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

I sincerely apologize for posting those Walking Dead shots. Even though this game is over a year old, I did not think before posting images from such a story driven game. Honestly, I was just excited to finally get through the save game gauntlet to actually complete it that I got lost in the moment and wanted to share.

I've completely removed the images from the posts and apologize to anyone who I've spoiled this game for. It will not happen again.

The final episode came out late November, hardly a year ago. Either way, there is no statute of limitations on spoilers.
 
Shame about the Walking Dead spoilers.

People shouldn't have to worry about that shit in this thread.

Looks like they've been taken down in all but one of the quoting posts, though.
 
I sincerely apologize for posting those Walking Dead shots. Even though this game is over a year old, I did not think before posting images from such a story driven game. Honestly, I was just excited to finally get through the save game gauntlet to actually complete it that I got lost in the moment and wanted to share.

I've completely removed the images from the posts and apologize to anyone who I've spoiled this game for. It will not happen again.

I forgive you. <3

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Not the best shots.
I'm installing the 320.49 Beta drivers, and hopefully they'll be working and bug-free...
 

Amaaaaaaaazing.

What kind of framerates are you getting there neoenigma? I just restarted Borderlands 2 and would kill to have my game look even half as clean as that.

I never look at frame rate. I'd guess, based on how it feels, 35-45, depending on what's happening. Keep in mind, I have 4GB 680s in SLI (2) and physx on high (completely unnecessary). It's playable but not ideal. SGSSAA is definitely a requirement, otherwise the outlines will look awful. I'd love to crank that up to 8x but that'd be brutal on my FPS. I'll remember to turn on fraps next time I'm in the game.

Here's another skeleton.

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Spoiler tags around images do not seem to be working for me. The image below is not a spoiler but I have wrapped it in spoiler tags as a test. Does anyone else see the full size image below?

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Works for text though. Text ->
I will not post spoilers again. I will not post spoilers again. I will not post spoilers again.
 
The final episode came out late November, hardly a year ago. Either way, there is no statute of limitations on spoilers.

I wouldn't say there isn't a statute of limitation on spoilers, because we've gone on and on about this since before this 2013 thread, back in the 2012 and maybe even in the 2011 thread... generally it's between 2 weeks and 2 months IIRC , depending on how big the game is and how story driven it might be.

Although it goes without saying that the above is overwritten by the following: you should always use common sense before posting a spoiler, even a year out. If you have to ask yourself if your fellow thread-goers will care... then you should at least think twice and/or be wary about posting a straight up spoiler.
 
What kind of framerates are you getting there neoenigma? I just restarted Borderlands 2 and would kill to have my game look even half as clean as that.

Alright. Forget what I said. My FPS was being crippled by SMAA for some reason. Disabling SMAA brought my FPS up to 72.

That's the only SweetFX shader that's actually hitting my performance really hard. And honestly, downsampling + SGSSAA means I don't even need SMAA. So yeah. Performance is quite good. Might even crank up SGSSAA to 8 to see if that's playable.
 
Guys... I received my GTX 770 today. I just played a BF3 game on Ultra and the lowest I went was 56fps... It's like if my eyes were shitting raibows.
 
Alright. Forget what I said. My FPS was being crippled by SMAA for some reason. Disabling SMAA brought my FPS up to 72.

SMAA is weird sometimes, I turned it on in Call of Duty 4 and it gave me an appalling frame rate but it seems different from game to game. In others it doesn't even have a 1 FPS impact on performance.
 
So if I have Adaptive enable in the CP I can just leave the v-sync to off in the games options?

yeah, it turns on when you can spare the framerate and stays off when you can't. Also haven't experienced any input lag or anything with it.

Why are the screenshots so small?

Is GAF broken?

Should I PM EvilLore? This is a serious issue.

Neogaf has changed... (Old Snake Voice)

Did you actually run in 8k ? framerate?

at 4k with 4xSS, I get around 3-8 fps, but I don't play it that way. I can usually managed around 30 fps at 4k with FXAA, and it's generally great that way, but sometimes TressFX acts a fool and tanks my FPS till either I restart the game, or I switch TressFX off and on a lot.

What I usually do, is play normally at 4k FXAA and then pause a lot to get a screenshot moment. Then I'll go and change it to 4xSS and when switching between parts of the pause menu, there's a bit of time where you can nab a hud-less screenshot. Then I switch 4xSS off, and continue playing.

In fact, here's another!

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Also, here's a Remember Me shot. Taken at 4k with 2xSS, at 30+fps.

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The ways in which People Can Fly's Bulletstorm was better than Gears of War leave me baffled as to how it so incredibly underperformed. Even the tacked on multiplayer was fun. In fact, now that I know what I'm doing I may have to try and get some shots from it as well. But still, not done with the Fallout 3.

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REAL STEEL
 
How well are your two titans holding up with that grass mod ?

Stunning. Makes me want to upgrade my rig, as I hear those grass mods are pretty intensive no?

Fairly intensive. I am maintaining 60fps and I even upped the draw distance but the card(s) are working for sure.

very nice

Definitely a grass/foliage mod and is that a sky mod?

Could you link me to them?

Climates of Tamriel are probably responsible for the sky and DatGrass for the, well, grass. Then I have texture mods, ENB etc.

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/31070

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/17802

Am I missing something in those skyrim shots other than the grass mod? I mean they look alright but... huh?

Buzzkill as usual I see when someone elses pictures gets quoted or discussed.
 
Fairly intensive. I am maintaining 60fps and I even upped the draw distance but the card(s) are working for sure.

Nice.


Just downloaded the mod to try it out, about melted my rig, but damn its beautiful.

i7 3770
6950 2GB Dirt 3 Unlocked
16GB Ram
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Buying both next gen consoles this year, so not sure if I will be able to fit in a GPU upgrade in there as well.... but would say a 7970 handle heavily modded Skyrim at a good rate? I run about 50 mods now, but haven't been playing Skyrim or Modding it at all since last year.
 
Buzzkill as usual I see when someone elses pictures gets quoted or discussed.
Your shots are some of the best of Skyrim I've seen in months (I prefer environmental shots as a style, which should be obvious from my own posts), but he has a point.

People are too quick to shoot their load over Skyrim shots, sometimes it's downright baffling. Everyone jerking each other off over the mod selection and ENB choice, blah blah blah. Sometimes it seems like it's the only game people give a shit about.

I'm not saying it's wrong or whatever, or that people don't have a right to exclaim when something impresses them (doing so would be hypocritical after my first sentence), but I'm just saying that I think there's some kind of unfair bias towards Skyrim or something. I do understand that a lot of work goes into getting that game to look the way you want it, but I just think that people are too quick to drool over Skyrim screenshots, in general. Just a harmless observation.
 
Damn. The dof is messed up in those shots. Also way to much sharpness in my opinion.
And i also dont see anything special in sethos shots :/

Yeah , i set it too strong .but this was just a quick try .

will tweak that later.

about Sethos shots ,you have to see it in motion to see how good it looks. trust me.
 
I'm just jaded when it comes to Skyrim. You can just ignore my lack of enthusiasm there :P

I mean... I have more fun taking screenshots in Borderlands than anything else... if that tells you anything.

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