One issue only! Action from the 606!
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airhead,
Posted on: 2010-08-02 08:58 in Multi-Media Fan Creations
Nice screeny.
I thought at first it was a painting, so how did you get that effect? Is it your video card or ultraview or was it just luck?
Global is @Mellissandria
I don't have that much art, but I do write stories and I do collect art on
my DA account
The other member of the team was me. I was playing Weaver Rusalka. Good memory 
I'm missing from the screenshot but my trusty Dark Servant is there representing!
(Also, ugh on that mission. Should be illegal to have Oranbega maps that long...)
Heyo, Quarrios. It was fun meeting you. Feel free to drop a global tell if you're looking for a team.
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Side note: if you look at the properties of a screenshot on the details tab, in comments you have a list of the party members at the time of the screenshot. Very useful when you just can't quite remember the name.
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Originally Posted by QuarriosSoul
(There was one more in the team but I forget already... something "Rusalka"? Bah. orz)
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Char Site | My DeviantArt
Global=@Thornster
Alright! Replies.
@ DemonCaller: That's not altered, that's my in game graphics. I'm not running Ultra Mode, either :P
@ Frost: I figured that's what the name was, too. Silly me for not going with my gut. Go your trusty Servant, go!
@ Bayani: I think I just might :>
@ Thornster: Neat trick I never knew about, I must investigate this immediately! Thanks!
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Hmmm mine don't. Under properties of an image there are general and summary tabs, no details tab. There is a comment section but it's blank?|
Originally Posted by Thornster
Side note: if you look at the properties of a screenshot on the details tab, in comments you have a list of the party members at the time of the screenshot. Very useful when you just can't quite remember the name.
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I'm thinking he means when you take a screenshot through the game? Something I don't think ever quite worked for me...
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Originally Posted by ChristopherRobin
Hmmm mine don't. Under properties of an image there are general and summary tabs, no details tab. There is a comment section but it's blank?
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I am now truly envious. I'm gonna have to insist on a new video card for my b'day now from the spousal unit...:P
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Originally Posted by QuarriosSoul
Alright! Replies.
@ DemonCaller: That's not altered, that's my in game graphics. I'm not running Ultra Mode, either :P |
Global is @Mellissandria
I don't have that much art, but I do write stories and I do collect art on
my DA account
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I don't team much but I dug through my screenshots and eventually found one of me in a team. The "Title" within the properties of the image (per "PRTSC" pressed during the game, dumped to City of Heroes/screenshots directory) held my team member names, including my own. Nothing happens if you're solo. No idea if it changed recently, my picture was several months old.
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Originally Posted by ChristopherRobin
Hmmm mine don't. Under properties of an image there are general and summary tabs, no details tab. There is a comment section but it's blank?
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Yes I am refering to screenshots through the game and they have to be kinda recent (i.e probably in the last year I would guess) and this may be a Vista feature ... not sure.|
Originally Posted by Caemgen
I'm thinking he means when you take a screenshot through the game? Something I don't think ever quite worked for me...
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Edit: actually I have screenshots from March 2009 (VexXxa's interview for the Scoop) and some that go back to November 2008 that have that info. So it goes quite a while back. If you browse your folder (in Vista) under a "Details" view, when you see stuff in the "Tags" column, it has the info in the comments.
Edit2: I do get the name of my character in there even when I am solo.
Char Site | My DeviantArt
Global=@Thornster
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Originally Posted by Thornster
Yes I am refering to screenshots through the game and they have to be kinda recent (i.e probably in the last year I would guess) and this may be a Vista feature ... not sure.
Edit: actually I have screenshots from March 2009 (VexXxa's interview for the Scoop) and some that go back to November 2008 that have that info. So it goes quite a while back. If you browse your folder (in Vista) under a "Details" view, when you see stuff in the "Tags" column, it has the info in the comments. Edit2: I do get the name of my character in there even when I am solo. |
Meep! My bad!
CR included an program to do screenshots and auto save them into a preset file which is what I tried to use but wasn't (since the new rig... May be do to dual monitor setup, haven't hit him up about it yet...) Anyway, back on point! Just checked out the screenshot folder under CoH and found a bunch I must have taken via the game and PRNTSCRN! They do indeed have the character name under properties...
