NEW STEAM DEALS!!!!

chaparral · 25 Dec 2009 at 14:48

flibby said:
NFS: Shift maybe? Not played it though so can't recommend but it's ratings are good.

I really want buy NFS: shift......but am not going pay £22.49 for it....

(All these steam deals lately are turning me into a cheap skate

)

cotton_flex · 25 Dec 2009 at 14:51

got Shift and Serious Sam HD....damn these deals. Roll on todays!

~>Dg<~ · 25 Dec 2009 at 15:08

chaparral said:
Which games have better graphically and better playability For £2.49 ??

theres free ones with better graphics (hunter for eg)

i guess some will enjoy it i just never found anything good about it. a lot better games ive played over the yrs than that.

it does indeed come down to personal preference.

TheOtherOption · 25 Dec 2009 at 15:10

I'm so far rather pleasantly surprised with Red Faction Guerilla, it's not that cheap compared to elsewhere online but I just went for it anyway ... couldn't wait for delivery - only took 3/4 hours to download!

dirtydog · 25 Dec 2009 at 15:10

Sleepery said:
There's something up with that, I've just loaded it up to have a look, those floor textures in particular look waaay too blurry compared to mine. Where does it save the damn screenshots anyway?

Dunno, I used print screen

Have I missed a setting somewhere to increase texture quality or something?

Tefal · 25 Dec 2009 at 15:15

dirtydog said:
I bought it and yeah, it is very demanding on my machine too. Screen Space Ambient Occlusion brings the framerate to its knees but even with that off, it is still demanding and I see sub 30fps in places. The textures look very low res and blocky too, a bit like running Doom III on the lowest settings Although Doom III would run like poo through a goose on my machine.

Is this how it looks and runs for you?

I see also you get a letterbox unless you run on a 16:9 screen, mine is 16:10.

that looks nothing like mine :confused:

Mine runs 16:10 perfectly fine too no letter box, did you accidentaly change the aspect ration in the options it's got about half a dozen weird ones mine works fine on auto.

dirtydog · 25 Dec 2009 at 15:17

Tefal said:
that looks nothing like mine

Mine runs 16:10 perfectly fine too no letter box, did you accidentaly change the aspect ration in the options it's got about half a dozen weird ones mine works fine on auto.

Mine is on Auto too, I am playing Butcher Bay - are you playing Dark Athena perhaps?

Tefal · 25 Dec 2009 at 15:27

Playing the butcher bay section that comes with the dark athena game if that's what you mean?

dirtydog · 25 Dec 2009 at 15:29

Yes I do mean that.

What is your graphics card, do you have more than my 512MB memory perhaps?

Tefal · 25 Dec 2009 at 15:35

4870x2

King85 · 25 Dec 2009 at 15:41

The dig is amazing, I forgot how good this is, everyone go buy it now!

chaparral · 25 Dec 2009 at 15:42

dirtydog said:
Mine is on Auto too, I am playing Butcher Bay - are you playing Dark Athena perhaps?

Have you have scolled down and changed the other settings ??

dirtydog · 25 Dec 2009 at 15:47

No

I just checked and they were all on low. Cheers

Tefal · 25 Dec 2009 at 15:47

dirtydog said:
Yes I do mean that.

What is your graphics card, do you have more than my 512MB memory perhaps?

mine looks like this

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/1692/darkathena2009122515403.png

big pic btw

dirtydog · 25 Dec 2009 at 15:48

Mine looks like that now, thanks to chaparral

Tefal · 25 Dec 2009 at 15:50

dirtydog said:
Mine looks like that now, thanks to chaparral

lol you being dim enough not to scroll down never occurred to me

oh i found setting the aspect to auto while ingame (not main menu) give me black bars

dirtydog · 25 Dec 2009 at 15:59

Tefal said:
lol you being dim enough not to scroll down never occurred to me

oh i found setting the aspect to auto while ingame (not main menu) give me black bars

Never underestimate my level of dimness

I'll try changing the aspect ratio from the main menu then, it isn't much of a problem though

I also notice the game likes to use 60Hz and ignores my 120Hz setting, for some reason.

chaparral · 25 Dec 2009 at 15:59

Stupid count down timer still got 1 hour

to go before the next set of deals...

Come on timer speed up (down

) i want see some new deals to spend my money on..

chaparral · 25 Dec 2009 at 16:01

dirtydog said:
Never underestimate my level of dimness

Don't worry i Didn't

Tefal · 25 Dec 2009 at 16:02

dirtydog said:
Never underestimate my level of dimness

I'll try changing the aspect ratio from the main menu then, it isn't much of a problem though I also notice the game likes to use 60Hz and ignores my 120Hz setting, for some reason.

i get 70-80 odd with vysinc off but usually just use 60 with vsync.

You haven't set your desktop refresh rate to 60/left it at default there have you?