S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky - Gone Gold
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done 
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80% here. 
EDIT: Is it patched up to the latest.
EDIT: Is it patched up to the latest.
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Im gonna leave it until the bleeding bug is fixed.
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Yup, its patched to the latest.
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Well tried maximum Dx9, tis a no no.
Well tried maximum Dx9, tis a no no.
DX10 HIGH works fine for me
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I don't get it
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Sun shadows is the killer, i can't have that on, and it looks so nice.
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I put it on the Enhanced Full Dynamic Lighting (highest it can go in XP), every slider to the right, those 3 lighting settings on maxi and it was crawling, turned sun shadows off it flew.
Bleeding bug?
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Sun Shadows off yes, ive got a 4850, and can't have the sun shadows on at any resolution, i even tried 800x600, every slider to the left and it still crawled. 
Not sure about absolute max, I run it at 1900x1200 on Medium-high (in DX10) on an 8800GT, and it stutters but is perfectly playable.
You may have to knock down some of the killers such as soft particles, AA a bit and sun shadows, but you will get pretty graphics with that card I reckon
Got it yesterday and I'm loving ot so far, just got to Cordon.
Performance wise i've found a sweet spot. I have it 1680 x 1050 DX10 and just set the basic slider to high, you can't tell the differnce between this and very high. This gives me between 25 - 50 fps which is fine for me, remember not to judge the fps in the first clear sky base, my fps doubled (almost) after I left it and started to explore the swamps.
Some mini mods in the GSC forum and on stalkerfiles worth looking for are -
'Iron sights for pistols' - god knows why they took this out
'No loading disk' - get rid of the little disk on the corner
'no headbob' - made me feel queezy!
'no crosshair' - replaces it with a single pixel dot.
Performance wise i've found a sweet spot. I have it 1680 x 1050 DX10 and just set the basic slider to high, you can't tell the differnce between this and very high. This gives me between 25 - 50 fps which is fine for me, remember not to judge the fps in the first clear sky base, my fps doubled (almost) after I left it and started to explore the swamps.
Some mini mods in the GSC forum and on stalkerfiles worth looking for are -
'Iron sights for pistols' - god knows why they took this out
'No loading disk' - get rid of the little disk on the corner
'no headbob' - made me feel queezy!
'no crosshair' - replaces it with a single pixel dot.
Sun Shadows off yes, ive got a 4850, and can't have the sun shadows on at any resolution, i even tried 800x600, every slider to the left and it still crawled.
Not sure about absolute max, I run it at 1900x1200 on Medium-high (in DX10) on an 8800GT, and it stutters but is perfectly playable.
You may have to knock down some of the killers such as soft particles, AA a bit and sun shadows, but you will get pretty graphics with that card I reckon
Cheers, well i guess a 4850 will be ok for me then, shame about the sun shadows though.
At the moment i can actually run the game pretty well (~30fps in the swamp) with textures/object detail all the way up, grass/view distance etc.. about half way and the lighting detail on 'Dynamic Objects' (i think). With those settings it already looks quite a bit nicer than SoC, but i tried it with everything set to max just for a laugh and it looks so much better - albeit at about 2fps.
My 8600GT started artifacting on full settings though which is never a good sign lol.