"Good luck playing on High in DX10 at 1920x1080/1920x1200 with a 2900xt... "

With no aa or maybe even just 2x aa your in with a good shout with a 2900xt i think. AA performance makes it lookterrible but its as good as a 640 mb gts with it disabled/just a small amount. Dont forget it wasnt designed for conventional aa but for future methods of implementation. Driver revisions for DX10 are very promising. Probably has quite some potential left in it, its on catalyst 7.10 now, by the end of the year performance might have really improved (even more than it already has - can provide links if your interested). Its such a complicated GPU that its taken until now for ati to get good functionality and compatibility worked into the driver, and 7.10 is perhaps their first genuine stab at optimising performance.

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[QUOTE="IQT786"]im playing at 1080p aka 1920x1080with the 2900xt all games run maxed-PlayStation3-

not crysis tho..

yes crysis

Good luck playing on High in DX10 at 1920x1080/1920x1200 with a 2900xt... ;)

As for the topic starter, you're gonna need a 8800 GTX to run things well at that resolution(like someone else said), especially Crysis.

In the latest titles it seems like the 8800gtx isnt that far ahead of the hd2900, its not like another world altogether. You might be overestimating the gtx, unless you plan on giving it some hefty overclock, and then you would justify the premium price difference between the 640mb gts and gtx.Crysis might very well wipe out ALL current single card setupsat the very top resolutions.i think you could rule out hefty aa on max settings dx10 at 1900X1200.

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BF2 is garbage. It sucks if you have to play 20+ hours to unlock crap just for it to be fun. And if you need to wait a few months for a mod to come out to justify the game, then that is just another sign the game sucks.

Bgrngod

And you can't play the game without those unlocks? I even prefer many of the default weapons like AK-101. First you call the things you unlock crap, but then you say that crap makes the game fun.

Some awesome mods are already out like Project Reality and Pirates 2.

It took a long time for BF1942 to get the best mods too, but it was really worth the wait. Forgotten Hope and Pirates are still my favourite mods.

No, you can't play the game without those unlocks and expect to have fun. You will get owned left and right because the default weapons are junk. The unlocks are not crap, that was just a way of me to vent my frustration about the fact that they ARE unlocks and not the defaults. The unlocks are too overpowered. If I wanted to "level up" my characters I would be playing a lot more WoW, not a multiplayer FPS.

Sounds like you got medic owned alot! you need reflexes, be able to think on your feet and have patience to do well in bf2. The glitches are nowhere near as bad as some make out. People dont shoot when they roll, theyve gone prone already and can start shooting again so it just looks like there rolling and shooting. Other annoyances and weird events are just your connection or the server being a bit overwhelmed and not registering actions properly. Unloading a magazine into people is a sure fire way to hit nothing and get picked off. The fact its hard to shoot well is a bonus, cos then you can learn the right technique and get much better than the averae joe. Or just play differently and engage at shorter ranges. BF2 is all about speed and whits, not plodding about, blundering around corners and getting shot for not being on the ball. You gotta remember that theres a huge core of players now who have 100's of hours of experience and are very competent, which makes it very hard for those who might be relatively new to it. Was best in the early days when everyone was a noob, then it was total and utter chaos most of the time, especially on 64 player karkand.

Fave maps for any stillwanting to know:

Karkand (train wreck, suburbs & warehouse see awesome scraps), Mashtur city, Oman, sharqui, dragon valley, Jalalabad.

Oman is good cos its the best example of all vehicles and kit types in action. Just need keep an eye out for the MEC bomber!

What STALKER does do well is convey an atmosphere of damp, decay and gloomy murky spoky environments. Its atmosphere comes from the visuals. Must say I loved the spooky level in the far south west whereyou meet zombies for the first time and in the later stages where you have to find hordes of monolith troops and you see ghosts and radiation is off the scale. Lovely spooky atmospheric stuff!

p.s. I was oneof a tiny handful whobought game at release and played it all the way through, saw good and bad endings, all without any patches at all meaning half the side quests didnt work and all you could buy from traders was food and health. Hence I finished first time round with 1.5 million RUs!

