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2014 High-Res PC Screenshot Thread of the Last Hope for Image Quality

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Tnecniv

Neo Member
I think I am using your lighter preset. Yeah, your original preset (the one with liftgammagain ) was too dark, even for me. But your lighter preset (the one without lgg) looks nice to me, just pleasing to my eye. In any case, do you have any more recent sweetfx settings for Dishonored? I wouldn't mind at all if you shared them. Tia.
 
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PlayALLtheGames

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Dat detail doe

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BONKERS

BONKERS

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Phreakuency said:
Regardless of that argument, most of us here know for damn sure that we are posting PC game shots in mainly unplayable settings.

So yeah, rave all you want about PC's and their quality but the reality is, we play the game in one setting and take screenshots in another.

Which is good and bad. Good because it's fun to be a virtual, gaming photographer at times (it's also handy to simply take screens as you progress through to completion of a game for memory/experience sake). Bad because it likely helps sell copies of games based on amazing quality that no one could ever play a game at.
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I don't know about you. But 90% of the time I post screenshots, they are entirely playable at console levels or higher.

Besides, SGSSAA even at native resolution is almost always playable and absolutely destroys any kind of IQ/AA consoles can use.

PlayALLtheGames said:
GTA IV looks better than Watch Dogs.

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Yeah, even modded (Which looks awful a lot of the time to me. Crushed whites and blacks. Too much contrast. Sharpened to all high hell, all kinds of shader aliasing, no art direction, mutilated art direction by importing random cars and other models), it's not quite up there. The modded textures may have realistic lighting down though. /shrug

Don't get me wrong though. GTA IV still looks good. Great even in a lot of ways vanilla and when it's done right modded not so extreme.
 
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BONKERS

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Tnecniv said:
BONK, do you still need someone to do a no aa, txaa, sgss enhanced comparison? Got Watch Dogs installed just now.
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Yes please! I asked someone prior on Guru3D because they said they had used SGSSAA with WD and it looked good. Never posted shots though.

Since the MSAA is pretty decent quality. Just the MSAA+SGSSAA would be neat too.


I know that's a lot to ask, but it's nice to see hope isn't lost when games have decent MSAA in some way built into the engine/game so better AA can be achieved.
 
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Tnecniv

Neo Member
BONKERS said:
Yes please! I asked someone prior on Guru3D because they said they had used SGSSAA with WD and it looked good. Never posted shots though.

Since the MSAA is pretty decent quality. Just the MSAA+SGSSAA would be neat too.


I know that's a lot to ask, but it's nice to see hope isn't lost when games have decent MSAA in some way built into the engine/game so better AA can be achieved.
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Alright, will do. And it may be a lot, but no worries mate, I love tinkering with AA stuff like this.

Also, would it be okay to post the links here, or is there a more appropriate thread that I can take it to?
 
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BONKERS

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Tnecniv said:
Alright, will do. And it may be a lot, but no worries mate, I love tinkering with AA stuff like this.

Also, would it be okay to post the links here, or is there a more appropriate thread that I can take it to?
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You could post it on the thread here http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=357956 if you wanted. But I don't care if you post it here or there, i'm good either way. Perhaps post'em as links instead of as pictures so people don't complain maybe.

Also: Xenoblade still looks great. I need to get around to playing that. Now that you don't need LLE, maybe my 4Ghz i7 950 will be enough!
 
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desmax

Member
BONKERS said:
You could post it on the thread here http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=357956 if you wanted. But I don't care if you post it here or there, i'm good either way. Perhaps post'em as links instead of as pictures so people don't complain maybe.

Also: Xenoblade still looks great. I need to get around to playing that. Now that you don't need LLE, maybe my 4Ghz i7 950 will be enough!
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My 3.10Ghz i3 2100 runs it fine, I'd say (There is evident lag, but nothing that makes it unplayable)
 
Spazznid

Spazznid

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Alo81 said:
That is absolutely not the case for all posters and often even the bullshot quality people post are at playable framerates, like 30-40fps.
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For sure.

These are some videos I took whilst playing Remember Me at 8K. With FRAPS recording, I managed to get 20+ fps. Without, it stays around 30, which is pretty much console.

http://a.pomf.se/myaxaf.webm

http://a.pomf.se/unzvqu.webm

It all comes down to how optimized an engine is, and people often think that if a game is low framerate, that means it just has better graphics, which isn't always the case.


EDIT: gah, new page, here, take these new ones!



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MadOdorMachine said:
It's Blackfire's mod and you can adjust the TOD. I just left it default for now. The grass is the main thing that looks out of place. It's actually quite nice in game.
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I don't understand ToD mods /shrug. Other than the ToD/Color/Contrast, looks FABULOUS.

