New Computer with some ZING...

Farcry Engine=outfreakingstanding. Farcry game=want to break your computer. It's so difficult to get anywhere and if you don't have a VERY good gaming system, you won't be able to make use of all the bells and whistles of the Farcry engine. Get used to it, because there is a Star Wars title among others coming out on the same engine.

Originally posted by cyberfrog
Farcry Engine=outfreakingstanding. Farcry game=want to break your computer. It's so difficult to get anywhere and if you don't have a VERY good gaming system, you won't be able to make use of all the bells and whistles of the Farcry engine. Get used to it, because there is a Star Wars title among others coming out on the same engine.

The Crytek engine (Far Cry) is OK, but it pales to the graphical power that Doom 3 has on its highest setting (have seen in action on a kiosk - my copy arrives tomorrow). I also like how Doom 3 has different render paths for those will lesser computers, so everyone can play. Not everyone is going to buy a $500 video card, along with a high end system to play a game. Most of ATI and Nvidias sales come from the "value" segments too, so most games should play allright on middle end hardware. Of course not everyone will be able to enable all the "bells and whistles", but those than can will be in for a special treat.

I think that Doom 3 (really think) and Half Life 2 (sort of know more than think) may have started out on the Havoc engine (Painkiller is pure Havoc) and were then heavily modified. Even though Doom 3 is nice and pretty, I'm really anticipating HL2.

Now the eternal question, should I buy an ATI x800Pro or an Nvidia GeForce 6800GT? I don't think my pair of Voodoo 2 (24mb of Canopus Pure 3D2's in SLI)'s will handle either.

I did buy a new waterblock for my CPU today. Looks like I wont have a new video card any time soon.

here is my lanmower just back from quakeconhttp://images.tweaktown.com/imageban...semods_054.jpg

Didn't I see that on the [H]ard OCP Qcon page?

I just picked up a copy of Doom3 today. But I have no idea when I'll have time to load it, much less play it. Time is kind of tight around here lately....

It is scary though. Even on my second time around I managed to scare myself more than I had on the first playthrough. I thought that because I knew what lurked around every corner, I'd be less scared, but the opposite happened.

I had to run the game on 800x600 for high quality or 1024x768 on medium (high would cause a huge drop to choppiness in open areas, and I got tired of that). It really seems to looks good on lower settings, and the general experience is still there - I tried 640x480 with low and it wasn't bad at all.

Yea its on tech tv, hard ocp,tweakertown,and whole lot of others I make a mod for quakecon every year. Last year was a yellow water cooler.

http://www.viaarena.com/htmlimages/QC036.jpg
Try this link maybe it will work sorry.

http://www.planetquake.com/images/im...cs/day1-11.jpg
Oh to edit maybe this one will work

Just out of curiosity, what is the hottest video card out there today?