I've seen water effect in some Crysis mod, on DX9 (you know, with that tweak enabling very high detail), so it's perfectly possible. Shame I can't remember then name of a map.
It's worth noting that I run a TON of background programs. Haven't tried Stalker on a clean boot yet. And I just pushed my first overclock on the 4890. Boosted the Vantage score another 700 points. It's now a 24% increase on the High test over the 4870 I had. Dunno about stability though. It's actually way short of what the ATI Overdrive program marked as passed clock speeds. It set them to a 990Mhz core and 1190Mhz VRAM. Artifacts like mad as soon as Vantage launched like that.
@TheFlamiesBitch lol, probably. what card are you running? i'd say you really need at least a GTX 470 to run metro on high (not very high) at a decent resolution. clear sky used to run comfortably on my old GTX 275
With DX10 settings, it almost looks as good as Far Cry 2 :D Thanks to my new HP Firebird, I can max out almost every game in my library, except Crysis. I can run Crysis on very high with AA turned off though.
Please do. I'm not sure exactly what causes it. It happens frequently on approaching the NPP (from the Army Warehouses to Pripyat). I've always assumed it was a common problem or that the game started hogging resources around that point. Would having the Arsenal Mod RC1 and Oblivion Lost 2.2 merger complicate things?
Just wondering about the OS. I've also got Vista and SoC patched to 1.0005, but I've found that stuttering and crashes happen more frequently than when I had XP.
@Hawkisnoob when i started to play it was the same thing. when you are in the beginning this will apear often but later you wont have almost any sidequests unless you want them
Hell ya Kthebay- i agree with you, the atmosphere in Stalker is ridic, the lighting, the music (my favorite song is the Clear Sky Bar tender music) and so far my fav character is "Ganja the barman" in the Freedom Camp. Good game and i havent even gotten to the deep part of the game yet, i just met the "Duty" faction.
Also- how come i havent found any artifacts yet? Are there some later in the game, cuz there is none in the Garbage or anywhere, where in Chernobyl, Artifacts are a dime a dozen. I know this game take plays years after Chernobyl but still, i havent found 1 artifact yet. Any suggestions?
You can only have Direct X 10 with Direct X 10 compatible graphics cards, the disc usually comes with the card when you buy it, but you can download Direct X 10 from a few sites.
Nice game. Gave me the same impression I had with Vampire: Bloodlines. A.I. was frustratingly enhanced, though. Anything I can do to lessen their accuracy?
I played Clear Sky soon after Crysis Warhead, and I have to say that Clear Sky is the most beautiful game on the market. A few times I had to stop up and watch the awesome sunset and during in-game night I switched off every light in my computer room. It gave me a Blair Witch feel to run around in the Swamp at night with a flashlight. To bad the game itself isn't as good as it could have been.
Wait, I'm running XP Pro and I use DX10 features...is that legal or possible??? And yes, I am sure because my games all have voumetric lighting and posprocessing maxed out so i have checked.
@PainKillerD3 Um, not? The only bug I had was when I was robbed by bandits during the storyline,was later asked to retrieve my stuff, but didn't get my money back. Lost 29k. That and several problems with knife combat are pretty much the only bugs I've met so far.
I just dropped an HIS 4890 in the other day. It came with Clear Sky, only reason I even ended up on this youtube video heh. My high test in 3DMark Vantage went up 800 points from the Visiontech 4870 I had before, 13% or so. Something like 1100 points on the performance test. Obviously I didn't play Clear Sky on the 4870, but highest settings still abuse my system pretty good. Hovers around 22 FPS with everything cranked up. Windows Vista X4 940 oc'ed to 3.5Ghz 8 gigs of 1066 RAM HIS HD4890
I'm more than happy with this card. Doesn't seem to dip below 48 FPS completely maxed out in FarCry2 now. So i capped the framerate at 45. Game moves nice and smooth.
I played SoC 1600x1200 all maxed out and had great performance, but in CS I use 1152x864 maxed out DX9 and it's really sluggish sometimes. Especially during sunrises, and in Limansk
man... i can play this game only in direct 9.0 becouse i dont have vista. Is there any option to heve some features on 9.0 ? Im thinking about a wet surface... becouse this looks rly coo.
