Topic: What are you playing? (games)

[Jeffy]

Nobody's playing Dirt 3?  Jeffy, Chardrc?   

Nope.  Finished LA Noire then finished Portal 2.  Screwing around with TF2 to see if I like it.  I'm not sure what I'll play next though.

[chardrc]

I've gotten to many new games lately (tdu2, assassins creed 2 and brotherhood, portal 2) the only one I've finished is portal 2 but haven't completed the coop. haven't finished dirt 2 and my graphics card wouldn't like 3 on my new screen. I've been playing tf2 again since last Friday, had to start over on achievements since my brother wont let me on our shared account anymore (best thing about dirt 2 is it finally got me to make a separate steam account). I'm planning on not getting anymore games until battlefield 3... Dirt 3 does sound tempting though... maybe if it goes on steam sale for ridiculously low price...

[bammerman]

If you all have a 3d tv try the new red faction in 3d mode.  It is pretty cool, not the greatest game out there but fun for a 3d mode.   I am still wanting to try crisis 2 in 3d but heard it sucks, anyone try that yet?

[bammerman]

my graphics card wouldn't like 3 on my new screen.

I got a pci express geforce 7900GT i am trying to get rid of if you are interested.

[chrisfranklin]

Nope.  Finished LA Noire then finished Portal 2.  Screwing around with TF2 to see if I like it.  I'm not sure what I'll play next though.

Finally got the audio working correctly with D3.  They did a nice job this go around withe the engine sounds -- sounds what I'd guess is fairly "authentic" for each of the vehicles.  I like the game overall better than Dirt 2.

Will probably pick up BFBC3 when its released, also.

[bammerman]

Will probably pick up BFBC3 when its released, also.

I will be getting this release most likely as well.  BFBC2 was lots of fun

[chrisfranklin]

In good conscience, need to upgrade my rating of Dirt 3 from "better than Dirt 2" to "best driving game I've played" (especially multiplayer and the new "disciplines").  This is whether were talking about PC, consoles , arcade, whatever.  However, "F1 2011" will probably be as entertaining...

[sharpxmen]

In good conscience, need to upgrade my rating of Dirt 3 from "better than Dirt 2" to "best driving game I've played" (especially multiplayer and the new "disciplines").  This is whether were talking about PC, consoles , arcade, whatever.  However, "F1 2011" will probably be as entertaining...

i hope they'll do a better job than F1 2010 - it lacks a lot of features not to mention the 3 button press to change the wing angle!!! otherwise is fine as far as tire physics and in the middle for the wing influence but i enjoyed it. I do hope they will have DRS and Kers in this version and better on screen display. It's missing session logging right now which sucks big time (you can't tell what your top speed and rpm or the min speed and rpm/gear) not to mention that you can't go with auto and manual shifting at the same time (i find the downshifting on auto to lack intelligence overall, i get to 6000 rpm in 2nd before it actually shifts in first. Same goes for the engine output, some gears just don't make sense, you get better times with 35kph between gears vs 30 (and i mean that in 6th and 7th).

[chrisfranklin]

Dirt 3 let's you opt for HeadCam, Manual, and settings -- this is the same as Dirt 2.  And that's pretty much how I preferred to play Dirt 2 and same with Dirt 3 now.  

Dirt 3, however, has a bunch of automatic stuff available under a new "Assists" category.  Now you can sit there and set the "Assists" so that your car will brake automatically in to turns, run with some kind of "stability control",  and back off the throttle if the wheels slip.  It also lets you turn ABS on or off -- actually the one good thing about Assists.

I don't have a gripe with "Assists" or people that don't want to play headcam, manual, and track settings,  but trying to find any multiplayer game of Dirt 3 (or Dirt 2 - minus "Assists") that a given "king" hasn't set to rock-bottom, anything-goes, car-drives-itself-and-probably-calls-On-Star-if-you-crash is getting kind of ridiculous.  

Tonight I was like:  "manual, headcam, settings...come on dudes !"  But this particular "race-king" goes:  "I hate headcam."  

