Far Cry 2?
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Far Cry 2?
Anyone giving this one a look? It would be high on my list if it weren't for it being in the middle of a gluttonous amount of AAA titles.
Reviews have been very positive.
Reviews have been very positive.
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Yeah i am picking this up, but i am going to wait. Like you said there is a lot of A+ titles coming/out now, plus i am playing now Fable 2 Saints Row 2 and Dead SpaceTeal wrote:Anyone giving this one a look? It would be high on my list if it weren't for it being in the middle of a gluttonous amount of AAA titles.
Reviews have been very positive.
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I hate having to choose between so many good ones, but it's at least better than having very few to choose from, so I guess my gamefly account will get a good workout in the coming months...slyguy wrote:Yeah i am picking this up, but i am going to wait. Like you said there is a lot of A+ titles coming/out now, plus i am playing now Fable 2 Saints Row 2 and Dead SpaceTeal wrote:Anyone giving this one a look? It would be high on my list if it weren't for it being in the middle of a gluttonous amount of AAA titles.
Reviews have been very positive.
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Going to get this for PC.
DB, do you have the PC version? if so, how does it run? What are your specs?
DB, do you have the PC version? if so, how does it run? What are your specs?
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yes i didTeal wrote:Did'ja somehow miss this, LAking?!?dbdynsty25 wrote:I picked it up on the PC...so far so good.
hehe, still, how does it run?
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That's good news as my system is pretty close to yours. I have a E6750 with a 7900GTO and 4GB of ram, XP Pro. I'd be running it in 1280x1024.dbdynsty25 wrote:It runs really well. One of the better looking games that doesn't need a ridiculous rig to run.
I'm running it at 1920x1200 w/ very little slowdown...at the highest detail possible and 4x AA. My rig is nothing special...e6600 Dual Core 2.4ghz, 640mb GeForce 8800GTS, 2GB Ram...in XP Pro.
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I got 4GB when I bought Vista at launch. Then I quickly found out how much I hate that OS. So now i'm back to XP Pro.dbdynsty25 wrote:You'll be fine Rod...now the question becomes, why do you have 4gb of ram in Windows XP? It doesn't even know how to use all of it. Vista, yes, not XP.
It was cheap memory, like 4GB of G-Skill ram for $64 from Newegg.
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Good news. I'm running on a lower res and have slightly better specs.dbdynsty25 wrote:It runs really well. One of the better looking games that doesn't need a ridiculous rig to run.
I'm running it at 1920x1200 w/ very little slowdown...at the highest detail possible and 4x AA. My rig is nothing special...e6600 Dual Core 2.4ghz, 640mb GeForce 8800GTS, 2GB Ram...in XP Pro.
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You'll be fine then King. But then again, I've seen computers with better specs than mine, have trouble with games I don't. Have you ever had a computer that just works RIGHT? I don't know what it is...just the perfect component combination or whatever. It's strange. But my current PC is one of those things.
But if you're running lower res, you should be fine either way. LOL.
But if you're running lower res, you should be fine either way. LOL.
That's good to know guys. I am having a new rig built, Intel Quad 2 core Q9550 CPU, video card is GEFORCE GTX-260 865MB DDR3 PCI-E and I opted to go with XP as I heard horror stories about Vista. Maybe it's better now with the updates, not sure. I was planning to update eventually to Windows 7 when it comes out but was thinking of also adding 4GB of memory. I guess I'll just settle for 2GB.Rodster wrote:I got 4GB when I bought Vista at launch. Then I quickly found out how much I hate that OS. So now i'm back to XP Pro.dbdynsty25 wrote:You'll be fine Rod...now the question becomes, why do you have 4gb of ram in Windows XP? It doesn't even know how to use all of it. Vista, yes, not XP.
It was cheap memory, like 4GB of G-Skill ram for $64 from Newegg.
If you're into games and want to squeeze every last drop of performance out of your rig then XP is still the way to go. Vista has gotten better but from where it started that's not saying much lol.10spro wrote:That's good to know guys. I am having a new rig built, Intel Quad 2 core Q9550 CPU, video card is GEFORCE GTX-260 865MB DDR3 PCI-E and I opted to go with XP as I heard horror stories about Vista. Maybe it's better now with the updates, not sure. I was planning to update eventually to Windows 7 when it comes out but was thinking of also adding 4GB of memory. I guess I'll just settle for 2GB.Rodster wrote:I got 4GB when I bought Vista at launch. Then I quickly found out how much I hate that OS. So now i'm back to XP Pro.dbdynsty25 wrote:You'll be fine Rod...now the question becomes, why do you have 4gb of ram in Windows XP? It doesn't even know how to use all of it. Vista, yes, not XP.
