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**Cid Highwind** · September 29th, 2009

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Originally Posted by SCHUMI_4EVER

Thanks

Just a little headsup, I've been messing with it and I just set everything to the max settings, which I think are a tad ridiculous. I ended up hardly getting into the game due to harddrive thrashing. My RAM usage shot through the 2GB roof and I was lucky enough being able to alttab back to windows after a few minutes. Be careful with the settings is my advise

And those framerates of Last R. are rather painful. I wonder if it's due to them using wrong settings. I tried the demo some time ago and I remember that having max view distance killed the FPS. It was smooth as butter as soon as I halved it or so.

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**SCHUMI_4EVER** · September 29th, 2009

I max the game @1680x1050 with 2xAA and VSync (both enabled through an nHancer profile) and the game runs pretty smooth at 60-40 FPS most of the time occasionally dropping a fair bit in large battles (down to like 23-17FPS) for short moments but as it's only whilst showing the same action for like the hundredth time I don't care...my average FPS is easily like 50 or so.

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Matis · September 29th, 2009

Maybe it is indeed a problem with ATI gpus(or rather, the game having problems with them). I don't have any slowdown with settings at max.

(1440x900, by the way. Maybe you are using a far higher resolution?)

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Exodus · September 30th, 2009

Or do like me and put all minimum settings.

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**Cid Highwind** · September 30th, 2009

I think I'll have to follow Exodus' advise. The performance was quite a disaster. Going back to 15 fps in battle and such. I did max out everything with the exception of the both LOD sliders, which were halfway. Maybe I should lower them even more, didn't have enough time for it because of my addiction to grid

The game does interest me, even though in the demo I now remember what I found confusing: I could hire a crapload of soldiers of which I had no clue what to look for in them.

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Exodus · September 30th, 2009

How is GRID? Is it like a Gran Turismo for PC, or less about customization?

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Originally Posted by Cid Highwind

I could hire a crapload of soldiers of which I had no clue what to look for in them.

Just refer to a guide real quick to know what to look for, in general. I say it basically comes down to what skills they can learn.

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**Cid Highwind** · September 30th, 2009

It's the game Need for Speed fans were waiting for for years. It's a really great and challenging track racer featuring real drivers, at least in the DTM class. It features real tracks and some nicely modeled city tracks in the US (Washing, San Francisco, among others) and races in Japanese harbours (Yokohama). I'm still looking for some sailors to run over.

The main game is where you start as a rookie and have to work yourself up by gaining reputation. You gain more reputation determined by the amount of electronic help you use and the difficulty level. Also locking your camera to first person gives you a marginal increase. Marginal indeed, as I don't see much of a point in turning off too many things as it can make things difficult quickly. Besides, who want to turn off traction control when playing on keyboard? Mind, a gamepad, what I use, is advised.

Racing is solid but a tad arcadish, that's how the game is simply set up. However, don't expect to blow through every race without using the brake. It's NOT NFS, and you will need to find the right approach to corners.

So well, in the world tour your races are split up between the three continents, Europe, US and Japan. Each feature their own popular races so it gives quite the nice variety. The more you win the more reputation and money you get. With those you can get better sponsors and better cars, leading to more reputation and more money. Reputation also unlocks new races. Sponsors have specific target requirements for each race (like finishing in the top three), if you make it you get extra money. At the end of each season there's a terribly unforgiving 24 minutes of Le Mans, my least favorite aspect of the game. Right now I'm at the point where I've got a co-driver in my team, so I'm also trying to build a nice racing team. I find it highly enjoying.

Graphics and details are great, but also well scalable I think. It's a rather optimized game. Still, it certainly isn't a Gran Turismo, in any way. It is however a great racer with some cool and well implemented physics that has a nice balance between realism and exciting racing. It's also darn challenging, as some cars are hard to master and a ***** to corner. There's a good demo out, I suggest you to download it. It gives a good impression of the racing in the game. The world tour stuff which is the main single player, well, you just read it

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Exodus · September 30th, 2009

I see. Well, it sounds like there's at least a point to the game, which is nice. Once I finish with Last Remnant I might give the demo a try. I'm usually not a driving game player, but maybe I'll find myself in the mood.

I read there's DLC for consoles that add new cars - are they available and free for PC?

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YugiFann · September 30th, 2009

GTASA was the last game i have played.

Radix865 · October 1st, 2009

Bought Bioshock two days ago... Its pretty awesome except the spawning enemies get on my nerves... Oh well, shock and smack!

Haven't gone very far yet but so far I'd 8/10, sluggish controls, no running and spawning enemies are the minus side....

