests and such.

BiB adds some new effects to CoJ.  The way they did the water reflections during the rainy parts is pretty interesting.  There seems to be a faked SSAO effect going on, never seen anything quite like it, looks like shadow outlines are being applied in some cases around geometry in the frame buffer.  Not as nice as other SSAO effects I've seen but it's probably 'cheaper'.  They did a good job with dust effects, shadow mapping seems to be used better.  I think they made a lot of art improvements.

I noticed some graphics downgrades from the 360 CoJ1, no refraction effect for panes of glass anymore, and no more real god ray effects (they went back to the simple 'god ray' like effect that you see in games from Halo 1 to Fable 2) ('Real' god rays don't depend on you viewing the origin of the rays, for example in CoJ1 you could be completely under a building, look up in a direction not towards the sun and see the rays), BiB also fakes god rays with that PS1-era alpha transparent static mesh technique as well.

I don't know if the PC version of BiB has those effects, I'd like to see.  The god rays and refractive glass panes weren't in the PC DX9 or DX10 version of CoJ1 if I recall.  There was also some basic 'cloud shadow' effects, probably just tax the fill rate, and don't always look great.

The game looks great, but I kept getting owned so I quit. How the hell do you get passed the part where you have to knife dudes in the wheat field, stealth style? It seems like it should be easy....yet my ass is continually getting handed to me.

" The game looks great, but I kept getting owned so I quit. How the hell do you get passed the part where you have to knife dudes in the wheat field, stealth style? It seems like it should be easy....yet my ass is continually getting handed to me. "

It has incredibly low LOD distances and horrible pop-in, similar to, but worse than, Crysis. I'm gonna need some heavy tweaking to get it less annoying but then again I've already finished it so... Oh well. It does look and run great overall, and it was pretty damn fun while it lasted.

You don't have to knife the dudes, get close to one, pull your guns out, stand up and shoot everyone fast before they own your brother.

" @CL60: Can you post a full sized screenshot of this please? I whould like to see the game with highest settings. "

100 FPS is always very nice, this game looks great graphically too. I'm not sure if I'm sold on the gameplay though, how is it?

Have to track down the original, it's not looking as good, but not that bad. I wanna play as the badass preacher (Bound in Blood is prequel) :D

I found the object pop-in horrible once you get to the free roaming areas.

Ran smooth as butter on my year old rig though.

" I found the object pop-in horrible once you get to the free roaming areas. Ran smooth as butter on my year old rig though. "

" The game looks great, but I kept getting owned so I quit. How the hell do you get passed the part where you have to knife dudes in the wheat field, stealth style? It seems like it should be easy....yet my ass is continually getting handed to me. "

Damn now I want to play this, do you have to have played the previous game?

damn,  i only get 60 on my 9800 GTX+.