PC and Console Games Thread

[Jun aka Pekto]

somehow my printscreen looks bad with my ati. buti pa kay sir jun, ganda kuha niya.

I was trying to figure out what you meant.

But..... I have good screenshots because I pick the shots I want. If it looks good, snap it.

Some shots like that main boss in Crysis was too dark when captured in FRAPS. I had to adjust the gamma to the same level I was seeing in the game.

Sometimes, I can't even take my eyes off the game to take a snapshot because the action was too intense like for instance at the end of Crysis where my character was running desperately to the transport as the gigantic alien warship dropped from above with flying alien troopers firing.

[rion]

just the printscreen button. hehe... I used to printscreen this game on nvidia and I get it as, 'what you see-what you capture' quality.

this kind of reminds me when I printscreen a movie between overlayed or windowed-rendered. the windowed has bad contrast. like a software acceleration vs hardware acceleration thingy.



grrr... I just installed crysis, same old problem in windows7 memory leak... hoping a patch will fix my crisis. lol

[Jun aka Pekto]

just the printscreen button. hehe... I used to printscreen this game on nvidia and I get it as, 'what you see-what you capture' quality.

this kind of reminds me when I printscreen a movie between overlayed or windowed-rendered. the windowed has bad contrast. like a software acceleration vs hardware acceleration thingy.



grrr... I just installed crysis, same old problem in windows7 memory leak... hoping a patch will fix my crisis. lol

Did you update Crysis to v1.21 first? I played the game without a crash until near the end of the final boss. The puny Realtek audio of my pc couldn't handle the sound (the thundering of the alien warship, alien troopers firing, and explosions all around) and kept crashing the game until I lowered the sound quality. Maybe I should put my SB Audigy 2 Value back in there**.

My problem with printscreen is Windows 7 related. All I get is a black screen. But FRAPS did just fine. I had the same problem with my previous pc which had the 8600 GT.


**Good thing that darn 5770 is so long. If it was shorter, the fan would be covered by the Audigy 2.

[Jun aka Pekto]

Hardware acceleration of video is usually via overlay. Screen-capturing outside of the player usually shows a blank screen. If you can capture via PrtScn, it's usually software driven.

[jut703]

Guys please suggest a game for this setup

3GB Ram, Dual Core 2GHZ. Then eto ung sa properties nya:

Total available graphics memory: 1308MB
Dedicated video memory: 64MB
System video memory: 0MB
Shared system video memory: 1244MB

Downloading Counter Strike 1.6 No Steam right now

Sir exact specs po. What kind of processor?

Core 2 Duo ba, Pentium Dual-Core, or Athlon X2? Not everything is dictated by clock speed.

And more imporantly, GPU model sir. This one's much more complicated. It's really about the model numbers and not the memory per se. There are core clocks and shader clocks to be considered, stream processors and bus widths to be counted. So to best gauge your GPU's performance, look up the benchmarks :D

[Jun aka Pekto]

Guys please suggest a game for this setup

3GB Ram, Dual Core 2GHZ. Then eto ung sa properties nya:

Total available graphics memory: 1308MB
Dedicated video memory: 64MB
System video memory: 0MB
Shared system video memory: 1244MB

Downloading Counter Strike 1.6 No Steam right now

Pacific Fighters and X-Plane 9 should run okay so long as there's not too many clouds. But, I wouldn't play them without a joystick since they're both flight sims.

The original Homeworld space RTS should run fine too.

Rome: Total War might run okay depending on what your gpu is.

Battlefield 1942 should run fine too.

Combat Flight Simulator 2 might run okay too. I remember it ran on a P3 with a 32mb nVidia TNT2.

[rion]

Did you update Crysis to v1.21 first? I played the game without a crash until near the end of the final boss. The puny Realtek audio of my pc couldn't handle the sound (the thundering of the alien warship, alien troopers firing, and explosions all around) and kept crashing the game until I lowered the sound quality. Maybe I should put my SB Audigy 2 Value back in there**.

