I wouldn't say one is better or worse but they are different.
SoC is all about isolation. The game isolates the player by restricting the areas that friendlies roam. On several maps it's you vs. the entire map. The lack of allies makes it feel bleaker. GSC also gave it good audio to...
H isn't running mods. Bethesda's texture pack is a joke. Go to skyrimnexus and install 8-10 texture packs and you'll get single digit FPS /w 2GB @2560. I know because I've done it.
I'm playing a Stalker CoP Russian mod with a texture pack right now and my xfire 6950's are using ~1800MB...
Skyrim with HD texture mods runs out of VRAM on my crossfire 6950's @2560x1600 so it is not "End of story". Given the hundreds of hours I sank into Oblivion that is a pretty big problem for me. YOU may not care about more VRAM but I certainly do.
I HATED that friggin' raid. I think my guild did it 2304820945820958965829 times before we finally beat it. Hundreds of hours pissed away on that. Fortunately(?) I was a wizard so instead of spamming mez or heals it was a lot of sitting around doing nothing. And yes it was at least 8 hours...
36-38 hours in Everquest doing an XP grind trying to get to level 60. I forget the name of the camp, it was in one of the early Planes of Power zones back when that expansion was new.
The sad part is I was unemployed then so I slept for 6-8 hours and was right back at it for another 14-16...
Killing does not necessarily mean giving up the ghost bonus. You can headshot an entire area and as long as it doesnt' go hostile (which it won't unless someone sees you do the kill) you can still get ghost.
Although the true XP whore path is to use stealth to do non-lethal takedowns on...
Because it takes away one of the biggest strengths of the platform, stability. Developers are drawn to consoles because they are all the same, write your game for console X and it's guaranteed to work on all of them. If you suddenly have console's X.1 and X.2, you are either writing games for...
I don't know if it's true, but I've read that Awakening messes up the romance flags for your DAO character such that when it gets imported into DA2 it doesn't know about whatever romance you had active.
Specifically the super high res screenshot thread. Pretty much all 1080p or higher, fair amount of 30" and eyefinity screenshots.
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1530070&highlight=screenshot+thread
The stalker games are FPS' but you should think of them as RPG's w/o stats as they have a lot in common with RPG's. Except instead of stats you improve by acquiring gear. So at the start of the game you are pretty gimp as your gear sucks.
The Challenges:
Ballistics in the stalker games...
As others have stated that PC is pretty much a lost cause for upgrades. Box systems like that are usually built to a price point (and that price point is usually very cheap); so any upgrades you do on box systems tend to cascade and by the time you're done you've ended up replacing everything...
I have an FT02 and I can tell you from experience that it's an awful case for non-blower style cards, literally a 25c difference in crossfire when I tried it (6950 twin frozr vs reference). The 6990 pushes air out both sides of the card, this will fight with the FT02's intake fans and destroy...
There is a crude version of this now. You can create categories and place a game into one or more categories. You then get tree nodes in your game list for each category with the games inside each. As an example I have 3 categories, one for games I've finished, one for 'junk' games (games I...
I disagree. I think vanilla Oblivion was one of the best modder toolsets ever created but was a pretty terrible game. IMO Oblivion w/o at least OOO + some sort of levelling mod (nGCD in my case) is unplayable (and to make it great you have to run a lot more than just that).
My hope (it's...
I replaced them with 2x MSI reference cards. I agree that ASUS is a solid company; I've used their motherboards for over 10 years. I picked the MSI's purely based on price and the assumption that all the reference boards are pretty identical and I can use afterburner for a slight overclock if...
I'm the one that started the HardOCP thread and I'll echo DrBoss' sentiments, the frozr's need some room to breathe to run cool. However there is a caveat here and that is our different cases.
DrBoss' case is a conventional high airflow case. Mine is a Silverstone FT02 which rotates the...
DrBoss, that's a good catch. When I ran it I was running in 32 bit as afterburner only displays the overlay (which I was using to monitor temps in-game) in 32 bit.
To give you a point of reference:
I just ran Crysis yesterday with the same video cards. Played a bit at the beach in the beginning where the sun rises and you disable the jammer. High settings 4xaa gave me 60-70fps @2560x1600, Very High 4xaa at same rez was 30-35 (usually closer to 30).
I...
I bought two of these to try in crossfire and it won't work if the cards are in adjacent slots. With the cards next to each other the outside card hit 90c / 100% fan after 15 min sitting at the very beginning of BF2 (where you sneak up on the Japanese with your knife). That card was dumping a...
