The GT300/Fermi Thread

[SKYMTL]

The software always has to catch up. There's a few games that will also bring a 5970 or 3x GTX 285 to its knees like Arma2 and the STALKER when crank eye candy on even at 1080p resolutions. We should all welcome moar pwer!

How about properly coded games? There is no reason for any of the STALKER games to be as resource-hungry as they are. They don't look particularly good even in DX11 form and CoP does absolutely nothing to showcase what DX11 can do.

[kadozer]

How about properly coded games? There is no reason for any of the STALKER games to be as resource-hungry as they are. They don't look particularly good even in DX11 form and CoP does absolutely nothing to showcase what DX11 can do.

I see your point with the badly coded games. I'm no programmer but I know it can't be as bad as GTA IV. I guess one can also say we need the xtra power to 'brute force' the badly coded ones even, which we all know there are and will have plenty more of this year.

[zalbard]

They don't look particularly good even in DX11 form and CoP does absolutely nothing to showcase what DX11 can do.

The first Stalker game started being developed in 2001 - I saw screenshots showcasing the graphics in 2002 and they didn't really look so much worse than those taken in 2007. Yes, that's right, like 9 years ago. In DirectX 8. Do you really think they re-made the engine from the scratch for CoP? Since it doesn't look that much better than SoC, I believe a whole ton of code they've written has been made in 2001, no wonder it's so sluggish...

Here is a guide for you.

Haha, brilliant!

[annihilat0r]

The first Stalker game started being developed in 2001 - I saw screenshots showcasing the graphics in 2002 and they didn't really look so much worse than those taken in 2007. Yes, that's right, like 9 years ago. In DirectX 8. Do you really think they re-made the engine from the scratch for CoP? Since it doesn't look that much better than SoC, I believe a whole ton of code they've written has been made in 2001, no wonder it's so sluggish...

No Stalker game has ever looked anything better than "good" and CoP is no different. The CoP benchmark program made me seriously cringe, with sunshafts it shafts the system but graphics are hardly better than something by the Source engine (which would perform 10x better)

[zerazax]

The first Stalker game started being developed in 2001 - I saw screenshots showcasing the graphics in 2002 and they didn't really look so much worse than those taken in 2007. Yes, that's right, like 9 years ago. In DirectX 8. Do you really think they re-made the engine from the scratch for CoP? Since it doesn't look that much better than SoC, I believe a whole ton of code they've written has been made in 2001, no wonder it's so sluggish...

Haha, brilliant!

The game's bugginess every release should've been a sure enough sign of bad coding

It's true that Valve and Blizzard games aren't as stunning visually as a lot of games out there, but they're so damn well optimized that they'll run on damn near anything GeForce 6600 or later

[neliz]

It's true that Valve and Blizzard games aren't as stunning visually as a lot of games out there, but they're so damn well optimized that they'll run on damn near anything GeForce 6600 or later

I take your Geforce 6600 and lower it with my Radeon 9600XT!
HL-2 looked awesome. it still looks okay now (though, way to many poly's) but compared to some stuff out there right not it actually still looks great. the facial animation and emotion.. the physics..