Re: Tweaking as an advantage...?

**asch** · 03-20-2007, 10:39 PM

I die either way. At least when I'm dead I'm looking at the pretty landscape.

**icky** · 03-21-2007, 01:11 AM

I tried both meth and low settings, and neither one helped me.

**Axis of Eeevil** · 03-21-2007, 05:10 AM

I definitely play better when I'm on my legally prescribed Adderall for my professionally-diagnosed brain differentness. I'm at my worst when I'm coming off it, but my best scoring games were all when I wasn't on anything, maybe one beer.

Oh, um, the thread subject...yeah.

I set up BF2 following Koroush's guidlines and found some to be benificial, others to be completely irrelevant.

What I found effected the entire performance of my computer was following his tweakguide for setting up the OS on a new computer so everything gets installed in the correct order and doesn't have conflicting addresses.

Low settings on textures and shadows--WOW. Even though I played those settings once and noticed the advantage, it never occurred to me to use it to give an advantage. Honestly, I guess I never thought K/D ratio was more important than game immersion!

yeah, I know.

"What a rube!" "A real boy scout!" "Wise up, ya frikkin' hayseed!"

I can be plenty devious. I just choose not to be in this game and at TG. Y'all's my peeps,man, yo--I wouldn't do you like that.

Santa--I knowed you wuz no good.

Just kiddin, ur my Peep too. One of those little pink marshmellow ones.

**Braidedheadman** · 04-22-2007, 11:38 AM

See, this is what I don't get about tweaking. People dump hundreds, even thousands of dollars into building themselves these uber rigs and then they turn around and tweak the graphics back down to the stone age. My brother does this when he plays games like Quake. It's maddening! It looks like a bloody Nintendo game at no better than 8 bits so he can get the 125 Frames Per Sescond Holy Grail of Quake pwnage. It makes no sense.

**Lith1um** · 04-22-2007, 12:09 PM

Im playing with everthing set to it's highest image quality in game, @ 1600x1200x32x100hz 16xAF/8xQAF. All nVidia optimizations disabled.

It looks awesome and I'd crank the settings in BF2 higher if the option was there. And I'm still over 100fps much of the time.

One thing I hate about the BF2 engine is how grass dissappears at long ranges. People think they are well concealed, when they're actualy in plain view. And the way BF2 draws fog too. It's no huge secret that you can see further by looking 40~ degrees left or right. It like that with both my nvidia and ati cards.

**Lorian** · 04-22-2007, 12:13 PM

Originally Posted by Lith1um

Im playing with everthing set to it's highest image quality in game, @ 1600x1200x32x100hz 16xAF/8xQAF. All nVidia optimizations disabled.

It looks awesome and I'd crank the settings in BF2 higher if the option was there. And I'm still over 100fps much of the time.

I hate you...

Stupid, was expensive at the time, GeForce 6800

**Bold** · 04-23-2007, 10:07 PM

Originally Posted by BaneII

What the game engine should do is make the person invisible even if the viewer has the shadows are turned off. That would fix the problem.

Thats actually a very good idea. It's basically "fog of war" as used by so many RTS games. I wonder why first person shooters never incorporated that aspect in them?

**Sir_Brass** · 04-23-2007, 11:46 PM

Originally Posted by Axis of Eeevil

I definitely play better when I'm on my legally prescribed Adderall for my professionally-diagnosed brain differentness. I'm at my worst when I'm coming off it, but my best scoring games were all when I wasn't on anything, maybe one beer.

Err....ADD ftw?

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