Bill Z Bubba

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  1. Bill Z Bubba

    New Graver Art!

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    He doesn't have a subscription again, so I'm posting his latest works!

    Wings


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    I do believe this is my favorite of all his pieces to date.

    Stunning.

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    Second favorite for me. But I have a bias towards a certain Dance piece.
  2. I have the 7.10s loaded, nothing is jumping out at me as broken, but I don't have the time now to do any testing.

    I do plan to revisit everything later and I'm especially interested in the changes to adaptive antialiasing.
  3. Wow...

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    # BioShock DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves 70% or more on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products
    # Call of Juarez DX10: CrossFire™ performance improves up to 42% and single card performance improves up to 34% on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products
    # Company of Heroes DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves up to 80% on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products and single card performance improves as much as 31% on ATI Radeon™ HD2900 and ATI Radeon™ HD2600 products


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    Some interesting DX10 numbers there. Any Vista/ATI/CoH folks want to see if DX9 performance is up?
  4. Ahhh, frell. They are out. Thank you for the heads up.
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    //I'm gonna be dammed, aren't I? Shucks.

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    Years ago. I saw your name on The List.
  6. 1: Interesting. I had given up on old Omega, but he does have mods for the 7.9s now. I may have to look at those. At least for my laptop.

    2: I've seen several threads with missing contacts, or partial contacts. I don't think this is an ATI issue. I think it's a game issue introduced in the last patch.
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    Video Adapter ATI Radeon Xpress Series

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    You might want to begin using the -usetexenvcombine flag at the end of your coh/v shortcut's target line.

    This will force the game to run at a simpler rendering path. If it makes the game too ugly, then you're going to have to manually crank down the settings so that your integrated video card can at least make the attempt to work up to snuff.

    I would advise: No FSAA, No AF, No Water FX, No Bloom, No DoF. Particle Physics Low, Particle Count around 25% or less, World Detail to 50%, Character Detail no higher than 100% and lastly, if none of this helps, drop the Shader down.
  8. What I don't know about the firegl cards is equal to what I know about the radeons.

    My best guess? Drop Shader down and see if it helps.

    Have you checked to see if the mobility modder will also work for firegl cards?
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    So ... you advocate an atmosphere of suspicion and paranoia towards your fellow posters?

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    That's not a community.

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    I posted my question specifically because of the fact that you state you live in the US but you don't recognize the fact that you live in a community infested with suspicion and paranoia.

    This is nothing new.

    I, for one, hope more bannings occur. Nothing wrong at all with a bit of purging.
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    So ... you advocate an atmosphere of suspicion and paranoia towards your fellow posters? You advocate a climate in which we must suspiciously eye every single word or letter posted by someone to whom we wish to respond, on the merest off chance that they might have slipped up?

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    That's not a community.

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    You don't live in America, do you?
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    well, you just probably lost a lot of people for this stupid policy. so glad you decided to make all the babies feel all warm and fuzzy by not allowing a simple no or yes reply.

    good job

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    Cry harder next time.

    If you don't wish to say more than a single syllable, then don't post at all. Why is that tough?

    For example:

    Idiotic suggestion is made:

    Ignore it.

    or

    Post: No. Your idea is stupid. Next time, please don't waste our time posting gibberish that has been spewed here before. Five minutes of forum searching would have shown how wrong you are. Good day.


    That's better than a simple no, yes?
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    Reset -renderthread 1 to be the default setting for the game.

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    This was due to the alt-tab issue, right? Is that even still around now?

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    Yup, but ATI users can have alt-tab issues with or without it on. And FatherXmas has task switching issues, and he uses an Nvidia card.

    So if everyone has the possibility of the issue occurring anyway, we might as well all have better performance in the first place.
  13. It's not that they don't support ATI users.

    For the most part.

    The problem is that ATI has long been known to have craptacular drivers for OpenGL graphics, which is what CoH/V uses. Nvidia cards are better for OpenGL games, ATI cards are better for Direct3D games. (At least, this was the case until the Nvidia 8800GTX came out. It stomps everything at everything.)

    That said, yes, there are some LONG standing issues that the Cryptic devs COULD fix, but I was told that doing so would cause a performance hit for everyone, and that's something which we could debate as necessary until the cows come home.

    As it stands, ATI users can play this game and get the same performance levels as comparable Nvidia users IF they understand what graphics options they must avoid.

    Are there things that the devs could do to relieve SOME of the pain? Yes, and here are a few:

    Reset -renderthread 1 to be the default setting for the game.

    Supposedly the forum population is minuscule compared to the game's population as a whole. These means that the VAST majority of players with hyperthreaded and dual core processors are not getting the full use of their systems. Only those that have manually added that shortcut flag do.

    Remove Bloom, Depth of Field and Water FX from the graphics slider.

    These effects don't play well with ATI cards and should only be available to those that use the advanced graphics options instead of the slider.

    While there, add popups and edit the ones present to each of the offending settings so that they are factual.

    And lastly,
    Get NCSoft to lean on ATI to get the farking fsaa/pixel buffer issue resolved
  14. Well that sucks. But thank you for coming back in and telling us.

    I wouldn't advise getting a new video card. Nvidia's drivers for Win2K were stopped quite a while back as well.

    So here's my only real advice:
    Windows XP OEM 139 bucks

    As loathe as I am to state it, once the video card manufacturers stop writing drivers for your OS, there's not a whole lot we can do.

    The other option is, of course, buy a new rig, but I don't know how much you feel like dropping to play CoH/V.
  15. Hi,

    Have you attempted to install the 7.9 Catalyst for XP under Win2K? Last I heard they worked. Just make sure that you have .net framework 2.0 and it's updates installed before you try, and make sure that your old drivers are purged completely.

    If you do get an immediate failure please come back and state so in this thread so that I'll know to stop telling people to try.

    As for the tearing and freaking out in some Villain side missions, there's a known issue with Grandville and the 9(2)00 series, but that's not what you have. That said, in game see if disabling Geometry Buffers makes any difference at all. Same as above, please report back here.
  16. I dug it a lot, Xury. Sometimes red-eye is a GOOD thing.
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    The earth shook, and the heavens cried out. A chill swept across the room, and the lights exploded. Suddenly a circle, etched in infernal runes appeared next to me. In the center of the circle, a demonic began to rise from it, carrying with it the souls of the damned, screaming their terrible song.

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    I said excuse me. Dinner plus Guinness does funny things sometimes.


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    Violent Flatulence

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    Stubbs the Zombie and The Spleen say HELL YEA!
  19. I'd probably be on their side of the argument. Anyone that can slam a Guinness faster than I earns my respect and adoration.
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    Not only is Ghost Widow hot, she's Smokin' Hot. Isn't that right Disco?



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    hahaha indeed she IS [u]smokin[u] hot! oh well i guess if you're a ghost you don't have to worry about black lung...it's only the rest of us more physical beings that have to worry about that kind of thing.

    i would like to point out that even tho we ALL got shown up by Ex and then out-stamina'd by Cuppa, i was second right after Ex! that does count for something, right? RIGHT?!??!?

    ::sits back and awaits validation::

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    So, what you're saying is that.... you got beat by a girl.

    <GRIN>
  21. Sooo, how long we gotta wait for the Scoop article? huh, huh??!!?
  22. But it was a cool rock. And you got to sit with MEEEEE and drink Guinness brought by a beer gnome.
  23. I shoulda gone for the after party. (At least I stayed 3 hours this time instead of 20 minutes like last time. Baby steps on Bill Z's re-socialization.)