@MrArach666 I know, back there my computer lagged while playing STALKER but I just got a new laptop and now I really want STALKER to be a PC exclusive :D
You have to activate something like enhanced dynamic lighting of objects (maybe named a little different, i got the german version) in the options, then you can activate these dx10 features. Not to mention as a matter of course you gotta have vista and dx10 installed. have fun stalker
It won't load when I select dx 10. I have ati4850 win7 x64, game is patched to 1.5.07 Is there some updated version of directx or something I dont know about?? Is 64 bit os causing the problem?
omg! if i could play clear sky in high performances :( i have amd sempron at 2700ghz, ati radeon 9600pro and 1012ddr.... ia can play it only on medium details
As ambiance and feeling due to the dynamic world this game is somewhere on top 6 fps ever made, u feel like in the zone, with a a dynamic world from monsters to stalkers, day/night animation, weather everything is amazing in this game. I cant say CodMW2 whasnt a fun game, but overall stlaker gives u another feeling. So did Crysis in his way, i think the best games have something special about and its not about comparing them, Stalker is one of those games unique and beautiful.
I really hope that this game will be better optimised than the previous. And, what, they're trying to say that all these effects are DX10 only??? I really hope there will be a tweak to allow DX10 effects in DX9 (like in crysis)
if u are planning to get an ATI card ... dont get anything less than 4870 // and if u are in a budget get a gigabyte or sapphire version of 4850 cause of zalman cooling is great but i recommeded Gigabyte cause of copper
Hey I just started playing Stalker and the game has no tutorial and basic explanations for the missions, every 2 minutes a sign says "task failed". I guess this is too much for me. If anyone knows how to fast travel please tell me.
Patch to 1.5.05, might solve the crash. With Lefty´s mission it happened to me that I save just before talking to him and then, after I talked and die because of the zombies, when I load the game to restart the mission Lefty won´t talk to me anymore, I had to load a previous game :(
I have the same card and I have Windows 7. but when I activate DX10 then FPS drops from 40 to 20 or less. and then every thing is stopping for a seconds or more. I have 4gb ram, E8500 @ 4Ghz.
that water effect recognizing vertical and horizontal surfraces, very very similar to crysis =) those are only game which has that sweet effect =) (ON PC so Im not counting heavy rain) First stalker took me time to get over bugs, but IF you play it with complete mod, it fills all holes and game is compact and my last play took me 72 hours. SOC Im heading to clear sky and COP =D Dont you miss Lost Alpha mod !
this looks soo beautiful
the lighting is amazing and the dust and water
lol wow its rlly somthin
Why are there no such graphics in Fallout 4?
Finished this game a few days ago. Loved it.
It's really good!!!! When I don't know what's STALKER, than now yes!!!!
I've seen water effect in some Crysis mod, on DX9 (you know, with that tweak enabling very high detail), so it's perfectly possible. Shame I can't remember then name of a map.
This is one of my favorite games. I even finished shadow of Chernobyl 2 times because it was very exciting. And I'm sure gonna enjoy this one too.
awesome game...i already started to play...
Care to provide some backup for your claim, or should I expect more monosyllabic answers?
@DayOfTheSheep lolno, vista, I forgot to select the high lighting affects thing on the video options.
Looks so amazing...i cant wait to get it
Stalker is BEST mix of rpg and fps.
It's worth noting that I run a TON of background programs. Haven't tried Stalker on a clean boot yet. And I just pushed my first overclock on the 4890. Boosted the Vantage score another 700 points. It's now a 24% increase on the High test over the 4870 I had.
Dunno about stability though. It's actually way short of what the ATI Overdrive program marked as passed clock speeds. It set them to a 990Mhz core and 1190Mhz VRAM. Artifacts like mad as soon as Vantage launched like that.
Maaaan, I can't wait for this game to be launched!
is there any difference when playing it on DX 9?
I just love this game one of my friends got a copy from Russia love it the storyline is good to.
its maby crazy but i would like to see a stalker mmo, that would be awesome. Just imagine the faction wars or artifact raids in pripyat!
@TheFlamiesBitch
lol, probably. what card are you running? i'd say you really need at least a GTX 470 to run metro on high (not very high) at a decent resolution.
clear sky used to run comfortably on my old GTX 275
With DX10 settings, it almost looks as good as Far Cry 2 :D Thanks to my new HP Firebird, I can max out almost every game in my library, except Crysis. I can run Crysis on very high with AA turned off though.
this game has to be awesome, and it gives me the creeps, i mean i live really close to chernobyl (less than 2000km), this is awesome!
Please do.
I'm not sure exactly what causes it. It happens frequently on approaching the NPP (from the Army Warehouses to Pripyat). I've always assumed it was a common problem or that the game started hogging resources around that point.
Would having the Arsenal Mod RC1 and Oblivion Lost 2.2 merger complicate things?
Just wondering about the OS. I've also got Vista and SoC patched to 1.0005, but I've found that stuttering and crashes happen more frequently than when I had XP.
