The PC (Personal Computer) is a highly configurable and upgradable gaming platform that, among home systems, sports the widest variety of control methods, largest library of games, and cutting edge graphics and sound capabilities.
@thornie: How does conviction run for you? I remember installing it after a steam sale on a splinter cell pack, seeing how shitty it performed even on lower settings and uninstalled it. I just didn't care enough about the game and went on to replay chaos theory.
@thornie: How does conviction run for you? I remember installing it after a steam sale on a splinter cell pack, seeing how shitty it performed even on lower settings and uninstalled it. I just didn't care enough about the game and went on to replay chaos theory.
Yeah, I too picked it up on a Steam Sale months ago and just never played it. I beat it last night and to be honest it ran OK after a few tweaks. I have what is for now, a pretty high end system (GTX 590, 16GB RAM, i5 2500k). I had everything completely maxxed out and it ran 40-50 FPS and could never keep a solid 60. I lowered the two AA options to 8x and it was slightly better but not by much. I've read around and it seems like the game is poorly optimized for whatever reason. For what it's worth, I can run AC: Brotherhood (another Ubi game) completely maxxed out and never dip below 60 FPS. There were times SS ran at 60 FPS solid, until a ton of enemies would appear and I would dip into the 40s. I can totally see how this game might be a hog on even slightly lesser systems (which are still awesome rigs).
Wow, 40-50 FPS with a 590? That's just fucked up. The game can't be optimized for SLI in any way and you probably would get better results with a 580.
I hope the 6xx from Nvidia and 7xxx from AMD arrives at the same time, my 6950 2GB (unlocked and OC'd) just isn't enough for my needs and I don't want to buy the first one that hits the market and then see that the other one is better in booth performance and power consumption. Crossfire really isn't my thing because of the hassle with drivers and patches needed to run most games fine the first month or so in many cases.
@armartin812: Clicking on your screens doesn't enlarge them, maybe try another browser to upload, or copypasta the pictures from your imgur account? Screenshots are only enjoyed big, bro! (clickable, not posted in their original size)
There we go, downgraded my Steam version of GTA IV to 1.0.4.0 and applied some mods. It's a real shame Rockstar didn't do a good PC-port, it would have gotten so much more mod support if more than just people with high-end rigs could play it at a decent framerate.
Anyhow, here are some of the 361 screenshots I took. Looks amazing now.
@AhmadMetallic: Yeah, it's amazing what people can do with games on PC. Going to play with it some more tomorrow and maybe download a 8GB texture pack just for fun.
@SSully: ~30 during the day and 35-45 at night. Got a 6950 and i5 2500k.
@Xyber: I'm realllllyyyyyy contemplating getting this, if for no other reason than just to mod it...but I have so many games to catch up on already, and I've played through this one on the ps3...
@Xyber: Do you know if they've made it not utterly worthless with Crossfire yet? I have two 6950s and a 2600k, and if you can put up those numbers with one I may have to get it to see for myself.
Replaying Oblivion. I didn't install any mods that changes locations (so no Better cities and Unique landscapes) because I wanted to play something close to the original games before Skyrim comes out.
Some Retribution, Shogun 2 and Call of Pripyat Complete. It's been half a year since Shogun last ran as it should, great patches there Creative Assembly.
I upgraded to 8gb ram today, enough to satisfy Complete's hunger. Before it would just crash during the initial load.
@ervonymous: I'm currently playing Pripyat as well! How are you liking it? Gameplay, design and polish wise, it's near perfect. Just so damn good. But graphics wise it's really disappointing! Looks like a Half-Life 2 mod >_> I honestly think Shadow of Chernobyl's graphics look better.
Here's some screens: Sneaking between those sleeping Bloodsuckers was fucking terrifying The beauty of the merciless zone
@AhmadMetallic: Yeah, it's definitely not a looker but there's nothing quite like it out there. I played it 'vanilla' earlier this year for about 10 hours and really got into it. Atmospheric and cool as hell.
It's amazing what can be done with mods and changing the .ini file. I changed the range and effect of the HDR setting which is why the sky is so bright. It changes when you look at it directly (the sky I mean) to a normal looking sky but when you look just on the horizon, and the sun is at the right setting, you get a really cool picture like the one above.
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