OK, so I went and got a new PC and Chapter 4 was the first Telltale game I played on it.
Intel Core i7 920 bloomfield nehalem quad-core with hyperthreading @2.8Ghz
6GB triple channel DDR3 RAM
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
OCZ Vertex Solid State Hard Drive
ATI Radeon HD 5850 with 1024MB DDR5 DirectX11 compliance
The game ran awesome at 1920x1200 res with maximum level 9 graphics settings.
Im actually more interested in the Solid State...next pc upgrade for me will prolly be one...how big is it and was it worth the money?
My current rig is this:
Intel Core i7 920
6GB DDR3 RAM
nVidia GTX285 Graphics Card
750GB OS hard drive
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Currently running the game at 1920x1080 which is awesome...if my dvd burner worked in my media centre pc I would try it out on my 40" LCD but alas...funny I spent all this money on 2 PCs that are basically identical and yet I couldnt afford a $40 dvd burner...lol
Intel Q6600 2,4GHz, quadcore.
4 GB DDR3 Ram
ATI Radeon 3850 512MB
Total 2 TB of HD, and I seriously need more now. Steam folder is 500 Gig
Still running Vista but my Win 7 is on it's way.:)
The PC is also connected, to my 37" Full HD screen but I usually play on my 22" LCD at 1680*1050 res
Currently running the game at 1920x1080 which is awesome...if my dvd burner worked in my media centre pc I would try it out on my 40" LCD but alas...funny I spent all this money on 2 PCs that are basically identical and yet I couldnt afford a $40 dvd burner...lol
Don't you have network between the computers? Also a cheap USB stick would do the trick
Im actually more interested in the Solid State...next pc upgrade for me will prolly be one...how big is it and was it worth the money?
It's 64GB and was quite expensive compared to regular hard drives. I probably could have got two 1TB drives for the price of that one SSD.
I'm using it as the Windows boot drive and it loads up Windows 7 from cold boot in about 10 seconds and straight to desktop. Much faster than my old PC - I hate waiting.
Other things like programs and apps seem to load up quicker on it too, but I only put select number of things on that drive because of the small space. I stick everything else on my 1.5TB regular hard drive.
So was it worth it? Well, it's exactly what I wanted and expected so I guess so. Still, because it's so early in the technology's timeine it's more expensive than I would have liked. But that's what happens when you want the latest stuff... the prices of these things will come down eventually. I picked the OCZ Vertex because it's got one of the highest speed reads - over 200MB per sec. Windows 7's performance test gave it a Windows Experience Rating of 7.0 and so my PC is rated 7.0 overall.
I remember back in the 90s when I got my first 16GB hard drive and was like "WHOA"! :eek: Now I can get a 1TB drive for less than I paid for that!
It's 64GB and was quite expensive compared to regular hard drives. I probably could have got two 1TB drives for the price of that one SSD.
I'm using it as the Windows boot drive and it loads up Windows 7 from cold boot in about 10 seconds and straight to desktop. Much faster than my old PC - I hate waiting.
I remember back in the 90s when I got my first 16GB hard drive and was like "WHOA"! :eek: Now I can get a 1TB drive for less than I paid for that!
I bought one of these for the wifes computer, absolutely fantastic bit of kit, a bit of a pain in the arse setting up partition alignment (befor einstalling windows) and all the other little tweaks, but well worth it.
Athlon X2 7850BE 2.8 GHz
Palit GTS 250 1GB 256 bit DDR3
4GB DDR2 1066 MHz Kingmax
Resolution: 1920x1080 on Samsung 2333HD
Windows XP SP3 with all updates installed
Is that with the quality on 9? and how does it play?
Intel Q6600 2,4GHz, quadcore.
4 GB DDR3 Ram
ATI Radeon 3850 512MB
Total 2 TB of HD, and I seriously need more now. Steam folder is 500 Gig
Still running Vista but my Win 7 is on it's way.:)
The PC is also connected, to my 37" Full HD screen but I usually play on my 22" LCD at 1680*1050 res
Don't you have network between the computers? Also a cheap USB stick would do the trick
Yeah I have a network and junk like that...actually to tell you the truth I forgot this was about TOMI and actually thought that we were talking about Sam & Max which I only have on disc...and tbh I prefer not ripping my S&M dvds...but now that I realise I have TOMI in installer form I should really just move them over via network...lol
It's 64GB and was quite expensive compared to regular hard drives. I probably could have got two 1TB drives for the price of that one SSD.