@Hawkisnoob when i started to play it was the same thing.
when you are in the beginning this will apear often but later you wont have almost any sidequests unless you want them
im running a Powercolor Radeon HD 4850 with the stock cooler, there are ones with better cooling on newegg for less than 160 now
yes, mine cost 845 back in sept 08 (now its under 800 for sure) and it runs crysis very well at custom very high in DX9
whats the bagground musik? its something from max payne's backgroundmusic
Hell ya Kthebay- i agree with you, the atmosphere in Stalker is ridic, the lighting, the music (my favorite song is the Clear Sky Bar tender music) and so far my fav character is "Ganja the barman" in the Freedom Camp. Good game and i havent even gotten to the deep part of the game yet, i just met the "Duty" faction.
Also- how come i havent found any artifacts yet? Are there some later in the game, cuz there is none in the Garbage or anywhere, where in Chernobyl, Artifacts are a dime a dozen. I know this game take plays years after Chernobyl but still, i havent found 1 artifact yet. Any suggestions?
any one have a clue on when this game come out?
klass, unreal :)
@andoi9292 AMD Phenom II 965 3.4 GHZ OC to 4 GHZ, gtx 470 Super OC gigabyte, Corsair XM3 1333 mhz 4 GB, 1 TB Black caviar, 24" samsung (sometimes dell) monitor, 850 corsair Sli ready PSU, windows 7 ultimate. well. what do you think?
do you have windows vista or windows 7?
you need DX 10 activate them.
however.. i also had massive problems with DX10 using my 8800GT factory OC. :S
You can only have Direct X 10 with Direct X 10 compatible graphics cards, the disc usually comes with the card when you buy it, but you can download Direct X 10 from a few sites.
i have the game now and i must say ITS PERFECT I LOVE IT
hey i totally found the exo-skeleton in the first stalker. i don´t get it was it suppose to be hard?
Nice game. Gave me the same impression I had with Vampire: Bloodlines. A.I. was frustratingly enhanced, though. Anything I can do to lessen their accuracy?
Stalker is my favorite game purely because of how atmospheric it is, this is one of the only games that has truely scared me. Epic game!
Funny, I had no problems with my X-Fi. Did you patch the game to version 1.5.10 and installed the latest X-Fi drivers?
what resolution are you running at if you don't mind me asking?
when i arrive to the Yantar the door of Sakharov is always closed. What I must to do?
This is amazing!
@bazooka93 you find it at STALKER webside maybe...
@GordonFreeMANness I have Windows 7 :)
do you need a wicked sick computer to play this game? or will 2x 9800GX2's do the trick?
I played Clear Sky soon after Crysis Warhead, and I have to say that Clear Sky is the most beautiful game on the market. A few times I had to stop up and watch the awesome sunset and during in-game night I switched off every light in my computer room. It gave me a Blair Witch feel to run around in the Swamp at night with a flashlight. To bad the game itself isn't as good as it could have been.
Wow!!! Must play it! I get a new rig next week and than I can finally play a STALKER game :D So wich STALKER should I buy?
what a kick ass graphic engine, but in order to see this awesomness a kick ass machine is needed as well.
Wait, I'm running XP Pro and I use DX10 features...is that legal or possible??? And yes, I am sure because my games all have voumetric lighting and posprocessing maxed out so i have checked.
Sorry, just wondering, how would a 8400 gs handle this, it borrows system Ram so Vram is'nt a problem, cheers. :D
I have DirectX 10 and I can't enable wet surfaces and volumetric smoke and fire :(
@PainKillerD3 Um, not? The only bug I had was when I was robbed by bandits during the storyline,was later asked to retrieve my stuff, but didn't get my money back. Lost 29k. That and several problems with knife combat are pretty much the only bugs I've met so far.
I just dropped an HIS 4890 in the other day. It came with Clear Sky, only reason I even ended up on this youtube video heh.
My high test in 3DMark Vantage went up 800 points from the Visiontech 4870 I had before, 13% or so. Something like 1100 points on the performance test.
Obviously I didn't play Clear Sky on the 4870, but highest settings still abuse my system pretty good. Hovers around 22 FPS with everything cranked up.
Windows Vista
X4 940 oc'ed to 3.5Ghz
8 gigs of 1066 RAM
HIS HD4890
I'm more than happy with this card. Doesn't seem to dip below 48 FPS completely maxed out in FarCry2 now. So i capped the framerate at 45. Game moves nice and smooth.
dude is the graphics on DX9 still any good?
omgah this gam looks awesome and im instaling it right nowXD
thats Freedoms Base anit it? for the majority of the vid anyway
What about a 9600GT?
I played SoC 1600x1200 all maxed out and had great performance, but in CS I use 1152x864 maxed out DX9 and it's really sluggish sometimes. Especially during sunrises, and in Limansk
It really depends on how well it handles SoC.
