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Any advice on a quality video card in the $100 USD range? What settings will I be able to run L4D on with said card?

I'm a total PC-spec retard, although I want to start educating myself.

Any advice?
 
I can play, but I'm not good. I seemed okay with the sniper rifle, though.

Tekno: for most :lol , try to get HotD2 'thank you for rescuing me' when you revive a person in part 2.
 
Red Scarlet said:
:lol two people barfed on right away. Poor Tekno.
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I know. Mila and I just had a run of bad luck. Thats the first time thats ever happened to me. Not to mention a hunter as well.

If there is still room when I get back from walking my dog, i'll join.

Red Scarlet said:
I can play, but I'm not good. I seemed okay with the sniper rifle, though.

Tekno: for most :lol , try to get HotD2 'thank you for rescuing me' when you revive a person in part 2.
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:lol might give that a shot.
 
BEDTIME FOR LOUIS

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My conclusion so far is that the game is fun (I haven't tried the sniper rifle yet), but the servers are awful in terms of connection. At the very end of my last game, at the minigun place, I repeatedly got the "reconnecting" screen over and over like every four seconds...the rest of the internet seems fine, so I don't know if it's my fault or what. :(
 
5il3nc3r said:
Does the witch get startled by your flashlight or only when you shoot her?
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Both... I was a few feet away from her once and pulled out a Molotov to throw at her and she charged me before I even tossed it. :lol
 
Kuroyume said:
I love the description for the demo on marketplace. Every other demo has the usual game info detailing the number of players, genre, etc. This game just has two lines:

"This game rocks! Buy it!"

Wtf? :lol
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Well, yeah.
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L4D
 
That's what I kept saying. :( It took forever to find servers, it would get unplayably laggy (I think Scarlet left our game because of it), and it would fail or give wrong messages when you tried to join rooms. I wondered if it was a combination of heavy server load with the new update.
 
Rez>You said:
Any advice on a quality video card in the $100 USD range? What settings will I be able to run L4D on with said card?

I'm a total PC-spec retard, although I want to start educating myself.

Any advice?
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Well first, what are your CPU, current GPU, and ram?

If they're all pretty good, then for $110 grab a 9800 GT for sure: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150316

It'll not only max out Left 4 Dead at 1680x1050 and 60+ FPS, but you'll be able to play Crysis on High details with it pretty smoothly as well.

That is, of course, if the rest of your PC holds up too.
 
Milabrega said:
The 28 weeks later music during the set up for the finale was a really nice touch.
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I tried to get it to fit for the witch part when she ran out on fire...but that didnt work.

Either way, i'd just back on with everyone, but its later than I thought it was.

EDIT: Everyone remember to click high quality.
 
dLMN8R said:
Well first, what are your CPU, current GPU, and ram?

If they're all pretty good, then for $110 grab a 9800 GT for sure: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150316

It'll not only max out Left 4 Dead at 1680x1050 and 60+ FPS, but you'll be able to play Crysis on High details with it pretty smoothly as well.

That is, of course, if the rest of your PC holds up too.
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Cheers.

EDIT: Ah... they don't ship to Australia. Damn. Any Australian know a good, trustworthy place to buy from?
 
Rez>You said:
Cheers.

EDIT: Ah... they don't ship to Australia. Damn. Any Australian know a good, trustworthy place to buy from?
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umart.net.au is the best computer store in Australia. For pure cheapness MSY is where to go, but the service is considerably worse.
 
I'm adding a bunch of doods from here on my flist in the hopes that someone would play with my laggy ass. I at least wanna play with fellow gaffers than with people who don't even speak english. :[
 
IronicallyTwisted said:
umart.net.au is the best computer store in Australia. For pure cheapness MSY is where to go, but the service is considerably worse.
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Thanks man.
 
The demo is great, and the game is great. But I hope the different campaigns all have different gameplay. For instance, one campaign could have slower zombies, one campaign could involve some kind of vehicles, and so on. Otherwise, I can see a lot of people getting tired of the game quickly.
 
If I'm joining a server that has 1 or 2 people, is there anyway to switch characters before playing? It always seems to default to Francis and he's my least favourite character.
 
YYZ said:
If I'm joining a server that has 1 or 2 people, is there anyway to switch characters before playing? It always seems to default to Francis and he's my least favourite character.
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Select "choose character".
 