I'm using it as the Windows boot drive and it loads up Windows 7 from cold boot in about 10 seconds and straight to desktop. Much faster than my old PC - I hate waiting.
Other things like programs and apps seem to load up quicker on it too, but I only put select number of things on that drive because of the small space. I stick everything else on my 1.5TB regular hard drive.
So was it worth it? Well, it's exactly what I wanted and expected so I guess so. Still, because it's so early in the technology's timeine it's more expensive than I would have liked. But that's what happens when you want the latest stuff... the prices of these things will come down eventually. I picked the OCZ Vertex because it's got one of the highest speed reads - over 200MB per sec. Windows 7's performance test gave it a Windows Experience Rating of 7.0 and so my PC is rated 7.0 overall.
I remember back in the 90s when I got my first 16GB hard drive and was like "WHOA"! Now I can get a 1TB drive for less than I paid for that!
Yeah it still seems a bit odd that the solid states are so expensive now...they have been around for at least a year or two now and considering read speeds and such the price per GB is pretty lousy...would have thought the takeup would have been better considering the many benefits a SSD has over a platter HDD... :P
In any case, overall I have about 5-6 TB worth of storage I can use, so Im set for the moment...about 60% full...but obviously the internet has played a massive role in inflating my storage requirements...I remember my first computer had a 1.96GB HDD and it lasted my entire family for 5 years before we upgraded! lol...then once the internet hit...BAM! Worst thing back then was convincing my parents that getting a new hard drive was a good idea...
Yeah it still seems a bit odd that the solid states are so expensive now...they have been around for at least a year or two now and considering read speeds and such the price per GB is pretty lousy...
The prices will come down eventually. At the moment it's best to use them to speed up boot and frequently used apps. It's better to store your mass of other stuff like movies and mp3s on regular drives.
Meanwhile, a magazine article I just read recommends buying two of the cheaper Kingston SSDNow 40GB drives and setting them up in a striped RAID array and that means you end up with 80GB of SSD goodness for less than the price of an other brand 64GB SSD. Worth thinking about.
Some of the older OCZ drives worked like that, they had multiple SSD controllers, with their own SSD each on them, with a RAID controller onboard as well.
Apparently they used to get very Hot (which is odd for SSDs).
Windows XP
Pentium IV 2.8 Ghz HT
512mb RAM
Geforce 7300GT 256mb
Games played at 1024x768 at graphic level 7, but i can set it up to 8, the only reason i don't is because it causes some frame drops every 2 seconds. so basically, yhea....
Some of the older OCZ drives worked like that, they had multiple SSD controllers, with their own SSD each on them, with a RAID controller onboard as well.
Apparently they used to get very Hot (which is odd for SSDs).
Well, if its multiple SSD's mounted in the same unit with a raid controller built in as well then maybe...while SSD's dont get overly hot usually the chips should still generate heat...why do you think RAM these days have heat sinks all over them? Eventually we're gunna prolly see RAM fans in our computers...lol
@Commissioner, Im not sure where you live, but where I am it actually seems cheaper at the moment to go with a 64GB...a quick perusal of the major stores suggests that its either 32 or 64 at the low end...I think I shall continue to wait in any case...
have to run it on lowest resolution and graphics at 3,
first 2 episodes dip in framrate usually whenever the narwhals in view.
episodes 3 and 4 run without any complaints, id say bout 40fps
really need to build a new computer, i have the know how just not the wallet or time or patience for that matter either
@Commissioner, Im not sure where you live, but where I am it actually seems cheaper at the moment to go with a 64GB...a quick perusal of the major stores suggests that its either 32 or 64 at the low end...I think I shall continue to wait in any case...
Here's what the article I read suggested:
This Kingston SSDNow 40GB drive on newegg costs $130 and has a read rate of 100MB/sec (fast for a drive, not so fast compared to other SSDs).
This is the drive I have, a 60GB OCZ Vertex with a read rate of up to 230MB/sec which is more than double the Kingston drive. But it costs $239.