Spazznid said:
For sure.

These are some videos I took whilst playing Remember Me at 8K. With FRAPS recording, I managed to get 20+ fps. Without, it stays around 30, which is pretty much console.

http://a.pomf.se/myaxaf.webm

http://a.pomf.se/unzvqu.webm

It all comes down to how optimized an engine is, and people often think that if a game is low framerate, that means it just has better graphics, which isn't always the case.


EDIT: gah, new page, here, take these new ones!



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Every time someone posts screens of this game. There is someone who says they should buy this game.

This time it's me. Whenever I see it on sale, I always forget.
 
Spazznid

Spazznid

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BONKERS said:
I don't understand ToD mods /shrug. Other than the ToD/Color/Contrast, looks FABULOUS.


Every time someone posts screens of this game. There is someone who says they should buy this game.

This time it's me. Whenever I see it on sale, I always forget.
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One of my Favorite games of all Time.

Right there with Perfect Dark, Tomb Raider 2013, Starcraft: Brood War... I have a thing for strong women.
 
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Tnecniv

Neo Member
BONKERS said:
You could post it on the thread here http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=357956 if you wanted. But I don't care if you post it here or there, i'm good either way. Perhaps post'em as links instead of as pictures so people don't complain maybe.
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Okay, here we go. Before I post the images, apologies in advance for not being able to have every car, person, and object in the same place. But static objects like buildings are useful at identifying the differences.

This is with 1920x1200 res, all settings maxed out + 16xAF enabled in the control panel.

No AA: https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3711/14265635946_33b8088196_o.png

4xMSAA: https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5200/14308958763_2377ae6ec8_o.png

4xTXAA: https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3817/14102135388_dea0cca648_o.png

4xMSAA enhanced SGSS: https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3792/14102138710_3d443e275f_o.png

4xTXAA enhanced SGSS: https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5319/14288262954_f15ab94f21_o.png

4xTXAA enhanced SGSS + downsampling (3K->1920X1200): https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3766/14288756015_9121f8fb00_o.png

TXAA+SGSS+downsampling pretty much eliminates most of the aliasing. I'll probably use that setup for bullshots.

Edit: fourth pic was linked to wrong page, fixed it.
 
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TronLight

Everybody is Mikkelsexual
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The moment when you'd pay to have a wideangle, focal lenght, aperture and timing controller. Also a free-cam would be nice.
 
Dave_6

Dave_6

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Spazznid said:
For sure.

These are some videos I took whilst playing Remember Me at 8K. With FRAPS recording, I managed to get 20+ fps. Without, it stays around 30, which is pretty much console.

http://a.pomf.se/myaxaf.webm

http://a.pomf.se/unzvqu.webm

It all comes down to how optimized an engine is, and people often think that if a game is low framerate, that means it just has better graphics, which isn't always the case.
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Impressive. If you don't mind me asking, what are your PC specs?
 
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Alo81

Low Poly Gynecologist
Are Minus links dying out for anyone else? About 2/3rds of all of the Minus images haven't been loading for the past couple days.

Tnecniv said:
Okay, here we go. Before I post the images, apologies in advance for not being able to have every car, person, and object in the same place. But static objects like buildings are useful at identifying the differences.

This is with 1920x1200 res, all settings maxed out + 16xAF enabled in the control panel.

No AA: https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3711/14265635946_33b8088196_o.png

4xMSAA: https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5200/14308958763_2377ae6ec8_o.png

4xTXAA: https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3817/14102135388_dea0cca648_o.png

4xMSAA enhanced SGSS: https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3792/14102138710_3d443e275f_o.png

4xTXAA enhanced SGSS: https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5319/14288262954_f15ab94f21_o.png

4xTXAA enhanced SGSS + downsampling (3K->1920X1200): https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3766/14288756015_9121f8fb00_o.png

TXAA+SGSS+downsampling pretty much eliminates most of the aliasing. I'll probably use that setup for bullshots.

Edit: fourth pic was linked to wrong page, fixed it.
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That's weird, the no AA image seems to have things displayed differently, (especially noticeable in the sky) compared to those with SGSSAA.
 
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Tnecniv

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Alo81 said:
Are Minus links dying out for anyone else? About 2/3rds of all of the Minus images haven't been loading for the past couple days.



That's weird, the no AA image seems to have things displayed differently, (especially noticeable in the sky) compared to those with SGSSAA.
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Good eye, noticed that, too. Am thinking it may have something to do with the weather? The SGSS pics were taken under clear skies, while the no aa/none-sgss pics were taken during rainy conditions. But that's just a guess. I'll try to compare no aa and sgss again under similar weather conditions before I head out to work.
 
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