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Post your pc ingame screenshots
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Suddenly everyone else stops posting screenshots. Well more assassin's creed 2 then.
Post more screenshots ppl.
If you want to see it full size to your low rez pc monitors, then just middle mouse button to see it full size.
Xbox 360: 1280x720
PC: 1024x576; downscaled from 1920x1080 2x2SSAA
Xbox 360: 1280x720
PC: 1024x576; downscaled from 1920x1080 2x2SSAA
I think we can all agree that the PC pics look better. And they do so while being at a smaller res. How does a 576p pic show more detail than a 720p pic? Downsampling, and the same can be applied to any pic. PC gaming's "edge" is not lost through smaller pics with proper downsampling.
Also your comments about "cheapo monitors" that are "not good enough" and whatnot is really pretty unfounded. Imagine if someone with a 2560x1600 monitor started posting his pics fullsize and uncompressed at 10MB each, with only half of each pic showing up even on 1920x1080 monitors and flooding the thread with dozens of them. Would you appreciate that? Due to the way that the GB forums work, even 1920x1080 pics get about 20% cut off from the end. The point about resizing pictures, and posting them in smaller portions I think is pretty valid.
Okay here is me appealing to the lowest common denominator, those with X768 rez displays. I hope you realise I disagree with you, this is a pc screenshot thread, not another type of platform screenshot thread, there is no 720p limit or any limitations. If someone post a X1600 screenshot, who cares, I can only see up to X815 pixels anyways, just like my X900 rez screenshots. I honestly don't care if I have to wait a bit, if the screenshot looks good. I say nothing has to change, we are pc gamers, we don't really like limitations. Look at other forum, some of them post X1200 screenshots all the time, it's just the way these types of threads will be.
I picked a random thread and it's not cached, it took 17 seconds to load everything for me. Two more seconds, it's not my concern. Imageshack is from the u.s, it would load faster for ppl from there. I'll post low quality screenshots at low resolutions, appealing to the lowest common denominator. The second someone insults pc gaming, saying that doesn't look too good, is the day I go right back to posting what I did before. X900 rez imo is a good compromise, everyone with a X1050 monitor and up can see 85% of the screenshot or more. Also those complaining about the screenshots who doesn't even post screenshots themselves should simply not say anything because they aren't contributing nothing but spam. It's a thread in the pc forum, if they can see it elsewhere and want to talk about off topic stuff, that's not my problem.
@Geno: Look it's not your thread, make one that says 720p screenshots only then. Also you don't care how you represent pc gaming, I do. I'm not letting you impose your limitations on my thread, feel free to only post 5 screenshots, that doesn't mean i'm going to unless I choose to. Just because it cuts off around the X815 mark doesn't mean i'm going to go lower and post it at 720p like you are. I'm going X900 regardless. You can impose these limitations on yourself, that's fine with me. That would help with the bandwidth problem you seem to be having.
Wow small screenshots looks great, you really opened my eyes geno. Lol. I mean here I thought crysis has high rez textures and details on the wall and mountains. Now I can't even see any detail at all, compromising the quality of the screenshots to appeal to the lowest common denominator. All that ppl can see is the soft shadows, bright textures and no details. I'm posting smaller screenshots to show you how I view other screenshots that are smaller than X900 rez. it's devoid of details because of it's size. I mean I have a 40" display as a pc monitor, others has less than a 24" display, do you actually think they can see all your details you think you are showing? Get real, those screenshots will be small. Your taking what is of pc gaming and marginalizing it.
Devil May Cry 4 (DX9) with 8X Super Sample AA
Just started again but for the PC. There is a Legendary Dark Knight difficulty exclusive to the PC version which I am interested in playing. I need to unlock it but it is mean't to have a ton of enemies on screen at once.
See for yourself, maybe it's you who is ignorant and selfish, you only care about your own loading time. I read your comments, it's being considered, it's just you refuse to see things my way. My main point is in detail of my screenshots. I'll prove my point by showing you what you can and can't see at 720p bmp to jpeg. There was a saying, that anything under 32" for hdtvs, you can't see the 1080p. Monitors aren't hdtvs, they have smaller pixel pitch of course and can show more detail. However if the screenshots are too small, you have to squint to see the details. Besides, I uses to use a monitor, now I can't stand how small they are. I mean how would you know unless you start using your 1080p hdtv display as a pc monitor for a week. Did you think I asked for all these views on the thread? No of course not, it's just everyone takes an interested or they see it on the forum outside the pc section. The views are not because of your 720p screenshots, rather a wide variety of screenshots and different resolutions on the forum that gives it variety.Don't think I don't understand what your saying geno, sometimes I feel you say the most obvious things like I don't know what your talking about. Look i'm posting at X900 rez, not 1080p or 720p, it's a good compromise.
1080p, here is what I see, even if it gets cut off, however I don't care what is cut off, I care what is being shown. I see alot of detail on chris redfield's shoulder. His clothes shows alot of fibers, details that doesn't exist on other platforms. Look at her belt, you can see alot of dots and details that shows it's leather. Look at all the blood stains on your enemies clothes, it's like a canvas of art. That's what I see and what your ignoring because you care too much about the limitations of GB. I mean everyone even with a lower rez monitor can see these details, they can't see everything, that's why I use a X900 rez.
Look at it at 720p, sure it looks very similar. However the details are smaller and less noticable. You can't see every fibre on the shoulder, eva's belt looks like a brown belt with no details, you can't even see the blood splattering pattern on their pants, there is no details at all. However to you, that's good enough. There screenshots aren't big for the sake of being big, they are that way because there are 1920X1080 pixels exactly and that's what it looks like.
