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Making The Witcher 3 look like Runescape and playing on hardware way below minimum
- Thread starter LordOfChaos
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funkystudent
Member
Reminds me of borderlands on the vita.
CaviarMeths
Member
Came for Runescape, got early PS2 game. Needs to look shittier.
neogaffer1
Banned
Remember running Crysis 1 at lowest settings at like 15 fps on a Intel HD Graphics (the original, didn't have a model number like 4000 or anything). It looked like a PS2 game.
Good times.
Ok, not really, it was terrible. But I beat Crysis 1 that way.
Good times.
Ok, not really, it was terrible. But I beat Crysis 1 that way.
Beerman462
Member
I'm just throwing this out there. The amount of options he is able to manipulate plus the minutia of detail he is able to manipulate them at is equivalent to console optimization. I mean there is some code optimization out there, but a bulk of it is what can the hardware handle and at what quantity.
LordOfChaos
Member
Just a freaky interplay of the settings he tweaked, always back up the ini file, as he says.
SoulUnison
Banned
I know I'm going to be running it on low...pretty much everything, with the resolution dropped to 720.
How was the final boss fight? When I came around to playing Crysis I had a 8800gt and it felt like single digits even with stuff turned down.
Zombegoast
Member
It looks like Oldblivion.
neogaffer1
Banned
Don't remember. Was a few years ago.
Vlaphor
Member
I love this kind of stuff, on both ways. How can we alter the game to match what our computer can do, higher or lower? Here's one of my favorite examples, Doom 3 running on Voodoo 2 sli.
http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?topic_id=1462
http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?topic_id=1462
Runescape can be kind of pretty
That sure isn't what I remember playing around 10 years ago
GameAddict411
Member
That same graphics card runs GTA5 much better at medium settings:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NnMgmv7cPE
edit: The Witcher 3 doesn't scale all that well it seems.
edit: The Witcher 3 doesn't scale all that well it seems.
DXLelouch153
Banned
dude you can play this game on a laptop for christ sakes
stop being cheap lol
stop being cheap lol
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
PHOENIXZERO
Member
That sure isn't what I remember playing around 10 years ago
It looks better even when the last time I checked it after the 3D upgrade a couple years ago.
Krappadizzle
Member
Every bench I've seen shows W3 scaling pretty well. It runs well on my 780. It ran awesome on my 980 and I expect it to run even better on my 980 Ti.
GTA5 was made to run on Xbox 360 and PS3. The GPU is capable of similar graphics to what those platforms can do, if not slightly better graphics. Really depends on how well the game is optimized. For example: it has no problem running Deus Ex: Human Revolution better than consoles, but it has problems running Splinter Cell: Blacklist.
Love it
Not enough fog.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
That youtube series has tweaks for gta5, I might try a couple of them out.
This is an impressive looking browser game, not runescape:
warface
This is an impressive looking browser game, not runescape:
warface
FunkyDealer
Banned
This is a pretty cool experiment. When I play games on my laptop I go through similar struggles, trying to optimize graphics and performance. But it's nowhere near this extreme.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Yeeeeah, that's BS. What you're describing would be the definition of what people here like to call a "lazy port" - quickly porting the code over and then turning settings down until things don't run like shit anymore. Of course achieving a good balance of visual quality and performance is part of it, but any good port takes a lot more work than that. And when you have someone who REALLY knows the hardware and how to optimize for it, you get stuff like Uncharted 4. You don't get that by porting over a PC game and tweaking some INI settings.
Viveks can you do this with your setup and report back the FPS? I just want to see where it lands lol.
LordOfChaos
Member
Define "a laptop". They can get pretty powerful, and pretty weak, that's as broad and meaningless as saying "dude you can run this on PC hardware". And he was playing on a laptop after all.
Cheapness, who are we to judge someones financial situation, and plus I think this is more just a fun experiment in how low things can go. A good foil to people who try to take games to even higher heights than stock settings allow.
This reminds me of that video of a guy running Doom 3 on a Voodoo 2.
I absolutely love seeing modern games brought down to looking as ugly as possible, just for the novelty of it. I actually did something similar with Assassin's Creed Brotherhood last year.
Does anyone have any other examples of things similar?
Does anyone have any other examples of things similar?
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
A goddamn copyright claim
the_batman
Banned
yeah, video's not there anymore D: