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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

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So I had heard about "S.T.A.L.K.E.R." a while back and was quite excited by it. I looked it up and wow... it was already out, and had been out since March! That meant it was only $30 now, so I went to go pick it up.

It ran like crap, and ran even worse at lower resolutions which shouldn't happen. Every other time I'd run it I'd get really good frame rates in the rendered intro scene and then it would get better rates in the game but still nothing too good.
I was rather disappointed by the whole thing... I certainly don't have the best video cards but they're quad-core, 2 x 7950s in SLi so I expected they'd run ok since the game wasn't brand new. I still think there's a tweak I can perform that will make it run better.

I also got a copy of Crysis - the demo ran like crap, but the full version runs much better - it doesn't work in native 64 bit but that's to be expected with a... second hand version.

Call of Duty 4 is a really great game, I'm currently playing it in 1280 x 800 16x10 res with no AA or AS filtering and I'm getting very strange effect. The lighting is a tad surreal, the edges around the other characters is too bright. The game itself is really good - the squad AI covered my ass for most of it. I tend to jump into the fire, so this was a new experience. Throwing a flash bang into the room while the 2 guys flank the door and then rush in once it goes off was really cool - I think the AI makes this the best squad based game I've played, though I think the last one I played was Swat4 =)

Labels: games, hardware