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gamefreak94 · October 1st, 2009

Does HAWX have a flight sim element in it? I'm eager to try it out cuz the last flying game I played was F-16 Flight Simulator for Win95, it was pretty good.

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**SCHUMI_4EVER** · October 1st, 2009

Nope, it's waaaay arcadey.

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taumpytears · October 1st, 2009

just finished halo for pc (ive played it on xbox). the pc port is very nice imo. and my old fossil computer runs it amazingly well.

gamefreak94 · October 6th, 2009

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Originally Posted by SCHUMI_4EVER

Nope, it's waaaay arcadey.

Indeed

The freakin' plane's handling like a sports car, the pitching, diving or ascent is super-responsive. The game's too easy, its basically doing everything for me, don't even have to worry about stalling, going too fast, high G-forces or anything! I saw stuff like this on the net too, so I started the game on hard difficulty right off the bat, but I still didn't have any problems completing the first 3 missions.

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**SCHUMI_4EVER** · October 6th, 2009

It's a real shame that EA swallowed Jane's Combat Simulations, they made the best Combat Flight sims. USAF was awesome, unfortunately it's badly dated (also the only game I have seen where cheats form a part of the game from the start where you just have to select to use it or not (sure other games have a cheat menu but you still need to find the correct code first)).

I must say I still found HawX fun though and it's the best since USAF eventhough that's not saying much.

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cloudstrife3733 · October 6th, 2009

Shining force, old yes but I friggen love the game its a all time fav of mine,yeah its got very bad graphics but the storyline and gameplay is captivating I give it a 10 out of 10.I just wish they would come out with something new like a remake for the ps3 or something thatd be cool.

**Cid Highwind** · October 6th, 2009

HawX is a fun game, but it's severely hindered by forcing that 3rd person view upon players. I want to be able to stall my plane in first person if I want to. It's a nice slick flight shooter, but in my opinion it's not as good as Ace Combat. The plane feels too smooth.

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X20A_Strike · October 6th, 2009

When it comes to flight sims i can say there's a game i like when we talk about Ace Combat that's a different story :P (especially 3), anyway i found hawx to be a rip off of both ace combat (in normal flight mode) and macross vfx2 (with advance assist turned off), as for the difficulty it feels like easy on the elite setting... and to not be able to stall big fail (btw except for the training mission where the game forces you to turn of that "advance assist mode" i didn't use it once in the whole game

)

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**SCHUMI_4EVER** · October 6th, 2009

That view is one of the strangest things ever and it's super hard and retarded to play that way...the only way I completed those missions was looping like crazy and firing missiles at random.

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cloudstrife3733 · October 6th, 2009

I give hawx a 9/10 its a lil repetetive but I guess how much different could you really make it your stuck in a plane,but I thought visuals and gameplay overall were pretty fun specially playing with ppl online to complete missions and still be able to level up as if you were playing campaign mode so all in all I was happy I purchased it,pretty good game for only 40 dollars brand new.

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September 29th, 2009	#122 (permalink)
SCHUMI_4EVER Hackin 'n Slashin Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Corrupt Rapist run South Africa Posts: 13,285	I max the game @1680x1050 with 2xAA and VSync (both enabled through an nHancer profile) and the game runs pretty smooth at 60-40 FPS most of the time occasionally dropping a fair bit in large battles (down to like 23-17FPS) for short moments but as it's only whilst showing the same action for like the hundredth time I don't care...my average FPS is easily like 50 or so. __________________ Intel Core2Quad Q9550 (2.83Ghz stock) \| ASUS P5Q \| 2x2GB Transcend JetRam DDR2-800 \| ASUS ENGTX260\HDTP\896M \| Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit SP1 The Champ has retired but may his Legacy live on FOREVER !!!! No$GBA DS FAQ 2.0 Get it right fools! The glass is HALF-EMPTY, not half-full!!! !!! WARNING: Emulation requires a brain !!! WARNING: Emulation =/= Piracy !!!

September 29th, 2009	#123 (permalink)
Matis Finger of Doom Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Argentina Posts: 715	Maybe it is indeed a problem with ATI gpus(or rather, the game having problems with them). I don't have any slowdown with settings at max. (1440x900, by the way. Maybe you are using a far higher resolution?) __________________ AMD Athlon 64 x2 5600+ ~2.9 GHz XFX GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512 MBs 2 GB DDR2 ~800 MHz

September 30th, 2009	#124 (permalink)
Exodus ...and now they do. Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Null Posts: 17,679	Or do like me and put all minimum settings. __________________ No, I don't like anime, Street Fighter, Japanese music or download video game music. Yes, I know, I'm weird. "The meaning of life is to live it in such a way that you don't wish to end it."