Hmmm, going to have to experiment further with the new rig!
And a couple of the "found" screenies that were particularly good, imo...
And my favorite....
As long as the issue is sorted, then cool!
And Caem's screenies are bigger than mine :< Was mine scaled down?
He probably plays at a higher resolution than you do ... screenies are proportionnal to that. I played at 1680x1050 for a while ... I think I play at a higher resolution than that now.
Char Site | My DeviantArt
Global=@Thornster
Yep. I'm only at 1064x768 on mine (according to the screen's properties), so I'm a huge step down from the rest of the modern world, I bet...
Demon! Don't let the prettiness decieve you! Your graphics card is probably fine!
Lol I have to shrink any screen captures that I take by about 60-75% because I play at
2560x1600 (my other gaming monitor is 1920x1200) I'm used to doing it though.
Yeah that must be a Vista and Windows 7 feature I don't have it in XP.
Can anyone with XP confirm this?
P.S. The average lcd screens nowadays are 1280 - 1440 for basic setups 1600 - 2048 for mid to upper range and 2560 is the cutting edge.
I'm guessing you probably have a beige colored 17-19 CRT screen and yeah you're a bit behind the curve but not terribly so,
as long as it works for what you need it to do it's fine (and hey no cropping or shrinking work necessary 
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P.P.S. By the way you meant to say your screen resolution is 1024 not 1064. 
I can confirm that I'm running XP and I don't have that team-summary feature.
And... that's what I meant: 1024.
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It's there in the file. A good image editor can pull it out for you. Don't think windows XP understands it though. A program like IrfanView would work perfectly.
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Originally Posted by QuarriosSoul
I can confirm that I'm running XP and I don't have that team-summary feature.
And... that's what I meant: 1024. |
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Maybe so. I run a 17 inch widescreen at 1440x900. Ideally, I should be sitting about a foot to a foot and a half away from the screen...but I often will be leaning over to get a closer look...I'll talk to the spousal unit and see if he thinks I can just change resolution on it without killing my monitor...And yes, I run XP. Scoffed at Vista.|
Originally Posted by QuarriosSoul
Yep. I'm only at 1064x768 on mine (according to the screen's properties), so I'm a huge step down from the rest of the modern world, I bet...
Demon! Don't let the prettiness decieve you! Your graphics card is probably fine! |
And I want the graphics card so I can run Ultramode without it being a slideshow. Again, going to ask my husband.
Global is @Mellissandria
I don't have that much art, but I do write stories and I do collect art on
my DA account
I run a 24" Widescreen at 1600 x 900 on a NV8800 card and things look great, if not quite 'ultra'. You don't need to have the most recent/powerful hardware to run Ultra Mode.
Be Well!
Fireheart
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This is true. A good upper midrange card will let you turn ultra-mode on and experience much of "teh pretty" at medium settings while maintaining a decently playable framerate. |
Originally Posted by Fireheart
I run a 24" Widescreen at 1600 x 900 on a NV8800 card and things look great, if not quite 'ultra'. You don't need to have the most recent/powerful hardware to run Ultra Mode.
Be Well! Fireheart |
The top of the line is for people who want all the glorious effects turned on and cranked up to their maximum settings and still have silky smooth playback.
The NV8800 line, in particular the 8800GT, was legendary (there are whole websites devote to just this videocard) and something of a fluke. Nvidia has had the speed crown for many years (though ATI had beaten them out recently {barring the current Fermi line}) but you always paid through the nose for it. Under Nvidia top of the line cards were seen to cost north of $700 which is a bit ridiculous for just a graphics card when something faster and better will come along in 6mo-1yr that will outrun it. Then the 8800GT came along and it ran almost as fast as their top of the line GTX model (if overclocked it could even beat the GTX in some benchmarks) but for hundreds of dollars less and it became an instant success. To this day it and it's rebadged clone the 9800GT are still a decent gaming card if you don't need everything maxed out or super high frame rates.
*Sees that glazed look starting to form in the eyes of non-tech enhusiasts forumites* Ok Ok class dismissed.
