OmegaDragon
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SalsaShark said:
MW2 had a free weekend in 2010
Steam downloads the RUSE demo when I try to preload Blops >_>
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MW2 had a free weekend in 2010
Steam downloads the RUSE demo when I try to preload Blops >_>
Kinky John
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They did it for MW2 a couple of times.
Time for everyone to find out how terrible the port of Blops is. They made the right move going back to dedicated servers (even if they slightly gimped it by forcing GameServers), but man did they ever muck up the engine. MW2 ran at around 150fps on my old rig, and Blops ran at around 40fps (Q8300 @ 3.0GHz, GTX 275).
Diablohead
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I'm up for trying pc codblops, the mw2 free weekend last year was entertaining and felt good compared to the 360 version, A better resolution really helps.
LiquidMetal14
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Not seeing BLOPS.
jling84 said:
System Shock 1 & 2 are not available on ANY digital services (Steam/D2D/Impulse/GOG/etc). Some are hoping GOG gets it soon. And just because BioShock is available (different publisher) and EA distributes Valve's games to retail doesn't mean it should pop up there.
LiquidMetal14
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The BLOPS pre-load link gives me the RUSE demo, hmm,
Kinky John
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Pre-load's working now.
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Blops does run well for some people. In fact I believe the group of 5 or so people I play with a couple nights a week all get well over 60 fps at max in-game settings.TheExodu5 said:
The_Player
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>Call of Duty
>Free
WAT
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Had to restart Steam but it works now.Bobby Truffles said:
Goro Majima
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e_i said:
It's both.
My wallet screams in agony!
Stallion Free
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We are all on mid-tier stuff, 460s, 5850s, etc. The drivers and patches have fixed pretty much all our issues.TheExodu5 said:
Stallion Free said:
I'll get my friend with E8400 @ 3.4GHz and GTX 460 1GB to try it again. He said he was still getting 45-50fps around a month ago (at 1680*1050).
SalsaShark said:
Activision knows how to use Steam. They just don't like to reduce the price of their games at all. Call of Duty sells...it doesn't really need a price drop to do so.
Joe Molotov
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Still Life 1 & 2 bought! SL1 was good, but I never got around to playing the second.
TheExodu5 said:
Activision knows how to use Steam the same way Capcom does.
Wich is offering a game like Resident Evil 5 and DMC4, during the biggest sales of the year, for 10-15 bucks
wich by now, and given steam standards we've come to expect, is too much.
Im not saying its much to ask for those kind of games (they deserve that money and more), but its not the best way to boost sales of old games.
Agreed on COD though, of course
Still waiting on War for Cybertron and 007: Blood Stone sales for example..
DodgyGeezerFella
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My personal experience with BLOPS performance has been.... well shit.
From an 8800GT, to GTX 260, to GTX 460, to an ATI 6970, the game just has this horrible frame rate (compared to other COD's at least), which i could "adjust" to i guess if it wasn't for the stuttering i get during.... i dunno, shooting, grenades going off, etc (shader warming helps a bit, but doesnt fix it). The MP main menu taking about a minute to become responsive is also another thing that grates me. This happens on mine and my 2 brothers machines too.
We've given up on the game now, it just runs like poop for us and we just end up angry playing it. Going back to MW2 and the silky buttery smoothness of it really makes the problem that more obvious.
From an 8800GT, to GTX 260, to GTX 460, to an ATI 6970, the game just has this horrible frame rate (compared to other COD's at least), which i could "adjust" to i guess if it wasn't for the stuttering i get during.... i dunno, shooting, grenades going off, etc (shader warming helps a bit, but doesnt fix it). The MP main menu taking about a minute to become responsive is also another thing that grates me. This happens on mine and my 2 brothers machines too.
We've given up on the game now, it just runs like poop for us and we just end up angry playing it. Going back to MW2 and the silky buttery smoothness of it really makes the problem that more obvious.
zombieshavebrains said:
Yeah, don't play Fallout 3 on PC.
Seriously though, you better get used to saving all the damn time because it's a buggy god damned mess. I put about 50 hours into it in spite of the constant crashing/blue screens/freezes. The best was when it crashed and locked my mouse and keyboard (on 2 separate occasions) until I unplugged them and plugged them back in again. You'll either like the game enough to put up with it or you'll tear your hair out in frustration. Good luck, you have my sympathy.
Sutton Dagger
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Everyone keeps mentioning d3doverrider, can someone explain in layman's terms what it does? Is it easy to use, I'm new to PC gaming?
cicero
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I might have had 4 or 5 crashes/freezes total over 150+ hours of gameplay. I started playing at least a couple of months after the initial release though, so that might have been the difference between the two differing experiences.Orellio said:
I think GoG would be the better place to release these, not Steam.jling84 said:
MacGurcules
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It's a driver-level graphics settings tool. It lets you control triple buffering and vsync independently of the in-game settings. So for games that have really bad graphics tearing or control updates that are inexplicably pegged to the framerate, you can use it to help fix that.Sutton Dagger said:
Read this for an explanation why that's good.
D3Doverrider is just one way of doing that. Frequently, that functionality is built into your graphics card control panel these days, as well.
Sutton Dagger
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Cheers guys, I've been reading those posts for the last 20min, but I'm still kind of lost. I have been enabling V-sync in-game to stop tearing. Is there any reason why I need to do it through d3doverrider instead?
MacGurcules
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Primarily so you can enable triple buffering as well. They're like a tag team towards optimal graphics smoothness.Sutton Dagger said:
But if your game has internal settings for v-sync and triple buffering, there's no real reason to force it from the outside.
zombieshavebrains
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Orellio said:
Ha thanks! I'm guessing Bethesda knows its a buggy mess and doesn't do anything to fix it. I might just keep playing Witcher 2 even though i was really liking Fallout 3. Is New Vegas any better?
Sutton Dagger
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MacGurcules said:
Ahh ok, thanks for the info.
Sutton Dagger said:
V-Sync on it's own locks the framerate to prevent tearing and locks it to a multiple of your refresh rate. So for example if you monitor is 60 hz like most, then with V-Sync enabled your games will run at 60, 30, 20, 15, 10, or 5 FPS. With triple buffering enabled you get the tearing removal but a full range of framerates from 0 to 60. This just means a steadier experience, if you're playing something and your framrate dips to say 55, with just V-Sync on it's going to drop all the way to 30, whereas with Triple Buffering you get the 55.
D3DOverrider is just a tool that does the triple buffering for you and works with like 98% of the games you'll run with no tweaking necessary.
MacGurcules
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Yeah, and because GoG actually does some work to make sure the games they sell run on modern equipment. Steam does not.jling84 said:
Have you tried running System Shock 2, lately? It's pretty much broken these days. No way Steam could sell it as is.
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