I actually spent more time playing TQ than D2. The Lilith TCM & TQ Masteries gave you a whole new game using the engine. I never finished Lilith (PC it was on died) but at some point I still want to.
It's a steal if you have the burning desire to play games on day 1 and are willing to pay @50-$60 each. Those same games will all be on sale for $25 or less (some a lot less) come Christmas.
The only game I paid full price for on steam is DA1, and I have about 50 steam games. My usage...
I find this interesting as I found the game absurdly easy after bonehead, even soloing multi-player games. As others have stated, the damage you (and the NPC's do) is modified by the delta between your levels, and it's modified too harshly IMO. All it takes is 3 or so levels of difference to...
Not sure which of the Stalker's you're playing but I'll assume SoC.
There is a fair amount of stuff in the rookie village. However if you walk into random buildings in the game most will be empty (populated buildings tend to have stuff). There tends to be more stuff hidden in the...
Nothing special to do, just run the game twice from Steam. Then host a lan game with one proc and join the game with the other.
Note that it is possible to erase characters doing this. Twice I've had my difficulty increasing bot erased (both times it was a new L1 character that was created...
I really like this game, but I wish it had a difficulty setting for single player. I find it way too easy; I used the config editor to set my multiplayer difficulty to +3 and I run LAN games (thanks to a prior poster for pointing out you can run multiple copies and LAN /w yourself) with a...
For those who have the Underdome DLC, does the bank have a shared area? Many loot based games have have a shared storage area which you can use to shuffle items between characters.
I have nobody to play with online so I'm stuck playing single player. My soldier always seems to find SMG's my...
From what I've read (haven't played it yet) Zombie Island scales to be the same level as the main quest line when you first go there. By slamming into the level cap you trivialized the content before you ever went to it.
A better way to experience it would be to find a point where the main...
Stalker has 7 or 8 different endings. All but two of them are considered "false" endings. The wish bringer is a trap created to enslave stalkers who manage to get to the middle of the zone, by going to the wish bringer you have fallen for the trap and thus have gotten a "false" ending.
To...
Note my approach won't work if you're wearing exo armor, I used the SSP-99M with a fair amount of +weight artifacts so I was well under being overloaded so could sprint a fair ways.
With Complete 2009 ammo for any gun you want shouldn't be a big deal. You should be able to buy NATO rounds...
At this point in the game no way in hell should you be using an AK. You should be using something that uses either NATO (5.56) or 9x39mm ammo as that is the ammunition that will be dropped by what you are fighting, allowing you to resupply.
You are at the endgame but you still have a fair...
I am using an Infrant/Netgear ReadyNAS for time machine backups for 2 macs. You do have to go through some work setting this up (you need to create the sparse bundles manually) but it takes all of 5 minutes.
The instructions are from Infrant but they would work for any NAS.
The nice part...
This memory is working fine for me, and I use an app (Traktor Scratch Pro) that is a memory pig.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820146878
Superfetch shouldn't be hitting the hard drive for 60 minutes. It's far more likely that it's Windows Defender. I had this same problem with my Vista x64 install. By default, Defender is setup to scan the entire computer daily at 3am. If you turn your machine off at night this scan doesn't...
Vista (both 32 and 64 bit) lock down the program files folder(s). Files cannot be edited unless you are an admin user and elevate or are the administrator user. If you have a game (or any other app) you think isn't working because of this trying running it as admin (note that if you aren't an...
"Mac" at this point refers to software not hardware. The only thing that makes a "Mac" a "Mac" is OSX, the hardware is windows PC hardware. Boot camp is really a fancy name for dual booting, boot camping windows is no different that dual booting two versions of windows (or windows an linux...
To give you a point of comparison, I have the dell 30", 8800GTX, and Q6600. The crysis demo ran with FPS test in the high 20's to low 30's with all settings on medium. Oblivion runs with HDR on and most shadows off and other settings at or close to max (shadows kill outdoors FPS). Titanquest...
The order you install the frameworks in does not matter.
As people have stated if you install 3.0 you get 2.0 as well. 3.0 is the same as 2.0 with 3 added technologies (new UI framework, new communication framework, and a workflow framework). 3.0 should really have been 2.5 as the base...
30" monitors support two resolutions natively, 2560x1600 via dual link DVI (which means you need a dual link DVI capable card) and 1280x800 (via DVI or dual link DVI). Any other resolution is going to either have to be scaled (either by the video card or the monitor if the monitor in question...
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