Ghost Recon 3

cool I saw a preview and it looks very nice, but I still have to finish Chaos Theory and Oblivian before I try this one.

Enjoy
 
played the demo too. great to have an identical game close to the original GR... pity the demo is LAN only, tried setting up a Hamachi link with a friend but somehow when the client joins all he gets is a black screen. :(
 
Nope, the sounds and graphics are awesome. When you install it, it loads drivers for the new Physics graphics cards that are coming out.
 
sadly for the physics effects to be fully experienced you need a card like this which will set you back around $250... check out the demo on their website though which REALLY shows off the cards capabilities.
 
have u tried the multiplayer yet? and that damn processor is only avail as part of a pc bundle. Looks promising though,but all ive seen it do is cause increased fragmentation of objects that collide. Even a flamethrower on a wall caused flaming bits of the wall to break off. I might get annoyed :)
 
i have seen articles showcasing the physix chip and looks like it could get better... they just need to penetrate the market since it wont be of use if gamers dont have it...
 
oober said:
cool I saw a preview and it looks very nice, but I still have to finish Chaos Theory and Oblivian before I try this one.

Enjoy
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Did you ever play pandora tommorrow? splinter cell
 
useless said:
i have seen articles showcasing the physix chip and looks like it could get better... they just need to penetrate the market since it wont be of use if gamers dont have it...
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the way i see it....if its sooo groundbreaking then they would have marketed the hell out of it. I dont think theyre are too confident yet that gamers will take to it. We'll wait and see. :cool:
 
useless said:
i have seen articles showcasing the physix chip and looks like it could get better... they just need to penetrate the market since it wont be of use if gamers dont have it...
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the way i see it....if its sooo groundbreaking then they would have marketed the hell out of it. I dont think theyre are too confident yet that gamers will take to it. We'll wait and see. :cool:
 
its all up to the developers of games to support it too... trust me, if BF3 or HL3 are released and REQUIRE Physx chip to work the hype will make gamers buy it. ;)
 
Well it looks like the PPU is not up to the hype

AGEIA appears to imply and consumers conjecture that the PPU is generating so many objects that the GPU cannot handle the load. Multiple direct tests on the game by using NVIDIA’s and ATI GPUs indicate the GPU has room to spare and in fact, if the PPU is factored out of the game, that the particle content generated by the PPU can easily be drawn at full game speeds by the GPU. So the introduction of the PPU most certainly appears to be the cause of the slow down in this case. NVIDIA specifically can technically verify that the GPU is not the cause of the slowdown.
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Consumer reports from users who already have purchased the PPU and GRAW indicate that the PPU “actually slows down the game” in moments when effects are generated that are unique to the PPU. The effects described above appear to be the cause of the slow down – our observations here using a DELL/PPU confirm this. Also see http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17568825. One user comments states: "10-16 FPS slower with hardware PPU, I guess I need another GPU (SLI) to help render the added debris and effects I get from using the PPU, the price of PC gaming just went up again :-(, I can't believe that I have to disable the hardware PhysX card I just paid 200 quid for so that I can play GRAW at an acceptable FPS, to be honest I just feel like giving up on PC gaming these days."
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http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10096
 
so you think dual-core CPU's will save the day? wishful thinking... :rolleyes:

wait and see... its still too young and may even die out just like the VR hype of a few years back. ;)
 
Warning - BETA software

I'd like to warn anyone that is about to go out and buy GR3 - it looks like they had 3 beta testers in total. I have been waiting anxiously for the release in SA and finally bought it from BT games yesterday. Man - am I dissapointed.

I dont have a SUPER hi-spec machine, but mine is reasonably good (AMD 3200+, 6600GT in SLI, 1GB mem etc), and the game CRAWLS on my machine. I have to set all the effects to low to get it to move sort of smoothly, and I cannot even finish the 1st stage. Not because it is difficult, but because it keeps on crashing. Well, the video seems to crash. The game runs *happily* for a while, then suddenly I will get a blue and black screen. That is it. No more video. I can hear the game continuing, but nothing on the screen.

I found a couple of forums where ppl complain about all the bugs. And, there seems to be a LOT of ppl that complain about the amount of bugs.

No patches have been released and I cannot seem to find any info on how to resolve these issues.

So, I thought I'd just warn you guys. Download the demo or something before buying it to see if this will even run at all on your PC.

I am currently SUPER p!ssed off at UBI for releasing GR3 like this.
 
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sleeper said:
I'd like to warn anyone that is about to go out and buy GR3 - it looks like they had 3 beta testers in total. I have been waiting anxiously for the release in SA and finally bought it from BT games yesterday. Man - am I dissapointed.

I dont have a SUPER hi-spec machine, but mine is reasonably good (AMD 3200+, 6600GT in SLI, 1GB mem etc), and the game CRAWLS on my machine. I have to set all the effects to low to get it to move sort of smoothly, and I cannot even finish the 1st stage. Not because it is difficult, but because it keeps on crashing. Well, the video seems to crash. The game runs *happily* for a while, then suddenly I will get a blue and black screen. That is it. No more video. I can hear the game continuing, but nothing on the screen.

I found a couple of forums where ppl complain about all the bugs. And, there seems to be a LOT of ppl that complain about the amount of bugs.

No patches have been released and I cannot seem to find any info on how to resolve these issues.

So, I thought I'd just warn you guys. Download the demo or something before buying it to see if this will even run at all on your PC.

I am currently SUPER p!ssed off at UBI for releasing GR3 like this.
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To be honest, i played the demo and had no glitches or issues and now have the full game. Plays smoothly @ 1280x1024 with Graphics set on MEDIUM coz my GFX card only has 256MB of RAM. All else is maxed out and no hiccups.

Check your mobo drivers, gfx drivers, sound card drivers and defrag your HDD after installing the game.

I noticed your rig runs on SLI, have you tried running the game WITHOUT SLI enabled? Not every game is SLI friendly and at times perform WORSE in SLI mode than in single card mode. ;)
 
useless - what gfx card you got there?

I tried updating the mobo drivers - everything else was totally up to date. Managed to reach my 3rd team member on level 1 (way futher than before). I thought that this might have been the issue, but, alas, the crap started again about 2 mins after that.

Tried to run without SLI, but that does not make a diff... mabe it works better on some setups.

Thanks anyways for the help - whole pc seems faster after mobo driver upgrade. I recon I'll have to wait for the patches to come in, and by what I have seen on the web, they will HAVE to release a patch for this.
 
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