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[Messiah 2]

THQ were just the publisher, the credit for the game has to go to developer GSC

I get confused... the Scandinavian air isn't quite suited to the gentile Brit.

[USSRsniper 0]

Vista support? Aost all games run much slower on windows VIsta, if the gme doesn't crash before you could notice any FPS drop...

[Placebo 29]

THQ were just the publisher, the credit for the game has to go to developer GSC

I get confused... the Scandinavian air isn't quite suited to the gentile Brit.

You understand the irony of your comment being that I'm English and living in Sweden?

And, why do you have a pic of me in your profile?

Have you ever been informed about the wonders of a dual-boot system?

Of course I know about dual booting, but setting one up on what is primarily a work machine just because 1 game happens to be poorly supported is to me a waste of time, energy and resources

2 gigs of ram with Vista uh? Make sure you have a large page file then cuz stalker's ram usage is nuts.

I read many bad things about 1.5 and 1.6 was actually pulled out, 1.4 seems the best one and the one im using.

And tried to disable prefetching yet? Add to your shortcut -noprefetch, for me this fixed some weird triangles caused by the rain.

I read people saying they got it to work with Vista, you should be able to make it work too.

Im at lab x16 now, in Yantar.. damn snorks are dangerous .

Yeah I read about the noprefetch thing, and also patching the EXE yourself to add the largeaddressflag and then a change to how Vista boots up with BCDedit and all that, I did the EXE patching thing but not the BCDEDIT thingy yet as I heard it slows down the PC as a whole

Pagefile is currently set up at 2gb min 4gb max which I assumed would be large enough, even for stalker

Vista support? Aost all games run much slower on windows VIsta, if the gme doesn't crash before you could notice any FPS drop...

Didn't you hear? Vista is the future of PC Gaming, Vista will revitalise the PC Gaming Industry

[Messiah 2]

THQ were just the publisher, the credit for the game has to go to developer GSC

I get confused... the Scandinavian air isn't quite suited to the gentile Brit.

You understand the irony of your comment being that I'm English and living in Sweden?

And, why do you have a pic of me in your profile?

well, then I'll put it down to something in the drinking water here in Copenhagen... which is quite likely. Better than the Swedish Nanny state

I seem to recall that you'd mentioned something or someone was ugly once, and in rebuttal I think I asked if you'd looked at your profile picture recently, and to which you changed my profile picture to yours and said if I'd looked at mine.

Never bothered taking it down. Not to worry, its not a shrine to Placebo or anything creepy like that.

And vista is only the future of PC gaming once M$ fix the problems, or we pass on a few years and wait till those games that don't run are long forgotten. I'm still on XP, even with a PC I built only back in february, because I knew stuff like this would happen. Until a game comes out that I truely want, and forces me to use Vista, I'm staying put (likely to be Mafia 2 I think)

[Placebo 29]

Doh I'm vaguely remembering something now yes, funny to see my old smoking pic, I quit smoking October 2004, then 1 month later my future wife walked into the office, and she'd never have looked at me twice if I were still a smoker, weird how fate kicks in sometimes

I do agree about Vista, I have XP 64 on my own desktop PC and don't really plan to change it, but the new laptop we bought for Nat, it's pre-installed with Vista, it's licensed for Vista, not really keen on the idea of ripping that out, or adding the extra hassles of a dual boot.......

[VictorTroska 0]

THQ were just the publisher, the credit for the game has to go to developer GSC

I get confused... the Scandinavian air isn't quite suited to the gentile Brit.

You understand the irony of your comment being that I'm English and living in Sweden?

And, why do you have a pic of me in your profile?

Never bothered taking it down. Not to worry, its not a shrine to Placebo or anything creepy like that.  

Anyhow, Stalker was a great fun for me, liked it very much, now im gonna try new oblivion lost mod+red75 mod. It must be much better then vanilla SOC.

