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Re: Testing My New ATI 4650 ON COD4

FoxTwo — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:13:32 -0000

$120 in which currency? If it's US$, it's too expensive for me. I'm on a very TIGHT budget.

Besides, I just bought this card. There is no way I am buying another card just becos it's "better" less than a year of getting this one.

Re: Testing My New ATI 4650 ON COD4

Graphics — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:36:07 -0000

Get the 4850, it's only $120ish now which is a bargain. It is SIGNIFICANTLY better than the 4650.

4870 > 4850 > 4830 > 3870 > 3850 > 4670 > 4650 > etc

You can play Crysis on high at 1280x1024 with the ATI4850, and get about 50fps average. With the 4650, you'll get maybe 10 fps average.

Re: Testing My New ATI 4650 ON COD4

Graphics — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:34:03 -0000

yeh...a 4830 gets about 60fps on average at your resolution and gfx settings, and a 4850 gets 80-90 average. A 4870 gets over 100 fps on average.

You could've also bought a 4670, only $10 more than a 4650 but 30-40% better performance.

Re: Testing My New ATI 4650 ON COD4

FoxTwo — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:00:24 -0000

Heh why not, since the 4650 is almost like a "value" card now.. for the amount of money, you really get a LOT for it. Note that I haven't even mucked around with overclocking the thing yet - it's still at the default factory setting of 600/400Mhz for GPU and Memory...

Re: Testing My New ATI 4650 ON COD4

Chris — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:46:02 -0000

I'm wavering between buying this 4650 card or paying twice as much for the 4850, for twice the price. I'm thinking the best value would be the 4650. Especially considering I'm taking the leap from the 1600XT. Hah. Almost embarrassed to admit that :)

Re: Fallout 3 - The Brass Lantern?

FoxTwo — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:10:23 -0000

Heh that's what I am saying.... I don't see how it's translated into "The Brass Lantern" :)

Re: Fallout 3 - The Brass Lantern?

Istari — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:56:13 -0000

The fourth character should be "can", for Kuaican, so the sign means 'Megaton Fast Food". Mingjia is a sinification for Megaton.

Re: Stealth In Far Cry 2 Is Non-Existent

Steven — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:53:48 -0000

The trick with not being spotted and the alarm being raised is Movement! use the dart rifle from far to medium range take the shot, No more than TWO enemies at a time then move away slowly if not spotted rinse and repeat. If spotted sprint away and sue th slide movement to duck behind a bush or rock. As long as you stay in longer grass or bushes with the camo suit you should be alright.

When sprinting away listen to what they say, if it's something like we've lost him or where'd he go then you can sneak (SNEAK) back into another sniper spot.

spliinters17

Re: Stealth In Far Cry 2 Is Non-Existent

Tau — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:26:22 -0000

The "crouch button don`t make you invisible.. :-/ Take your time, your game play is not stealth... it`s crough and run... The man you cut down with the machete was screaming for god sake... You can manage to cut cut him him down silently....If you care to plan and take your time.... Don`t blame the game for for your bad stealthing mate... Learn the arts before you go bashing.....

Re: The End Of Tabula Rasa

Colin — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:13:03 -0000

I played Tabula Rasa for a little while. I never really got into it, though... it felt too much like WoW with guns sometimes. Still, it was fun and I'm a little sad to see it go down, even if I closed my account. I always thought it had more potential.

Re: Stealth In Far Cry 2 Is Non-Existent

raupao — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:29:26 -0000

What? That the Machete is not stealthy doesent mean the HOLE GAME is not stealthy!
You dont have ONE stealthy weapon!

If you want to kill a person and dont get noticed you have to shoot them with :
Silent marakov (headshot) or The best option the Dart Rifle.

The machete is not STEALTHY AT ALL

Oh and who wouldnt hear a guy screaming in pain for a machete blow? Dont tell me you didnt listen him scream!

He was like AAAGH! AGHHH!

What do you expect, that his buddies say: ''Hey someone screamed, im sure its not one of us''
I ONLY play this game in stealth, and i always kill everyone! And if i get seen i hide! NOT GET MY MACHINEGUN AND GET RAMBO!
You Seriusly need a Stealth guide!

Re: Fallout 3 - The Brass Lantern?

FoxTwo — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:14:07 -0000

Well just bear in mind the game is still buggy as heck. I keep crashing in Springvale for no apparent reason, and I got out right after talking to the girl that Moriarty wanted me to extort money from... if I hung around her home, the game kept crashing every couple of steps I took in there...

Re: Fallout 3 - The Brass Lantern?