My problem with printscreen is Windows 7 related. All I get is a black screen. But FRAPS did just fine. I had the same problem with my previous pc which had the 8600 GT.


**Good thing that darn 5770 is so long. If it was shorter, the fan would be covered by the Audigy 2.

I tried to start to 1.2.1 but ayaw nya. need 1.2 patch daw muna. so I started at 1.2, then 1.2.1. Then when I tried to install 1.1. ayaw na nya. lol!

same audio issue here. almost similar to my damn latency problem, only worst. I thought it was the same memory leak. but the patch already fixed it. I read many people do suffer from this audio clicks. lol

Hardware acceleration of video is usually via overlay. Screen-capturing outside of the player usually shows a blank screen. If you can capture via PrtScn, it's usually software driven.

my thoughts exactly, kind of reminds me when I compare movies played in overlayed or windowed/renderless. overlayed cannot be captured by printscreen, so when I printscreen under windowed/renderless mode, I get bad contrast.





my 9600gt captures using the printscreen button only. =)

[Jun aka Pekto]

Is that the new Wolfenstein or one of the Call of Duty games?

[Jun aka Pekto]

I also put back in my Audigy 2 Value. Using the DPC Latency checker, it's already having an effect.

With the Realtek, I'd get spikes of 400-450 (still in the green) at regular intervals even though they're pretty far apart.

With the Audigy 2 Value and the Realtek disabled, I had a one-time max of 319 observing DPC for an extended period.

Are you sure it's not apps that's causing your latency problems? Especially Adobe suites.They strike me as among the most demanding (read: bloated) apps around.

[Negus]

Currently playing GT5 demo on a 37in Full HD 120Hz (Double speed framerate) LCD TV.

Can't wipe the grin off my face.

[rion]

Is that the new Wolfenstein or one of the Call of Duty games?

from cod5, nazie zombie. =)

Are you sure it's not apps that's causing your latency problems? Especially Adobe suites.They strike me as among the most demanding (read: bloated) apps around.

yep, kahit kaka-format lang, nothing installed yet, and I get latency issues already. right now, I just switch from balanced or power saver to high performance power plan profile and the latency is gone. except in crisis. lol

I got some leads to the problem though... apparantly, despite the ASPM option is around, it's not functional...

Currently playing GT5 demo on a 37in Full HD 120Hz (Double speed framerate) LCD TV.

Can't wipe the grin off my face.

damn, who wouldn't?

is your lcd Nvidia 3dVision ready? that would tear my mouth apart. LOL!

[Jun aka Pekto]

nothing installed yet, and I get latency issues already.

I'm guessing it's your hardware. There's usually no latency problems with hardware unless they're sharing something, be it resources or pathways.

I got some leads to the problem though... apparantly, despite the ASPM option is around, it's not functional...

I take it ASPM is the really nice function where the pc powers down after a certain time specified. Yet when the power button is pressed, the pc resumes right were it left off within a blink, usually in the Windows desktop.

I have new hardware. That function works perfectly. I know it wouldn't work with my previous pc.

[Jun aka Pekto]

I'm still playing Crysis. But instead of accomplishing missions and eventually finishing the game again, I'm just cleaning house; finding and hunting every KPA in each level ala Predator. I've also been watching the movie Predator a wee bit too much....



There's also an interesting parallel between the game Crysis and the movie Predator. Crysis 2 will be in an urban setting much like Predator 2 was.....

[Jun aka Pekto]

I want this:

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ONjAwKO-IjA&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ONjAwKO-IjA&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>


i know Jun aka Pekto will too........ hehehehe

YouTube- Full Motion Sim on F16, Buzzing the Acropolis


AWESOME

Too messy. Plus instead of that chair, I want this

[jut703]

Have you tried Crysis Warhead yet Jun? For me it's better than Crysis

[Jun aka Pekto]

Have you tried Crysis Warhead yet Jun? For me it's better than Crysis

It's part of Crysis Maximum Edition with Crysis Wars completing the trio. I forgot all about Warhead. Ooops.

