Just played for 2 1/2 hours, and no crashes.  The first 45 minutes, I 
was playing with it in a window, and noting the GPU temperature & fan 
speed every 30 seconds or so.

Since nothing happened, I went back to fullscreen, and I haven't had any 
problems since.  Weird, but at least it's playable.

And damn fine fun :)

BTW, I haven't had any problems at all with the cloak.  Lie prone, and 
you can sneak a good 50 yards on a single charge.  What's really fun is 
to lie prone & cloak, snipe some KPA, then sneak off ten paces and wait 
for his buddies to see what the problem is.  They don't have any idea 
where you are, and as long as you don't move the cloak lasts ages, 
meaning you can wait until they start to wander off and then pick off 
some poor lonely sap, starting it all over again :)

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...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> I swam onto the beach at the beginning of the game, and got about 40 
> FPS. If you swing the camera around enough for motion blur to kick in, 
> it drops slightly, but not much. Night vision appears to make no 
> difference.
> 
> The cutscene where they find Astec dropped to about 18 FPS. Some really 
> large scenic vistas take it as low as 15 FPS (though curiosly an entire 
> frame full of dense jungle is no problem, only long-range views). 
> Typically the framerate stays above 25 FPS, which is all the monitor can 
> physically display anyway, so I'm happy.
> 
> This is at 1680x1050 (the native resolution of my LCD) with everything 
> set to "high" plus 8x antialias.

Apparently that was with one core dedicated to POV-Ray. I forgot I had 
it running. Stopping it doesn't appear to drastically affect game 
performance either positively or negatively, however.

During the epic tank battle, FPS drops down to about 12, but goes no lower.

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498fad3b@news.povray.org...
> Well, for the more modern laws, I can only speculate that there is
> perhaps a resurgence of those ideas and that's what's prompted an
> apparent rise in political awareness of it in the country.

Yes, the 80s in Western Europe saw a rise of neonazism, Holocaust denial and 
anti-immigration parties, and not just in Germany. There was a return to 
pre-WW2 hate rhetorics that was (and still is) bothering.
The other factor was that Holocaust scholarship only began in the 60s and 
became mature in the 80s. Only then we had a comprehensive, detailed 
understanding of the mechanics of genocide and the work is still ongoing due 
to the mountains of archives now available in Russia and other ex-communist 
countries. Particularly, studies of the perpetrators' motives (i.e. what 
turned decent, ordinary people motives into killers) date from the 90s. 
Unfortunately, we saw these mechanics in action in the Balkans, in Rwanda 
and other parts of the world. All of this informed the more restrictive 
policies relative to hate speech and hate activities taken in Europe in the 
past 20 years.

> Yes, but from what I understand in Germany, outlawing some of the symbols
> has slowed any serious movement down.

I guess the main point is to create social taboos strong enough so that they 
don't break easily whenever there's a crisis. In that sense they have been 
relatively successful as a containment policy: small groups still use hate 
rhetorics and engage in hate activities but their ideas don't spill over to 
the general population. These taboos didn't exist in pre-WW2 Europe, where 
part of the population was quite receptive to such ideas and turned against 
their neighbours.

G.

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Florian Pesth <fpe### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> There is no law in germany outlawing racism.

  Nor in Finland. De jure.

  In practice, however...

> >   I certainly detest some people's opinions (such as racism and nazism),
> > but they just have the right to have an opinion. If they start harming
> > other people, that's a completely different issue, but as long as they
> > are only opinions and don't bother others, that's their right.

> Do you think there is / was no harm done with propaganda?

  Unfortunately when you start limiting freedom of speech when someone
preaches "wrong" opinions, we are stepping outside of constitutional
democracy.

> >   However, in modern Europe it's more and more common to forbid certain
> > opinions (even if it's not still de jure, very certainly de facto).

> Your argument would hold more water if you could point to recent law 
> changes which restrict your speech in new ways.

  Do you understand the concepts of "de jure" and "de facto"?

