Graphics Quality Pics & Discussion

Good idea for testing graphics cards. The one I have is an ATI HD 5450 and the in-game settings were also set to high for the test pics that I took. The quality is not as good as Burgerman's because I found out in another thread that my card is more suited for HTPC than for gaming...

Screenshot of helicopter landing near PA


Screenshot of helicopter after landing


Screenshot of creature at the Swamp camp


Screenshot of Port Atlantis skyline


Screenshot of mini Gun Tower at Swamp Camp


My conclusions are that, although the quality is just passable, the jagged lines, etc, means that this card is not great for EU in spite of it being shader 3.0 and DirextX 11 compatible with 1gb memory, or MA is compromising in some way with the cryengine2 implimentation.

 

Nice idea :). I shall post some pictures once I get my new machine working, taking a bit longer than intended!

 

Finally got around to this, sorry for being so slow. Had a lot on getting the new machine running and when I did I wanted to play with it :). Anyway the graphics card is a Point Of View Nvidia GTX580 1536MB http://www.pointofview-online.com/showroom.php?shop_mode=product_detail&product_id=208 not top of the range but not too far away from it :). The resolution is set at 1920 x 1080 x 32, which is the maximum EU will permit me, I am limited to this size by my now archaic monitor with it's VGA socket!

The BMR hovering over some water, this card shows the "suds" at the waters edge, I had not seen this previously.







The BMR in a vertical climb, another not previously seen effect is visible but you have to look, the BMR casts a shadow in the sky, it's much clearer in game, I suspect a video would show it better!







Changing the angle this now shows heat distortion from the engines of the BMR, I had seen this on the previous card but it was not as good, I think the frame rate is responsible for this improvement, the shading in the sky is also visible.






This just shows the view from the top of the building visible in the previous two shots. And yes I jumped, I had to it's me!







Just like this shot of the bank, looks like a scene from Vice City










I should be reconnecting the old machine soon so will try some similar shots with that before I rebuild it, if I can stay logged on long enough :).

 

Thanks Burgerman, it's increased my enjoyment of EU no end :), I can go to PA and Twin and not crash.

 

This looks like a really good gfx card, so gratz there :) This could be my next purchase for my pc!

 

Thanks Nexus, I suspect it is overkill for EU but hopefully it's future proofing! I think my old card would probably have done just as well but unfortunately the system it was in would not support any more memory and it kept crashing because of a lack of it. I may try the old card in the new PC at some point in the future.

 

If it is overkill, EU needs it as much as possible. That card seems to reduce jagged lines, other artifacts, etc, as much as possible and handles cryengine really well and 1.5+GB memory is prob' a safer bet than just 1GB.

Strange about BMR casting a shadow upward though, unless there's a strong light source below :)

 

It has 1.5 on board but takes an additional 2.5 from my system memory, I made sure I had plenty of that :). The smooth edges are due to maxing the Antialiasing setting in EU, which it handles no problem.

The shadows are being cast sideways and down slightly, I see what you mean though, I suspect it's just a camera angle thing.

 

I only have 1GB on the card but it takes 3GB+ systems memory. Maybe if a gfx card had 4GB+ or something crazy it wouldn't take any RAM ;) That would be the day...

 

With the Nvidia cards I have had the trend seems to be the more on the card the more it takes from the system! I have had three so far though the last one is in a machine with significantly more memory so maybe it takes more because it can! The first two were both on the same machine though (strictly speaking two points cannot really make a trend).