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So tomorrow I'm going to start picking up components for my new pc. A question for those in the know... How well does Stalker play with Windows 8? I wish I could say I'm spending all this money on a cool new system for other games but I'm literally getting it for stalker. Windows 8 looks cool and I was a bit of a late adopter of windows 7 because I'm a luddite, so what's the verdict?
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Ddraig posted:So tomorrow I'm going to start picking up components for my new pc. A question for those in the know... How well does Stalker play with Windows 8? I wish I could say I'm spending all this money on a cool new system for other games but I'm literally getting it for stalker. Windows 8 looks cool and I was a bit of a late adopter of windows 7 because I'm a luddite, so what's the verdict? I'm on Windows 8.1 and I don't have any issues with any of the Stalker games. I'm not sure how familiar you are with Windows 8, but a lot of people aren't fond of the new interface (myself being one of them). If you find you don't like it too make sure you download Classic Shell. It makes everything like Windows 7 interface wise. Also, SSD's are great (I finally got one around 6 months ago) but don't expect game loading times to go down too dramatically. They're great for installing your OS and common files on though, I can boot up after pressing the start button within a few seconds. I've still been working with the Clear Sky source code, and I finally got one version I found to compile. The version I was trying before was bugged as hell. I made the following changes to it: *Added different sounds for reloading a weapon with a partial mag vs. an empty mag. To use add "snd_reload_empty" to any weapon ltx you want. *Added possibility of anm_reload_empty to automatic weapons. *Added bloodmarks (not working) and actor shadow (looks great) on DX9 renderer Authors: Nick Galko, K.D., jketiynu I am really hoping someone with Platinum could do me a huge favor and ask a Moderator here if it's okay to post the working source code. Please make sure you tell them that people already were given GSC's unofficial blessing to use the SoC source code, and it appears fine to use the CS code as well. I had contacted the moderator of the official GSC forum and he said he'd contact GSC for me and see what they thought, and I haven't received a response in over a week, which to me tells me they don't want to come out and say it's okay, but unofficially it is. Also: If anyone here knows C++ or knows of someone that knows C++ and would like to work on an open source project with a team of people let me know. There's a big growing list of features to add to CS, and ones to be ported to COP when that's released. Here are a few new ideas I had: *Replace Global Illumination system with a more modern one. Should actually be relatively simple as everything that we know r2_gi and related functions does is only in a few files. It should be easy to replace with a modern day, good looking system. *Give decals ability to have bump and bump# maps. That way bulletholes can take chunks out of things and blood can have a nice specular map to look glossy in the sunlight. *Add Cook-Torrance lighting as an option for models through the SDK. *3D shell casings (perfectly possible, I just don't know where to start and I don't even officially know C++) *Non-hostile wildlife in the Zone (I think I can do this, but the models and animations I can't) Swartz fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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Aug 18, 2014 04:12
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I'd stay away from 8 on general principle. On the SSD front, my pc literally loads in 7 seconds. It's amazing.
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Aug 18, 2014 04:50
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I know a lot of people don't like the new start thing, I'm not particularly bothered by it and think it looks cool. Also PayPal are the loving worst. Used it to get my motherboard and GTX 770 and it's sort of now stuck in a weird purgatory where I'm not sure what is happening so I have to phone them to see what the hell is going on with my transfer so I don't end up being charged twice. This is my build so hopefully it will somewhat tame stalker http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/6qwhvK Rush Limbo fucked around with this message at 09:00 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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Aug 18, 2014 08:58
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Still not gonna be able to max it... I hate this game. It sucks me in then it starts to crash frequently and totally turns me off. Then I reinstall like I forgot how it started to suck.
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Aug 18, 2014 20:56
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Holy hell, I bought an SSD today and I was convinced they sold me an empty box. This thing is so small and light it's pretty crazy. It's like 4 times lighter than my 2.5in laptop hard drives.
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Aug 19, 2014 12:36
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Swartz posted:Also, SSD's are great (I finally got one around 6 months ago) but don't expect game loading times to go down too dramatically. They're great for installing your OS and common files on though, I can boot up after pressing the start button within a few seconds. After I got my SSD I put CoP on it, my load times went from over a minute to ~10 seconds. YMMV I guess
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Aug 19, 2014 12:50
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Nice pick on the samsung EVO, the 250gb one just dropped in price here. Only 8gb ram, a mini tower? also why not a current gen i7? Do you have access to http://www.microcenter.com/ and http://www.newegg.com/ ? $1300 should go a lot farther than that.