  Just because there's not (yet) written law doesn't mean that punishments
are not being imposed (usually by using some other convenient laws as an
excuse).

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                                                          - Warp

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St. wrote:

>     Have you grabbed an NK yet? Hit 'f' when it says 'grab', switch to 
> strength mode and punch him (or throw him)! Punch the cabins, punch 
> everything. Jump up rocks, jump up ladders, jump over your enemies and 
> whilst in mid-air, switch to cloak, turn around and kill 'em all! :)

Just for fun, I replayed the game, but pretending I'm an unkillable 
force of nature.

Oddly, this somehow made the early parts of the game somewhat easier. 
(Or maybe that's just already knowing exactly what's going to happen 
next before it happens?)

I did try to grab one of the NKs. Actually, I ran up to one, and it 
seems doing that kinda flattened him and killed him right there! o_O

The second guy, I managed to grab him. Oddly, he made no apparent 
attempt to escape while I spent 10 minutes reconfiguring the suit for 
strength mode, and then threw him half way across the map.

Shooting them both would probably have been easier though.

Actually, wait... given the gun's lack of accuracy, maybe not. :-P

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On 2/9/2009 1:22 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> St. wrote:
>
>> Have you grabbed an NK yet? Hit 'f' when it says 'grab', switch to
>> strength mode and punch him (or throw him)! Punch the cabins, punch
>> everything. Jump up rocks, jump up ladders, jump over your enemies and
>> whilst in mid-air, switch to cloak, turn around and kill 'em all! :)
>
> Just for fun, I replayed the game, but pretending I'm an unkillable
> force of nature.
>
> Oddly, this somehow made the early parts of the game somewhat easier.

Try grabbing one, throwing him in the air, and shooting him before he 
hits the ground (otherwise they get up again).  >:)


-- 
...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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>> Just for fun, I replayed the game, but pretending I'm an unkillable
>> force of nature.
>>
>> Oddly, this somehow made the early parts of the game somewhat easier.
> 
> Try grabbing one, throwing him in the air, and shooting him before he 
> hits the ground (otherwise they get up again).  >:)

What are you, a killer whale? :-P

I doubt there'd be sufficient time to change weapons before he hits the 
ground. It takes a long time to change weapons - and from anything but 
point-blank range, aim is hopeless.

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Gilles Tran <gil### [at] agroparistechfr> wrote:
> I guess the main point is to create social taboos strong enough so that they 
> don't break easily whenever there's a crisis. In that sense they have been 
> relatively successful as a containment policy: small groups still use hate 
> rhetorics and engage in hate activities but their ideas don't spill over to 
> the general population. These taboos didn't exist in pre-WW2 Europe, where 
> part of the population was quite receptive to such ideas and turned against 
> their neighbours.

  Hate ideology, for example antisemitism, not only by radical activists
but by elected politicians themselves, is nowadays as strong as ever. Only
the excuses and namecalling have changed, but not the basic fact. Reading
some of the antisemitistic hate speeches of some western elected politicians
gives an eerie feeling of similar speeches in Germany in the 30's.

  I'm exaggerating? Maybe. But not by much. Just read, for example, this:

http://www.thelocal.se/17466/20090209/

  (And I recommend reading the entire article, not just the first few
paragraphs.)

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
news:498e088e@news.povray.org...
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>
>> Apparently that's the final battle though. Well, until Crysis II or 
>> something, I guess... o_O

      Crysis 2 is being worked on, so for the time-being, you have to try 
Warhead. :)


>
> 16.7 hours of playing time, according to Steam. It seems like a month...

     I think I did it in about 12 hours, and that was stealthily.

       Now you can play my map if you like: 
http://www.crymod.com/filebase.php?fileid=2305&lim=0&letter=T

       Let me know what you think.

       ~Steve~

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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> OTOH, I'm now trying to fly an aircraft.

   Ah, the VTOL. I found that hard too at the beginning, but just move your 
mouse around freely in conjunction with your move keys. Sorted. :)

    ~Steve~

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