Okay, remember this screenshot I posted above, I said wow I can't see any details. Here, when it's bigger, I can see all the details of the mountain. It looks 3dish because of the parallax occlusion mapping 
The mountain lacks detail because the screenshot is smaller, even if it's well compressed, you can't physically see as much detail because you are taking something and decreasing the size of the screenshot. I could do the same thing with tali's suit if necessary. I understand you, now try to at least understand me.
Look i'm already going to post less screenshots per post, however i'm not conforming to the way you post screenshots. You can set these limitations on yourself and it would still help out with the bandwidth problem. Besides are you from the states, or your european?
Oh yeah, they are using the crysis sandbox editor, they are creating bullshots saved at higher resolutions than most monitors, then downsizing the screenshots. Your not a current gen console gamer, you are not aware of this practice. They pick their camera angles, remove the hud and stuff, those aren't exactly the same type of screenshots i'm posting even if it's the same engine. It's just nothing more than computer rendering or cg animation, creating a frame at a higher resolution then downsizing it, changing the time of day settings and lighting when you think about their process. Let's see them use real ingame screenshots like I am without any smoke and mirrors as i've posted above.
^" Why do you two even care, your arguing about the dumbest thing ever holy shit. "
Why are you voluntarily turning your awesome thread into a dumb fight? I thought this was just a screenshot thread where people share screenshots at any size they want; why does there need to be motives behind this.
And that's not parallax occlusion mapping anyway, that's just regular normal mapping on your mountain. Normal mapping reacts with light to create depth detail on a flat or smooth object, like that mountain. Parallax occlusion mapping is used when the player sees an object at an extreme angle (the ground in crysis), because parallax mapping actually displaces the texture on the polygons at the point where you are looking by function of the tangent space. This technique gives incredible depth to a model, unlike normal mapping which is just x,y,z surface detail. Just sayin
Sometimes I explain things as if you don't know about them because you don't know about them.
- Imageshack has a terrible compression algorithm, that is why you're seeing that loss of detail (which isn't a loss of detail so much as it's blurring).
- Something like 1/5 of each of those screenshots are cropped even on a 1080p display, so you are getting less detail by being able to see less of the screenshot. I can post a 10 megapixel image of Princess Diana and you would only be able to see her nose, what good would that do?
- Smaller panels require smaller resolutions, larger panels require larger resolutions. That is why phone displays can still look crisp with clear text even with very small resolutions. You DON'T somehow see more or better with a larger 1080p display than with a smaller one, if anything the picture would be worse. That is why Panasonic's 152-inch Plasma uses 4Kx2K res, if it used 1080p it would look like garbage. I know many people with 1600p displays (I myself am getting one soon) and they act nowhere near as arrogant as you do with your 1080p one, it's just silly.
- Don't feign to defend the platform by trying to show off the visuals, you appear to know very little about graphics or display technology. Just in the above Crysis picture for instance you have zero AF turned on, which basically turns your ground textures into a fuzz only 2 feet in front of you. In the past I have named different mods that can fix issues like that as well as significantly increasing the visuals as well as improving performance but you refused to use any of them.
POM is used in Crysis almost exclusively for rocks and small pebbles on the ground terrain, I'm not really sure what you are referring to up above other than typical normal mapping.
Examples of POM (note how AF is enabled as well, easily done through a mod with no performance penalty which I have linked for you before):
You also appear to be grossly unaware of techniques such as downsampling and until recently you were pretty much the only person in the thread who's pictures had heavy artifacting, fixed only after I explained and made you aware of it (but not before you first unfairly lambasted someone for criticizing you for it). None of these things have anything to do with PC or display specs, just knowledge.
- On top of that your attitude is rude and bullish. If you are by any means trying to make a push for PC gaming, I can tell you that you're doing it wrong.
@warxsnake:
There isn't relaly a motive for the thread, I just want it to be well represented. I just mean there was alot of misconceptions in the past before and if it clears a few up, then that's good. Even if I had motives, who cares about my motives, it doesn't change the thread is for posting pc screenshots anyways. Okay my mistake about the parrallax mapping. I still say parralax occulation mapping is still a 2d plane with similar lighting techniques like you said about normal mapping and tessellation is actually real 3d. At least that's what I think, correct me if i'm wrong. I saw an nvidia tesellsation demo which shows how tessellation uses less resources and is in real 3d unlike parralax mapping.
Tell me, are these parralax mapping? I'll use some of my old screenshots from my old pc monitor I sold. I still kept all the screenshots. I want to make sure because on DX9 for crysis, you don't see these things at all, it looks like a flat texture. I think it tries to pretend it's 3d when it's really just trying to map the lighting to your view so it looks like it's sticking out of the ground when it's not 3d. I'm always willing to learn more.
i'm certain these two screenshots are parralax mapping
I honestly have a great idea, from your post, i'll put this on the front page. If your display isn't that high, then at least use the middle mouse button, imageshack will reopen that screenshot and you can scale it by double clicking it. Maybe that's the solution for you, however I post my screenshots for other pc gamers to see. That way you can still see it and I can still post it at X900 rez.
I'm away for a couple of weeks and this is what I come back to? :\
FWIW, I'm in favor of posting smaller screenshots. It can be tedious to scroll through a page when it takes 5-10 minutes for all the images to show up.
Anyway, in trying to move this thread back on track, I'll post some screenshots of Red Faction Guerrilla... which I can honestly say will have a big effect on how I attempt to play games in the future. Being used to making your own way out of places will be hard to let go when you're playing other games and expecting to make holes in the walls like in RFG. This game is so much fun, ridiculously awesome, and I think I can safely say that it is one of my favorites this year.
Images resized to 1280x720 (using height/width HTML tags, so if need be, I can downsize them even further at any time) down from 1920x1080. Click the image and open in a new tab for the full size.
Okay try to middle mouse button click this then.
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