Mike — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:07:53 -0000

That's interesting. :) Fallout 3 is getting great reviews and makes me want to get one right now. *sigh*

Re: Fallout 3 Is Here!

FoxTwo — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:02:19 -0000

Heh I seldom turn on AA anyway. I don't mind the "jaggy edges" since most of the time I'm running for my life than admiring the scenery :D

Besides, at 1280x1024, one tends not to notice jaggy edges anyway.. :)

Oh yes the crashing to desktop thing - yeah it happens randomly. Sometimes it can happen when you're "zoning" to a new area. Sometimes right after a savegame load.

One particular crash that Bethesda hasn't fixed yet is the "Talk To Mr Burke In The Saloon" bug. I got sick of seeing him waving to me to "come over" and I can't talk to him cuz that'll cause a crash. So, I killed him in the saloon. I thought I'd get a bounty on my head (like in Oblivion) but instead, everybody thanked me and said "Good riddance".... hahaha!

Re: Fallout 3 Is Here!

Khaosd — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:58:50 -0000

My problem was that it kept crashing back to desktop. Two solutions worked for me,

1) Playing in windowed mode

2) Turning off AA.

I stuck with 2, cause not use to playing in windowed mode. hoho fun game!

Re: Far Cry 2

FoxTwo — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:30:08 -0000

Heh yeah I know but for now, I'm more or less happy with what I have. I'll be thinking about utilizing the CrossFire function of the ATI drivers if/when I do get a new card, so I'll probably get something that can work with the embedded chip.

Re: Far Cry 2

hyperX — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:15:16 -0000

You should really get yourself a decent graphic card like GF9600GT or a R4850. lol good games are coming out and you gonna miss them if you machine is not capable to run them in decent graphic level.

Re: Crysis Warhead

FoxTwo — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:07:59 -0000

1) Still haven't found it :( Damn irritated that I can't shoot those helos down.
2) Well I'm still in the game and not rushing through it. Just had my first encounter with the aliens and on a hovercraft chasing Colonel Lee now.

Re: Crysis Warhead

Chaosdingo — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:15:32 -0000

1st) you will be able to get your rocket launcher later on, so no worries there.

2nd) sorry to disappoint, but this game is quite short. but since its a 'spin-off', that's kinda expected. XD took me 6 hours to complete. :D

Re: Coming Soon - Mass Effect Movie!

FoxTwo — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:10:59 -0000

Haha well I'm not really excited, rather more intrigued by it. If a Mass Effect movie ever comes out I'll definitely go see it, but I'm not really holding my breath. The budget should be somewhere near Star Wars due to the huge amounts of CGI needed to pull off some of the scenes....

Re: Coming Soon - Mass Effect Movie!

hyperX — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:13:35 -0000

I would be excited if I play the game before but no.... the movie doesn't interest me ^^

Re: Spore Protection Is Crippling It

FoxTwo — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:15:18 -0000

Thanks for dropping by and sharing your thoughts. Yeah I'm just ranting about the protection "features" for making us legit customers jump through hoops.

It's ironic that the pirates seem to be "providing a service" to people in that they remove the inconveniences we have to go through to play a game. I will admit I generally download NOCD cracks for my legitimately-bought original games, just cuz I normally store the disks back in the box after I have installed them and put them away in the cupboard.

Re: Spore Protection Is Crippling It

Jeremy — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:02:49 -0000

Amongst other things captchas are also quite annoying, but they work on some sort of level. As for anti-pirating software, yes, it is also annoying, but I wouldn't be surprised if these 'hoops' will actually work someday on some sort of level like captchas, perhaps getting less annoying over time.

I would be more worried if all gaming companies simply didn't care if their game was pirated or not. Lost revenue is lost revenue, and if you want your favorite gaming company to keep making games then you should understand. Hell, if pirating keeps growing what will happen to companies that make games purely for the PC? Will they be forced to make 360 and PS3 versions?

Spore did go go overboard in forcing its consumers to reinstall the game three times over. That hurts the overall gaming experience (compared to an 'installation experience') and the company's reputation as a whole.

Anyway, interesting read and nice heads up. I had no clue some companies went this far in protecting their games.

Re: New PC Performance

FoxTwo — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:27:29 -0000

Heh thanks for the tip. I'm new to ATI I'm still kinda getting to grips with them. In any case, the graphics card may be a ways off yet - need to get some financial stuff sorted before thinking about further "upgrading".

Re: New PC Performance

sunny — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:13:14 -0000

great motherboard... i currently using this too... however to boast ur performance quite abit... try adding a HD3450 video card and enable hybrid crossfire... the hd3450 would at least 50% faster than other hd3450 without ur motherboard... :)