S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat


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79 isn't very good for a PC game on Metacritic. And the user reviews there look like the dev's employees used the exact same template to create fake user reviews.

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I have played the russian version and its pretty awesome. There are some awesome Zombie parts!

I am pretty biased though, I fell in love with the game when I played the first one...

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If it runs even as close to as bad as clear sky I am not touching this game.

Apparently they've focused a lot of their time on polish this time, instead of releasing a buggy POS like Clear Sky. I loved Shadow of Chernobyl, and to an extent, I enjoyed clear sky too, but I'm defninitely looking forward to having a [relatively] bug-free Call of Pripyat.

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so far the only bug i have encountered is when running in dx10 it runs at 1080i so ccc needs to be changed to make it full screen, most of what they changed is an improvement over the original stalker (i never really played cs), the main thing i am not so keen on is how the map has a lot of locations in a relatively small space, in the first game you usually had to travel quite a distance between each location

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It's not terribly buggy but it does run like crap. I've got an i5 750 @ 3.6ghz, 4GB of ram and a 9800GTX (not the latest, but still more than enough to run ME2 maxed out at 1920x1200 smoothly), and I can't seem to get the game running smoothly unless I turn off dynamic lighting or waaaaaaaaaay down.

Game looks like crap even with dynamic lighting on high - it sucks because I was looking forward to this game.

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It's not terribly buggy but it does run like crap. I've got an i5 750 @ 3.6ghz, 4GB of ram and a 9800GTX (not the latest, but still more than enough to run ME2 maxed out at 1920x1200 smoothly), and I can't seem to get the game running smoothly unless I turn off dynamic lighting or waaaaaaaaaay down.

Game looks like crap even with dynamic lighting on high - it sucks because I was looking forward to this game.

Mass Effect 2 isn't exactly a benchmark milestone, it was made with low-end computers in mind and your 9800GTX is definitely not a beast any more.

Not that it's an excuse for the game or anything, as STALKER games always seem to run like complete dung - Just pointing out here ...

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It's not terribly buggy but it does run like crap. I've got an i5 750 @ 3.6ghz, 4GB of ram and a 9800GTX (not the latest, but still more than enough to run ME2 maxed out at 1920x1200 smoothly), and I can't seem to get the game running smoothly unless I turn off dynamic lighting or waaaaaaaaaay down.

Game looks like crap even with dynamic lighting on high - it sucks because I was looking forward to this game.

is ssao on? if it is try turning that of or down first casuse it eats fps, it runs quite well for me but i havnt tried dx10 yet cause i cant be bothered messing with ccc to get it full screen

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I tried it with i5 750 @ 3.6ghz, 4GB of ram and a ATI 5850, in dx11 mode and it's a bit laggy :( Of course i've maxed out everything.

What i dont like is how the game feels :(

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sad when people go by benchmarks. Just buy the game, it'll probably run fine.

How so? A benchmark is designed to give you a good idea of how well the game will run on your hardware. The benchmark didn't run that well so the game won't run that well. I won't waste my money on a game that I can't fully enjoy. I have a decent gaming rig that handles 95% of the games out there with more-than-adequate performance.

It's a shame, really. The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games are known to "under-perform" on decent hardware.

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It looks like the first STALKER, yet it works worse (with each release), with just less and less content... shame really. Oh and I never pay attention to system reqs., but I guess they upped them with each release, and to my knowledge, the graphics remained virtually the same throughout the three games.

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It's not terribly buggy but it does run like crap. I've got an i5 750 @ 3.6ghz, 4GB of ram and a 9800GTX (not the latest, but still more than enough to run ME2 maxed out at 1920x1200 smoothly), and I can't seem to get the game running smoothly unless I turn off dynamic lighting or waaaaaaaaaay down.

One thing you can try is set it to DX9 if it lets you. DX10/11 requires a more powerful GPU for very little difference in quality.

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It looks like the first STALKER, yet it works worse (with each release), with just less and less content... shame really. Oh and I never pay attention to system reqs., but I guess they upped them with each release, and to my knowledge, the graphics remained virtually the same throughout the three games.

In the second 2 they added sun rays and a couple dynamic lights but thats about it. the textures look identical and they weren't even good in the first.

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Better graphics or higher performance

"Stalker: Call of Pripyat - Hardware Tessellation

If you use a Radeon graphics card of the HD 5000 generation, Call of Pripyat offers "Tessellation2 in the graphics options. In order to make this option show up, you have to activate the "Erweiterte dynamische Objektbeleuchtung (DX11)" (enhanced dynamic object lighting) first. After that most figures in the game are displayed with a much higher level of detail since more polygons are calculated. "

So my question is if your running a Nvidia card are you screwed without being able to access this Tessellation2?

"Without Tessellation Call of Pripyat runs in DirectX 11 about 20 percent faster than in DirectX 10 -depending on the scene the benefit can vary between only 10 and even 40 percent. If you activate Hardware Tessellation, the framerate drops drastically and DirectX 10 is faster than DirectX 11. "

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