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Was curious to see the benchmarks for this game just because. Not the latest drivers, nor DX12. All setting at max apart from resolution scaling which was left at default.
Be interesting to see how much of an improvement rtx2080Ti's run this in Sli. On the 1080's I'm not entirely convinced that SLi are being used to the best of it's lacklustre ability despite the 98% GPU usage claims. It's definitely running worse then Div 1 but then I suppose thats to be expected being a sequel and all that. Otherwise 1080s, 8700k stock, on a NVMe Samsung 1tb 960 Evo root drive. Some very fast RAM. 40FPS average, Ti's have gotta be hitting close too 60's-90's perhaps?. In game it's not as smooth as I would like to be honest, so dropping settings is probably the way to go. 40 fps is that mid tolerable point I feel. When it's not shit but could certainly be better. Saying that though I have been playing the past 5 or 6 hours without a hitch.
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EDIT: Old image URLs.
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Apr 2019 00:18 Post subject: |
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Fallout New Vegas with mah mods
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...in before "the Mojave desert is supposed to be dull and completely lifeless..
The Mojave desert:
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Apr 2019 10:08 Post subject: |
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Looks good
Though to be fair, maybe new vegas' mojave desert looks less colorful because of the impacts of radiation, including a climate change. I mean there is a ton radioactive bugs and whatnot in the desert as well, doesn't seem far fetched.
has anyone ESRGAN'd all new vegas textures yet?
Edit: yes looks like it https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/66368?tab=description
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Apr 2019 12:56 Post subject: |
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Can't really compare a reactor meltdown with all-out nuclear war but then FNV isn't reality (yet!). To be honest, most nuclear warheads aren't meant to cause a lot of radiation from the fallout (unless they're "dirty" bombs like Cobalt Bombs), they're meant for the instant thermonuclear effect it would have on huge areas. The left-over radiation would dissipate within a few years with some areas having to be decontaminated but we're not talking 100,000 years of wasteland radiation.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Apr 2019 13:56 Post subject: |
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Chernobyl doesn't have giant radiation scorpions, yet. |
No, but in a similar way nature grew stronger, it returned with a vengeance in both places. So it would make more sense if plant life is also striving, even stronger than before. Animals (e.g grass feeding ones, which are in the game) are obviously heavily connected to nature and nature to animals (seed transport, nutrition).
But i've always found it kind of idiotic to argue about alternative universes that takes place in the future, but there's always "that guy" (i only brought it up because its often brought up - "the desert is dead!"). The one argument that you can have is that it goes against what Obsidian had in mind for the wasteland, and none of the FO's has much in terms of nature really, it's mostly dead and dull (but in its own way atmospheric).
Mojave is a dirt desert, not a sand one, New Vegas takes place near water.. there's a lot of things where i think plants and trees makes more sense than for it to not being there (if i have to argue about it..) Also, Jacobstown is striving for some reason - the snowy area a few hundred meters from the hot, dead desert, heh..
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Apr 2019 19:58 Post subject: |
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I noticed you haven't shared your mod list
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Apr 2019 10:57 Post subject: |
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The game from memory also already hits pretty close to formlists and other limitations with the DLC applied so slow and steady and constant testing for stability and glitches and of course the pain in the ass script and save system and how references persist and clearing these out. Still part of Skyrim and Fallout 4 some of it even worse with the script fragment and bloating but manageable though slamming in a number of mods at once can be problematic.
Patches and other fixes can be helpful and then it's mostly up to the user to build whatever works, 32-bit title too so huge texture assets and other additions can bog the game engine down a bit as well from how many years it's been now since I played through it.
Obsidian having a decent Q&A and testing routine (That came around the time of Pillars of Eternity.) and maybe having another half a year of time to sort things out internally instead of hoping to get some patches supported while the DLC were being handled might have helped though the script files used to be full of commentary on stuff like limitations, having to cut things and even complaints on the consoles and additional limitations with the older hardware generation. Thing it got cleaned up and they also optimized and changed bits around the world to try and improve things but a few areas are just kinda wonky stability and performance wise as I recall.
Still a excellent game when it does behave and just run as it should, newer hardware might be able to somewhat brute force the performance (Kinda.) but the rest well Bethesda at least did make Arena and Daggerfall and the other 90's RPG's and the like also hammered down saving often and multiple slots ha ha, that can help at least.
Obsidian has probably also changed a bit with the core team members and I doubt Bethesda is doing any remasters or re-releases of these older games though getting them up on Creation 64-bit would be neat though it would also break all D3D9 and 32-bit software and helper programs like the script extender.
