"Tim Cook" <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message 
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> Invisible wrote:
>> Has anybody here played either Far Cry or Crysis?
>>
>> Are they any good? Would you recommend them? Do you need a small Cray to 
>> play them?
>
> I tried the demo for Crysis on my few-months-old quad core 2, 3 GB RAM, 
> GeForce 7350 LE...average FPS: around 1.  Maximum FPS: 4.  Can we say "if 
> you want to play Crysis, get a decent graphics card"?

     So my GC is better than yours when you're on a much better system than 
I have?

       I don't get it. :(

       ~Steve~





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> "Tim Cook" <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message 
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>> Invisible wrote:
>>> Has anybody here played either Far Cry or Crysis?
>>>
>>> Are they any good? Would you recommend them? Do you need a small Cray to 
>>> play them?
>> I tried the demo for Crysis on my few-months-old quad core 2, 3 GB RAM, 
>> GeForce 7350 LE...average FPS: around 1.  Maximum FPS: 4.  Can we say "if 
>> you want to play Crysis, get a decent graphics card"?
> 
>      So my GC is better than yours when you're on a much better system than 
> I have?

Who has Vista and who has XP? :)

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Who has Vista and who has XP? :)

Well, I have Vista, but the graphics cards on prebuilt systems (HP 
Pavilion) are usually low-end even if everything else is 
top-of-the-line.  'Course, this comp. also came with a video capture 
card, and that works fine...actually there aren't many things that 
really need good graphics cards.  I don't use Aero, so it's even less of 
an issue.

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On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:08:31 -0500, Tim Cook wrote:

> Well, I have Vista, but the graphics cards on prebuilt systems (HP
> Pavilion) are usually low-end even if everything else is
> top-of-the-line.

Hmmm, the Pavilion I have has a 6150LE in it; I don't know if that's high-
end or not; the system came with Vista Home on it (ugh), but I didn't try 
any of the Aero effects out.  With OpenSUSE 10.3, though, I get excellent 
performance out of the card for XGL effects as well as regular OpenGL 
programs.

Jim

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Jim Henderson wrote:

> Hmmm, the Pavilion I have has a 6150LE in it; I don't know if that's high-
> end or not.

6xxx -> GeForce 6 series. (Current = 8 series.)

x150 -> low number -> low-end. (Compared to other 6 series models. Can't 
easily compare between different series.)

LE -> Light Edition -> lower-end.

(OTOH, endings like GT or GTX mean "suped up".)

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> Well, I have Vista, but the graphics cards on prebuilt systems (HP 
> Pavilion) are usually low-end even if everything else is 
> top-of-the-line.

Interesting. The new Dell laptops we have at work come with... an nVidia 
Quadro graphics card. (Yes, those are the ones that cost £2k each.) Hmm...

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Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I *still* haven't completed HL2:EP2 yet because it's too hard

  It's not that hard. Destroy the hunters, then the strider, save.
Go to the next strider and repeat. If you die, continue from the savepoint.
Repeat until you have killed them all. (You should keep a "backup" save
of the the beginning of the situation just in case you save in the wrong
place and can't continue from there.)

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>> I *still* haven't completed HL2:EP2 yet because it's too hard
> 
>   It's not that hard. Destroy the hunters, then the strider, save.
> Go to the next strider and repeat.

It's the "destroy the hunters" part that I can't pull off. They're 
almost indestructible. I mean, I managed to kill one of them, but now I 
have almost no ammo left at all. I used all of it to kill just one hunter!

> If you die, continue from the savepoint.
> Repeat until you have killed them all. (You should keep a "backup" save
> of the the beginning of the situation just in case you save in the wrong
> place and can't continue from there.)

That's all good advice... If only I always followed it! :-S

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Orchid XP v7 wrote:
>>> I *still* haven't completed HL2:EP2 yet because it's too hard
>>
>>   It's not that hard. Destroy the hunters, then the strider, save.
>> Go to the next strider and repeat.
> 
> It's the "destroy the hunters" part that I can't pull off. They're
> almost indestructible. I mean, I managed to kill one of them, but now I
> have almost no ammo left at all. I used all of it to kill just one hunter!
> 

After beating it, I learned that hunters have a vulnerability to
automobile tires moving at around 45mph / 72kph.

First time through, I spent all the shotgun ammo on the first few
hunters, then switched between the crossbow and any grenade/rocket on
hand. That took more saves and restarts then I care to admit.

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Sabrina Kilian wrote:

>> It's the "destroy the hunters" part that I can't pull off. They're
>> almost indestructible. I mean, I managed to kill one of them, but now I
>> have almost no ammo left at all. I used all of it to kill just one hunter!
>>
> 
> After beating it, I learned that hunters have a vulnerability to
> automobile tires moving at around 45mph / 72kph.

Yeah - good luck hitting them though. It's almost impossible to drive 
that vehicle! I mean, it's difficult to hit the *road*, never mind a 
bunch of nimble-footed metal cylopses...

> First time through, I spent all the shotgun ammo on the first few
> hunters, then switched between the crossbow and any grenade/rocket on
> hand. That took more saves and restarts then I care to admit.

I guess that's what it comes down to. The only way I'm going to complete 
this thing is by spending several very boring days playing and replaying 
the same 4 minutes of gameplay until I get lucky. *sigh*

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