LadyCrimson

I just re-installed and never asked me for one.

I might drink some wine later...I drink 1-3 times a year. And not much even then. Don't need it just to P-P-P-P-A-R-T-Y!!! Wouldn't mind some firecrackers tho...that's always fun to scare the kitties with....

How the game feels when I'm playing (not the techie numbers) I notice a much bigger performance hit from upping resolution than from increasing the AA/AF. Going from 1024 to 1600 causes a large FPS loss, which I assume is a combo of older card+only 128vid memory + just the extra load. If I then max out AAwhile in 1600, the loss to performance (lag, lowering of FPS) takes another minor hit but I really hardly notice it. if I max everything out in 1024, same thing - the performance loss isn't very significant vs. the resolution itself. Anyway, if I had more video ram (my system RAM is 2gigs, that's not it) would that reduce the hit at 1600 by a lot? Because I swear every time I upgrade I see a tiny bit of FPS style improvement but nothing enough to have made it worthwhile to me. I don't care about another 3-5fps...maybe 15-20 would be worth it. P.S. If you build your own PC it's only about $800-1000 for a decent (not uber) newer system, not including monitor. Not $2000...but still too much for some I know...just saying...

What CoF said.

You can get pretty far in the story-based game without help in GW actually. Even past the desert. Just not easy... Here's my take on it: It's free, but even so, I got bored of it a lot faster than WoW, primarily because there is very little exploration factor...your path is pretty well laid out for you in a linear fashion, although there is some exploring, dont get me wrong...just not as free and open like WoW and some other on-line action-RPG's. But...hey, it's free...and if you like PvP and can find good teammates (the random matches aren't that great), it's cool.

Actually, in either picture you posted I can't see your character...well ok, a slight shadow tells me he's there, but it's pretty dark. :D Just for more comparison (and cause I'm bored...), here's mine at 1600x1200, 2xAA and 4x AF. I do not have the latest super-vid-card, it's a GeForce 6200. Click the pic if you want to see it full size (770kb .jpg). And of course, it looks better in-game & away from lossy .jpg's. In the full-size pic you can see a little jagged edges here and there but in-game it's not noticable...I don't see the flicker Kaftan is talking about in Kotor2 - I do know what he means tho, in some games I still see that even with everything on max (WoW....).

Sigh. Well I was trying to compare .psd vs. "hi-quality" .jpg vs. 8-bit tif and it was interesting because the psd definitely showed the slight beginnings of more artifacts. In the pic you can see it at the top portion of the eye stalk, little more grey in the middle of the brown. Not much tho. And actually, the .jpg didn't fare too bad considering, even tho it's obviously far inferior at that magnification. It's all so confusing. Sometimes I think there's really not enough difference between the 'expert' formats to really matter beyond a certain point. Each has a little failing in one area vs another.

I'm concerned with both the master-file one uses to work/edit from, and the final-master that you actually send to the printer. The minor issue I have with .psd is that while it's currently very popular, it's a proprietary format and assumes whoever you might send it to has a program that can read it. After much googling and a mild headache from too many numbers/on-line reading I think .tif sounds like it's still the best and most universal for printing/final version archive concerns, particuarly with photos. .psd is good for the working copy if you have layers and if you're concerned with space it's slightly smaller than a .tif for the print-master.

To my eyes it makes things like ground/water reflections look more vivid/dynamic with less blurry depth vision. I really hate that blurry look like in karka's pic. Not all games benefit a whole lot from it, tho.

Not being an expert in this area, I'm wondering if there's any major quality difference between .bmp and .tga. The file size is almost the same, so they both contain approx. the same amount of information...does that mean they're about equal in quality? And...on my screen, I don't see a lot of visual difference between .psd and .png files, despite the .psd's major file-size difference, even when blown up 500% - seems like .psd is mostly if you want to save files seperate layers. Any expert input on what is the best to use for your "original" file? I've tried googling it a bit but haven't yet found a satisfactory answer (for my non-techie brain...), if indeed there is one. There's a lot of artists here so I thought I'd ask opinions...