[rion]

I take it ASPM is the really nice function where the pc powers down after a certain time specified. Yet when the power button is pressed, the pc resumes right were it left off within a blink, usually in the Windows desktop.

not really sure what ASPM is for. but I think it's not about sleep state. but more like power saving feature. google says:

PCIe ASPM technology allows PCIe hardware to transition the link to lower power states. The link is the physical interface between the PCI endpoint and the PCI switch. When ASPM is enabled, we can reduce power consumption even when the devices are in a fully powered on state (D0).

While ASPM can be enabled by the BIOS, it is often enabled only for mobile systems because the latency to transition from lower to fully powered state can cause a drop in performance. However, depending on the administrator's power policy, the OS should be able to switch this feature on or off at will, depending on whether the administrator wants to favor power over performance or vice versa.

http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/de...ement/pcie.php

my aspm might be broken... I have to set my processor power management minimum to 81% so maybe, it makes the transition to 100% is not far.
grr... I am still not appreciating crysis. not really my cup of tea. also puts my Ati HD 4850 to shame.

and darn nvidia & intel, I see their ads on crysis opening. lol!

[Jun aka Pekto]

not really sure what ASPM is for. but I think it's not about sleep state. but more like power saving feature. google says:

PCIe ASPM technology allows PCIe hardware to transition the link to lower power states. The link is the physical interface between the PCI endpoint and the PCI switch. When ASPM is enabled, we can reduce power consumption even when the devices are in a fully powered on state (D0).

While ASPM can be enabled by the BIOS, it is often enabled only for mobile systems because the latency to transition from lower to fully powered state can cause a drop in performance. However, depending on the administrator's power policy, the OS should be able to switch this feature on or off at will, depending on whether the administrator wants to favor power over performance or vice versa.

http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/de...ement/pcie.php

in my case, I have to set my processor power management minimum to 81% so the transition to 100% is not far.

Okay. Maybe I'm confused about sleep states. Does sleep states mean the power to the pc looks like it's off completely. On my pc, everything powers down including all lights, hard drives and PSU. Yet when I press the button, I'm right back where I left off within a second or two. I haven't turned off my pc in a while.

grr... I am still not appreciating crysis. not really my cup of tea. also puts my Ati HD 4850 to shame.

and darn nvidia & intel, I see their ads on crysis opening. lol!

Well, my nephews are the same way. They seem to be frustrated by the game. But, I beat it at Delta and their pride won't let them quit. They can't take their uncle doing better than them. Me I love it. It suits my style just fine.

I'm on Crysis: Warhead now.

First thing I noticed is a minor, hopefully one-time rendering glitch:



But, I can run the game at Enthusiast/Very High settings which gave some nice HDR effects:


But, I still prefer the tried and true settings for me which were the most playable with good eye candy and good frame rates:

Texture Quality, Object Quality, and Water Quality are all Enthusiast while everything else were Gamer plus 2xAA.

[Jun aka Pekto]

and darn nvidia & intel, I see their ads on crysis opening. lol!

At least you have an Intel.

Me? It's a double whammy.

Whenever Crytek shows up, Esc...... Crytek? Yeah yeah yeah.

When nVidia follows, Esc...... nVidia? Go away! I have an ATI card.

When the Intel logo shows up, Esc...... Intel? Shooo! I have an AMD cpu.

Every single time I start the game.....

[Jun aka Pekto]

I felt a little silly while replaying one of the levels in Crysis. I got on the roof of a building while cloaked and started knocking off KPA. Once the cloak turned off, one of em threw a grenade which blew the building down. A couple of shotgun blasts later and I'm forced to reload from the last saved game. Whoops.