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Aug 19, 2014 14:41
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I really don't want a huge machine as I'm living in a rather dinky place and it might come in handy during winter to have a larger thing, I think the prodigy is a very sexy case. Only went with 8GB RAM as most of the games I have and can afford at the moment don't use much more. same deal with the i5, it should be plenty particularly if I overclock it a bit. In addition to the WD red I have two salvage hard drives from my laptop that are 500gb a piece so there's plenty of room for my
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Aug 19, 2014 14:50
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allright man but that thing is going to get hot, especially if you plan on OCing on air. I have that CPU fan + 5 of fans that mount to it, its not that effective at about a 8deg (C) imporvement over the stock intel cooler. lost alpha started artifacting from GPU heat, i had no stutter issues (in SLAM DX10.1 forced maxed settings -grass)
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Aug 19, 2014 15:30
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Well my prodigy arrived today and it was just as sexy as I imagined it to be. Installed the two drives from my dead laptop in the side panel. Still waiting on the PSU, GPU and the last hard drive to arrive. Sweet stalker I have missed you so. Hopefully this rig will allow me to make decent quality videos without killing my framerate totally. Last time I recorded something it was the Dead City part of my mod and the constant warfare and explosions tanked any chance of recording anything decent.
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Aug 19, 2014 18:32
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Ddraig posted:Hopefully this rig will allow me to make decent quality videos without killing my framerate totally. Last time I recorded something it was the Dead City part of my mod and the constant warfare and explosions tanked any chance of recording anything decent. Since you got a GTX770 you can use Nvidia Shadowplay to make videos. It doesn't really affect your framerate at all.
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Aug 19, 2014 18:59
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Swartz posted:Since you got a GTX770 you can use Nvidia Shadowplay to make videos. It doesn't really affect your framerate at all. It'll drop it maybe like one or two frames. Shadowplay is great.
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Aug 19, 2014 20:52
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Samsung evo is the only way to go. I don't understand why you went with 8 gigs of ram though. Going 16 costs like 20 bucks extra. Also go with an i7. Seriously though having stalker on an SSD is mandatory due to the obscene load times. And even on an SSD the load times are obscene. As in it takes every other game barely noticeable times to load whereas stalker actually takes a few seconds.
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Aug 19, 2014 23:03
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Welp I already have my i5 installed with the cooler and everything so thanks for trying to give me buyers remorse you dicks  As for the ram I mean 16gb seems rather excessive. Plus it was 20 bucks I literally didn't have so I had to make do
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Aug 19, 2014 23:18
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Don't worry about it, I have an i5 and it works slick. Don't worry about the ram either. With both items the lost gain ratio isn't exactly defined at all because there are more things to it than just future proofing. And as for future proofing when the time comes to replace a CPU or a GPU the money you invest won't go much towards putting off it becoming obsolete.
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Aug 19, 2014 23:27
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Ddraig posted:Welp I already have my i5 installed with the cooler and everything so thanks for trying to give me buyers remorse you dicks 16GB is good if you open huge databases regularly and want to be able to search them. Otherwise you're unlikely to be running anything even approaching 8GB used most of the time. As for an i7, how much extra is that and for how much more performance?
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Aug 19, 2014 23:47
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I'm mainly going to be using this rig to play Spelunky. I thought the 770 might be slightly excessive but I thought gently caress it, those dogs deserve it.
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Aug 20, 2014 00:00
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Swartz posted:Since you got a GTX770 you can use Nvidia Shadowplay to make videos. It doesn't really affect your framerate at all. I use Shadowplay and I love the function that lets it rolling record the last x minutes of gameplay, so you can save it off if something cool happens. Anyway, if you use that tool I would suggest you change where it stores the temp video data so it isn't constantly writing to your SSD if that's where it wants to put it by default.
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Aug 20, 2014 00:32
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you will not need a new video card any time soon. hth sorry about the hardware criticality
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Aug 20, 2014 00:48
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Hey Shadowplayers, what do you use to convert the video into something that isn't a billion gigs at 3 minutes long?
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Aug 20, 2014 03:44
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Bacon Hat posted:you will not need a new video card any time soon. I was being slightly facetious. I had a very limited budget and even with this I do not have enough to get a proper monitor for the time being. I guess I could set up some sort of PayPal thing if people wanted to contribute to a 'buy ddraig a monitor and some beer' fund, but that seems like a rather dickish thing to ask. I always have mixed feelings about that kind of thing (especially when it comes to stuff like the Misery dev team ) so I would feel like a terrible hypocrite.e: the GTX 770 is nearly twice the size of my motherboard, that's pretty crazy. Still waiting on the power supply to arrive. Rush Limbo fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Aug 20, 2014 |
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Aug 20, 2014 12:39
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Autumn Aurora 2 is being updated to the 2.05 version today on Moddb. http://www.moddb.com/mods/autumn-aurora-compilation-mod
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Aug 20, 2014 16:27
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i got you on monitor shopping advice, buy a small HDTV with HDMI input because those things are for 'poors' and no one wants them so they usually get priced below 27" LED monitors.
