The Official Graphics Card and PC gaming Thread

My dads been hit by 440. He said that $h!ts better than coffee LOL! He drives forktruck for a living, and one day, the forks came in contact with the ground of an arc welder. The truck became a conductor LOL!

 

Lol, what is this, the hurting ourselves contest?

 

LOL! An experience with electricity is certainly no laughing matter either.

Sam, this is the game you guys have raved about in the past? It's only 10$, and it doesn't support windows 7 :S
http://store.steampowered.com/app/11440/

 

I play it fine on Windows 7 without any special tricks.

 

I figured as much. Compatibility issues are really quite moot/rare when it comes to windows 7. You think it's worth 10$? Or should I forget it, and get the new one? I love racing games

 

For $10 it's a steal. Just be warned it's a realistic sim-type racer. Also be warned it's more demanding than Grid or Dirt 2. Your GTX260 should handle it well enough though.

 

Thanks Jeff. I more than likely will get it. I wonder how much a hard copy at walmart is...

What exactly do you mean by sim-type racer? LOL! compare to Gran turismo perhaps?

 

Real racing series, racing real cars with realistic difficulty, damage and handling physics. ie a Sim racer, not an arcade racer. Gran Turismo is somewhat similar in that respect but you'll see quickly that the two games are very different. Dirt/Grid have depth in ways that Gran Turismo doesn't and vice versa.

 

Excellent explanation, thank you

 

Dead Space 2

1680x1050 M20: HD3690, HD4650, 9600 series, GT220
1680x1050 M30: HD3850, HD3870, HD4670, 8800GS, 8800GTS640, 9600GSO, GT430
1680x1050 M40: HD4830, HD5570, HD5670, 9600GT, GT240
1680x1050 M50: HD4770, HD4850, HD5750, 8800GT, 8800GTS512, 8800GTX, 9800GT, 9800GTX
1680x1050 M60: HD4860, HD4870, HD5770, 8800 Ultra, 9800GTX+, GTS250

1920x1080 M20: HD3850, HD4650, GT220
1920x1080 M30: HD3870, HD4670, HD4830, HD5570, HD5670, 8800GS, 8800GTS640, 9600GSO, 9600GT, GT240, GT430
1920x1080 M40: HD4770, HD4850, HD5750, 8800GT, 8800GTS512, 8800GTX, 9800GT, 9800GTX
1920x1080 M50: HD4860, HD5770, 8800 Ultra, 9800GTX+, GTS250
1920x1080 M60: HD4870, GTX260, GTS450

1920x1080 3D M20: 8800GT, 8800GTS512, 8800GTX, 8800 Ultra, 9800GT, 9800GTX, 9800GTX+, GTS250
1920x1080 3D M30: GTX260, GTX260-216, GTX280, GTS450
1920x1080 3D M40: GTX275, GTX285, GTX460, GTX460 1GB, GTX465
1920x1080 3D M50: GTX470
1920x1080 3D M60: GTX480, GTX560Ti, GTX570

3840x1080 M20: HD5750
3840x1080 M30: HD5770
3840x1080 M40: HD5830, HD6850
3840x1080 M50: HD5850, HD6870
3840x1080 M60: HD5870, HD6950, HD6970

 

Those numbers make me wonder what the game actually looks like lol. Don't think I've seen anything that easy to run in a while.

 

Indeed, a full 60fps continuous at 4 megapixel res with a single HD5870 is pretty unusual these days. The game actually looks pretty good from the screenshots I've seen. Nothing groundbreaking, but perfectly good enough.

 

its bloody scafu though. Was playing the demo on the xbox. Will not be playing again

 

What's scafu about it? The gory violence or the game itself?

 

no, gore i an take, i love watching that. Its the damn game. The shifting between reality and the mangled version of what he sees. The way the creatures act dead. When you think after shooting then they are, you come closer and bang, they arnt. When you run over them and their body moves, making you think they are alive, but they are just dead.

i love watching horror films, but this genuinely scared me. How bad was the first one?

 

The first one was so bad I had to have a friend over during a bright day to finish it. Not gonna lie the devs really know how to make a scary game. The graphics and atmosphere are excellent. Their sound design is superb as well. 90% of the scares are set up by the sound.

The second game better be even scarier

 

The first one was downright scary. Possibly moreso than the second will be, because the controls were so bad. With VSyn off, the character has the responsiveness of a bus. With VSync on, he has the responsiveness of an ocean liner. It's all very well there being scary stuff, but when you can't immediately duck away from it and have to slide the mouse all the way across the mousemat several times to turn 180 degrees, it's terrifying

 

Easily remedied with an Xbox 360 controller which the game was designed to be played with...

 

I'm so glad I bought one. GTA IV works perfectly, and I'm sure there are others that I'll benefit from And I don't have to work with hacks anymore. Which wasn't that bad I guess...

 

Yeah it's probably just about the best PC gamepad ever made. I use it for everything from PS2 emulation to racing games. Works great.