2013 High-Res PC Screenshot Thread of Let the JPEG Die Already

If TR isn't compatible with SGSSAA, then it must have just been the 4x Multisampling that I was injecting, as well. Either way, the injected AA looked substantially better than the in-game FXAA considering that the in-game MSAA was unusable with TressFX enabled.

In the end, I got it to run at 60fps, with TressFX on, and a respectable level of AA, so I was more than happy.
 
Couple favorites of mine from Borderlands 2

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Hey guys. First time posting here. When I save my images, they are uncompressed JPGs. If these don't fit the requirement, let me know and I'll start generating separate PNGs just for this thread. But FastStone creates such large PNGs... 7MB in some cases O_O
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you're jim2point0 from flickr right

or some guy stealing screenshots lol
 
Understood, Stallion Free, sorry for the multi post...

How did you ever think 32 shots of the Skyrim, IN A ROW would be appealing? This is a serious question.

I would say more, but It's obvious something went wrong in your decision-making process, regardless of rules in place.
 
How are you getting HL2 to look like that?

It's actually FAKEFACTORY's Cinematic Mod.

I combine that with Sparse Grid Super Sampling Antialiasing at 4X, as well as High Quality Screen Space Ambient Occlusion.

Cinematic Mod is FAKEFACTORY's personal version of Half-Life 2. 90% of people hate it and him, and that brings me 12% more joy when posting CM shots. You can choose which elements of his mod you want on or off in the included configurator, including screen effects, music, weapons, and models.
 
Holy fuck NFS...

My only memory of playing that game is it looking like shit at 1080p with practically no AA and at 40fps.

I actually enjoy it even though it lucks some features from previous NFS (mostly exterior modifications), my last NFS was Prostreet lol.At first i thought it was running Frostbite 2, turns out it's a modified Chameleon, nice :P
 

can you use that mod with just HL2 or do you have to have EP1 and EP2 :/ I've beat them so many times its a waste to buy them and never play it... those shots are amazing...plus I never knew their was an LE version without HD characters... Aylx is one of the most amazingly designed characters ever, one of the main reasons I never tried this mod before.
lol nm went to the site guess you do... hope the next steam sale isn't far off... must try this...
 
can you use that mod with just HL2 or do you have to have EP1 and EP2 :/ I've beat them so many times its a waste to buy them and never play it... those shots are amazing...plus I never knew their was an LE version without HD characters... Aylx is one of the most amazingly designed characters ever, one of the main reasons I never tried this mod before.
lol nm went to the site guess you do... hope the next steam sale isn't far off... must try this...

He's been including the ability to switch his models/features off for ages now. People really only ever see the supermodels, they never look at the options. I didn't know you needed all thress, but I guess he doesn't want to make separate packages for all three campaigns.

When you download it, be sure to have a lot of HDD space...

Also, what would happing of you installed it with only HL2 installed? If you only launched that game... He borrows game files from the relevant games, so It might be worth googling.


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Alternate in Bullshots thread.
 
it's not really the lima alyx or anything to me. it's the fact that he can't compress any of his textures or more-so refuses to. the mod could be so much smaller with the same effect if he didn't use a 4096^2 texture for a soda can.
 
it's not really the lima alyx or anything to me. it's the fact that he can't compress any of his textures or more-so refuses to. the mod could be so much smaller with the same effect if he didn't use a 4096^2 texture for a soda can.

I suppose. I don't mind the Lima Alyx, I liked it more when he would use a different model every release, but Lima's ok. I just wish he'd spend more time in one area rather than trying to do all of them at once. Like maybe adding more varying types of Flora.

EDIT:: There's third party programs you can use to downsize batches of images, right? People were using it on the HD Texture mods for Skyrim.
 
Couple Skyrim screens and a question!

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Has there ever been a discussion on GAF about the best method for downsampling screenshots? I've been using FastStone Image Viewer for a while (it's free), and resampling my 3840x2160 images with a lanczos2 filter. I see a lot of people also just use Photoshop bicubic sharper.
 
Couple Skyrim screens and a question!

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Has there ever been a discussion on GAF about the best method for downsampling screenshots? I've been using FastStone Image Viewer for a while (it's free), and resampling my 3840x2160 images with a lanczos2 filter. I see a lot of people also just use Photoshop bicubic sharper.

Wow.

I use Photoshop bicubic and bicubic sharper depending on the content.
 
Couple Skyrim screens and a question!

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Has there ever been a discussion on GAF about the best method for downsampling screenshots? I've been using FastStone Image Viewer for a while (it's free), and resampling my 3840x2160 images with a lanczos2 filter. I see a lot of people also just use Photoshop bicubic sharper.

Amazing shots. almost makes me want to reinstall Skyrim.
Answering the question: I mostly use Photoshop Bicubic sharper, but if the thread ends up thinking that it should be frowned upon, i see no problem using FastStone with Lanczos. Used it some times and liked the results.
 
I suppose. I don't mind the Lima Alyx, I liked it more when he would use a different model every release, but Lima's ok. I just wish he'd spend more time in one area rather than trying to do all of them at once. Like maybe adding more varying types of Flora.

EDIT:: There's third party programs you can use to downsize batches of images, right? People were using it on the HD Texture mods for Skyrim.

Only problems I see about downsizing the textures are 1) there are a ton of them for HL2 and it's episodes and 2) I don't know if you could make it support .vtf files. And if you had to convert the .vtf files, it'd take forever.
 

Heh. I'm surprised that thread was posted here so recently. Duncan Harris (DeadEndThrills) has been doing this for years, and I figured he's pretty popular so anyone that follows his screenshots has probably tried to emulate his methods. Though I think he makes it sound harder than it really is to throw people off as much as possible. He's not so much the king of image quality anymore these days now that so many have caught on... but he still has such an amazing sense for composition.

How are you guys taking such huge screenshots? Big monitors, or..?
Like others have said, it's downsampling. We're definitely not running around with 4K monitors. Those things are still tens of thousand of dollars. The idea is to run the game at a crazy high resolution, then resample it to your monitors native resolution every frame. Big hit on GPU, but gives you insanely good anti-aliasing. Brings out details you wouldn't know were there otherwise.

When you capture a screenshot, it's actaully saved at the resolution you're playing at (not downsampled), so you resample the screenshot in order to get it as close to what you see in-game as possible.
 
I played through Torment last year at 1080p and it was kind of frustrating. In hindsight I should have dropped the res a bit, I may have been a bit overzealous.
 
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Awesome game! TBH it linger a lot for me to really get into it, but when it did it was AWESOME. Wei Shen is an awesome character and it was a great story.
 
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