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Aug 20, 2014 23:00
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I already have a loving huge (relatively) plasma TV which obviously isn't ideal but it will do in a pinch until I can get something more purposefully made for a PC.
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Aug 20, 2014 23:02
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Get a half decent IPS panel, nothing worse than a lovely TN panel that washes out half the screen if your head is an inch too high or too low, and has uneven brightness when your head is as the right level anyway... especially in dark games like STALKER.
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Aug 21, 2014 11:28
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If you're playing Survarium, make sure you dip into Black Market rep at least long enough to get the bear traps. They hurt and kill teammates too, and you arn't penalized when this happens 
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Aug 21, 2014 11:35
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Can you gently caress up and kill yourself in your own bear traps? That would be pretty fun. Still waiting on my RAM from Amazon. Maybe I should have gotten the type with go faster wings on it, it might not have taken 5 days (and waiting) to arrive.
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Aug 21, 2014 11:47
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In Misery 2.1.1 where do I find evidence of Tremors' involvment with the missing stalkers?
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Aug 21, 2014 12:13
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Ideally it should be with Tremor. Knowing Misery though it's probably in Pripyat somewhere.
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Aug 21, 2014 12:52
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Ddraig posted:Can you gently caress up and kill yourself in your own bear traps? That would be pretty fun. Yep, I managed to trap myself 2seconds after setting a trap 
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Aug 21, 2014 14:54
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Autumn Aurora 2 v2.50 is now out. http://www.moddb.com/mods/autumn-aurora-compilation-mod/downloads/autumn-aurora-2quote:graphics/sound improvements:
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Aug 22, 2014 03:21
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Got pretty much all of my builds parts now. If there's some sort of electrical fire that takes out half of the UK you know I wasn't successful. Put a stash on my grave. I want that music at the funeral.
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Aug 22, 2014 13:56
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The Ddraig's apartment anomaly field will be the UK's primary source of Moonlight and Snowflake artifacts for years to come.
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Aug 22, 2014 14:22
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I've already got a fingerprint on my cpu. I'm now worried as when the machines rise up they now have my biometrics data.
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Ddraig posted:I've already got a fingerprint on my cpu. I'm now worried as when the machines rise up they now have my biometrics data. What if they put you in the Matrix, but like a matrix where you're forced to play Misery for eternity? 
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Aug 22, 2014 14:47
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Jonathan Yeah! posted:What if they put you in the Matrix, but like a matrix where you're forced to play Misery for eternity? They would have to get it to work first 
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Imagine doing tech support for the matrix  In other news, I'm finally playing Lost Alpha, and it hasn't crashed more than vanilla SoC, so that's good. What's not so good is the sometimes dumb mission design. When I want to rescue that mechanic from the Sin guys, he proceeded to immediately run into the military guys at the bridge and got sniped. Sidorovich then complemented me on a job well done, remarking on how there wasn't even a scratch on him. Now I can't use the mechanic. Are there more of them? Also, this is more of a vanilla complaint as well, but I hate that the Bar is locked until you do the Agroprom mission. It's an open world game, I feel like I should be able to go where I want to go.
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MadBimber posted:Hey Shadowplayers, what do you use to convert the video into something that isn't a billion gigs at 3 minutes long? You can load them into AVIdemux (http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/) and that will let you cut the video up. I'm yet to do anything other than that, so I can't comment on how easy it is to apply filters to speed up or slow down, or whatever else it is you can do. It didn't look that versatile, though, and for anything especially clever I'd probably load it into a better video editor. I set the video output to "Mpeg4 AVC (x264)" and the audio to "MP3 (lame)" as I have LAME installed (and I assume it needs that in order for me to chose it but I could be wrong.) You can fiddle with the video codec options to decrease file size, and if you plan to upload to Youtube they tell you some preferred settings on there somewhere you can try and duplicate. When I did this, Youtube told me it didn't like the format completely and that I might have trouble streaming. I fixed this by running MP4FastStart (http://www.datagoround.com/lab/) over the final video before upload to Youtube, but I've no idea if it really helped or not. I just tested it on a short test video dump and it quartered the video size for no loss of quality. Fiddling with the video codec settings could easily reduce that further if need be. Gromit fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Aug 22, 2014 |
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Since there's been no concerted effort to so I'd kind of like to port a few lightweight mods to lost alpha. OGSM will be my first one. I imagine a lot of it is already in lost alpha since OGSM is a prototype twice removed of the LA concept but it has a few neat features that would work in concert with LA. Either that or AMK. Rush Limbo fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Aug 22, 2014 |
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