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[Computron]

I would love to play a game that has no textures or fancy shaders, just High-Res Geometry (or normal mapped low poly geo), basic colors and GI as an art direction.

So, something like this Lighting+Normals (Or detail Lighting mode as it's called in UDK) only version of the UDK Showcase map:

The lighting makes this pretty simple scene really stand out.

 

[burgerdog]

LOL:

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

 

[RoadHazard]

Crysis

Far Cry

It's kinda funny that FC looks almost as good as Crysis here, i.e. Crysis looks like shit on low settings. But as has already been mentioned, the fact that it goes all the way from "amazing" to "shit" of course means that it should be able to run on a much wider range of hardware than many console ports. And that's a good thing.

 

[Computron]

DUDE.

Thats's source engine, plug in these Half Life 2 DS console cammands I posted earlier:

r_WaterDrawReflection 0
r_WaterDrawRefraction 0
r_shadows 0
r_lod 5
mat_picmip 3
mat_dxlevel 60
mat_fullbright 1
mat_diffuse 5
mat_bumpmap 0
mat_forceaniso 0
mat_reducefillrate 0
mat_mipmaptextures 0
mat_filtertextures 0
mat_bloom 0
mat_envmapsize 32
mat_envmapgasize 8
mat_antialiasing 0

See how much better it is than this:

I wanna see that.

 

[ThaneKrios]

"WHERE'S MY FACE?"

Damn, I love this thread :lol

 

[stufte]

Couldn't get it to run in anything other than windowed mode:

 

[Broder Salsa]

Edit : oh shit nevermind. Forgot that I had forced AA in psychonauts.

 

[RoadHazard]

So now I know what it's look for my 90% of my friends/family who play laptops or netbooks lol.

Eh, that might be true for netbooks, but only really shitty laptops would have to go down to the ultra-low settings on display in this thread. A decent laptop will run at least console-like visuals fine, and an above-average one easily surpasses that. A laptop doesn't automatically equal shit for games anymore, even though they obviously won't max out the most demanding games.

 

[Computron]

Textures.

Who needs 'em?

Amirite?

 

[Xander51]

Couldn't get it to run in anything other than windowed mode:

Oh man! That's...that's certainly something.

 

[ekim]

Amirite?

What game is this?

 

[hypernima]

Team Fortress 2

Not awful for a 5+ year old game on an old engine.

This is literally how I played this game on laptop for a year. And even then I still got bad framerates

 

[Computron]

What game is this?

Not a game. Cryengine 3 SDK.

 

[KKRT00]

What game is this?

CryEngine 3 demo stage.

 

[BHK3]

This is literally how I played this game on laptop for a year. And even then I still got bad framerates

Same here, it's a poorly optimized game, I used to be able to run it somewhat on high, now it's only low, and it crashes when I try and play the developer commentary.

 

[ekim]

When I need more frames, the first thing I do is decreasing the resolution.
In fact, Many games look better in lower resolutions as you won't see the imperfect stuff like the bald woods in skyrim from a distance. I actually played skyrim in 800x600 due to this.

 

[delta25]

Thread seems quite counter productive to what PC gaming is all about, but funny none the less.

For a second there I thought I walked into the official console screenshot thread.

lol

 

[Broder Salsa]

Mirrors edge

 

[alr1ght]

Payday: The Heist

 

[Tomat]

Somehow, every old PC game (~2000ish) manages to look better than every single one of these games on low.

 

[stufte]

Thread seems quite counter productive to what PC gaming is all about, but funny none the less.

For a second there I thought I walked into the official console screenshot thread.

lol

.

 

[Kerub]

Crysis



I changed it to the lowest res on 4:3 but it didn't stay for some odd reason, just notice the screens are bigger...sorry...

Hehe, I remember playing Crysis on these settings when it launched.

I still only got around 20 fps but I had fun. Good times.

 

[RoadHazard]

Same here, it's a poorly optimized game, I used to be able to run it somewhat on high, now it's only low, and it crashes when I try and play the developer commentary.