September 30th, 2009	#125 (permalink)
Cid Highwind Human Metal Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Nairobi Posts: 14,027	I think I'll have to follow Exodus' advise. The performance was quite a disaster. Going back to 15 fps in battle and such. I did max out everything with the exception of the both LOD sliders, which were halfway. Maybe I should lower them even more, didn't have enough time for it because of my addiction to grid The game does interest me, even though in the demo I now remember what I found confusing: I could hire a crapload of soldiers of which I had no clue what to look for in them. __________________ PC Specs: CPU: Intel Q8200 @ 2.8GHz // GPU: Sapphire ATi HD4870 1GB // Mobo: Gigabyte EP35-DS3 RAM: 2GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 1066 // HDD: 1TB Samsung Spinpoint // SPU: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music PSU: Hiper Type-R 580W // Monitor: Iiyama B2403WS / 19201200 Join the NGEmu Folding @ Home community NOW!*

September 30th, 2009	#127 (permalink)
Cid Highwind Human Metal Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Nairobi Posts: 14,027	It's the game Need for Speed fans were waiting for for years. It's a really great and challenging track racer featuring real drivers, at least in the DTM class. It features real tracks and some nicely modeled city tracks in the US (Washing, San Francisco, among others) and races in Japanese harbours (Yokohama). I'm still looking for some sailors to run over. The main game is where you start as a rookie and have to work yourself up by gaining reputation. You gain more reputation determined by the amount of electronic help you use and the difficulty level. Also locking your camera to first person gives you a marginal increase. Marginal indeed, as I don't see much of a point in turning off too many things as it can make things difficult quickly. Besides, who want to turn off traction control when playing on keyboard? Mind, a gamepad, what I use, is advised. Racing is solid but a tad arcadish, that's how the game is simply set up. However, don't expect to blow through every race without using the brake. It's NOT NFS, and you will need to find the right approach to corners. So well, in the world tour your races are split up between the three continents, Europe, US and Japan. Each feature their own popular races so it gives quite the nice variety. The more you win the more reputation and money you get. With those you can get better sponsors and better cars, leading to more reputation and more money. Reputation also unlocks new races. Sponsors have specific target requirements for each race (like finishing in the top three), if you make it you get extra money. At the end of each season there's a terribly unforgiving 24 minutes of Le Mans, my least favorite aspect of the game. Right now I'm at the point where I've got a co-driver in my team, so I'm also trying to build a nice racing team. I find it highly enjoying. Graphics and details are great, but also well scalable I think. It's a rather optimized game. Still, it certainly isn't a Gran Turismo, in any way. It is however a great racer with some cool and well implemented physics that has a nice balance between realism and exciting racing. It's also darn challenging, as some cars are hard to master and a ***** to corner. There's a good demo out, I suggest you to download it. It gives a good impression of the racing in the game. The world tour stuff which is the main single player, well, you just read it __________________ PC Specs: CPU: Intel Q8200 @ 2.8GHz // GPU: Sapphire ATi HD4870 1GB // Mobo: Gigabyte EP35-DS3 RAM: 2GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 1066 // HDD: 1TB Samsung Spinpoint // SPU: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music PSU: Hiper Type-R 580W // Monitor: Iiyama B2403WS / 19201200 Join the NGEmu Folding @ Home community NOW!*

September 30th, 2009	#128 (permalink)
Exodus ...and now they do. Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Null Posts: 17,679	I see. Well, it sounds like there's at least a point to the game, which is nice. Once I finish with Last Remnant I might give the demo a try. I'm usually not a driving game player, but maybe I'll find myself in the mood. I read there's DLC for consoles that add new cars - are they available and free for PC? __________________ No, I don't like anime, Street Fighter, Japanese music or download video game music. Yes, I know, I'm weird. "The meaning of life is to live it in such a way that you don't wish to end it."

September 30th, 2009	#129 (permalink)
YugiFann Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: USA Posts: 124	GTASA was the last game i have played.

October 1st, 2009	#130 (permalink)
Radix865 Grrrrr... Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Finland, just below arctic circle. Posts: 3,491	Bought Bioshock two days ago... Its pretty awesome except the spawning enemies get on my nerves... Oh well, shock and smack! Haven't gone very far yet but so far I'd 8/10, sluggish controls, no running and spawning enemies are the minus side.... __________________

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gamefreak94 Registered Anime Hater Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Pakistan - Where s**t happens everyday Posts: 7,141	Does HAWX have a flight sim element in it? I'm eager to try it out cuz the last flying game I played was F-16 Flight Simulator for Win95, it was pretty good. __________________

October 1st, 2009	#132 (permalink)
SCHUMI_4EVER Hackin 'n Slashin Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Corrupt Rapist run South Africa Posts: 13,285	Nope, it's waaaay arcadey. __________________ Intel Core2Quad Q9550 (2.83Ghz stock) \| ASUS P5Q \| 2x2GB Transcend JetRam DDR2-800 \| ASUS ENGTX260\HDTP\896M \| Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit SP1 The Champ has retired but may his Legacy live on FOREVER !!!! No$GBA DS FAQ 2.0 Get it right fools! The glass is HALF-EMPTY, not half-full!!! !!! WARNING: Emulation requires a brain !!! WARNING: Emulation =/= Piracy !!!