I also notice, but also don't care (much), and I also think too much AA makes things a bit blurry, as CrashGirl said. I think the AA difference is not quite as dramatic (and even more blurry-edge looking) if you are not on a high resolution (ie, over 1024)....so if you're still playing on 800 or 1024, especially if your monitor is small, it's not that big a thing. These days I like 1280 or 1600 resolution w/a low AA and antisoptric setting. 6AA seems like overkill to me.

To me it's not about civil rights for animals...it's about the level of racial maturity that such useless and pointless 'sport' says about the human race. That and I like creature diversity.

Only one briefcase? You're thinking small, man.

I think Disciple was first a Disciple of the Jedi, then became one for the Rebublic, then back to the Jedi...or at least, the Exile. So really, he was a Disciple to the Exile. At least in my world. But...I think Exile is the worst one just because I had to "see" it so often. It would have been nice if at least the other party members used your name once in a while. To some degree, it felt like...what was the point of having a PC name at all.

I'd hit it.....not. <_<

If I would lose my job (fired + probably couldn't get work in that field again) and it wasn't something that would kill anyone or start a war, probably not. Unless I could do the annoymous tip bit. Sorry, I'm no hero, and I freely admit it. Just depends how huge the moral infraction was, for me. Some morals & ethics can be highly subjective, and occasionally even broken for a long-term goal.

I love T3...he's so cute.

Hahaha!!!! I like that attitude. So (usually) true, too.

As much as I disliked Hanharr, he did have backstory. Did you talk to him? And yea, this one's been done before...but I'm not sure I'd expect new members to search polls. Disliked: Hanharr (irritating macho crap+voice)/Mandalore (was just boring, plus more macho crap...) Worst character/story: Mira (orphan/slave turned bounty hunter...yawn) - tho she did have some funny lines.

I don't personally find it offensive...but I didn't live thru WWII either. He is kinda cute, lol - tho at 64x64 it really is hard to tell at a casual glance, without you mentioning who it's supposed to be.

No, I don't hunt. I just kill flies. Hunting because you need/want food is one thing, hunting because you want a trophy on your wall or just want target practice is another. Hunters who shoot something and actually use/freeze the meat (most/all of it, not just a tiny bit of it) don't bother me...not everyone likes processed grocery-store goods - but the rest...meh. This includes fisherman, btw. At least fishermen can catch n release most of the time for their 'sport'. Bullets make that option rather hard. And yes, sometimes animal populations get out of control re: human settlements, and I suppose I understand that too...overpopulated deer starving is part of nature's way, and if people want to hurry the process a little for meat and prudence, so be it. Hunting animals that are nearing extinction tho...or hunting to extinction because humans don't want to share land with "dangerous predators/livestock thieves" - I'm very very against that.

No...you just have to not have accepeted either offer yet.

For the Visas fans out there, since I never really did any of her before: Visas on the destruction of her homeworld (1.2MB) - "To see everything around you extinguished, it was as if I was blinded, as if the Force had been bled from the world..." What a sad, breathy voice... And yea, I'm obsessed again. Kotor2 had it's faults, but voice-acting in general wasn't one of them.

They show up the first time in those offices, near where that lady-leader is who wants to give you work if you're going darkside. When you walk into her 'room' they're there talking, and a brief cutscene happens, they run away/escape. If they aren't there...hmm...I know there were some things that you couldn't do once you'd actually chosen which 'side' to help by accepting their work...don't know if that quest was one of them or not tho, sorry. Edit - I checked - if you've started working for the Ithorians the quest supposedly becomes unsolvable - maybe they don't show up in the offices at all then. The 2nd half of that quest can be bugged too, but it can be completed anyway via certain dialogue options when you report their escape (on the PC anyway, I don't have xbox).

Hmm...considering I saw all three in the theater, then rented each one when they first came out on DVD, then rented the extended versions as they came out one by one, and then bought the extended 3-set when it first came out a while back, plus toyed with capturing stills and avi's, I'd guess....um....too many. But still not as many hours as I spent watching Terminator1 back in the late 80's.