SH is very impressive. I bought it many months ago and put a number of hours into it. Graphics are spectacular and gameplay is unique and refreshing. I'd be playing it a lot more if EVE wasn't sucking all my gaming time. :D
Before I even clicked on this thread I had a feeling the comments would be derogatory towards canned beer and the typical swill contained therein. After all, this is HardOCP and we like our beer, as well as our computers well, Hard.... which means triple-IPAs (Russian River's Pliney the...
I got it tonight and I love it. What a novel FPS and the best graphics I've seen in space! The lighting system is spectacular. It's like Descent meets Quake3!
I recently upgraded to a BFG GTX275OC from an ATI 4850 (4850 died and the GTX275OC was the fastest card avail at my local Best Buy) and I'm loving the Physx, especially in Mirror's Edge. The environment in Mirror's Edge becomes so much more alive and less sterile with Physx. The environment...
Yeah, definitely two rooms. When the girl starts walk towards the kitchen(?) and he spins around, she should already be in the kitchen, but in the "mirror" she is still walking into it.
Wow, talk about your needle in a haystack!
FWIW, I run my 3870 on a 300 watt power supply and the system is extremely stable; no problems. Play Crysis(DX9) pretty much maxed out for hours at a time.
Yes, my FPS performance also decreased quite noticably in multiple games. Company of Heroes and Call of Duty 2 were most noticable. BF2142 seemed unaffected. I reverted back to 7.6 drivers and all is speedy again.
I'm running an x1900gt on a dual-core proc.