Off-Topic Thread

Haven and Valley Benchmarks for the GTX570 on highest settings.
System|
Platform|Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model|Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (3310MHz) x4
GPU model|NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 9.18.13.2049 (1280MB) x1


Haven|
FPS|31.2
Score|786
Min FPS|7.3
Max FPS|74.2


Valley|
FPS|30.1
Score|1260
Min FPS|17.8
Max FPS|54.1


Gonna swap out the cards meow!

Gumbi wrote: »

Highest settings or Extreme Preset (Extreme Preset is 1600 x 900 max settings - apparently to prevent 1GB cards from running out of memory)?

Extreme & Extreme HD

Hey yes they are usually comprised of indie games though. Still great value as a lot of those indie games are better than big budget ones but this weeks humble bundle is especially good. I'm all over it

Pay at least $10 as well you scabby gits. I don't understand how the average is so low for a great games bundle for a great cause.

gavmcg92 wrote: »

Just went for that Humble deal. Are these deals a regular thing? First I've heard of this humble deal. Trying to redeem dead space 3 on origin but no luck. Have the others redeemed on steam.

I'd say their servers are getting ridiculous traffic this evening. 400,000 purchases and only just over 5 hours in. Standing at almost $2 million at the moment, I think they could hit 10 million with this one. The THQ one got $5 million.

BloodBath wrote: »

Hey yes they are usually comprised of indie games though. Still great value as a lot of those indie games are better than big budget ones but this weeks humble bundle is especially good. I'm all over it

Pay at least $10 as well you scabby gits. I don't understand how the average is so low for a great games bundle for a great cause.

Indeed, some of the indie games over the time have been fantastic. A lot of games that I would never have bothered with if they hadn't shown up there. A few duds too, but mostly they try to keep the quality high.
I gave everything to the humble bundle tip this time as I wasn't mad on the charities, so it balances out as I usually give them just a small tip to hopefully cover the costs. The average is probably so low since you'll have people buying 100 $1 sets.

It's surprising that they're giving all the games completely away and not taking a cut at all for themselves. Someone was saying in one of the other threads that it's likely that they can write a bulk of it off against taxes so it's fantastic for their publicity. Humble bundle wouldn't be a registered charity so they couldn't claim back on that. Great publicity for humble bundle as well.

Yeah, a few others in the weekly started introducing minimum charges - at least in the form that you wouldn't get the most/best parts of the bundle without a decent contribution. Not that I can complain about it as some of them have been very generous. I always give a good bit towards the DRM free ones as I feel that they're really being... humble.

The only problem with having so many bundles and publishers/developers hoping that I'll be buying the sequels is that I have so many games at this stage that I have more than enough to keep me occupied without getting more in some series.

Just went to their site to see what you get for less than $1 and it's just the sound tracks. I noticed that if you enter less than the average, they have a captcha. They must have a lot of problems with people harvesting keys for a minimum and morons trying to burden them with costs by putting in 1c orders.

Try a different cable and make sure the right chipset drivers are installed.

Hmmm, There is heaven 4.0? and some new Valley benchmark? Well, time to download and give my old girl a wee bit of spin!

moolers2000 wrote: »

Valley is handy...quicker than Heaven but Heaven seems to sniff out a dodgy overclock sooner than Valley. i.e Valley passed at higher clocks than Heaven would using a 7950 I was messing about with lately.

Did one run on stock heaven 4.0. Updating drivers now and will go for second run.

Is AfterBurner the 'goto' overclocking tool?

I had it for monitoring usage and temps on my old card but the 670 came with some different one I haven't installed yet.

Yes,I'd say its the most popular.

Okay, got got z back again. So clocks do change properly now. I think overclocking software had a brainfart. It said it oced, but it didn't. I can see now clock speeds going up properly.

Heaven benchmark results finally improved by almost 100 score on maxed out heaven on 1080p

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

....Go on..

I like to build suspense.


Case is the Corsair Carbide Air 540

Ram is Corsair 8GB Vengeance Pro Black

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The computer is far from anything special. Slowly building it up, provided my summer employment gets extended. Should be getting a new CPU/MB combo by Christmas then after a new GFX card.

glynf wrote: »

The Carbide Air 540 looks proper. Think dwighet bought one lately?

Lovely looking. Chunky as hell though :eek:

NTMK wrote: »

EA:p

what else dont you like about it

Ive had it since launch and ive really enjoyed it

It took me at least an hour just to get my keybinds right! I didn't know WTF was going on with the browser thing. Anyway, I launch the single player to get my keybinds the way I want them I have to sit through un-skippable and unescapable cutscenes/starting credits (launched the task manager to shut it down the first time, second time turned off the monitor and went to do some tidying for a few minutes). The logos were too long as well. Spec ops which I got around to recently had 7 though, so it's not the worst.

I joined a server but it took me a while to figure out why I couldn't move more than a tiny bit. The chat keys were bound to the keys that I wanted for movement. I actually thought that it was a bugged server or that I hadn't done something in particular to start the game but the admins nuked me for not moving. :P
OK, this isn't the devs' fault, but what they could have done is thrown in a create server button or some bots just so as I could test the game out. Funnily enough, since there's no chat in single player, everything seemed fine. I don't want to be joining and hanging around like an arsehole getting my mouse sensitivity right on a public server! BF1942 had this functionality!
Just trying to find out now, can you even make a dedicated server? I can't seem to find any evidence that you can. If not, this is horrific! It would be handy just to have your own so that you can practice flying a bit and get used to the environments.

That browser thing has to be the tops for me in pure annoyance. I stopped playing UT3 because the menu was slow and buggy. I actually quite liked that game, but it pales in comparison to this.