Suppose we'll see how Obsidian's upcoming game turns out, if they have a bit of a better time table and well management which I think Chris at least has complained about and then budget well it could turn out nicely.
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Apr 2019 22:39 Post subject: |
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It's a very sloppy game in numerous ways, you see it when you make trees and stuff.. just as an example, they often forget that you cant make the alpha completely white for the normals, that will make the whole plant or tree shine like a motherfucker, doesn't look the least natural.. the tree LOD's for it they couldnt get working so its instead as Object LOD's.. the nif format is in many ways rather strange/dumb in comparison to FO3. They have severe issues with getting transparency to work so they introduced a new setting "stencil" which is cumbersome and dumb. You can tell they got absolutely zero help from Bethesda, well, either that or they are incredible incompetent (i'm nowhere near a pro myself).
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Apr 2019 23:37 Post subject: |
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If my memory doesn't betray me Obsidian have a tendency to make great but flawed games. I don't know if it's because of time crunch and budgets (I know that's the story for several of their bigger jobs) or if there's something amiss in team management.
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Apr 2019 23:48 Post subject: |
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yes, that's their thing, pretty much. Well developed characters often, lots of care goes into that, not so much into the rest always. New Vegas has some pretty cool things, but overall i found it kind of dull to be honest. I'm gonna replay it though, it might have been me being tired of the genre at that time. There's also a bunch of new mods i'd like to try + i want to make sure the changes i've made to my mod + the new mod looks good in various locations, too tedious to go through it all in the editor, probably would take as long as playing the whole game and it would be very, very boring.
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Great stuff 
My galleries stored on Imgur are all private/separated from their community, but with their recent changes they've made things more difficult. Now the new albums are automatically marked as hidden from the profile unless I decide to public them *shakes fist*. At least it's still possible to link them separately, let's hope that feature stays.
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Wolfenstein Youngblood
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Welcome to the not-so-happy 1980's since apparently not much in the previous games mattered. (Well the US got freed or something and Hitler died but he was pretty out of it anyway so.)
More propaganda posters and tech marches on though the radios are still using the 1960's songs because soundtracks are a costly affair or something.
Some of the posters aren't bad though and the levels should be fun to explore what little there is (Backtrack all the things!) before it's time for the Towers of Evil (Level gated grinding!) and clearing this little title up.
Pinup posters haven't changed much either it seems ha ha.
It's strictly linear with gated progression so no traveling back once you reach the progression point for each area but it still has some interesting sights and discoveries.
Looks like the decline of the movie industry happened much faster in alternate Nazi 1980's Europe heh.
Karaoke sauna, sing like shit while you sweat like a little pig, eh someone probably tried it in real life too. Maybe it even worked.
Fancy rooms and the level design has some open ended possibility for exploration so here's your silver currency coins for buying worthless cosmetic skins and other crap.
(Well maybe the other maps have more interesting secrets other than shiny currency.)
Found the Nazi Sushi buffet, that's a bit weird but there's pork and pretzels in the kitchen area too.
This seems like a weird fucking thing just put the David star and the Swastika into one another, this turning into Riki-Oh now?
Just ignore the story and theories and enjoy the gore and violence.
Yeah this game happened! Err well maybe it referenced something else.
Oh it's just the usual apocalyptic prophecy then.
EDIT: And via Cheat Engine and being able to actually hide the bloody poker of stabby doom.
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I've recently replayed through SWAT 4 Gold, using this mod which is essential: https://www.moddb.com/mods/swat-elite-force (it combines the game and expansion into one full campaign, adds the very useful iron sights, tons of AI improvements, more guns, variety etc.).
Apart from some small problem with commands occasionally not getting registered and hit detection the game is still  , the atmosphere of the missions is incredible and replayability is always guaranteed thanks to the different approaches allowed (dat PC-centric interface). Achieving high scores on the late levels is only for true Swatmen.
Used Reshade (though only the old 2.0 version works) with the usual gamma adjustments and Ambient Lighting also:
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The timeless Splinter Cell/Pandora combo with widescreen fixes and dgVoodoo2+hi-res textures. Still a blast to play, and still good looking, too. Thanks to Shocktrooper who made me want to reinstall them
(Any Reshade works here, I used my Sekiro one from some posts back)
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And Chaos Theory, the king:
(With some MXAO as well)
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+ overall nature has a thing with surviving, its it thing, more so than for humans.. the planet can be blasted to hell and all humans and animals die off completely, but nature would still strive after a very short while.
). I really need to delete some things, because the song I want to use is almost 6 mins long.
