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indef said:
Considering Avalanche had previously made stellar open world games that ran on a wide variety of machinery, it's a bit shocking at how many people have problems with JC3. I loved what I played of it, but it's hard to praise a game that I no longer can even load.
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Just Cause 3 was made by a different team. The original Avalanche studio had nothing to do with it, and it was entirely handled by a new and inexperienced extension of the studio based in New York.

I think the original Avalanche made Mad Max, which I also thought was crap, so maybe in the end it didn't matter.

 
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sunasun said:
Maybe you should try an amd card, it runs fine on mine. I'll sell you my Rx 580 for the discounted price of 600 dollars.
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archibishopofBAH said:
The bros played Umbrella Corps tonight. May be the worst game we've ever played. I say this because while we've played far worse designed games, this is a shameless cash grab under the RE name and is absolute dogshit to play. Its confusing, poorly executed, and just not fun. We played through one 3 v 3 session and unanimously were "fuck this". Uninstalled, into the Crap pile it goes. Yuck. There's just nothing remotely interesting or unique about it.

Then we split off into two groups and played PUBG for the rest of the night.
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lol, i watched on steam and saw the bro event pop up and 10 mins later see notification of bros in other games

 
Speaking of video cards what would be a decent laptop video card if I wanted a portable gaming system that wasn't a handheld console?  I'm still using an old Lenovo i5 with intel HD3000 graphics.   :shock:  I can play Rocket League and medium sized Civ 5 maps so it doesn't make me too mad but I feel I am due for an upgrade.

 
IAmTheCheapestFox said:
2 walls of text on JC3, but only one run on sentence about the gameplay...
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MysterD gonna MysterD.

But I do actually appreciate the information. It confirms that it's not just my subpar hardware, but that the game is actually poorly optimized. Also, it confirms that my decision not to buy was a good one, as I don't see the game getting a performance patch anytime soon that resolves all of these issues.


MysterD said:
Just Cause 3.


While JC3 seems like good old open-world JC-style of blow things up, kill enemies, pull of crazy stunts, and typical nonsense - these performance issues are getting in my way.

Good thing I haven't done much w/ Just Cause 2, as that game never really had performance issues for me. Maybe it's almost that time to get to work on JC2.
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If you haven't put in a goodly number of hours in JC2, don't skip it. It's ridiculous, over-the-top fun.

PapaTrees said:
I just tried JC3 with my i7-4790 (3.60 ghz), 16gb of ram and an 8gb RX480. I only got to the "upgrade your grappler" mission, but it seemed to handle everything fine. Should I consider that a good enough test, or do I need to play more before I decide to bite the bullet?
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If you've played through several missions without seeing any performance hits, it's unlikely they're going to turn up suddenly, although indef seems to have had that problem; that could be a case of a patch "fixing" things that weren't broken, like the Mafia III patch that forced everybody to disable the Steam overlay or play the game as though Lincoln got dipped in molasses.
 
I've got Just Cause 3's performance finally in place here on my W7 64-bit, GTX 970, 16 GB RAM desktop PC.

To kill the nasty framerate drops + rises and any stuttering issues, here's what I did: I used NVIdia Inspector to set a profile specifically for JC3 to force both a 60FPS cap + also most importantly instituted NVidia's Fast Sync solution. Now, I'm around 60FPS most of the time.

Since VSync off or on wasn't solving anything here for me, so NVidia FastSync is somewhere between VSync Off and On, as it'll render only what it decides are the "good" frames (there's the Syncing) + flat-out discard any useless produced-frames (such as blank frames, anything it decides are "wrongly" produced frames, etc etc).

So, if you have an NVidia 900 series card or above: use NVidia Inspector to force a FPS cap of some kind (i.e 60 FPS) + most importantly use Fast Sync, if necessary. Seems to have took this to solve all my performance issues here.

Now, back to the game: causing chaos, doing nonsense, and blowing stuff up.

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warreni said:
MysterD gonna MysterD.

But I do actually appreciate the information. It confirms that it's not just my subpar hardware, but that the game is actually poorly optimized. Also, it confirms that my decision not to buy was a good one, as I don't see the game getting a performance patch anytime soon that resolves all of these issues.
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See, this is the problem w/ some modern PC games that are un-optimized: it can sometimes take a while just to get around these foolish & non-sense issues, just to get those issues thrown out. At least w/ Arkham Knight PC, I didn't have to resort to other crazy methods such as NVidia Inspector - as the options in Arkham Knight PC were in-game + internally there to solve my dilemma; I used the 30 FPS cap and performance problems were solved.