Latest patch transforms it though in comparison, although it still feels like a game that needed more develpment time.

Yeah true, although i mean World in Conflict is the only (finished) released game that should be considered a fair DX10 benchmark. Curious to see the results to, but I wont be able to play it till late december, cos im overseas, by which time the full thing will be out and probably some patches as well!

Should think nVidia will have the best performance as they worked with Crytek onthe game. They'll have the lead in terms of release drivers in all likelyhood. ButCrysis will be a top quality release and Im sure it will have something for everyone so long as they dont havea steam powered video card.256mb 6800gt is not a rediculous minimum spec as some say!

Also interesting cosapparently Crysis will be faster for DX10, a first so far!

DX10 is all about increasing performance, or rather, allowing better graphics without killing the frame rate. Then it seems that World in Conflict is the first decent implementation of DX10: performance dives in this mode, but the improvement in image quality is greater than for any DX10 enabled title so far. That would then make it the most relevant benchmark for video card DX10 performance so far.

Just a thought thats all!

For me personally (sadly, 600+ hours played since game was released) its Battlefield 2.

NO way have i ever come across a game soo perfectly made.

Gameplay is personal discretion of course, but the combination of infantry, tanks, boats, helicopters and jets is awesome. the squads and voip make it tense and yet oftenhilarious. The maps are amazingly well designed,so that camping is more or less out the window (s.t.a.l.k.e.r multi-player take note)soo much so that strike at karkand and sharqui peninsula have become the favourite haunt of 100s of 1000s of people. Oh and there soo large at the 64 player size it takes 15 minutes to walk end to end.

The graphics were beautiful for there time, looking dusty and dryin the MEC maps and damp and humid in the Chinese ones. The way people walk and run has never been so realistically portrayed; from a distance it looks like real people.Seeing that minor movements made characters eyes move and bigger ones made their heads turn was just something else too. It ranperfectly on the machine i installed iton on release (p4 vanila nvidia 6600)with aa. And seeing a parade of apcs and tanks and jeeps racing to flags was all very 'apocalypse now'. Lovely.

The guns are perfect, feeling heavy and powerful, shooting people was never this fun! AK-101 kills always felt reaaal good. The unlocks made it interesting for a player just starting out, and satisfying to move away from as you got better.

The sound effects were good with twin speakers, lovely with headphones and immersive beyond belief with 5.1. Plus i fell in love with the voice-acting, the irrate MEC commander giving the team a telling off, or the USMC guy running after a jeep "hey i need a ride". Classic.

Yes it was pretty buggy, and yes it remains soo, but the occasional crash for such an awesome immersive multi player was no biggie. Even today there are literally hundreds of servers full to the brim, and amzingly, even after all this time, a whole heap of noobs.They make it both frustrating, but also fun, random, hilarious, and a joy torun through and kill them.

Over time Ive seen it change, from the unmissable early days when it was just a fewmonths old and people werecreating accounts and joining games for the first time in their droves.This was when it was total carnage everywhere, people running around like headless chickens as first time heli pilots plowed intothe ground just after taking off. Utter chaos and totally thrilling. I'll never forget one of my very first 64 player games, seeing peopleline up by ladders, waiting their turn one by one to get on the roofs. I was in an apc and on the other team at the time, and bagged a few juicy kills, but not nearly as many as i should have got, because i was a noob too and shot wildely as they scattered. Lovely stuff, only got bored a few months ago, then the disc got scratched and is now unuseable. Shame!

Best multiplayer shooter ever, counterstrike is kids stuff, stalker online is full of camping eastern europeans, Far-cry online was just dull if you could get a game.

If you havent played it yet, go buy bf2, avoid 2142 its dull.Thats all folks!

BF2 9.7/10 (awful single player, but a good introduction to things = -0.1, occasional silly crashes = -0.1, damn annoying medics everywhere = -0.1)