[Damien_Azreal]

Cerberus_e, on Nov 7 2007, 05:37 AM, said:

Ah, so it got released after all? Any changes since the news of a few months ago?
And no screenshots of you playing Crysis?

Well, it's not as good as the first Manhunt, there's no denying that. But so far it's a lot of fun, and playing on the Wii is awesome.
Having to swing your arms to bash someone's head in with a sledge hammer. Or act out stabbing motions when gutting someone. It's great.

But, oddly, it's nowhere near as graphic or violent as the first game. The executions seem much tamer... I've had a few weapons that were in the first game, but I've yet to rip someone's throat out with a crowbar.
No disemboweling... it's pretty mild.
And the filters they added to the executions makes it really hard to even see what the hell is going on in some of them.

Also... Crysis... the demo has some problems. Memory leaks, various errors, incomplete code. So performance isn't 100% yet, the game also doesn't fully use multi core CPUs.
So my Dual Core CPU isn't being full used. And I keep changing my settings around. But a few tweaks, all details on high and either 1024*768 or 1152*864 and it runs smooth.

The character detail is amazing, this is in game...


I love the use of Parallax Mapping (or parallax occlusion mapping) in this game. The various rocks, tire tracks... it looks great.


Just thought it was a pretty shot of the water.


And with a little tweaking I got the DX10 sunshafts in DX9. So under water looks great.

[Cerberus_e]

Crysis I reached a few checkpoints...

[Damien_Azreal]

Gears of War PC

[Cerberus_e]

Episode 2

[Damien_Azreal]

Wow.... is the game really that taxing on your system? I haven't played a game at that res since back in the Shadow Warrior days.

[Cerberus_e]

Hey, now you mention it!! I haven't noticed it yet... I even remember putting it on 1024*786... well thanks for saying, I'll do something about it

On my Desktop it probably wouldn't be a problem, but my laptop is somewhat weaker... for example, framerate is significantly lower when I turn on my flashlight in those caves.

[Cerberus_e]

No problem, it was just ImageShack resizing it. Apparently it saves your settings in a cookie, since I needed that setting (resizing to 640*480) to upload another image.

Spoilers below!

I finished the game yesterday, it was very fun and much better than Episode 1, since Episode 1 is more like Anticitizen One, which was the chapter I liked least (but still liked of course), while Episode 2 is like Route Canal & Highway 17, my favourite chapters.

My favourite part in the episode was the zombie pit while Alyx or the Vortigaunt helps from a distance with that sniper, and afterwards recovering your car and getting it over the bridge. I really like such level design. The best action sequence was the helicopter part, driving along the train rails while avoiding the mines (like you had to do in the original Half-Life 2 with your hovercraft), and afterwards taking the helicopter down.

There is one part with lamba sign where I couldn't find the supplies... that container park (he third time you see that symbol on your radar I think), where Alyx says "I don't see anything, what about you, Gordon?"

Can't the vortigaunts revive Eli like they did with Alyx? I care for his death because he promised me to tell me about he G-Man

I'm happy I'm going to the Borealis.

[Damien_Azreal]

The Vort's can't help Eli. Alyx was seriously injured.... but she didn't ever die. They simply healed her.
Eli was killed... he had no chance.

Well as for me....

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - Finished it tonight, best ending sequence... ever.

Gears of War PC - Finished it yesterday. Much more fun on the PC instead of the 360, also looks better, controls better... and the new chapters were a blast.

[Cerberus_e]

Is that a demanding game, CoD4? And what is the predeessor? CoD2?

[Iggy]

UT2k4. The only game I play nowadays.

[Damien_Azreal]

Cerberus_e, on Nov 11 2007, 11:28 PM, said:

Is that a demanding game, CoD4? And what is the predeessor? CoD2?

Its' not that demanding IMO, I've got it running maxed out at 1280*1024 with 2xAA. It runs very smooth and looks gorgeous... next to Crysis, Gears of War and UT3... it's the best looking PC game I've seen.

And technically it doesn't follow any of the previous CoD games. It's Modern Warfare instead of WW2, so it takes place in current times.

It's more so about modern terroristic threats and the threat of nuclear war. There is a demo available at various sites.

[Cerberus_e]

I think mine is going to be the very minimum then

[Damien_Azreal]

Cerberus_e, on Nov 13 2007, 10:55 AM, said:

I think mine is going to be the very minimum then

Here's a few screens of it on my PC....



Okay... imageshack has decided not to work anymore.... so PICupload instead.

[Cerberus_e]

Great sceenshots.
Good job, now I want to play it

[Micki!]

It's the BEST present-day-FPS i have ever played... It's very very short, But the awesomeness does a good job looking past that...