I went through this non-sense of an issue w/ both Homefront: The Revolution & now JC3, where there basically wasn't enough actual in-game graphics options around to actually solve my issue. Sometimes, even the official NVidia Control Panel doesn't solve everything, either - as they really don't have an option to force a FPS cap there, which is one thing JC3 really obviously needs. NVidia Inspector though can force a FPS cap, if you need to - which was key in stopping this from going bouncing b/t 60 frames to 80 frames w/ V-Sync Off.

NVidia FastSync can really get you much more frames with very little performance loss (compared to VSync On), when it actually works properly. You can get some of no-Syncing (b/c it doesn't have input lag) + benefits of Syncing (i.e. it tries to keep the good frames and chuck the bad ones).

I had to basically use NVidia Inspector to get at these issues + force things mostly at a driver level here, more or less - b/c I couldn't do so w/ in-game, couldn't do it w/ MSI Afterburner, or any other crazy way. Sometimes, this is the last resort - and sometimes, this actually works.

 
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Palinn said:
Speaking of video cards what would be a decent laptop video card if I wanted a portable gaming system that wasn't a handheld console? I'm still using an old Lenovo i5 with intel HD3000 graphics. :shock: I can play Rocket League and medium sized Civ 5 maps so it doesn't make me too mad but I feel I am due for an upgrade.
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I have an Acer Aspire V15 Nitro (VN7-591G-79YZ) and love it.

It has an Intel i7 4720HQ; 4GB 960M; 16GB RAM; 15.6'' 4K laptop screen; and upgraded it to W10 64-bit (it came w/ W8, but installed the free W10 upgrade last year before Microsoft stopped those). Most games are either ran at 900p or 1080p here with 30FPS (or above) at Medium settings (or above) - i.e. Fallout 4, Witcher 3, Dishonored 2, and Mirror's Edge: Catalyst.

It's widely known that the NVidia 1000 laptop-card series is much closer to the desktop version & absolutely slaughters the 900M series in terms of optimization + performance (900M cards run similar to NVidia's 700 series of desktop video cards) - so you might want to aim for a GTX 1050 laptop card or above, if there ain't much price-difference b/t a laptop w/ a 900m vs. a 1050 laptop-card. That all depends on....well, if you're catching a sale on a new laptop with a 1050 laptop-card (or better) or a killer clearance on a laptop w/ a higher-end 900m series card here.

 
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Tremorbros, find Throne - Kingdom of War under SuperRewards, get 283 coins for idling in a browser game for ten minutes.  Took about 30 minutes to get the coins but they did show up.

 
Palinn said:
Speaking of video cards what would be a decent laptop video card if I wanted a portable gaming system that wasn't a handheld console? I'm still using an old Lenovo i5 with intel HD3000 graphics. :shock: I can play Rocket League and medium sized Civ 5 maps so it doesn't make me too mad but I feel I am due for an upgrade.
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It depends on your budget and what your expectations are for the laptop. If you want a general upgrade for light gaming, there are options, or if you want a beast you also have options. It also depends on where you want to play. Like if you want to game when you travel or are away from home vs. you just wanting to game on the couch when you're at home and too lazy to go to your PC. Some people just get any laptop and do the Steam streaming feature for that.

 
weretable said:
Tremorbros, find Throne - Kingdom of War under SuperRewards, get 283 coins for idling in a browser game for ten minutes. Took about 30 minutes to get the coins but they did show up.
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lol, for some reason that is redirecting me to various other stuff.

 
anybody here install jc3 who can give me a rundown on its performance and what sorts of tweaks you would recommend to fix it incase it has poor performance

 
pasports31 said:
anybody here install jc3 who can give me a rundown on its performance and what sorts of tweaks you would recommend to fix it incase it has poor performance
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If you're on NVidia: use NVidia Inspector to force a FPS cap + force FastSync On.

See more details + explanation here:

https://www.cheapassgamer.com/topic/341407-steam-deals-mega-thread-all-pc-gaming-deals/?p=13789303

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IAmTheCheapestFox said:
FYI, we're playing Battlefield 1 tonight for all the Bros who can't make it on Friday because you have a life in the weekends.
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Is it $10 yet or what...?

 
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It is surprising how many people don't realize there is a delete/hide button for your own posts.

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Maybe that doesn't show up on mobile or something.

I forget people do everything on their phones these days.

 
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DD83 said:
It is surprising how many people don't realize there is a delete/hide button for your own posts.

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Maybe that doesn't show up on mobile or something.

I forget people do everything on their phones these days.
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I don't think it does. I'm on my desktop now, but I'm leaving it up because a couple of you like it.

