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HoboWithAShotgun posted:I'm hoping a 4670k & gtx970 will be enough for this. I think you'll be just fine.
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Jan 9, 2015 00:51
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GuyUpNorth posted:€200 and above is still expensive from my perspective, and local shop has 700-series starting at 280. Goodbye GTX 660, I barely knew ye for year and a half... and I also have exactly 8GB of RAM. I shall have to Don't buy old Nvidia 7xx stock. Assuming you play at 1080p you want a R9 280 for high/very high quality, or a R9 280X for very high/ultra.
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Jan 9, 2015 02:13
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sauer kraut posted:Don't buy old Nvidia 7xx stock. Assuming you play at 1080p you want a R9 280 for high/very high quality, or a R9 280X for very high/ultra. Counterpoint: Don't buy an AMD card. I have a 4GB MSI 770 and it owns but you're better off getting the sweet new 970 and being set for several years.
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Jan 9, 2015 02:34
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The Joe Man posted:Counterpoint: Don't buy an AMD card. There are some really good value cards out there but the 970 isn't it. Most people are looking to buy for about $300 give or take.
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Jan 9, 2015 02:37
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On the other hand, the GTX 970 is the absolute best price per performance card you can buy right now. It's around $330 though, but at least you're getting your money's worth.
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Gwyrgyn Blood posted:On the other hand, the GTX 970 is the absolute best price per performance card you can buy right now. It's around $330 though, but at least you're getting your money's worth. Yeah I just checked the prices again and HOLY poo poo it's cheap enough. Just ordered one 
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Jan 9, 2015 03:01
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Demiurge4 posted:There are some really good value cards out there but the 970 isn't it. Most people are looking to buy for about $300 give or take. Well don't leave us hanging, share your value secrets. It's a 290X with some mail-in rebate isn't it. ^^haha ok, hope it was a MSI Gaming 4G or Asus Strix
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Jan 9, 2015 03:03
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sauer kraut posted:Well don't leave us hanging, share your value secrets. I got the MSI, I really shouldn't make snap decisions like this and I hope I'm not wasting my money.
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Jan 9, 2015 03:07
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Demiurge4 posted:I got the MSI, I really shouldn't make snap decisions like this and I hope I'm not wasting my money. No if you're into gaming that p much the safest buy ever next to any 200$ Core i5, congratulations. But enough video card chat.
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Jan 9, 2015 03:11
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I got my 970 for about £270 a few weeks ago and it's been great. Runs Witcher 2 with everything turned on (except that ubersampling thing) and I don't think I've seen it go below 110fps in the arena. Gets retarded high framerates in most games I play and the downsampling feature is great. That said, I'm halfway through Witcher 1 and plan on finishing that before playing the second proper.
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Jan 9, 2015 03:19
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Demiurge4 posted:Yeah I just checked the prices again and HOLY poo poo it's cheap enough. Just ordered one You'll love it, it's my favorite card I've had. I have no idea what specs I'd need for ubersampling at 1080p ultra, though.
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I just finished this after picking it up during the recent Steam sale. It was alright, but I didn't feel it was anything mindblowing. Never having been a fan of the fantasy genre is probably part of that. I never fell in love with the combat system, and the names and locations were hard to keep straight. That being said, I'm looking forward to hearing more about Cyberpunk 2077. That is more my style.
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Jan 10, 2015 01:29
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Demiurge4 posted:I got the MSI, I really shouldn't make snap decisions like this and I hope I'm not wasting my money. You're fine. MSI and ASUS built their cards with proper cooling. EVGA on the other hand...
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Jan 10, 2015 02:03
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I don't seem to be getting achievements. I'm in the Prologue and tried to trigger the one for making five potions and nothing happened. There's also an achievement for helping that guy escape the castle and I didn't see it. I purchased W2 through Origins.
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Jan 10, 2015 03:03
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I don't see a Witcher 3 thread anywhere, so I figure I'd ask here: how insane of a machine do yall think I'll need to play it at 3840x2160, high settings (no ubersampling of course)?
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Jan 10, 2015 05:25
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EightBit posted:I don't see a Witcher 3 thread anywhere, so I figure I'd ask here: how insane of a machine do yall think I'll need to play it at 3840x2160, high settings (no ubersampling of course)? pretty insane, EioghtBit. Pretty mother f***ing insane
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Jan 10, 2015 05:33
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To be honest, ubersampling looks a bit too much like someone smeared vaseline on my monitor. 
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Jan 10, 2015 05:56
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NVIDIA's DSR stuff uses a sweet 15-tap kernel or whatever it is, should be much nicer than ubersampling.