I get 15 fps on SoC :'( but getting new comp before this is out.
these effects isn't working on my 8800GT :(
man... i can play this game only in direct 9.0 becouse i dont have vista. Is there any option to heve some features on 9.0 ? Im thinking about a wet surface... becouse this looks rly coo.
what exactly is soft water? What kind of new technologies does it incorporate that Crysis does not?
@MrArach666 I know, back there my computer lagged while playing STALKER but I just got a new laptop and now I really want STALKER to be a PC exclusive :D
Do will i need stalker 1 ??
thanks answer me.
You have to activate something like enhanced dynamic lighting of objects (maybe named a little different, i got the german version) in the options, then you can activate these dx10 features.
Not to mention as a matter of course you gotta have vista and dx10 installed.
have fun stalker
It won't load when I select dx 10. I have ati4850 win7 x64, game is patched to 1.5.07
Is there some updated version of directx or something I dont know about?? Is 64 bit os causing the problem?
i guess at small details it could
check minimum requirements
i cant get the directX 10 to work, plz send me a link to a fix to my problem, it just crashes after loading...
i wish that the stalker could look like this
omg! if i could play clear sky in high performances :( i have amd sempron at 2700ghz, ati radeon 9600pro and 1012ddr.... ia can play it only on medium details
Yes... It take place one year before SoC ;)
AND GSC?
As ambiance and feeling due to the dynamic world this game is somewhere on top 6 fps ever made, u feel like in the zone, with a a dynamic world from monsters to stalkers, day/night animation, weather everything is amazing in this game. I cant say CodMW2 whasnt a fun game, but overall stlaker gives u another feeling. So did Crysis in his way, i think the best games have something special about and its not about comparing them, Stalker is one of those games unique and beautiful.
My god i no what you mean, my comps 2 years and is barley hanging on, in a year or 2 there will be a game i can't run on high, then im gonna cry.
Looks like I need a new pc...again, dammit!
wow thanx man this game looks good when does it com out?
I really hope that this game will be better optimised than the previous.
And, what, they're trying to say that all these effects are DX10 only???
I really hope there will be a tweak to allow DX10 effects in DX9 (like in crysis)
wie siehts denn so storymäßig aus...is da ein großer unterschied zu shadow of chernobyl?
ja, eine andere Geschichte
if u are planning to get an ATI card ... dont get anything less than 4870 // and if u are in a budget get a gigabyte or sapphire version of 4850 cause of zalman cooling is great but i recommeded Gigabyte cause of copper
and can DX10 work on a 9400 GT???
странно у меня вот ХР стоит, а некоторые функции из ДХ10 работают всё равно, только намокание плоскостей, и обьемный дым не включаеться((
@Sublime570 im sure :D
YES. It's fucking amazing, if a tiny bit glitchy sometimes.
If you do make sure you get the latest patch right away
this is gonna be only in dx10?
Hey I just started playing Stalker and the game has no tutorial and basic explanations for the missions, every 2 minutes a sign says "task failed". I guess this is too much for me. If anyone knows how to fast travel please tell me.
Holy crap...
...looks awesome!
any way to enable tesselation with a dx11 nvidia card?
i think Stalker with DX 10 will lauch on my computer, because i lauched before GoW on max details and i could play normally.
that kicks my notebook's ass xD you pretty much will have it with no problems, mine is 2.0 ghz core duo with nvidia 8600
I have a directx 11 gpu but I cant use the directx10.1 D:
they didn't test 10.1 thoroughly, sorry
Patch to 1.5.05, might solve the crash.
With Lefty´s mission it happened to me that I save just before talking to him and then, after I talked and die because of the zombies, when I load the game to restart the mission Lefty won´t talk to me anymore, I had to load a previous game :(
they dont let me use the wet surface thing
what specs is it dude I heard this game is a bit sow even with high specs I have a 2.4 ghz qaud core 3 gb ram and a 9600gt nvidia card, will that do?
is this only for pc?
i've got a hd4850 1gb, but windows xp runs smoothers almostt always, so why would i put vista only to play with dx10 but less fps?
Which game engine is this? Unreal?
This Are On Pc Already?
yup same here-..-
luckily, they say that the 3rd game will have an end with freedom XD
so lets hope...;)
I have the same card and I have Windows 7. but when I activate DX10 then FPS drops from 40 to 20 or less. and then every thing is stopping for a seconds or more. I have 4gb ram, E8500 @ 4Ghz.
that water effect recognizing vertical and horizontal surfraces, very very similar to crysis =)
those are only game which has that sweet effect =) (ON PC so Im not counting heavy rain)
First stalker took me time to get over bugs, but IF you play it with complete mod, it fills all holes and game is compact and my last play took me 72 hours. SOC
Im heading to clear sky and COP =D
Dont you miss Lost Alpha mod !
yeah, you are right. You can play the game in DX8.