It was cheap memory, like 4GB of G-Skill ram for $64 from Newegg.
Vista is just to resource heavy IMO. Some who like the OS probably cause of the way it looks are those that defend it. I don't because Vista was supposed to be totally different than what we got. I'm not holding out too much hope for Windows 7 either as it's built from Vista.
Okaaaaay...PC speak notwithstanding...
I just decided to get it (for the 360...my laptop wouldn't run Peggle without some hiccups). So far, I really like what I see. Just finished the 'tutorial' which was awesome because I didn't really know I was playing a tutorial. I'm about to go goof around and see what kind of trouble I can cause.
I just decided to get it (for the 360...my laptop wouldn't run Peggle without some hiccups). So far, I really like what I see. Just finished the 'tutorial' which was awesome because I didn't really know I was playing a tutorial. I'm about to go goof around and see what kind of trouble I can cause.
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I have had nothing but outstanding performance with Vista 32 since November of last year. Have not had a single crash or error due to Vista. Quite frankly, of all the OS' that MS has released, Vista is the most trouble-free OS I have ever installed in ANY of my PC's....10spro wrote:That's good to know guys. I am having a new rig built, Intel Quad 2 core Q9550 CPU, video card is GEFORCE GTX-260 865MB DDR3 PCI-E and I opted to go with XP as I heard horror stories about Vista. Maybe it's better now with the updates, not sure. I was planning to update eventually to Windows 7 when it comes out but was thinking of also adding 4GB of memory. I guess I'll just settle for 2GB.
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The chosen one.DivotMaker wrote:I have had nothing but outstanding performance with Vista 32 since November of last year. Have not had a single crash or error due to Vista. Quite frankly, of all the OS' that MS has released, Vista is the most trouble-free OS I have ever installed in ANY of my PC's....
Seriously? You must have a clover stuffed up your ass because it's been nothing but a pain in the ass to the rest of us. Hell...we completely rejected it at work since it's now the enterprise standard among CHW hospitals. We simply said hell no, we'll stick with XP as long as they support it. That's tough to do in hospital unless there are a ton of issues. Which there were. But cool...as long as someone has it work correctly for them...I guess MS will continue to put out new operating systems.
My issues with Vista have never been about stability. As a new MS OS it's typical of having it's share of gremlins. My biggest complaints are due to Vista being a resource PIG that's just a pretty version of Windows XP. It's interface sucks as it takes 2-3 steps to achieve what was the norm on XP and Vista's DRM sux. Hell NR 2003 still doesn't run on Vista. I have legit backups of games that are no longer available and Vista requires me to use the original.
Vista had promise. A new from the ground up file system WinFS, no registry and no defrag needed on Vista (starting to sound like OS X). But what we got was a bloated version of Windows XP with a few new features, better security, DX10 (which is a joke) and a new GUI, yay !
Didn't mean to thread jack after all I do have Far Cry 2 for the PC.
Vista had promise. A new from the ground up file system WinFS, no registry and no defrag needed on Vista (starting to sound like OS X). But what we got was a bloated version of Windows XP with a few new features, better security, DX10 (which is a joke) and a new GUI, yay !
Didn't mean to thread jack after all I do have Far Cry 2 for the PC.
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Excuse the f*** out of me for simply stating my experience with Vista.dbdynsty25 wrote:The chosen one.DivotMaker wrote:I have had nothing but outstanding performance with Vista 32 since November of last year. Have not had a single crash or error due to Vista. Quite frankly, of all the OS' that MS has released, Vista is the most trouble-free OS I have ever installed in ANY of my PC's....
Seriously? You must have a clover stuffed up your ass because it's been nothing but a pain in the ass to the rest of us. Hell...we completely rejected it at work since it's now the enterprise standard among CHW hospitals. We simply said hell no, we'll stick with XP as long as they support it. That's tough to do in hospital unless there are a ton of issues. Which there were. But cool...as long as someone has it work correctly for them...I guess MS will continue to put out new operating systems.
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