 
Last night we played some Battlefield 1 at the request of CommanderShiro (full disclosure: not a real commander).  Now we'll have to see if Shiro ever joins us again after listening to Bah burn up the headsets for two hours and change.  We did well though, winning a couple games and getting top squad in one and the two games we lost were the first one where we joined halfway into a losing fight and one where the opposing team was stacked with high ranked players.  Afterward, I think some played PUBG but I wasn't invited to their reindeer games and cried and cried and cried.

Ask yourself this: Do I like aliens?  Do I like swarms?  Am I a penniless hobo?  If you answered "yes" to at least one of those questions, you'll want to join us tonight for Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop, a free to play game on Steam with glowing reviews.  It's also a 8-player co-op game so we'll be splitting into separate games if need be.  All the screenshots on the Steam page mysteriously look as though someone smeared Vaseline on the screen but I'm sure that we can contact MysterD for graphics optimizing tips.

 
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Syntax Error said:
Last night we played some Battlefield 1 at the request of CommanderShiro (full disclosure: not a real commander). Now we'll have to see if Shiro ever joins us again after listening to Bah burn up the headsets for two hours and change. We did well though, winning a couple games and getting top squad in one and the two games we lost were the first one where we joined halfway into a losing fight and one where the opposing team was stacked with high ranked players. Afterward, I think some played PUBG but I wasn't invited to their reindeer games and cried and cried and cried.

Ask yourself this: Do I like aliens? Do I like swarms? Am I a penniless hobo? If you answered "yes" to at least one of those questions, you'll want to join us tonight for Alien Swarm (Reactive Drop), a free to play game on Steam with glowing reviews. It's also a 4-player co-op game so we'll be splitting into separate games if need be. All the screenshots on the Steam page mysteriously look as though someone smeared Vaseline on the screen but I'm sure that we can contact MysterD for graphics optimizing tips.
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DD83 said:
Why y'all don't delete yer posts?

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Maybe that don't show up on those pocket gizmos the kids're carrying with them everywhere.

I keep forgettin' whippersnappers do everything on them newfangled telephone thingamajiggers.

Stay off my lawn. I'm so old...
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Fixed?

 
Syntax Error said:
Ask yourself this: Do I like aliens? Do I like swarms? Am I a penniless hobo? If you answered "yes" to at least one of those questions, you'll want to join us tonight for Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop, a free to play game on Steam with glowing reviews. It's also a 8-player co-op game so we'll be splitting into separate games if need be. All the screenshots on the Steam page mysteriously look as though someone smeared Vaseline on the screen but I'm sure that we can contact MysterD for graphics optimizing tips.
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About the smeared-Vaseline look - does it use TXAA?

That's known for causing that effect.

Mixing TXAA with other AA like FXAA can help kill the smearing of vaseline look.

 
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Rogue Stormers is 90% off $19.99 $1.99 on Steam and Amazon this week.

I noticed a lot of people have it on their wishlist so just an FYI. For those that already own this Rogue-like, Twin Stick Shooter, Action, Indie game (those are the popular user tags), is it any good?  :whistle2:k

 
I remember one year when I was a little kid, I wanted an RC car more than anything.  Then I got one for my birthday and it was one of those shitty $12 Radio Shack types with a 3' cord connecting the car to the controller.  After that, it's "But you already HAVE a car and you never play with it..."

Thanks for digging that pain back up, Fox.

 
Syntax Error said:
I remember one year when I was a little kid, I wanted an RC car more than anything. Then I got one for my birthday and it was one of those shitty $12 Radio Shack types with a 3' cord connecting the car to the controller. After that, it's "But you already HAVE a car and you never play with it..."

Thanks for digging that pain back up, Fox.
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This negative attitude is why you don't get invited to the PUBG after parties on bro nights. #PartyPooper

 
rcsample said:
Why? Cuz it sucks? Or you are now sitting in the shitter all day playing it, cuz it's so gud?
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Let's just say I only have one family that I'm tending to right now and it's not the family I'll be paying alimony to and/or conjugally visiting in ~6 months. Not sure why I'll be in jail, but it seems like that is where things are headed.
 
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DickDangus said:
Let's just say I only have one family that I'm tending to right now and it's not the family I'll be paying alimony to and/or conjugally visiting in ~6 months. Not sure why I'll be in jail, but it seems like that is where things are headed.
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Just FYI, neglect now will not lead to conjugal visits down the road. But I'm sure you'll be receiving conjugal visits in your cell routinely, so it all works out.

 
Dangus is going to have a hard time convincing his lesbian farmers to start conjugal visits with him.

IAmTheCheapestFox said:
This negative attitude is why you don't get invited to the PUBG after parties on bro nights. #PartyPooper
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Yeah, well, I had a party all by myself playing Audiosurf 2 with a two-liter of off brand Mr. Pibb so that was just as good.

 
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