[Second 0]

Im at lab x16 now, in Yantar.. damn snorks are dangerous

Yup. Yantar is worst area when it comes to snorks. But personally i hate bloodsuckers more. had "fun" with one of those in small village at night in 'Warehouse'-district, i had NVGs and shotgun but that didn't give me much comfort, bloodsucker has nasty way of roaring now and then. It really actually wasn't much fun, it was freaking horrible! (my character is already alcoholic, i myself will soon be aswell) ... And those are harder to snipe at distance than snorks.

Well Controllers and all kinds geists are even worse but luckly they are rare.

Game is quite good, worst thing i can think of are too small areas. Two times more space for each area would have been quite okay. Now they feel too much compressed, awfully lot of action packed into small area. Then again no 'fast travel'-option and each trip across two areas costed much in ammo and healthing supplies + the time it took on foot is already an issue (in vanilla Stalker). If trying to play with hasty way, like i didn't play the first playthru time. My 2nd try is much more relaxed and i do enjoy traveling in game, well i can spent half an hour to turn my Jeep on it's wheels after slight accident on road which turned my jeep upside down. Oblivion lost mod in use right now.

[Heatseeker 0]

Clear Sky is looking quite good too, im sold .

[HxCxFxL 0]

Quote[/b] ]I'd rather say that THQ spent 6 years trying to make their insanely unique and exciting idea a reality, realised it was taking too long, and had to get something released... thus culling a lot of the features I drooled over when I first read about STALKER.

still a fun game, and I immensely enjoyed it. Need to play it through again with this new fangled mod.

I read in german pc magazin that gsc had a lot of great ideas but THQ wanted the game released and cutted out many monsters and features (most of them are in the Oblivion lost mod) I have bought the game direct after the release I played it 5 mins and it freezed every time after patch 1.0001 came out it works a little better (20 min play time till the game freezed) and it was not only on my pc look at some stalker forums and you will see, and the best of all is that an russian (I think, or Ukraine ) mod team , without use of the modtools and sdk (still not released), brings Stalker back to his roots. Because all the monsters and cars are in the files but have no config and they did it and thats why I think THQ did a stupid job to release the game so early it's all about the money I think

But of course it's a great game with a lot of atmosphere

[Deathstruck 375]

Just started playing with the newest Oblivion Mod and its hella kick-ass

[ShadowY 0]

Yesterday I saw 3 endings again it was nice again in vanilla SoC.

Today:

After trying oblivion lost I had to let it go for (imho)crappyness....the whole atmoshphere is gone.

I also can`t stand wandering controlers whom are busy with its thingy while I`m miles away and eternal shockwaves where you get the feeling it`ll never stops pff.

It has nice thingies and weapons but that doesn`t make the game better.

I check/downloading the priboi story for now, lets see if they did a nicer job.

Else I`ll simply go back to the old freeplay modifaction(must be somewhere on my HD`s) and latest weathermod

I don`t care `bout cars and btrs anyway

[Heatseeker 0]

Yesterday I saw 3 endings again it was nice again in vanilla SoC.

Today:

After trying oblivion lost I had to let it go for (imho)crappyness....the whole atmoshphere is gone.

I also can`t stand wandering controlers whom are busy with its thingy while I`m miles away and eternal shockwaves where you get the feeling it`ll never stops pff.

It has nice thingies and weapons but that doesn`t make the game better.

I check/downloading the priboi story for now, lets see if they did a nicer job.

Else I`ll simply go back to the old freeplay modifaction(must be somewhere on my HD`s) and latest weathermod

I don`t care `bout cars and btrs anyway

Thats why im playing vanilla, the zone feels crowded enough as it is and i dont want intense FPS action all the time.

Im taking it slow, still exploring Dark Valley, Agropron, wild territories and Yantar, but not for long now .

[ShadowY 0]

Thats why im playing vanilla, the zone feels crowded enough as it is and i dont want intense FPS action all the time.

Im taking it slow, still exploring Dark Valley, Agropron, wild territories and Yantar, but not for long now .

When you make it to the door of The C-Consciousness Project I dropped this infront of the entrance of the control room

The problem is that I could not take it all with me for another(ending)battle

Only with a freeplay mod. I can go back and store it in my own personal collection stash.

