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2012 High-Res PC Screenshot Thread of Don't Use Imgur
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I NEED SCISSORS
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Kane & Lynch 2's Youtube filter is one of the most under-appreciated bits of post processing in gaming. In motion it looks fantastic and in a strange sense makes the game look "photo-realistic" (quite literally).
rosaceadude2112
Member
If it were at least a decent game, it'd practically be a masterpiece. There's so much right with it, except you know for all the parts where you have to push buttons and do things. As it is, it's maybe the best audio/visual experience in gaming.
Makes me wish I had some weed.
I NEED SCISSORS
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I didn't have a problem with it. Guns felt satisfying and the cover shooting mechanics were fairly solid. It was just repetitive and lacked innovation. Kane & Lynch are fantastic characters and the story made me feel dirty. Thankfully it was the perfect length so it didn't outstay its welcome. Online modes were fun, if short lived. I'd honestly say that it was one of my favourite games to come out in 2010, and especially since I got it for only £3.
Now the first K&L on the other hand, that's a real piece of shit with nothing going for it.
Spazznid
Member
I always wondered how that game got a sequel.
legacyzero
Banned
Those are downsampled. But they actually look that awesome.
I hope consoles can achieve at least that level of fidelity, otherwise I probably wont bite.
I actually have a 1600x900 monitor (mainly because I'm a cheap bastard and havn't bought one yet) but I'm actually downsampling from 2048x1152, and I have a steady 45 fps.
The English Conquistador
Member
Both you and me brother.
I think the next gen consoles will achieve that sort of visual fidelity but not IQ (I mean even in here most of the screens are down sampled from unplayable resolutions). The generational difference doesn't depend as much on poly count (now) as it does on lighting (and then texture). In terms of facial detail they are already there during in-engine cinematics for the top tier titles. I think FC3 is a little more stylized (reminds me of Uncharted 1 with its character models) where everything is a bit shiner than usual and more saturated than normal. It makes it look absolute fantastic but weirdly enough, I only get the uber pretty vibe when I see yours and one other member's submission. My only minor complaint about the visual is the hand of the guy. When his forearm becomes visible enough to see hairs, they look a touch too low resolution compared to the surroundings and wish they'd just not opted to put that in, in the first place.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
1440p is not unplayable. Most of the screens here are downsampled from that or the 16:10 equivalent 1600p.
Angelus Errare
Banned
Looks like he only has one arm D:
I was talking about those 3K, 5K and 7K resolutions. Downsizing them is a great method for eliminating any aliasing.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
The only shots in this thread posted from that resolution recently were those Mass Effect ones and those were taken with tiled shot. The game was never run at that resolution.
You said this though: "I mean even in here most of the screens are down sampled from unplayable resolutions."
That is completely false.
Yea I reread that as tile shot. I stand corrected.
Curiously however, are these games being actually played at these resolutions or are their picture just snapped by playing the game only for as long as required to do so (and then downsized) or does the downsampling occur in real time (something I haven't had the luxury of knowing because I am not a PC gamer)?
Zyrusticae
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Actually, AO is also supposed to simulate 'contact shadows', hence the places where anything meets another surface should see some occlusion.
It is rather imprecise as a concession for performance. Only setting it to High Quality fixes that, but the frame rate hit is too hard for anyone not using high-end video cards.
As an example, Durante's Dark Souls has some excellent ambient occlusion that actually works the way it's supposed to.
Yes, they're actually being played at those resolutions. The downsampling occurs in real-time.
Possibly not at high frame rates, but they're being played.
Downsampled from 3200x1800:
I NEED SCISSORS
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They are being played in that resolution. The downsampling occurs in real time.
This will have a pretty big impact on framerate depending on the game, so these people will have a high end PC to handle that.
lol, beaten nearly word for word
Some people may purposefully jump to a higher, less playable resolution simply to take a certain pic, but I think in the majority of cases, people are playing at those resolutions.
Spazznid
Member
Downsampled from 3200x1800:
One day. One day I will play this game the way you do. I just don't ever feel like playing at low levels again... Also I have like one friend who is interested in playing and he's not reliably on when I am nor I when he's on.
That ENB is making PSO so wonderfully good looking, though. I never get tired of your shots or your responses. Keep 'em comin'!
Zyrusticae
Banned
Thanks!
But, uh, no ENB or SweetFX here. The game uses Gameguard, and Gameguard does not take kindly to any sort of process injection.
Sax Russel
Banned
Skyward Sword
Yes, they're actually being played at those resolutions. The downsampling occurs in real-time.
Possibly not at high frame rates, but they're being played.
Downsampled from 3200x1800:
I just said, "wow" out loud. Thank you all for your responses.
For me personally, the resolution is usually playable. There have been exceptions in the past but more often than not the resolution is set, then Fraps is just set to automatically take pictures while I play.
Speaking of fraps, does anyone elses Fraps crash when trying to take screenshots at resolutions higher than 1440p?
Yes, because it can't go any higher than that.
Angelus Errare
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Uh yes it can, I take screenshots at 2560x1600 (playing FC3 at said resolution) as well as 3024x1890
They must've recently raised the limit then. I remember a couple months back trying to take some shots at 1620p and the highest it would allow was 2880x1600 or some asinine number.
Far Cry 3
Angelus Errare
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Angelus Errare
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Angelus Errare
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Angelus Errare
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Angelus Errare
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Angelus Errare
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Stop...now make that muthafucka hammer time
We need next gen strippers mang D:
We need next gen strippers mang D:
I NEED SCISSORS
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Sharp everything.
Witchfinder General
punched Wheelchair Mike
I tried this out and when I select the custom res in game I notice that it seemed to make everything a bit darker causing me to up the brightness. Is this normal?
That's because downsampling like that is done in gamma space, but it should be done in linear space.
You can see the effect if you open this image in another tab and scale it down to 50% in your browser (ctrl + mousewheel in chrome, ctrl + 0 goes back to 100%) http://filmicgames.com/Images/XenonGamma/MipMap_01.png
This is what it looks like for me in chrome:
Ideally the big image on the left would appear just as the smaller ones (which are downsampled in linear space), but most browsers rescale in gamma space just like the driver-based downsampling.
I'm not using downsampling because it just looks wrong to me and i'm actually thinking about writing a custom hook that does resampling in linear space. But that depends on how much spare time i have in the coming weeks.
Witchfinder General
punched Wheelchair Mike
That's because downsampling like that is done in gamma space, but it should be done in linear space.
You can see the effect if you open this image in another tab and scale it down to 50% in your browser (ctrl + mousewheel in chrome, ctrl + 0 goes back to 100%) http://filmicgames.com/Images/XenonGamma/MipMap_01.png
This is what it looks like for me in chrome:
Ideally the big image on the left would appear just as the smaller ones (which are downsampled in linear space), but most browsers rescale in gamma space just like the driver-based downsampling.
I'm not using downsampling because it just looks wrong to me and i'm actually thinking about writing a custom hook that does resampling in linear space. But that depends on how much spare time i have in the coming weeks.
I see. So is cranking up the brightness the only way to counter it at the moment?
ResidentDante
Member
No, what I do is using a custom display driver and then setting my screen resolution in windows to the desired values.
Then again this is the only option I have at the moment because I use ati and win8.
Gen.Grievous
Member
Far Cry 3 looks nice in stills. As soon as you start driving and/or flying around it is pop in central. Really disappointing.
i have AMD's one, anyway next version of radeon pro will have it and i will be happy to switch it on
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