What Games Are You Playing?

[Everlong]

Started playing Amnesia: Dark Descent.

If I'm not back soon, you'll find me curled up in a ball under my desk.

 

[Squid]

Started playing Amnesia: Dark Descent.

If I'm not back soon, you'll find me curled up in a ball under my desk.

:roflmao:

I bought this game and played for a night. The next day I sold it to a friend for a discounted price, took that money and went directly to the store to buy some new undies.

 

[sygnus21]

Started playing Amnesia: Dark Descent.

If I'm not back soon, you'll find me curled up in a ball under my desk.

Wishmaster made mention of this game. I'm curious now. How's the game performance? Any graphics/performance issues?

 

[Everlong]

Started playing Amnesia: Dark Descent.

If I'm not back soon, you'll find me curled up in a ball under my desk.

:roflmao:

I bought this game and played for a night. The next day I sold it to a friend for a discounted price, took that money and went directly to the store to buy some new undies.

I bought it on Steam, so I'm stuck with it forever and a day now. Got a supply of clean undies ready, lol.

Started playing Amnesia: Dark Descent.

If I'm not back soon, you'll find me curled up in a ball under my desk.

Wishmaster made mention of this game. I'm curious now. How's the game performance? Any graphics/performance issues?

For what it is, the graphics are some of the best atmospheric graphics I've seen. They really complement the game's setting. Game runs fine on my system on almost full graphics. Had to keep ambient occlusion turned down as that kills framerates.

I've played Penumbra previously from the same developers, so I'm familiar to the physics system used and it's a great system how you can open doors yourself at your own speed, and open draws/cupboards and jump in closets to hide, lol.

 

[sygnus21]

I need to do some research on this game. The reason I asked is because I had Cryostasis which ran like crap on my system. Found out it was optimized for Nvidia (basically an Nvidia showcase) and thus ran horridly on ATI cards - Rage3D Discussion Area - View Single Post - Cryostasis - Horror

Don’t want to make the same mistake with another obscure game.

 

[Everlong]

Nah Amnesia is nothing like that. Pretty sure neither company have had the game optimised for their cards.

 

[sygnus21]

Actually I believe Wishmaster played it with her ATI 4890. I'll see what she has to say.

Thanks.

 

[Everlong]

I wanna play it, but I'm stuck revising for an exam tomorrow

I also wanna play Pirates of the Burning Sea, but SOE services are still down, so that's a no go.

 

[Wishmaster]

Overall, Amnesia on my 4890 did quite well.
It looked good, and played smoothly. It just couldn't MAX the setting out.


I had to tweak the settings a bit to get it to play smoothly.

If I recall correctly, its been awhile since I played it...
The 4890 had minor performance issues with SSAO. This had to be turned down as well as SSAO samples.
Paralax seems to have caused some performance issues as well. If I remember correctly, I disabled this.

AA was fine as well, but had to be set to x2.


Even with these settings turned down to smooth out gameplay, it still looked nice on the 4890.

Bear in mind, this was at 1920x1080P as well. So a bit lower resolutions may be able to turn some of this up a bit.
More powerful cards than this one should have no issues.



Beyond that, some features I didnt like like motion Blur type stuff I disbaled, but it wasnt a performance issue.


My 570 has no issues running it at Max though and I think the 6950/70 can do just as well.


Basically, the game does run very well.
Just certain cards may not be able to make use of all the the features the game offers, at MAX settings and high resolutions.
It will still look good though.




Play Amnesia in the dark, with Headphones or 5.1 sound. And turn it up. Awesome Game if you like being scared!! And I dont mean cheap scares that just shock you.

 

[Everlong]

I've been playing it in the dark with my 5.1 surround. Was at a part when I heard a loud bang with footsteps, so hid in a closet for about 10 minutes haha.

There's been a couple of times, like in the refinery where it's pitch black everywhere and I'm on the verge of running out of oil and was bricking it, but luckily found a tank of oil to refill it fully.

But about the graphics, I can max it out on my 470, but setting a high ambient occlusion too high will kill the fps.

I found a bug though before going in to the refinery. I got my canister of acid and went to melt that stuff blocking the refinery door, then returned to the lab to get more acid, but it wouldn't let me get more acid, so I went back to the refinery door and the red stuff had grown back and I couldn't get more acid. Had to go back a couple of saves to fix it.

 

[sygnus21]

Thanks for the info Wishmaster. Based on your info I'm sure my 6950 will do well on this game should I decide to get it. Also since I have a 22 inch monitor my default resolution is 1680x1050.

Thanks.

 

[Wishmaster]

Thanks for the info Wishmaster. Based on your info I'm sure my 6950 will do well on this game should I decide to get it. Also since I have a 22 inch monitor my default resolution is 1680x1050.

Thanks.

Oh yea.
I think the only reason the 4890 had any issues was simply it didnt do well with some of the extra features.
Being as the 6950s are much more powerful, and support such things alot better, I do not think there would be a problem.


@Everlong .. Overall, what do you think of it so far?

I liked it, but I must admit there were several areas where it just completely creeped me out.

 

[Terronium 12]

What I'm playing at the moment:

Crysis
NFS Hot Pursuit
F1 2010
Lost Planet

 

[sygnus21]

What I'm playing at the moment:

Crysis

Did you get your issue fixed?

 

[Everlong]

@Everlong .. Overall, what do you think of it so far?

I liked it, but I must admit there were several areas where it just completely creeped me out.

So far I'm liking it. I like the aspect of how you have to just use your wits and try to keep your cool to get through it, as you have no means of attacking anything. I'm not that far though it yet, so not seen what the game truly offers in terms of making me jump out of my skin, but I've told myself to "man the f*ck up and continue" a couple of times, lol.

The videos I've seen of it really don't do the game justice. It's easy to watch them and think "Yea, I could play this without being scared", but once it gets going it's clearly not the case.

 

[Wishmaster]

The videos I've seen of it really don't do the game justice. It's easy to watch them and think "Yea, I could play this without being scared", but once it gets going it's clearly not the case.

HaHa. Very True

It truly does deserve the "Survival-Horror" classification IMO.

 

[Terronium 12]

What I'm playing at the moment:

Crysis

Did you get your issue fixed?

Not even close.

I can still play it though.

 

[vierasniper]

Im currently playing Anomaly Warzone Earth, its starts off a wee bit slow then it picks up nicely. Its like castle defense but on the offensive.

 

[Everlong]

I'm up to this part in Amnesia:

Warning, heavy profanity.



I understand now why the guy playing it has lit every torch possible. The place is pitch black when you first enter. I stood in front of a dark corridor for about 10 minutes before getting enough courage to go down it, lol.

I'm loving every minute of it, but being scared s***less in the process. The "water part" they talk of in that video is the most nervewracking thing I've done in any video game.

 

[sygnus21]

You know I get that a game can be scary - for me it'll always be FEAR, then maybe Dead Space.

Anyway like I said - I get that a game can be scary, but to dramatize it in a YouTube video is a bit overdramatic. Sorry.

Anyway aside from the over the top ad-lib dramatics, it was a nice clip.

Thanks.