[ShadowY 0]

The Priboi Story mod. looks nice so far...it`s where you start as one of the military guys as Lt. Priboi at the Cordon military post

My games frooze but that`s because I used a weatherthingy before that was made for that mod. I readed and it crashed like 4 times.

I should had try rebooting when I re-installed The Priboi Story I think.

Now I`m going back and hope it plays a bit better with all the extra`s on the map like vegatation, housing, crosses, cars and so on

[Heatseeker 0]

Army warehouses is going to keep me busy for a while, im not jumping for red forest and Prypiat yet .

I want to remain friend with Duty and atleast neutral with freedom so i have to pick my tasks carefully and ensure important characters dont get wacked.

[ShadowY 0]

It`s quiet inhere....is noone waiting for Stalker Clear Sky?

Still 4 days of waiting ...

Atleast something to play with while waiting for 2 games somewhere in the 1stQ of 2009

@Heatseeker are you done already with Shadow of Chernobyl?

[Blackhawk 0]

Stalker Clear sky looks Immense, It really does, More Mutants, Better AI, Better Graphics, How much better can it get?

Anyhoo, I've recently Started up Stalker again on the Highest graphics and it still freaks me out, In X-16 in the Dark Valley I was so freaked I had to turn the music off. In the Warehouses I'm friends with Duty but I also did the 2 missions for Freedom, I just try and get them to fight each other.

Favourite place in Stalker is the Village outside the Freedom base, I try and sneak up on Bloodsuckers and blow their heads off with a Shotgun,But it always fails.

[Second 0]

Somehow Stalker lost it's shine to me quite fast. I dont' get feeling of reward in anything i do, economic system, artifacts, collecting stuff from killed enemies etc. I wait what new they get into clear sky, as in my bpóoks it needs bit of everything improved.

If it's qoing to be improve just in FPS aspect... Then naah, it's not game for me.

[Baff1 0]

I'm very intrested in the DX10 FX.

I'd love to see what they have done with the extra power.

I'm keen to see new mutants. I really wasn't very inspired by the whole mutant part of the scenario, but it surprised me by turning out to be the best part of the game.

Great atmosphere, great theme, but an easy game to put down.

Tacticless mush.

Will Clear sky have a co-op mode? And vehicles?

I'd buy it for a co-op.

[Heatseeker 0]

It`s quiet inhere....is noone waiting for Stalker Clear Sky?

Still 4 days of waiting ...

Atleast something to play with while waiting for 2 games somewhere in the 1stQ of 2009

CS is out in Russia already but most of what i've read about it so far is complains about crashes, performance, bugged features, bugged missions, bad a.i. spawns.. .

I dont know if its going to be that good anymore but im not going to rush for it, think they should have aimed for the hollidays.

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@Heatseeker are you done already with Shadow of Chernobyl?

I made a break at Pripyat and havent played it since, i have lots of stashes but going thru the levels and killing the same bots over and over got a little boring.

[Blackhawk 0]

You Must be thinking of the Leaked Clear Sky Demo Heatseeker.

[ShadowY 0]

I check the forums coming days and after release before I buy Clear Sky.

All I saw was some vids and screenies ...and the new site.

[madrussian 347]

There are reviews of Clear Sky on ign and on eurogamer.

From the reviews, sounds like the dynamic faction system has been overdone, at least in terms of encounters all the time. I will probably wait for some mods. Plus I'm only part-way through the first game, anyhow!

[NeMeSiS 11]

Somehow Stalker lost it's shine to me quite fast. I dont' get feeling of reward in anything i do, economic system, artifacts, collecting stuff from killed enemies etc. I wait what new they get into clear sky, as in my bpóoks it needs bit of everything improved.

If it's qoing to be improve just in FPS aspect... Then naah, it's not game for me.

In my opinion everything i did felt pointless because the world was so small, you could literally see from on end of the map to the other most of the time, there were a few awesome locations but once you stepped outside them you could feel the bounderaries which kinda broke the game for me.