A few pretty beautiful screenshots I have taken.

Martyrdom

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2005

Monroe, CT

05 May 2005 at 21:07 - 1

Hello, let me just warn you, most of these are 1600x1200 Resolution. =p.

I'll post the small ones in the forums and put the huge ones behind links.

(1) Amazing picture of the sun cracking through a destroyed house with my character shooting in the front.
http://img170.echo.cx/img170/7454/su...l2shoot2im.jpg

(2) Another picture of the sun cracking through the house, only a diffrent angle, and it looks much better.
http://img170.echo.cx/img170/5405/su...ghwall21ep.jpg

(3) A picture of me and two guards, with the sun in the background, looks very nice.
http://img170.echo.cx/img170/4307/me2guards1ai.jpg

(4) Me about to kill a river drake.

Yep, just incase you are wondering, I have Duel Nvidia GeForce4 6800 Ultras, 2084MB of Ram, and 3 Harddrives(unsure what kind, but it gets the job done.)

All pictures taken at 1600x1200 resolution, full graphics alloud, and some cropped down in Photoshop.

kratic

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

Florida

Sole Asylum [SA]

Mo/

05 May 2005 at 21:56 - 2

very nice pictures of the sun rays. i like

. might make some of my own stuff like this and post them on my gaming website im in process of making (when i get around to adding stuff to it lol)

ares

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2005

06 May 2005 at 09:15 - 3

Im sure its your 3 harddrives that gives GW its beautiful graphics... -_-

kairusan

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

06 May 2005 at 17:28 - 4

Originally Posted by ares

Im sure its your 3 harddrives that gives GW its beautiful graphics... -_- lol, and i dont think your duel graphics cards are doing much for you. Duel graphics cards is for duel monitors.... or I have always though that at least.

Principa Discordia

Site Contributor

Join Date: Apr 2005

England.

06 May 2005 at 17:36 - 5

Originally Posted by kairusan

lol, and i dont think your duel graphics cards are doing much for you. Duel graphics cards is for duel monitors.... or I have always though that at least. SLI allows you to run two graphics cards together as if they were one extremely powerful card. It does, in fact, do a lot to make games run better. Especially for him as he has two cards with 256bit memory.

adam.skinner

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

Elect of God [EoG]

Mo/Me

06 May 2005 at 17:57 - 6

2 6800U in SLI are the best you can get ATM.

A11Eur0

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

W/

06 May 2005 at 18:08 - 7

Originally Posted by Martyrdom

All pictures taken at 1600x1200 resolution, full graphics alloud, and some cropped down in Photoshop.
Yet you still have pixellation on your edges, especially with the guard shot?

methinks we have a pointless poser.

Principa Discordia

Site Contributor

Join Date: Apr 2005

England.

06 May 2005 at 18:17 - 8

Originally Posted by A11Eur0

Yet you still have pixellation on your edges, especially with the guard shot?

methinks we have a pointless poser. Hmmm, you know, I didn't even notice that (which is weird for me as I'm cynical and criticise everything.)

There is no anti-aliasing at all in that screenshot.

Martyrdom

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2005

Monroe, CT

06 May 2005 at 19:16 - 9

hm, didn't notice, how do i fix it, enable anti-aliasing, hm caus ei have anti-aliasing on 4x

FrodoFraggins

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2005

07 May 2005 at 01:07 - 10

Wont make much difference on this game. But nice system.

Nitro

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

07 May 2005 at 06:04 - 11

Actually duel cards blow, they make your power supply burn MUCH faster and do close to nothing. Still beautiful graphics.

A11Eur0

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

W/

07 May 2005 at 15:19 - 12

You probably have AA turned off in your video card settings. Check your 3d settings.

Principa Discordia

Site Contributor

Join Date: Apr 2005

England.

07 May 2005 at 19:27 - 13

Originally Posted by Nitro

Actually duel cards blow, they make your power supply burn MUCH faster and do close to nothing. Still beautiful graphics.

I think you need to see some benchmark results.

