hows stalker run these days?
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Jono8 said:smooth as butter maxed out at 1280x1024 on my system. havent checked with fraps, but no noticeable slowdown and some screen tearing so i would imagine 40-60fps pretty consistently.Looks amazing
It certainly won't be smooth with full dynamic lights on well not unless you call a drop from 60fps to 15fps smooth. (edit just seen you have a GTX so its quite possibly its smooth, however its not on a GTS)
Anyway the problem I have with stalker is that the fps seems to jump about the place regardless of what is actually on the screen.
eg: My FPS at the beginning trader is normally 50fps however go out then go back in and its 18?! It makes no sense.
Also this happens occasionally when I look at blank walls, my fps plummets!
oweneades said:
I have an 8800GTS at 640/2ghz, C2D E6600 at 3.2ghz and in XP and Vista, stalker runs smooth as silk for me at all maxed with full dynamic lights at 1280x1024 but yea at 1600x1200 I dont know about that.
Jono8 said:yeh me too, i've never noticed a hitch up, it really is very smooth.
I was told that it never runs smooth maxed out on any system and it always stutters, actually, in Vista I got a one second freeze once, but only once, in XP never got any of that.
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Should be fine mate. Make sure you load the recent patches and the floatingpoint32 patch as well. The floatingpoint32 fix not only fixes a serious bug in Yantar but also improves the frame rate of the game. I've noticed a big difference in performance after installing this, so this will serve you good.
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The hitching's normal as thats how Stalker is, it constantly loads new bits in as your playing (when the floppy icon appears), runs great for me maxed out 1280x1024 full dynamic lighting, my rigs all stock to, about 46-60fps with v-sync on, but it only drops to about 46 when it hitches to load, and thats only for split seconds at a time.
Admiral Huddy said:
cheers. forgot to mention i have 2gig of memory, e6300 and i am wanting to get the 640mb version of 8800gts, so looks very similar to some of your's.
as soon as i get some money i'll let you all know lol
Plays fine for me, i was just trying it today since i havent yet tryed it with my oc system. Got 30-45 fps average fully maxed out (cept grass which is half) and plays a dream tho i cant remember if it was in 1024 or 1280 res.
No patches or mods just vanilla version.
No patches or mods just vanilla version.
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Hmm thats kinda cool and interesting. The guy who made floatingpoint whatever it is, he will be getting his works included in the next official patch 1.004 of stalker. Very rare to see a outside source having somit included in a official patch.
fastwunz said:
Er did you actually read why I posted.
I said I get 50fps when talking to the trader at the beginning of the game then I go outside and the back inside again to talk to the trader yet this time I get 18fps?!
Willhub I think the problem is the amount of vram tha card has. I notice you have a 640mb GTS. This may explain why your game experience is smooth yet mine is jumpy with full dynamic lights. My 320mb GTS just can't cope lol.
Oh well I must admit I actually prefer the game without Dynamic lights due to the jaggies that look more pronounced.
I think I will have a fiddle again and resinstall the float32 patch as I don't think it installed correctly as I currently notice zero difference in game.
LoadsaMoney said:
Loadsamoney you couldn't do me a favour and do a screen print of your in-game graphics settings please.
I notice we have very similar setups yet I get no where near the same constant fps as you and I wonder whether it might be a bar I have too far to the right or something.
Cheers