Hmm, really? On high settings at 1080p, my laptop (which is not really a beast; there were considerably more powerful (and much more expensive) laptops available when I bought it last year) runs it at 60 fps. Or it did when I tried it, which was quite some time ago. Does it run worse lately?

 

[The Dutch Slayer]

DAT CAR lololololol

 

[Huevos de Oro]

DAT CAR lololololol

The road was muddy.

 

[Cjdamon042]

Here's some Sims 3 for you. First two shots also include max setting comparisons for you, but the other two do not (I took them after I had already switched to lowest settings and couldn't be bothered to switch back since it takes like 5 minutes to reload lol)

Max setting comparison

Max setting comparison

 

[Cjdamon042]

Dat draw distance...

As you can probably tell, the Sims themselves aren't that bad, and indoor stuff actually looks pretty decent. But the neighbourhood is where it looks ugly as sin. Just awful. Amazing FPS boost though, really wish I had the same performance on max haha

 

[Broder Salsa]

Haha holy shit, that sims 3 ground is just one colour

The road was muddy.

It really was.

 

[Htown]

Dayum.

 

[Computron]

Too good for this thread.

 

[jet1911]

Saint's Row The Third

 

[Thraktor]

This looks alright:

and then the dithering attacks:

 

[DodgyGeezerFella]

Thread seems quite counter productive to what PC gaming is all about, but funny none the less.

For a second there I thought I walked into the official console screenshot thread.

lol

I would have thought the opposite

Updated size rule for 4:3 images, 1280x1024 makes more sense as someone said

 

[rj118]

Half-Life: Source

 

[Huevos de Oro]

The second Just Cause 2 screen has some sort of an artistic vibe to it, thanks to the semitranslucent trees in the back. Rico riding through a canvas while warm sunset light bathes him.

 

[Haunted]

A while back I went into the console of Half life 2 and dropped every setting as far as it could go.

It looked like what I would imagine Half Life 2 would look like on the DS. I even rendered it out to a Youtube video at DS resolution.

That's actually kinda incredible.

 

[jet1911]

Sniper Elite V2

 

[jet1911]

Sniper Elite V2

 

[ShaunBRS]

See how much better it is than this:

I wanna see that.

Both cut from the same shit-stained cloth, I think it's fair to say:

 

[DodgyGeezerFella]

 

[DodgyGeezerFella]

 

[AstroNut325]

Can't believe I'm the first to post this:

 

[Rapstah]

There's some humour in how the texture on the screen contains a higher-res character than the in-game character.

 

[Nelo Ice]

Eh, that might be true for netbooks, but only really shitty laptops would have to go down to the ultra-low settings on display in this thread. A decent laptop will run at least console-like visuals fine, and an above-average one easily surpasses that. A laptop doesn't automatically equal shit for games anymore, even though they obviously won't max out the most demanding games.

That's the thing the majority of them run on shit laptops/netbooks and can only run things on low and if they're lucky medium. Have one cousin who has over 500 hours in CS:S playing at an average of 9 fps with occasional spikes to 19. Nearly everyone I know plays on a laptop/netbook that has nowhere near enough power to run anything competently.

 

[benjipwns]

Oh man! That's...that's certainly something.

Might as well use the strategic view or whatever it's called.

 

[HomerSimpson-Man]

This thread got me to try Crysis 2 on the lowest possible settings at 720p.

Hot damn, the game still looks great!

I funny thing is that Crytek didn't technically have a "low" setting, the lowest you can go is "High".

Seriously, Crysis 2 is the best looking performing game I've played, it's DX9 is prettier than the majority of DX11 mode in other games and runs a hell of a lot better to boot.

 

[legacyzero]

Fuck this abomination of a thread.

I was waiting for this LOL.

 

[notworksafe]

Final Fantasy XIV is looking rough...

 

[RoboPlato]

God, these FFXIV shots look like a PSP version

 

[Rickenslacker]

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