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The environments in this look much more interesting then in previews ones.

God - why are the sound effects in GTA games so bull - they better be replaceable fairly easily, the guns sound like bloody pea shooters. GTA games are all about power and awesomeness (that is a word ) and having crappy gun sounds just throws that whole feeling for me. On another note - the graphics are no impressive, but that being said they aren't bad. They won't make your eyes bleed unlike GTA SA.

Told you HDR Audio was coming round the corner. Looking forward to this - better be on PC.

PCGamer UK gave Kane and Lynch a great 60%. Wewt @ PCGamer UK - calling it how it is.

Hourences is an inspiration to me =)

I vote 3DS Max or Modo =)

Thanks allot lads, <3 you all =)

Thanks lads. Wewt, Hourences did my survey. =) /me feels special.

lol sorry Mapcore are rather lazy compared to the other websites I've posted it on. /me whips. <3

Hehe, DW, thanks to those that did "power" through it.

For College I need to write and publish a questionnaire and collect the results for it and what not. So if people wouldn't mind filling out this questionnaire I would be very grateful, I need as many results as possible. CLICK MEH. Thanks

Agreed.

ITS TOO REAL I DONT WANT RWEAL LLIFE GO BACK TO SPRIETSN AND MARIO PLUZ!

Amazing

True, I didn't take that into consideration. Some people seem extremely adamant to have 100% highest settings and then complain when they cannot run them. Especially in a game like Crysis where it has tried to future-proof itself (as seen with these ultra settings).

Crysis seems to have allot of compatibility problems, yes it works, but there seems to be a random chance that it'll run on your system, even if said system is extremely high end. Two different machines with extremely similar hardware capacity seem to be getting completely different frame rates. And fingers crossed its one of those strange games where the super high setting actually gives you better FPS (its happened to me before).

/me cums The game looks completely different, I swear.

I don't think its specs related, heres mine: Alt0hlon XP 2800+, Socket A 1gig DDR1 Ram, PC3200 Radeon X1350 512mb, AGP =( I'm taking donations.

This is a great idea, I wish I could help but I'm not much of a texture artist or modeller. (not finished anything). Post over at game-artist.net, they may be more helpful or willing.

I agree Thrik. I'm surprised its so all over the place. I hope they basically finish it off and update it. I hope after EP3 they will write a new engine a with a new editor built from scratch. As long as the editor works similar to hammer (I think Hammer is one of the easiest and yet powerfulest editors about) it would be good.

Yay for rushed releashes. Other things I've noticed couple new property windows are different, theres a couple new buttons on the top bar, there are lots of new entities (including a prop_vehicle_drivable) and a dropdown box appears as you type in entities. And yeah, everything seems bodeged tbh.

From what I've read DX10 completely or near enough re-writes how the GPU works with the CPU. I in no way am a programmer and everything I'm saying is just what I've gathered. I don't know if these optimizations actually need new hardware (new GPUS) or OS compatibility (Vista) but all I know is it allows more to be processed by the GPU without CPU interval. Yeah, I already said that. Also, I just read the following link and it shows a performance benchmark of GoW for DX9 and DX10, both on Vista. There is pretty much no graphical improvement in DX10 but there is a rather large loss for frame rate. Which is weird because the main thing about DX10 is that its optimized better, its not that it has new technologies just that its been completely re-written to allow it to do more faster. So now I'm really confused. Gow Link: http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.h ... VzaWFzdA==

Or OpenGL 2.0 because it's in fact better optimized than DX9 (needs less calls for operations) and it's platform-independent. The OGL 3.0 specs are coming out soon, and with it, cards that support 3.0. Nice. Hopefully that may bring OpenGL back into action, would be nice.

At the moment DX10 is just being used because of its optimizations, so yes the same stuff is being displayed on screen but because of DX10 its displayed more optimized. Running Crysis on DX10 on XP would run much worse that running it on Vista (because on XP its just "fake DX10", so to speak). That being said, Vista being a complete whore of resources completely off-sets the whole point of DX10 (being incredibly well optimized) so in the end, you'll probs be better off with DX9.

Azure sheep is quality.