Dead Space

[BANGN]

I purchased Dead space about a week ago. It would have to be the most scariest game I have ever played.

Game is 3rd person shooter, is very much the similar story line to doom 3, your stuck on a space ship and there are mutated people aliens that try and kills you and you have to work with minimal ammo and health and is puzzle solving as well. Everything is dark and the soundtrack is intense, A dark room and earmuff style headphones and ul pretty much shit bricks.

It is a short game with 12 levels, it took me 3 and a half days to finish with alot of breaks but its definatly worth the money, Basically I was glad to finish it because the more you play it the more you want to get away from the space ship, pretty much makes u feel isolated as your constantly scared of every room you walk into and after about level 5 thats when shit really starts getn intense

but yeh highly recomended on my part. I dont think i wana play it for a while im still getn over how intense the environment is after playing it by myself in a dark room

[R31Nismoid]

a mate gave me a demo of it the other day... cant wait to have a crack now my new PC is built

[gfunkk]

apparently the controls are a bit dodgy on pc and you need a few tweaks to make it run nice (frames are capped to 30)

when im done with all these other games that just came out i'll definatley give it a go

[babyskyline]

I reccommend it too.

I got a free copy for the 360 from EA

Been playing it for a day now and its awesome fun although a lil scary and unnerving by yourslef at night in a dark room.

[PM-R33]

Yeah playing it by yourself at night with the volume up definetely tests how jumpy you are.

[Mayuri Krab]

apparently the controls are a bit dodgy on pc and you need a few tweaks to make it run nice (frames are capped to 30)

Kinda agree with you here, the default keyboard & mouse controls kinda feels laggy, especially the mouse cursor.

Got a 360 controller for my PC & its all good from there, playing in 5.1 surround is awesome

I reckon 30fps is aright for a game of this kind, you only really need higher fps for 1st-person shooters.

[GTAAAH]

thats odd they capped out the frames.. i'm getting this atm, should have it by tonight.. how good are the graphics? hope it's not laggy on my pc.. i can play grid and left4dead pretty well on my pc.. Game looks scary as because of the aiming and 3rd person view

[Mayuri Krab]

You can use "Can you run it?" site (link) to give you a rough idea of how a game will run on your system.

Whats your system spec?

[BANGN]

graphics are pretty good in hi def

[GTAAAH]

um 6000+ X2 amd

4gb rams and a 4870 or some card (card is pretty new cost me a bit) reason i ask is i only get 20-30 fps on a game called crysis even with the new card >< i'll check that link out, think my cpu is only thing out of date

Edited December 2, 2008 by GTAAAH

[Mayuri Krab]

^^^

You'll be fine.

Game is smooth on my rig, which is a Intel Q6600, 2Gb ram, G92 8800GTS.

& Your CPU is fine, most games are graphics-bonded anyway (crysis included), only game I know off that is more CPU-bond than graphics is the supreme commander series; when each faction has over 200units onscreen it will start taxing most dual core CPUs.

As for Crysis, its a very poorly coded game. What resolution & detail setting are you running at? If you are running in Hi-def (1920x1080) with everything on max (using DX10) or anything close to it, then its being shown even tri-SLI will lag to 15fps during certain parts of the game.

Also you can download the CCC mod (I think thats what its called) for Crysis, it will tweak the config files & improve your frame rate without any noticeable decrease in graphics quality.

Edited December 2, 2008 by Mayuri Krab

[GTAAAH]

Oh yeh i think i have that CCC file already, i had heard that can help, um all settings are on very high with 2XAA but the resolution is only 1280X1024 (monitor cant go higher)

Thats good that it's the coding that is making it bad then, i was cut as that i bought a new card and i couldnt run it that well hehe, my pc should be alright for 6 months or so then hopefully, cheers man

[2rismo]

3rd person shooter? Really?

[Mayuri Krab]

Oh yeh i think i have that CCC file already, i had heard that can help, um all settings are on very high with 2XAA but the resolution is only 1280X1024 (monitor cant go higher)

Theres the cause, running on Very High settings (which uses Direct X 10 instead of 9) will kill pretty much any single card currently available. Even on a modest resolution like yours, Crysis still needs like dual card solution or dual "single" card like 4870x2, even then there will still be times where it will lag. Thats how poorly coded it is...

Also from reading whirlpool forums a while back, many people there pointed out that, have AA on crysis will also have massive drops in frame rate, the drop rate is higher than any other game.

3rd person shooter? Really?

3rd person shooter kinda like Resident evil 4, except this time you can walk/run while shooting

[2rismo]

Ok kewl. Cos Doom has always been FPS hasn't it?

[R31Nismoid]

Yup.

Just played about 30mins of this - its pretty cool. Its definitely gonna make you jump lol.

Dark room & headphone

Kinda agree with you here, the default keyboard & mouse controls kinda feels laggy, especially the mouse cursor.

Got a 360 controller for my PC & its all good from there, playing in 5.1 surround is awesome

I reckon 30fps is aright for a game of this kind, you only really need higher fps for 1st-person shooters.

You gotta remove the v-sync from the mouse, then it removes that 'lag' that you get. Its enabled by default for some reason but once you remove it your set.

[GTAAAH]

Theres the cause, running on Very High settings (which uses Direct X 10 instead of 9) will kill pretty much any single card currently available. Even on a modest resolution like yours, Crysis still needs like dual card solution or dual "single" card like 4870x2, even then there will still be times where it will lag. Thats how poorly coded it is...

Also from reading whirlpool forums a while back, many people there pointed out that, have AA on crysis will also have massive drops in frame rate, the drop rate is higher than any other game.

Ohh that's alright then, good to know that it's the game not my pc being spaz, i did sorta get it running better, my friend to put a new sound card in and it's alot less laggy in parts, especially when theres talking going on

Got this game last night, graphics are pretty good, also bought a xbox360 controller last night, soo much better for this kind of game (and GRID, wow xbox controller smashes keyboard lol)

This games pretty cool, you can stomp the monsters when they're on the ground and like almost every body part will get broken off, it looks really good the graphics too and with all settings maxed on my pc theres no lag at all which is good.. Looking forward to playing tomb raider on xbox 360 cont.. gonna be so much better than keybrd and mouse

[R31Nismoid]

Also - run it in double/triple buffered iof you want.

Im consistent on around 60-80FPS so its perfectly fine for me, no issus with setup, controls or anything if config'd right.

And this is on a 4850 ICEQ4, its slightly overclocked, and will push it harder over the next week when i get time to do it

[GTAAAH]

hmm, I couldnt really see any options from memory that said Hi Def or buffering.. are there options besides the ones in Visual>Advanced that i've missed? am on XP so no dx10 coolness :< Maybe they're there and i'm tripping, guess i'll check tonight, think i lobbed everything to max

[2rismo]

Yup.

Just played about 30mins of this - its pretty cool. Its definitely gonna make you jump lol.

Dark room & headphone

You gotta remove the v-sync from the mouse, then it removes that 'lag' that you get. Its enabled by default for some reason but once you remove it your set.

The last game I played that did that to me was FEAR. f**king scary shit.