LadyCrimson

Ring-around-the-rosie with some old friends. Easily amused. Hubby heard my giggles from the family room. I almost bought Fear the other day, along with Oblivion, then remembered I still haven't finished Doom3.

People who don't have a DVD player likely either A) just haven't gotten around to getting one yet because nothing has 'forced' them to, B) use their PC for nothing but email and don't give a hoot (my mother).

I think DR wa referring to Kaftan's link. Which is a good one, I'll bookmark it...even tho at this time I have nothing that requires it. :D

Performance talk: Even if your average FPS is ok and indoor/dungeon is more than ok, there's all these very bad 'hot spots' where it dips like mad. Dickering with all those little in-game settings doesn't do much of anything for me - hot spots are still hot spots. The only thing I found to consistently increase FPS to acceptable (18-20 or better) in those hot spots, while still having view/fade stuff all on high, was giving up and turning the image quality setting in the vid-card menu to 'performance' instead of my usual desired max 'high quality'. The other thing I found, dunno if someone posted this, is altering the grass via the ini file so it spaces them less densely, or changes their clump size, or something. That helped me quite a bit overall when you're outside and like grass on. In the Oblivion.ini in your "My Games" folder find 'iMinGrassSize'. It''s set by default to 80. Change it to 110 or 130, I put it 110, 130 looks too scattered.

@Hades Is there one that's not on FartPlanet? @BW - I have the most current forceware drivers that was on their download page since I got the new card - crashes happened before the new card, haven't had them again yet, the glitch in the screen is 'new'. Only happened once so far.

Far as I can tell, yes. I don't have the tools to measure heat right on the vid card tho. But not hot in the case, at any rate. Air blown out by the rear fan is still cool. Oblivion's crashed to desktop on me randomly a few times too. Just bugs I think. @mrkreku - thanks, that's much better for the inventory and stuff, and I like the weapon durability indictor etc. Can you use it to shrink the size of the health/map/weapon icons while playing, as well? I think those are too large too. I haven't figured that out. I'm spending more time tweaking this game than playing. Argh.

When I turned it on I quickly turned it off again cause it looked like this: @Hades - those arrows look painful. That heal spell is pretty ain't it? Moon goddess!

I like the smell of fresh moist dirt, like after a rain. Doesn't make me want to eat it, however. Blech. :D

I wouldn't mind that one myself. The huge interface icons and menus are irritating. Most mods I don't bother with tho, cause too many and they start to conflict or just become a pain to keep track of certain things. Plus I see a lot of ones tha aren't neccesary since you can achieve their affects w/the console commands. But interface and the improved textures, I'll have to try those. Or any cool new dungeons people make, perhaps. The editor looks pretty much the same 'format' as MW, shouldn't be hard to get the hang of things.

Forest & ferms and a house on the road. These are kinda big for dial-up, sorry, I was trying to not compress them so much for detail, this one time. Course how good they actualy look to you will depend on your own PC. This game sure has a lot of 'wallpaper' shots.

That wasn't a mod attempt, Hades...that was a game graphic glitch then a crash.

Wha size monitor do you have, Hades? 800 screenshots look ok when I take them...just doesn't look good blown up on my monitor I guess.

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I stole a horse to check those out, and they feel rather awkward to ride/control. But they look cool...although I could have done without the anatomically correct behind that I noticed when zooming around it in 3rd person. Has anyone here made any mods themselves? I downloaded the editor, going to mess with that.

I keep fiddling with mine. I just can't stand the way Oblivion looks w/this card under 1024, even with max AA/AF and such. I dunno...maybe I'm doing something wrong - but I'm tossing in the towel, I don't care anymore, lol. Don't get me wrong, the up-close details are marvelous, especially in daylight, but the distance/dark I don't like much..too painted looking, even if it is in focus. Anyway... "In the jungle the mighty jungle..."

It would appear to me that you have no clothes on. "

If you're male, you get a scene where Disciple makes a 'call' to those he works for and he says "This is Mical"...hence, that's his name.

Never had an ATI card, can't compare. I know gamers tend to like them more tho. The only cards I had before nivida ones was...Voodoo...

I don't like Bloom w/this card. It looks much better/clearer without soft-lens lighting effects.

We have liftoff...cards in and working. I'm still getting lowish FPS in the game (20-25) but it's not chugging at all and 'feels' smooth, w/all the settings etc...so I'm happy. Oddly at first I didn't think it looked any better, and almost thought it looked worse in certain aspects...probably because it's more detailed/sharp? and thus what looked smooth before looks fuzzy or jagged instead, I dunno. I will admit that it makes high AA feel a lot more neccesary, cause the jaggedness is more noticable/distracting, at least in Oblivion. Strange. I had to mess with the settings for a long time before I found something I liked.

They only raise you to 25/Apprentice from picking the Major Skill, IIRC. And I think they only do so if your skill lvl isn't already 25...otherwise they add nothing, perhaps. I reloaded a save and abused sneak even more than I had before, then went up to the point where you pick your class w/the King's guard, and this time I was an Expert. When I left sewers I still was, along with the 75 Sneak level.

The problem w/researching computer hardware for me is that I don't understand what I'm reading, so I have little comprehension about why one is is better than the other even with the researh. I usually just look at 'ratings' or read what's popular/liked on forums, grab a list of the middle-priced ones that are well-liked and try those. Vid card reviews are like reading professional physics reports.

The 'day/night' cycle is, if anything, even shorter than in MW. I find this really annoying if you're more the explorer type than a 'just finish the game' type. Supposedly you can alter the ratio around via the console, haven't tried it yet, I just might. Someone mentioned the tutorial skill gains not staying with him - just thought I'd mention they stuck for me, I entered the 'world' as a Journeyman sneaker. You probably got glitched or something. Finally, I'm curious what y'alls preference is for the main/minor skill in relation to leveling up. By that I mean, do you like your preferred often used skills to be minor, so they don't affect your leveling up process and hence you can explore longer before the monsters start getting harder etc, or do you like the monster scaling to go up as fast as possible? I always liked to do the first option.

You're probably mixing Heroes of Might & Magic strategy series with the Might & Magic (no Heroes in the titles) series, which are 1st person party-based RPG's...not quite hack n slash but a lot of combat focus, yes.