RJT said:
The demo is great, and the game is great. But I hope the different campaigns all have different gameplay. For instance, one campaign could have slower zombies, one campaign could involve some kind of vehicles, and so on. Otherwise, I can see a lot of people getting tired of the game quickly.
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They don't, but the game/AI is really moddable. Some examples here:

http://www.left4dead411.com/forums/index.php?action=vthread&forum=8&topic=5607

Full list of cvars here: http://www.pdfdownload.org/pdf2html...left4dead411.com/l4d_cvar_list.pdf&images=yes

e: z_non_head_damage_factor is cool
 
syllogism said:
They don't, but the game/AI is really moddable. Some examples here:

http://www.left4dead411.com/forums/index.php?action=vthread&forum=8&topic=5607

Full list of cvars here: http://www.pdfdownload.org/pdf2html...left4dead411.com/l4d_cvar_list.pdf&images=yes

e: z_non_head_damage_factor is cool
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Thanks! I'm having a lot of fun with these CVARs. So far:
director_no_survivor_bots - put this in the command prompt before loading the single player game to play solo
bind <key> z_add - hit <key> many times followed by...
nb_rush - zombies rush at you promptly
 
MNC117! MNC117!


Add meeeeeeeeeeeeeee! I am also up for games of TF2 once in a while, but yeah, L4D and all :3

Source recorder isn't what it used to be... I've been through all codecs, and Microsoft Video 1 seems to be the best, compiles reasonably fast with decent enough filesize, though I multitask alot so the video gets messed up once in a while... Should I just let it run or was it the codec that desynched some stuff?
 
For offline LAN, setup a dedicated server (under tools menu) and set it to LAN. Open up the console in the main menu, type in openserverbrowser and the server will appear under the LAN tab.
 
I might do a little upgrading.

My current machine:
MSI 945GM3-F LGA 775 Intel 945G Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 Allendale 2.0GHz 2M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor
Kingston 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
RAIDMAX SMILODON ATX-612WBP Black 1.0mm SECC Steel ATX Mid Tower Foldout MB Computer Case With 500W Power Supply
SAPPHIRE 100134SR Radeon X1800XT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card

I wanna upgrade memory and graphics card to
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
EVGA 512-P3-N975-AR GeForce 9800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card

would the price be worth my upgrade decision? 44.99, 124.99. and will both work with my mobo?
 
Broadbandito said:
I wanna upgrade memory and graphics card to:
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Well your motherboard only supports memory running at DDR2 400/533/667 so you won't see any benefit in speed but the extra 2GB is certainly useful. Just be aware you might need to update your bios to add support for 4GB.

You should have no problem with the video card, assuming your power supply has a 6-pin pci-e power cable.
 
ilikeme said:
Ooh. I'm downloading the demo right now.

The last fps I really played was Counter Strike. I was alright! I just hope my computer doesn't lag down on me.
If I can play the other Source games on low settings will I be alright with this one?

This is me (new to Steam): http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198000581691/

Add meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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edit: nevermind, you're downloading the demo. You're about to find out for yourself pretty soon anyway.
 
Marty Chinn said:
Can anyone recommend an inexpensive but good headset for the PC? Going to start playing this with some friends and I want to be prepared.
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I really like the Turtle Beach Earforce X1. It's $60 and works for both the 360 and the PC. It allows you to get both game music and voice chat through the same headphone and works great.
 
Wow, this thread is 80 pages long and the game isn't even out yet. This must be a record. I want to play expert more often but I don't want to play it with random people. It usually spells disaster.
 
Just a note to all the old PC players:

I have

Athlon 64 3500 Single CPU @ 2.2ghz
1GB DDR 400
ATI X1600Pro 256MB
Slow, nasty IDE hard drive



I am running at 16x10 with low/medium details and no AA/AF and getting awesomely playable framerates. True, it's not beautiful, but the fun is def still there if you don't have any other options.
 
Ettenra said:
Just a note to all the old PC players:

I have

Athlon 64 3500 Single CPU @ 2.2ghz
1GB DDR 400
ATI X1600Pro 256MB
Slow, nasty IDE hard drive



I am running at 16x10 with low/medium details and no AA/AF and getting awesomely playable framerates. True, it's not beautiful, but the fun is def still there if you don't have any other options.
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Ah good to hear, my PC is around those specs.

I bumped my res all the way down to 10x7 with everything except model detail (high) set to medium because i didn't want to risk it but if it can go up I will bump it up.

My stuff:

Core 2 Duo 4800 @ 1.8GHz (fuck overclocking)
1GB DDR400
ATI x700pro 256mb (AGP :lol )
160GB SATA-1
 
Milabrega said:
3 firing deaths and 2 Molotov deaths, I will forever remember the day I tried to survive the zombie apocalypse with Threi.
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In my defense i was fucking around near the end :lol

I will hold off on the trigger finger next time. I was still learning the map layout ya know.
 
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