PC Gamers Thread

[bogan]

Gave 'Iron Sky: Invasion' a hoon over the weekend, was fun shooting down the various classes of moon nazis, but could have done with a few more playable ships. And the cutscenes were a bit lengthy which would have been fine if they had captured the hilarity that the movie did but they were a bit off the mark.

[LankyBastard]

So anyone else getting into Planetside 2? I'm really enjoying it, bloody good game! Send me a pm if you are on the AU server, and fight for the Terran Republic, keen to squad up

[Scuba_Steve]

suppose I should share this about here.... if you don't already know about it there's a charity running with games (via steam code) as the "gift" for giving.
They're all THQ games & include COH, COH:OP, COH:ToV, Red Faction:Armageddon, Metro 2033, Darksiders, & if you pay "above the average" ($5.62USD) you get Saints Row The Third too.

Minimum is $1USD (or $5.62USD if you want Saints Row) it's for charity you pay what you think it's worth & distribute the funds between THQ, Charity, & the organisers as you see fit.

So you decide the price, you decide who gets the money & you get some pretty cool games for your effort. Check it out here @ The Humble Bundle

(COH is well recommended if you're into RTS's doubly so if you're into WWII too, best RTS... EVER)


P.S. it's a bundle so 1 donation gets all the games (bar Saints Row being a variable).

[bogan]

Thats a damn good deal! Might be time to get a steam account.

[Hopeful Bastard]

Are you playing on the SEA server. I have been playing WoT for over a year. Play most days. User name NZCLOWN. What clan you in?

Yeah mate. Have got you on our "to recruit" thread.. Clan leader is Evo_Blue. My user is RamboAdie. NZ4AD.

[SMOKEU]

Far Cry 3 is looking pretty damn good. I'll download it soon.

[tnarg]

Yeah mate. Have got you on our "to recruit" thread.. Clan leader is Evo_Blue. My user is RamboAdie. NZ4AD.

Will look you up then. Have been talking to Evo_Blue. May have to come say hi then.

[Akzle]

just going back to the catleap monitors. a) can anyone tell me the power consumption (watts...) b) they're advo'd as having 6ms response time, while a lot of mainstream (gaming) monitors are advo'd as ~2-4ms

they also posted to run at 100-240v, which means they've either got hella trickery or some noisy ass power transformers in them...

-edit- and do they come with drivers for XP ><

[bogan]

just going back to the catleap monitors. a) can anyone tell me the power consumption (watts...) b) they're advo'd as having 6ms response time, while a lot of mainstream (gaming) monitors are advo'd as ~2-4ms

they also posted to run at 100-240v, which means they've either got hella trickery or some noisy ass power transformers in them...

-edit- and do they come with drivers for XP ><

Those times will be the panel response time, buyasta was saying the input lag caused by the processing stuff on other monitors will be longer, so it might work out to the same practical lag.

Heard of switchmode power supplies?

if your graphics card supports dual link DVI you'll be good to go

I just ordered a ACHIEVA Shimian QH270-Lite, should go well.

[Akzle]

Those times will be the panel response time, buyasta was saying the input lag caused by the processing stuff on other monitors will be longer, so it might work out to the same practical lag.

Heard of switchmode power supplies?

if your graphics card supports dual link DVI you'll be good to go

I just ordered a ACHIEVA Shimian QH270-Lite, should go well.

yeah, but if mainstream panels are advo'd at 2ms, surely that has to be their actual response time, panel and all? maybe not. i don't actually care anyway, i don't do anything that quick.

LOL. no. my graphics card does not support DVI. i was looking at one with Dsub. (VGA) also wondering if it will support anything other than native resolution as it says 2560x1440, which isn't a standard ratio, it's half wide HD, or something. either way,
my desktop is telling me max res is 2048x1536 (QXGA 4:3) with nearest widescreen (16:9) being 1900x1200. which, if it doesn't work, would be shit.

basically looking for an eco friendly tv/dvd/monitor solution (probably grand total of <4 hours a week) they reckons it's 83W, btw. which means it'll be drawing about 7A off the batteries. which means i'd have to unplug the fridge. which means the beer wont be staying cold.

OH THE HUMANITY!
-edit-
http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/bigclothcraft/q271_10d.jpg
holy shit oversized image.
i cummunicate as it is a movie theatre deem emotion!

seems it'll do what i want.
seems.

[Buyasta]

yeah, but if mainstream panels are advo'd at 2ms, surely that has to be their actual response time, panel and all? maybe not. i don't actually care anyway, i don't do anything that quick.