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Of course it should also be mentioned that if your processor, motherboard, and power supply aren't up to snuff, it doesn't matter how powerful a video card you've got; your computer performance will still bottlenecked. So you really can't drop an uber-vid card into any ole rig. It'd be like putting a Porsche engine in a Yugo. Try accelerating that baby and the whole vehicle's going to tear itself apart.
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Originally Posted by ChristopherRobin
This is true. A good midrange card will let you turn ultra-mode on and experience much of "teh pretty" at medium settings while maintaining a decently playable framerate.
The top of the line is for people who want all the glorious effects turned on and cranked up to their maximum settings and still have silky smooth playback. The NV8800 line, in particular the 8800GT, was legendary (there are whole websites devote to just this videocard) and something of a fluke. Nvidia has had the speed crown for many years (though ATI had beaten them out recently {barring the current Fermi line}) but you always paid through the nose for it. Under Nvidia top of the line cards were seen to cost north of $700 which is a bit ridiculous for just a graphics card when something faster and better will come along in 6mo-1yr that will outrun it. Then the 8800GT came along and it ran almost as fast as their top of the line GTX model (if overclocked it could even beat the GTX in some benchmarks) but for hundreds of dollars less and it became an instant success. To this day it and it's rebadged clone the 9800GT are still a decent gaming card if you don't need everything maxed out or super high frame rates. *Sees that glazed look starting to form in the eyes of non-tech enhusiasts forumites* Ok Ok class dismissed. |
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Well, you CAN put a jet engine in a school bus... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/...67mph-bus.html|
Originally Posted by Bayani
It'd be like putting a Porsche engine in a Yugo. Try accelerating that baby and the whole vehicle's going to tear itself apart.
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Sorry, couldn't resist.
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Hey! Someone stole my car! |
Originally Posted by Frost
Well, you CAN put a jet engine in a school bus... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/...67mph-bus.html
Sorry, couldn't resist. |
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Lol I told her essentially the same thing in a PM but I should have put that info up here for all as well... didn't want to get too geeky up in here. |
Originally Posted by Bayani
Of course it should also be mentioned that if your processor, motherboard, and power supply aren't up to snuff, it doesn't matter how powerful a video card you've got; your computer performance will still bottlenecked. So you really can't drop an uber-vid card into any ole rig. It'd be like putting a Porsche engine in a Yugo. Try accelerating that baby and the whole vehicle's going to tear itself apart.
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I will say though that bottlenecking is less of a problem the smaller (and lower rez) your screen is though and before it can even be an issue there is the point of size to consider. Many of the newer video cards are much longer than ever before (10+ inches is not uncommon) and many older cases will not fit them no matter what you do (short of rebuilding the system into a new case which I have done many times for people to accommodate new parts).
Assuming you can fit it the next concern is adequate power as a cheapo 350 watt PSU (or even a more powerful unit without the dedicated VC leads needed or enough amps on the 12v rail) will not be able to power a top of the line videocard or even many of the midrange cards depending what else you have in your system.
Then there is heat (especially an issue with newer Nvidia cards) and noise as a new card producing a lot more heat without adequate case cooling will cause all the fans to spin louder and create noise (that is if the fans are thermally aware... if they are not then the heat will just bake everything inside the tower or lead to CPU/GPU throttling and or crashes).
Assuming all that is not an issue in your case and the card fits and has adequate power and cooling then yeah you may be spending a good sized chunk of change and not seeing the performance increase you wanted due to other slow components holding your fast new videocard back. A couple generations between the old and new parts should be ok but the further apart they are the more of an issue it can be.
There is more but those are the key points.
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Originally Posted by Wassy
Hey! Someone stole my car!
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OF THIS JET ENGINE BUS I JUST STOLE.
*Floors it*
WOHOOOOO!
I had to get at least one screen of this team up: the Malleable Mechanic meets Bayani and Planet Girl! (There was one more in the team but I forget already... something "Rusalka"? Bah. orz)
I'm still excited about this even though it's already been three days since. Thanks you guys for the great teaming, even though (as I told Caemgen in game OOCly) Oranbega is hell for those without a sense of direction.