Originally posted by: mwmorph
I really think HDR was a mistake to implement in a dark game like this. brightens everything up too much. Not right for the atmosphere of the game. Nice article though.
Originally posted by: Drayvn
Originally posted by: mwmorph
I really think HDR was a mistake to implement in a dark game like this. brightens everything up too much. Not right for the atmosphere of the game. Nice article though.
It works perfectly imo.
Originally posted by: Drayvn
Well i dont know if youve played the game with HDR, but believe me it doesnt make things too bright or too shiny, its still pretty damn dark.
Originally posted by: Creig
It's nice to see that developers aren't as gung-ho to leave SM2.0 behind as some people have been going on about. There are simply WAY too many SM2.0 equipped systems out there to simply abandon at the appearance of SM3.0.
It's no different than those people who claimed that AGP would be dead 3 months after PCI-E became available. Although things can change quickly in the computer industry, standards have a habit of being slow to be adopted and are even slower to be retired.
Originally posted by: Drayvn
Originally posted by: Creig
It's nice to see that developers aren't as gung-ho to leave SM2.0 behind as some people have been going on about. There are simply WAY too many SM2.0 equipped systems out there to simply abandon at the appearance of SM3.0.
It's no different than those people who claimed that AGP would be dead 3 months after PCI-E became available. Although things can change quickly in the computer industry, standards have a habit of being slow to be adopted and are even slower to be retired.
Rumour is this work for the patch to enable SM2 was done by ATi
And the fact this SM2 update only works with ATi cards, which gives credence to that rumour.
Originally posted by: Creig
That's kinda lame, then. I would have hoped that it would be a generic SM2.0 profile and not just ATI specific. I wonder if it was necessary to make it ATI specific in order to work or if it was done on purpose. Maybe somebody will be able to adapt it to work on NV hardware as well.
Originally posted by: Drayvn
Originally posted by: mwmorph
I really think HDR was a mistake to implement in a dark game like this. brightens everything up too much. Not right for the atmosphere of the game. Nice article though.
It works perfectly imo.
Originally posted by: BouZouki
Originally posted by: Drayvn
Originally posted by: mwmorph
I really think HDR was a mistake to implement in a dark game like this. brightens everything up too much. Not right for the atmosphere of the game. Nice article though.
It works perfectly imo.
HDR is terrible unless you like playing without AA.
It also causes a big performance drop on the 6 series.
Originally posted by: BouZouki
Originally posted by: Drayvn
Originally posted by: mwmorph
I really think HDR was a mistake to implement in a dark game like this. brightens everything up too much. Not right for the atmosphere of the game. Nice article though.
It works perfectly imo.
HDR is terrible unless you like playing without AA.
It also causes a big performance drop on the 6 series.
Originally posted by: Rollo
Originally posted by: BouZouki
Originally posted by: Drayvn
Originally posted by: mwmorph
I really think HDR was a mistake to implement in a dark game like this. brightens everything up too much. Not right for the atmosphere of the game. Nice article though.
It works perfectly imo.
HDR is terrible unless you like playing without AA.
It also causes a big performance drop on the 6 series.
Gee, back from vacation and the "Bouzouki doesn't like nV only features" tape is still looping.
How many times are you going to say this? You'll never figure it out apparently:
AA, AF, HDR, Soft Shadows, displacement/parallax mapping are all image quality enhancing features.
Some you can't run with others on current hardware.
Some people would actually have you believe it's better not to have the choice at all than have to run one or the other. These people work for ATI, or bought their primitive cards and want to convince themselves they didn't screw up.
Tough luck- you did.
:beer:
Originally posted by: mwmorph
I have a question: If i have a 9800 pro, will i be ble to run it or is it 2.0b only? I myself love Soft shadows and parallax mapping. I think that adds to the game by a lot.
will it run 10x7 no aa sm 2.0 decetly?
Originally posted by: BouZouki
HDR = No AA, performance drops on last gen cards in Farcry, somtimes unplayable, especially at high res.
Softshadows = No AF
Originally posted by: BouZouki
Originally posted by: Rollo
Originally posted by: BouZouki
Originally posted by: Drayvn
Originally posted by: mwmorph
I really think HDR was a mistake to implement in a dark game like this. brightens everything up too much. Not right for the atmosphere of the game. Nice article though.
It works perfectly imo.
HDR is terrible unless you like playing without AA.
It also causes a big performance drop on the 6 series.
Gee, back from vacation and the "Bouzouki doesn't like nV only features" tape is still looping.
How many times are you going to say this? You'll never figure it out apparently:
AA, AF, HDR, Soft Shadows, displacement/parallax mapping are all image quality enhancing features.
Some you can't run with others on current hardware.
Some people would actually have you believe it's better not to have the choice at all than have to run one or the other. These people work for ATI, or bought their primitive cards and want to convince themselves they didn't screw up.
Tough luck- you did.
:beer:
Do us all a favor and go back on Vacation.
First off, HDR is not a Nvidia feature, you can use it on ATI cards, I never mentioned Nvidia.
Rollo loves running his GTX's without AA/AF, instead, he pimps Softshadows instead.
Maybe some of you can play without AA/AF but I cant, I can sure do without Rollo's mightly softshadows though.
Then again, you used to think we didn't need AA/AF or high resolutions around the 9700 days.
I guess your the tape thats looping.
Originally posted by: BouZouki
Well yes, with Rollo telling us how good softshadows is, he always fails to mention the biggest downside to it.
I have no idea why he brings up NV when I say HDR is terrible imo when it's also an ATI feature.