I'll post some when I get some friends to run a few.

Edit: As for power supply, yes they do, but who wouldn't have a 450w PSU when they can afford SLI?

Nitro

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

07 May 2005 at 19:40 - 14

lol true. But me and my like 10 fans, 3 diff neons and a bunch of other crap. my power supply is 500 wats i believe.

Principa Discordia

Site Contributor

Join Date: Apr 2005

England.

07 May 2005 at 19:48 - 15

Originally Posted by Nitro

lol true. But me and my like 10 fans, 3 diff neons and a bunch of other crap. my power supply is 500 wats i believe. If you didn't have all that uneccessary crap you wouldn't have a problem.

Nitro

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

07 May 2005 at 20:01 - 16

Yea, but ill stick with my Nvidia FX 5900 ultra 256 mb. =D

Guillaume De Sonoma

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2005

aFk

Me/Rt

07 May 2005 at 23:54 - 17

Nice pics. I really like the first one with shafts of light coming through the windows.

Mrmazoku

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2005

08 May 2005 at 05:51 - 18

Originally Posted by Principa Discordia

I think you need to see some benchmark results.

I'll post some when I get some friends to run a few. The point is, no need to spend $800 on Graphics cards so you can run the game at 300fps. If your moniter only refreshes at 80Hz then you are just wasteing your money.

FrodoFraggins

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2005

08 May 2005 at 05:51 - 19

Human eye can only see 60 FPS anyways.

Principa Discordia

Site Contributor

Join Date: Apr 2005

England.

08 May 2005 at 06:17 - 20

Originally Posted by Mrmazoku

The point is, no need to spend $800 on Graphics cards so you can run the game at 300fps. If your moniter only refreshes at 80Hz then you are just wasteing your money. Once you get into newer games like Doom 3, and even some MMOs like Star Wars Galaxies, which have scalable graphics engines... You'd pray for two 6800 Ultras in SLI.

Games like those increase in detail into infinity based on your hardware, and scalability is so going to be standard soon. Even Stalker - Shadows Of Chernobyl is going to be scalable.

Siliticx

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

08 May 2005 at 06:32 - 21

the only thing that mather in an MMO is 512 mb VIDEO ram, and maybe more

its the only cause of fps lag afaik, unless ur card sucks

Cragz

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2005

West Yorkshire, UK

GigaSquadTeam

E/Mo

08 May 2005 at 18:39 - 22

Originally Posted by FrodoFraggins

Human eye can only see 60 FPS anyways. My first post appears to have been deleted from the thread (something about the original poster spending all that cash on a system he doesn't know how to use ... *chuckle*), but I thought I'd post again to debunk this.

Challenge #1: Set your monitor to 100hz and use your pc for a few hours. Now set it back to 60hz.

Challenge #2: Install an old 3d accelerated game (Quake is a good example). Let it run unhindered for a while at its peak FPS count. Now set the FPS maximum to 60 (cl_maxfps 60 in Quake).

Challenge #3: Believe your eyes, and don't post about the number of detectable frames per second until you have solid proof.

ps: This is hardware dependent, so if you can't run at 100hz or higher than 60fps in Quake then you clearly aren't going to benefit from it.
pps: Nice pics.

Adacia Calla

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

The Halls.

[FREE]

W/R

08 May 2005 at 22:28 - 23

Human eyes see 72 fps. Change the refresh on your monitor and you'll see the difference.

Picture of me and my Necro boyfriend:

Me and my Paladin boyfriend:

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Me and my Ranger boyfriend:

My one night fling with Rurik:

FrodoFraggins

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2005

09 May 2005 at 14:51 - 24

I didn't make that number up. It's been proven medically. >.>

A11Eur0

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

W/

09 May 2005 at 17:14 - 25

Originally Posted by FrodoFraggins

I didn't make that number up. It's been proven medically. >.>
Find the medical journal with tests and official proof. Go ahead, I dare ya. I had a CRT monitor at 60hz, it was horrible. I changed it to 75, and it was much better. So, there goes your "proof".