So, I play "race-king" and set it up like I want, but then a f-ing hour goes by during what I would consider prime-time on the US west coast, but nobody joins.  Or if they do, they bail about 10 seconds in (as in:  "Oh no, whadya mean push buttons to shift gears?  And it's on headcam and there's no stability control, either!?  I'm outta here!")   Me:    then then   then  

Probably going to check the Codemasters forum and see if there are any groups that regularly play on the settings was looking for.  

[chardrc]

decided to play dirt 2 today as i finished assassins creed 2 and brotherhood this week ... but forgot my stupid windows live account name or password / the game says my account is blocked and website wont let me log in  .. (I know I know too much gaming. but should be getting the jeep out tomorrow since it will be nice out again )

[chrisfranklin]

Have a new 560 TI video card that is giving me hassles. 

[Jeffy]

Have a new 560 TI video card that is giving me hassles. 

You finally updated to something current.  A friend of mine has one of those after I told him about them.  I run them in SLI.

[chrisfranklin]

You finally updated to something current.  A friend of mine has one of those after I told him about them.  I run them in SLI.

That's what I'm planning to do is pick up another and SLI them.  Mines an EVGA version. 

May have to RMA the first one, though, or swap it under warranty with EVGA.  The 2 DVI ports on it work fine, but am not getting any audio or video through the mini-HDMI.    Have combed the forums, tried everything under the sun, tried it with different HDMI cables to the adapter, different gear with HDMI ports,  combed the BIOS for settings I missed, messed with the NVidia control panel. Drivers are all up to date on the card, soundcard, board.

Best I can tell its down to some fault with the mini-HDMI or bad adapter (and doubt its the adapter).  Anyway, am using the card for the time-being...

[Jeffy]

That's what I'm planning to do is pick up another and SLI them.  Mines an EVGA version. 

May have to RMA the first one, though, or swap it under warranty with EVGA.  The 2 DVI ports on it work fine, but am not getting any audio or video through the mini-HDMI.    Have combed the forums, tried everything under the sun, tried it with different HDMI cables to the adapter, different gear with HDMI ports,  combed the BIOS for settings I missed, messed with the NVidia control panel. Drivers are all up to date on the card, soundcard, board.

Best I can tell its down to some fault with the mini-HDMI or bad adapter (and doubt its the adapter).  Anyway, am using the card for the time-being...

Mine are EVGA as well.  EVGA has the best warranty and is probably the strongest seller of the Nvidia cards.

The only problem with running SLI has to do with how the card breaths.  The top card will get smothered by the bottom card so you'll see 8*C difference when there is no load and up to 11-12* under full load.  If you have a board that supports 3-way then you might be able to separate them more.  The problem I have is by first PCI-e is 16x while the second is 8x and the 3rd is 4x.  You want to run them in the faster slots if you can.  Although 8x and 16x isn't really measurable.  4x though is a bit slow.

I'm probably going to eventually go with waterblocks so I can get rid of the fans.  Haven't bothered with HDMI sound.  I have a SB x-fi Titanium Pro which is better then the onboard sound processors.  I typically use headphones on my PC anyway.  GPU fans get noisy if I'm gaming.

[chrisfranklin]

Mine are EVGA as well.  EVGA has the best warranty and is probably the strongest seller of the Nvidia cards.

The only problem with running SLI has to do with how the card breaths.  The top card will get smothered by the bottom card so you'll see 8*C difference when there is no load and up to 11-12* under full load. 

Noticed that kind of temperature difference with the 2 9800 GTX+ cards.  Right now, I have the fan on the EVGA 560 TI card at 70% and it sort of blends in with the ambient AC noise.  I'm probably going to do the same, around 70% fan speed, with a second card.  Waterblocks on these aren't going to happen -- Am using a Corsair H70 setup for the CPU and a couple of Noctua fans, which are 9 blade deals that are quiet and move air pretty well;  the H70 works well, better than the Tru Air cooler I had on there, but it's a long way from the real thing and the GPUs aren't going to get integrated in to any kind of H70 coolant loop...