I absolutely loved the Chernobyl part... It was short, but sweet
The graphics do play a big role of giving me this awesome-ness feel though... Cerb might not get the exact same coolness impression as high-end users did with the game...

[Damien_Azreal]

I loved the Chernobyl part as well, my screenshot form it was intense. Having to lay there, silently, in the grass as enemy soldiers and tanks drove by.... damn.

[crunchysuperman]

Crysis arrived yesterday, but I haven't had a chance to even install it yet. Besides, I want to finish Timeshift first.

[Damien_Azreal]

Currently playing Crysis.

And with a fare amount of tweaking settings I've found the best balance of visuals and performance.

http://www.picupload.net/f-99511f831d2b8b3...86bf54dd259.jpg

I think it looks fucking awesome.

[Damien_Azreal]

More Crysis.

I finished it this morning, and have been picking random levels for fun. Also, been going through my specialized system.cfg tweak file to try and give me some more power.



And I've done it. Able to up the resolution... performance is smoother, no more pauses or hangs.

[crunchysuperman]

I had completed the wind tunnel level on Timeshift and got a BSOD during the loading for the next level. When I brought it back up, game settings were reset and ALL my save games were GONE!

[Micki!]

Damien, would you mind sendning me the CFG file with the settings you are using..?

I thought about simply using the tweaked options you set it to, since it seems to runs just fine for you, and looking great at the same time...

[Damien_Azreal]

Sure.

I'll post them here and PM you at 3DRealms... just to make sure ya get them.

Okay, here are my tweaks. Remember, in your Crysis folder (program files/electronic arts/Crytek/Crysis) create a new word document called system.cfg with notepad.

Now, inside that cfg place these....
con_restricted=0
e_particles_thread=1
e_hw_occlusion_culling_object=1
e_hw_occlusion_culling_water=1
r_GeomInstancing=1
r_ColorGrading=1
r_ColorGradingDOF=1
r_sunshafts=1
r_SSAO=0
r_motionblur=1
r_HDRRendering=1
r_useedgeAA=2
r_TexturesStreaming=0

Now, my in game settings at a resolution of 1152*864 are as follows.

Texture Quality - High (due to my tweaks, in game menu this shows as Custom instead)
Object Quality - High
Shadow Quality - Medium
Physics Quality - Medium
Shaders Quality - Medium (shows Custom in menu)
Volumetric Effects Quality - Medium
Game Effects Quality - High
Post Processing Quality - Medium (shows Custom in menu)
Particles Quality - Medium (shows Custom in menu)
Water Quality - Medium
Sound Quality - High

There ya go. I'm going to try some more things out, like last night I added in the sunshafts tweak without it effecting frames. So I'm gonna push it more.

[Cerberus_e]

Portal!

Very fun, but a bit on the easy side.

[ultra tree 85!]

Just played about an hour of Crysis on my new system with all game settings on "very high". It's a really awesome experience, and I'm very impressed by the game so far. The graphics and effects are amazing, and I also like the environments and vehicles in Crysis.

How do you take a screenshot in the game?

[Damien_Azreal]

F12 = screenshots.

[ultra tree 85!]

Damien_Azreal, on Nov 22 2007, 04:48 PM, said:

F12 = screenshots.

Thanks. I'll try to get some screenshots.

I just played some Doom 3, Quake 4, and more Crysis.

[Micki!]

I played Overlord today
It's funny, and this time i'm trying to do all the evil things i can...

My first playthroguh it was Good, but i don't regret kicking Elven Ghost-ass and having female servants and a sexy Mistress in my Tower... In fact, that's highly prefered over all the things i got for being Good..!

[Iggy]

Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition.

Micki!, on Nov 23 2007, 02:30 PM, said:

I played Overlord today
It's funny, and this time i'm trying to do all the evil things i can...

My first playthroguh it was Good, but i don't regret kicking Elven Ghost-ass and having female servants and a sexy Mistress in my Tower... In fact, that's highly prefered over all the things i got for being Good..!

Female servants? I didn't caught that during my play through. Then again I've been playing more like a Paladin then an Overlord. Next time I'll paint the town red. With blood.

[Micki!]

Way to go mister

I personally find the evil ways to pay off alot more

i seemed to have missed the part with the whie dressed prists btw, and after i bea tthe game (i did that recently) i can't seem to find them ANYWH_ERE in Heavens Peaks' Castle...

How annoying, how can i complete my corruption level to 100% without killing that bunch

[Damien_Azreal]

Micki!, have you done any tweaking to Crysis? If so how's it running for ya now?

I managed to remove a lot of my tweaks, try different ones and improve performance. It's just about finding the right balance for your machine.

But I just played some UT3.