LOL. no. my graphics card does not support DVI. i was looking at one with Dsub. (VGA) also wondering if it will support anything other than native resolution as it says 2560x1440, which isn't a standard ratio, it's half wide HD, or something. either way,
my desktop is telling me max res is 2048x1536 (QXGA 4:3) with nearest widescreen (16:9) being 1900x1200. which, if it doesn't work, would be shit.

basically looking for an eco friendly tv/dvd/monitor solution (probably grand total of <4 hours a week) they reckons it's 83W, btw. which means it'll be drawing about 7A off the batteries. which means i'd have to unplug the fridge. which means the beer wont be staying cold.

OH THE HUMANITY!
-edit-
http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/bigclothcraft/q271_10d.jpg
holy shit oversized image.
i cummunicate as it is a movie theatre deem emotion!

seems it'll do what i want.
seems.

The other monitors you'll be looking at are probably TN panels though.
IPS panels do have higher response times, but they also have vastly better colour accuracy and viewing angles, and tend to run higher resolutions.

As I mentioned earlier, the lack of extra processing hardware in most of them means their actual input lag figures will be pretty close to your average TN, and not necessarily on the higher side.

I wouldn't really recommend one for your case though - the resolution is half the reason to get one of these monitors, so if you'll be running it at 1920x1080, you may as well buy a cheaper TN panel. Also you seem concerned about response times, and the versions with D-Sub and HDMI inputs do contain extra hardware which bumps up the input lag.

2560x1440 wasn't hugely common until fairly recently, but since 16:9 has taken over as a more common aspect ratio than 16:10 over the past few years, it's become a lot more common (well, common among IPS panels, whic are still comparatively rare).

I've got no idea how accurate the power draw figures are though, never tested it.

[Akzle]

I wouldn't really recommend one for your case though - the resolution is half the reason to get one of these monitors, so if you'll be running it at 1920x1080, you may as well buy a cheaper TN panel. Also you seem concerned about response times, and the versions with D-Sub and HDMI inputs do contain extra hardware which bumps up the input lag.

2560x1440 wasn't hugely common until fairly recently, but since 16:9 has taken over as a more common aspect ratio than 16:10 over the past few years, it's become a lot more common (well, common among IPS panels, whic are still comparatively rare).

I've got no idea how accurate the power draw figures are though, never tested it.

ta.
there's no saying i wont upgrade in future. or if i ever plug my desktop back in.
i'd like a new laptop, but fact is, this one works and i don't do any fancy stuff on PC. mainly just something bigger for movies etc.
although if i get a new camera there'll be a bit of photoshop work aswell, but i've been surviving on 1024x for a decade or so....
i'm not concerned about response times, just something i noted, korean crap =6ms while branded ones in shop =2ms. and how that fits with what you had said before about throughput/hardware lag. (IPS vs TN, i now understand)

other option was an LED TV from noel's lemming. saw some sub-900$ ones that looked quite nice. (LG i think)
just need to find a linux distro i could install on it...

[GSF]

Just started playing X-Com: Enemy Unknown and it's fuckin' sweet!

It's a great cross between turn-based combat missions where you have to perform different tasks (sweep an urban area and kill all aliens, rescue a VIP caught in an invasion, shoot down and then capture a UFO) and in between missions you have to manage your super secret alien defense base, expand it with new facilites, manage your money/influence with different governments, recruit new soldiers and kit them out with all kinds of sweet gear that you get from reverse-engineering alien tech.

Super addictive too... thought I'd give it a quick spin one afternoon and I ended up playing for about five hours.

[Akzle]

WAIT

if it natively supports dvi, and it needs gadgetry to make hdmi input, does that mean it'll upscale the vga input?

[Buyasta]

WAIT

if it natively supports dvi, and it needs gadgetry to make hdmi input, does that mean it'll upscale the vga input?

I'm pretty sure it'll scale up HDMI and VGA inputs, but I can't say for certain - I went for the dual-link DVI only model, as did the vast majority of people on the threads I read when I was researching them, so information was a little sparse on the multi-input models.
It's definitely hard to believe it wouldn't, seeing as D-Sub and HDMI are incapable of transmitting at it's native resolution - I'd be bloody surprised if it supports HDMI 1.4, so it'll be limited to 1920x1080 over HDMI, which also means you'll never be able to run it at its full res from anything other than a desktop with a mid-high end video card.