flame Wars!! Lol..joke2 shadows are amazingly performance dropper for any hardware, but in case for fear like cef said, shadow makes the game darker and less testure or polygon processing, it's juz dark...but on the bright game for example, there's a lot shadow mapping to process , and not to mentioned performance dropping dynamic shadows...
@lolattheotherguy yeah, speaking of which, before i build my first rig, all selling agent point out to me to buy rubbish..."oh~ buy a Phenom and u wont regret it" "buy the Nvidia GTX280, the latest and most powerful model" ...lol, bla3x...lucky i do my homework and planned out all my hardware from simple thing such as MoBo to GPU and case cooling (cheapest one) lol..my point is, unless a person that prints money, they can buy which ever hardware they want..for budget ppl, plan out before building ur rig, it can actually beat some high end systems out there if perfectly tuned... On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Espionage724 <[email protected]>wrote: > Yea I agree THEfog. But yea the OP was pretty much answered, GTA 4 > probably won't play tooo well on a single core CPU, unless its like > 3.0Ghz and backed by a strong GFX card. > > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:04 PM, THEfog . <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Ummm dude, we aren't trying to condone that all high end pc owners are > rich > > folk that do nothing but brag, I have a high end gaming rig which I > > researched and built to my exact wants but I don't brag about it around > > here, now you may or may not have meant it but that post about how 60FPS > is > > the only way to play did sound demeaning and imposing over people here > who > > may be either less fortunate financially or simply do not have the time > to > > aquire these high powered PC's. Now 9xxssf is open to everyone and we > > welcome every new member like a brother but when people come into the > group > > and more or less just put it out there how good their systems are and how > > much everyone else's system pales in comparison then even you can see how > > this could piss people o...@everyone Now let's just put this behind us > and > > move on, the last thing we need is a flame war in this community. > > > > THEfog > > > > On 20/07/2010 6:50 AM, "Cef" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > @tribaljet > > > > Sure I come here to brag only, I've been bragging and ranting in this > > community for about 2 years, I bragged like hell about how my 915g > > onboard graphics could run F.E.A.R. in mid settings. Heck, I even made > > a bragging compatibility list of the games my 915g could run back in > > the day. > > > > Come on, seriously, 30 FPS solid, no variation in a buggy game, using > > the minimum recommended specs in old drivers and no updates? If the > > maximum FPS you get is 30 you'd most likely fall into 15 FPS whenever > > more than two cars are being rendered, then it's not choppy it's slide > > show. Also you don't need a monster screen to see the difference > > between crappy PS3 blurry textures, which is what GTA IV looks in mid- > > low, and decent looking PC graphics, just check some screenshots and > > compare. > > > > Let's skip the phallic talk, I don't say size matters in all games, > > but GTA IV sucks VRAM like a damn leech, so the less VRAM you have the > > less performance range you have to prevent FPS loss and the narrower > > your margin is to rise the settings beyond low. > > > > Speaking of forums you'd probably like to google GTA IV low FPS, and > > see hundreds of posts on how the game is slow and choppy on mid-high > > end machines, so all of those folks, like me, like to brag recklessly > > about their machines or are just proof that this particular game needs > > more hardware to run properly than the so-called megapixel 2010 games > > you say low end rigs are supposed to play spectacularly nice? What > > about youtube also? Rigs like the one you mention or even better > > barely reach 25 fps on GTA IV, there's this video: > > http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=c2_1uFIHk6A&feature=related Now that's > > smooth and good looking! > > > > Shadows won't kill games, F.E.A.R. 2 takes advantage of shadowing and > > even Ambient Occlusion with no loss of performance whatsoever. And > > yeah it's awful to see how three year old laptop owners actually brag > > about improbable stuff and their incredible PC tuning skills, mocking > > an honest opinion, and claiming that "rich folks" don't know how to > > keep a PC running, that really makes me boo hoo. > > > > In the end we'll keep on arguing about mine's best and yours suck, so > > let's get things straight, old PCs have potential, I know it because I > > have a couple of them and I've seen how a Pentium D @2.8, 2GB DDR RAM > > and a 8400 GS can lift DMC IV to 30 fps on mid-settings, but saying > > that they can run new games better than newer and more powerful PCs > > it's ridiculous. If you can juice your PC and get the most of > > performance then it's great, that's what this group is about, but just > > don't exaggerate and use your "experience" to try to mock and demean > > others. > > > > .C. > > > > -- > > 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS > > > > -- > > 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS > > > > > > -- > Acer TravelMate 2480 > GFX: GMA950 CPU: Intel Celeron M 420 @ 1.6Ghz RAM: 2GB DDR2 333Mhz > HDD: Samsung 120GB 5400RPM SATA > > -- > 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS > -- Laptop: Acer Aspire Core Duo T2300E @ 1.67GHz Intel GMA 950 IGP Intel 945 Chipset 1GB RAM (512MB*2) Dual Channel DDR2 80GB standard PATA HDD Win7 Ultimate 32bit / Ubuntu 10.04 hmmm : Athlon II X4 630 OCd @ 3.225GHz Sapphire HD 5670 512MB Artic Cooling MSI 770-C45 MoBo Kingston 2GB RAM DDR3 1333 750GB Samsung SATA2 HDD Win7 Ultimate 32bit / Ubuntu 10.04 -- 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
