New Computer Screenshot Quality
By
BlackberryThorn,
Posted on: 2007-02-14 06:13 in Multi-Media Fan Creations
/em jealous
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(I hope you can see detail since it's a screenshot, I hope the image quality doesn't change depending on your personal video cards)
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It won't. A screenshot's a photograph of what you're seeing. If you did a /demorecord (assuming they worked consistently any more,) *then* quality could vary depending on the viewer's hardware, as the game engine would be actually playing it back again.
For example:
Previous system screenshot
even older screenshot - think I was running an Athlon XP 2000 with a GeForce 5200 at that point...
Current system with widescreen monitor (and showing a previously-broken high level Red Cap)
Yeah, I recorded a 20 second fraps video on full size, no sound, Full FPS, and the damn thing was like 2gb's ROFL, I compressed it to divx, but the quality lowered a lot, so I guess I'm still going to be trying setting to find the best quality video to demo to ya guys and gals.
This is a screenie using my new 356MB 7600GT card... and the "big honkin' monitor" that came with my wife's Gateway.*
Shikansen = Olympian Guise
Detail on the Samurai Armor -- look closely at the mask -- those dots are bumpmaps where the lion whiskers are supposed to be
And to contrast, a screenie taken with my old old old GeForce 4 (32MB onboard)
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* Yes, I asked. She said she doesn't mind, she had to crank the fonts up on the big one cos they were too hard to read.
"City of Heroes. April 27, 2004 - August 31, 2012. Obliterated not with a weapon of mass destruction, not by an all-powerful supervillain... but by a cold-hearted and cowardly corporate suck-up."
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This is a screenie using my new 356MB 7600GT card... and the "big honkin' monitor" that came with my wife's Gateway.*
Shikansen = Olympian Guise
Detail on the Samurai Armor -- look closely at the mask -- those dots are bumpmaps where the lion whiskers are supposed to be
And to contrast, a screenie taken with my old old old GeForce 4 (32MB onboard)
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* Yes, I asked. She said she doesn't mind, she had to crank the fonts up on the big one cos they were too hard to read.
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If you turn off bloom your FPS should increase? At least that is what is says in the graphics settings.. says Disabling this feature will yeild better performance or something like that.
I notice you have DoF turned On.
Oooh, showing off screen shots eh? I wanna play!
Chilling in Pocket D, because you can get some good lighting in there...if you know where to stand ^_^
Did some body say 'bump' mapping? ^_^
I love all the details in newer costume pieces ^_^
Decided to 'sponsor' a couple bouts in Peregrine >_>
Tag team!
Victor, and still champion! Fakie!
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Oh, and this is some what relevant to the topic, since this is my newest machine. Still a couple months old though, just new enough that I am not willing to shell out more cash for a newer graphics card : p
NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 512.0 MB
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+
3326MB RAM ((4 gigs, but still using a 32bit O/S : p))
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Still don't know how you manage FPS like that though. I have to jack my resolution down to this size just to manage 60fps >_> Which is funny, because I manage 20fps in a hammi raid with all my settings jacked up, and that's still playable. One would think at lest then a quarter of the resolution, it could eke out a bit more processing power.
I can see forever 0.0
Hey BlackberryTom, you have some nice graphics too.. but here are some screenshots with FPS and my current Settings....
CoX Graphic Settings http://www.theconnectionclan.com/coh...oxsettings.JPG
Screenshots Showing FPS
http://www.theconnectionclan.com/coh...ngs/200FPS.JPG
http://www.theconnectionclan.com/coh...ngs/409FPS.JPG
http://www.theconnectionclan.com/coh...s/blimp170.JPG
http://www.theconnectionclan.com/coh...moke131FPS.JPG
now the smoke seemed to draw more so my FPS was down compared to the others.. but still EXTREMELY acceptable. lol
I circled the FPS window with a red circle in MS Paint. LOL
Censored chat window so my conversations are private lol
Didn't think to remove chat window before taking screenies LOL
Oh, my resolution is 1280x1024
Yeah I have DoF on because although it makes me feel nearsighted, if I have it off stuff 'pops' into existence a surface at a time, which I find is... annoying. VERY glad to finally have a card that can deal with that.
Bloom is.. meh. Probably end up turning it off. But as long as my FPS doesn't drop below 20 I'm happy.
"City of Heroes. April 27, 2004 - August 31, 2012. Obliterated not with a weapon of mass destruction, not by an all-powerful supervillain... but by a cold-hearted and cowardly corporate suck-up."
So I got a whole new system (system specs in signature,) but.. I am AMAZED at the detail of the game at this point... Check out some of the detail on these screenies....
(I hope you can see detail since it's a screenshot, I hope the image quality doesn't change depending on your personal video cards)
Arachnos Soldier Backside
http://www.theconnectionclan.com/coh...achnosback.jpg
High Bumpmaps
http://www.theconnectionclan.com/coh...mpmapshine.jpg
High Bumpmaps 2
http://www.theconnectionclan.com/coh...pmapshine2.jpg
Looking down at Steel Canyon 1
http://www.theconnectionclan.com/coh...s/citylook.jpg
Looking down at Steel Canyon 2
http://www.theconnectionclan.com/coh.../citylook2.jpg
Fake Nem Armor (Never knew the armor had this much detail)
http://www.theconnectionclan.com/coh...kenemarmor.jpg
Warhulk Armor (Never knew the armor had this much detail.)
http://www.theconnectionclan.com/coh...rhulkarmor.jpg
Wrinkles on Old Man Forhead
http://www.theconnectionclan.com/coh...adwrinkles.jpg
I thought I could see billboards clearly before until I saw this..
http://www.theconnectionclan.com/coh...billboards.jpg
So needless to say I am pretty Excited about this gain in performance and quality.
AVG FPS Battles / Traveling / Standing Still: 120fps-190fps
Watching Hami Raid FPS: 97fps-120fps
In the Middle of Mitos / Hami Battle FPS: 75fps-97fps