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taumpytears Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: USA/Pennsylvania Posts: 182	just finished halo for pc (ive played it on xbox). the pc port is very nice imo. and my old fossil computer runs it amazingly well.

October 6th, 2009	#135 (permalink)
SCHUMI_4EVER Hackin 'n Slashin Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Corrupt Rapist run South Africa Posts: 13,285	It's a real shame that EA swallowed Jane's Combat Simulations, they made the best Combat Flight sims. USAF was awesome, unfortunately it's badly dated (also the only game I have seen where cheats form a part of the game from the start where you just have to select to use it or not (sure other games have a cheat menu but you still need to find the correct code first)). I must say I still found HawX fun though and it's the best since USAF eventhough that's not saying much. __________________ Intel Core2Quad Q9550 (2.83Ghz stock) \| ASUS P5Q \| 2x2GB Transcend JetRam DDR2-800 \| ASUS ENGTX260\HDTP\896M \| Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit SP1 The Champ has retired but may his Legacy live on FOREVER !!!! No$GBA DS FAQ 2.0 Get it right fools! The glass is HALF-EMPTY, not half-full!!! !!! WARNING: Emulation requires a brain !!! WARNING: Emulation =/= Piracy !!!

October 6th, 2009	#136 (permalink)
cloudstrife3733 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: .-------------------- Posts: 400	Shining force, old yes but I friggen love the game its a all time fav of mine,yeah its got very bad graphics but the storyline and gameplay is captivating I give it a 10 out of 10.I just wish they would come out with something new like a remake for the ps3 or something thatd be cool.

October 6th, 2009	#137 (permalink)
Cid Highwind Human Metal Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Nairobi Posts: 14,027	HawX is a fun game, but it's severely hindered by forcing that 3rd person view upon players. I want to be able to stall my plane in first person if I want to. It's a nice slick flight shooter, but in my opinion it's not as good as Ace Combat. The plane feels too smooth. __________________ PC Specs: CPU: Intel Q8200 @ 2.8GHz // GPU: Sapphire ATi HD4870 1GB // Mobo: Gigabyte EP35-DS3 RAM: 2GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 1066 // HDD: 1TB Samsung Spinpoint // SPU: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music PSU: Hiper Type-R 580W // Monitor: Iiyama B2403WS / 19201200 Join the NGEmu Folding @ Home community NOW!*

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X20A_Strike 変態 GUNDAM ヒットハード＆高速 Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Hunting NTSC, here, there, wherever PAL is... Posts: 4,077	When it comes to flight sims i can say there's a game i like when we talk about Ace Combat that's a different story :P (especially 3), anyway i found hawx to be a rip off of both ace combat (in normal flight mode) and macross vfx2 (with advance assist turned off), as for the difficulty it feels like easy on the elite setting... and to not be able to stall big fail (btw except for the training mission where the game forces you to turn of that "advance assist mode" i didn't use it once in the whole game ) __________________ \|Strike's Deviantart\|Anime List\|Important Notice\|Xtemulation\|

October 6th, 2009	#139 (permalink)
SCHUMI_4EVER Hackin 'n Slashin Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Corrupt Rapist run South Africa Posts: 13,285	That view is one of the strangest things ever and it's super hard and retarded to play that way...the only way I completed those missions was looping like crazy and firing missiles at random. __________________ Intel Core2Quad Q9550 (2.83Ghz stock) \| ASUS P5Q \| 2x2GB Transcend JetRam DDR2-800 \| ASUS ENGTX260\HDTP\896M \| Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit SP1 The Champ has retired but may his Legacy live on FOREVER !!!! No$GBA DS FAQ 2.0 Get it right fools! The glass is HALF-EMPTY, not half-full!!! !!! WARNING: Emulation requires a brain !!! WARNING: Emulation =/= Piracy !!!

October 6th, 2009	#140 (permalink)
cloudstrife3733 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: .-------------------- Posts: 400	I give hawx a 9/10 its a lil repetetive but I guess how much different could you really make it your stuck in a plane,but I thought visuals and gameplay overall were pretty fun specially playing with ppl online to complete missions and still be able to level up as if you were playing campaign mode so all in all I was happy I purchased it,pretty good game for only 40 dollars brand new.