You people and your 30+ FPS on ultra mode computers.... you make me jealous. 
It's pretty funny to realize just how far computers have come, so fast. I play on a laptop that, 4 years ago, was among the more powerful laptops you could buy. Now thanks to feature creep and a slowly dying video card, I get about 12 FPS and *netbooks* are starting to have better specs. Meanwhile my brother puts together a desktop for 1k and gets performance that you couldn't buy for *any* price 4 years ago. How quickly things change....
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Eh, I wouldn't be. You'd need to sell your soul for the kind of computer that will run this on super settings at high resolution. Either that, or be Bill Z Bubba, I guess, but then isn't that kind of the same thing? |
Originally Posted by Muon_Neutrino
You people and your 30+ FPS on ultra mode computers.... you make me jealous.
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I should know, because I sold my soul for my current PC and it still runs so-so. Just puts it into perspective how unattainable that elusive goal of perfect performance is, even with a gift from someone with money to burn.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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What He^ said, also, remember, Ultra Mode is not an on/off switch. There are several components, all of which have different settings, so you can customise the experience to match your personal tastes regarding framerate and shininess. And what settings are good for you are dependent on all your hardware, including the resolution you play the game at.|
Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Eh, I wouldn't be. You'd need to sell your soul for the kind of computer that will run this on super settings at high resolution. Either that, or be Bill Z Bubba, I guess, but then isn't that kind of the same thing?
I should know, because I sold my soul for my current PC and it still runs so-so. Just puts it into perspective how unattainable that elusive goal of perfect performance is, even with a gift from someone with money to burn. |
I can get anywhere from 5-60FPS, depending on which bits and pieces of Ultra mode I have turned up how high.
Maxing everything out, including zone and model detail sliders causes pain. Lots of pain. Don't expect to be able to manage that on anything other than bleeding edge kit.
Getting back to the point of this thread, this is one of the screens I took for the Peregrine Loading screen mockup, and I like it quite a lot, The Cutlass Isles, as the day heads toward sunset:
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I'll post some when the dang thing gets downloaded. not even 25% of the way there.
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They posted a link to his screenshot gallery in the I17 news article at MMORPG.com. |
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Neat.
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http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/g...Open-Beta.html
Hey Canine, can you take more beautiful screenies for me so I can get them posted elsewhere? And may I have permission to get them posted elsewhere? The same goes to anyone else posting screenshots.
You have my permission.
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Well, everyone who doubted that I could run Ultra Mode even on low settings on my machine with its GeForce 9500 GS I hope is thoroughly enjoying the taste of their toes.
Behold! Ultra Mode on MEDIUM settings! (Any higher and framerate drop starts to become noticeable.)
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That's hilarious, but we all know it would be me on there instead! |
Originally Posted by ThongSnapper
I zoomed into Bass akwards pic!
Check out the awesome reflectics!! |
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Originally Posted by Evilanna
They posted a link to his screenshot gallery in the I17 news article at MMORPG.com.
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/g...Open-Beta.html |
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On the docks of Cimerora:
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Faultline fountain:
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Here are some of mine from a few weeks ago - mostly just showing off the shadows and the water, especially the shaodws, which make the entire world seem way more solid and real:
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So does that mean Ultra Mode is an alternative to "the slow turn"?
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I'm hoping my GTX 260 will run it at nearly high settings.
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Originally Posted by Scythus
Well, everyone who doubted that I could run Ultra Mode even on low settings on my machine with its GeForce 9500 GS I hope is thoroughly enjoying the taste of their toes.
Behold! Ultra Mode on MEDIUM settings! (Any higher and framerate drop starts to become noticeable.) |
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Keep posting those great screenshots! We'll put up a bunch more tomorrow!|
Originally Posted by bAss_ackwards
Double neat!
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And just so everyone knows, we prefer either screenshots of the environment without a character in it, or a screenshot of a cool character to show off ultra mode features. Screenies of neat Demon Summoners are also welcome!
With the GTX 260 you should at the very least be able to get the basics down. There are other factors too that will help push or pull down what you can do though, like the processor speed, amount of memory, and all that jazz.
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Demons!
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The Paragon City Blimp!
Steam and Electricity from the Turbines.
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You know, this pic reminds me of something I find confusing. I LOVE that powerful, coloured light in the big Arachnos room, but lights of that nature aren't used almost anywhere else, and you'd think they would be. Speaking of Arachnos maps, we have that cool red-tinted, colour-negative, water refraction shader on the red vats that I really think they ought to use more, including on player powers, and they just don't.|
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I mean, I love Ultra Mode and all, but it seems to me they went out of their way to avoid making wider use of things their engine could already do.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Not strictly speaking Ultra Mode screens as such, but there was some discussion about the fact that Ultra Mode makes the loading screens look really REALLY ugly and dated.
It's something the art team are well aware of, and apparently they've got some plans to address it eventually, but before that bit of info came out, I had a try at putting some together, to see what they'd look like.
Below, in the order I did them are the screens I hacked together, they're all at 1920x1200, because that's my screen resolution, and I think that scaling images down gives far better results than scaling them up.
Leandro did a good few, too, but I'll let him link them himself if he decides to, rather than taking his bandwidth uninvited
(and yes, the other scribbles/notes/keys on the map are distracting, but I don't have access to a clean version of the city map, and had to make do with a scan of the paper map that came in the CoH deluxe and GvE box sets)
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Speaking of Leandro's Loading screens...
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