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EightBit posted:I don't see a Witcher 3 thread anywhere, so I figure I'd ask here: how insane of a machine do yall think I'll need to play it at 3840x2160, high settings (no ubersampling of course)? Not really insane, dual 970's should do that IF the game in question plays nice with SLI. Ask Far Cry 4 players how that goes 
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sauer kraut posted:Not really insane, dual 970's should do that IF the game in question plays nice with SLI. At 60fps? I was hoping my 2x970 system could sustain high at 2560x1440@60, let alone that higher res. This is pleasing news.
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Subjunctive posted:At 60fps? I was hoping my 2x970 system could sustain high at 2560x1440@60, let alone that higher res. This is pleasing news. Hell if I know if runs stable 60fps, but it's the only sensible setup for 4K available atm. The others are spending 1100 dollers on 980's, or building a ventilated pizza oven with ATI parts.
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Dick Trauma posted:I don't seem to be getting achievements. I'm in the Prologue and tried to trigger the one for making five potions and nothing happened. There's also an achievement for helping that guy escape the castle and I didn't see it. I purchased W2 through Origin. Since I missed Eagle Eye during my first go round I've been using that as an achievement test. I removed the weightless recipe mod and restarted and this time I hit the guy with the ballista for the first time and no achievement popped up. So i guess with Origin you just don't get them. I'm only annoyed because some of them (like helping that person escape) give in-game benefits.
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Jan 10, 2015 14:29
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Dick Trauma posted:Since I missed Eagle Eye during my first go round I've been using that as an achievement test. I removed the weightless recipe mod and restarted and this time I hit the guy with the ballista for the first time and no achievement popped up. So i guess with Origin you just don't get them. I'm only annoyed because some of them (like helping that person escape) give in-game benefits. Eagle Eye is an annoying achievement by the fact that it waits until you go into the siege tower to award you the achievement so you think that you somehow didn't get the achievement and end up wasting time trying it over and over.
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Lareine posted:Eagle Eye is an annoying achievement by the fact that it waits until you go into the siege tower to award you the achievement so you think that you somehow didn't get the achievement and end up wasting time trying it over and over. I stuck around until the King starts his speech at the top of the tower so I don't think that's it. Ah well!
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The best part of that ballista scene was how Foltest tells you to aim at Etcheverry but you actually have to aim at the wooden platform below him.
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GrossMurpel posted:The best part of that ballista scene was how Foltest tells you to aim at Etcheverry but you actually have to aim at the wooden platform below him. Which would be why I miss every time. Makes sense, though; it's not like a ballista is a precision instrument.
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Are the Recommended requirements with all the settings turned way up? My CPU appears to be the only thing that doesn't cut the mustard.
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New trailer has one interesting difference between polish and english version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtEO2xZ7BzQ at 36 second we assume it's Yennefer with "You saw what happened..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n0EioOYmD0 we hear someone (Triss?) "You see what she did, she might be bigger threat than wild hunt. I guess Yennefer has her plans, nothing less should be expected of her..
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A bigger threat to whom? Probably someone who's looking for Ciri? Also, Polish Geralt doesn't sound remotely grim enough.
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It looked like some kind of ritual. One guess is she tried to sever connection between world from which wild hunt comes and it had unintended consequences, like another conjunction of spheres.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kuS4wLX06Q They released a new story recap.
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I really wish they would go back to the awesome paintings they used in Witcher 1 instead of those horrible looking motion comics. That was like the one thing I really hated about Witcher 2.
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Hakkesshu posted:I really wish they would go back to the awesome paintings they used in Witcher 1 instead of those horrible looking motion comics. That was like the one thing I really hated about Witcher 2. Agreed, though I can understand the 'comic' style is probably cheaper than 'paintings'. At least the stuff in that trailer looks better than what we got in 2.
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Are oils not supposed to work on the silver sword? All the blade enhancements show up on the steel sword no matter which one I have drawn. I read a reference online to this being a bug that was fixed but I'm on the EE all patched up. Makes it impossible to get the benefit of the monster related oils.
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Dick Trauma posted:Are oils not supposed to work on the silver sword? All the blade enhancements show up on the steel sword no matter which one I have drawn. I read a reference online to this being a bug that was fixed but I'm on the EE all patched up. Makes it impossible to get the benefit of the monster related oils. Are you actually dragging them onto the silver sword? Double clicking always applies them to the steel sword IIRC.
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GrossMurpel posted:Are you actually dragging them onto the silver sword? Double clicking always applies them to the steel sword IIRC. Gahhhh. So many UI failures in this game. Thank you! Now maybe I can kill these wraiths.
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GrossMurpel posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kuS4wLX06Q They released a new story recap. The preachers always blame the Witchers for keeping the monsters at bay. Probably because the preachers often fall into the 'monster' category themselves.
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