The article I read suggested getting two Kingston drives and RAIDing them to give you about 80GB of space at similar read performance to the single OCZ drive would cost $260 which is $21 dollars more than the OCZ drive but at least you get another 20GB of space... so is it more cost effective? Maybe.
And the OCZ drive really is a 64GB drive, but as we all know, drive manufacturers count 1 million megabytes as a gigabyte, when in practical use Windows says a gigabyte is 1048576 megabytes and so it only shows up as about 60GB in Windows which is why OCZ brands it that way.
I played the first chapter on two computers, the first one was:
- AMD 1900+XP (1600 Mhz)
- 768 Mb of RAM
- 128Mb video memory (ATI Radeon)
- WinxP
My other computer is a laptop:
- AMD Athlon x2 QL-64 (2.10 per core)
- 4Gb RAM
- 512 Mb of dedicated video memory, able to 'gram' memory of the RAM
- Win7
I don't remember the resolutions of the screens and I'm too lazy to search it. But I should say that, although the first computer is too 'short' on requirements, the game went perfectly well. Okay, visual effects taken to their lowest leves, but, tunning really nice.
On my laptop, the visual effects were on their full capability, and the aesthetic change is very notable betwen computers, but the running itself of the game (not counting the load time and stuff between 'screens') is really similar, once you adapt the effects and stuff.
I was very surprised when I first ran chapter one on my old desktop PC, because I thought I wouldn't be able to play it.
I play it on a HP dm3 laptop with AMD Athlon Neo 1.6Ghz processor, 4Gb RAM, Windows 7 x64 & ATI Radion HD 3200 Graphics. All this connected via HDMI to 32" Samsung LCD TV.
Seems to be pretty good, plays smoothly at TV (and laptops) native resolution, just have to turn the quality down a little bit but nothing noticeable. Just have to use a mouse instead of the touchpad. Thats a good thing anyway, i can sit comfortably on the sofa with a mousepad on my lap.
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Im actually more interested in the Solid State...next pc upgrade for me will prolly be one...how big is it and was it worth the money?
My current rig is this:
Intel Core i7 920
6GB DDR3 RAM
nVidia GTX285 Graphics Card
750GB OS hard drive
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Currently running the game at 1920x1080 which is awesome...if my dvd burner worked in my media centre pc I would try it out on my 40" LCD but alas...funny I spent all this money on 2 PCs that are basically identical and yet I couldnt afford a $40 dvd burner...lol
4 GB DDR3 Ram
ATI Radeon 3850 512MB
Total 2 TB of HD, and I seriously need more now. Steam folder is 500 Gig
Still running Vista but my Win 7 is on it's way.:)
The PC is also connected, to my 37" Full HD screen but I usually play on my 22" LCD at 1680*1050 res
Don't you have network between the computers? Also a cheap USB stick would do the trick
It's 64GB and was quite expensive compared to regular hard drives. I probably could have got two 1TB drives for the price of that one SSD.
I'm using it as the Windows boot drive and it loads up Windows 7 from cold boot in about 10 seconds and straight to desktop. Much faster than my old PC - I hate waiting.
Other things like programs and apps seem to load up quicker on it too, but I only put select number of things on that drive because of the small space. I stick everything else on my 1.5TB regular hard drive.
So was it worth it? Well, it's exactly what I wanted and expected so I guess so. Still, because it's so early in the technology's timeine it's more expensive than I would have liked. But that's what happens when you want the latest stuff... the prices of these things will come down eventually. I picked the OCZ Vertex because it's got one of the highest speed reads - over 200MB per sec. Windows 7's performance test gave it a Windows Experience Rating of 7.0 and so my PC is rated 7.0 overall.
I remember back in the 90s when I got my first 16GB hard drive and was like "WHOA"! :eek: Now I can get a 1TB drive for less than I paid for that!
Remember when I got my first 3 GB and I though I had unlimited space. Amazing how much crap that fills the space when you think like that.
I bought one of these for the wifes computer, absolutely fantastic bit of kit, a bit of a pain in the arse setting up partition alignment (befor einstalling windows) and all the other little tweaks, but well worth it.
Is that with the quality on 9? and how does it play?
Yeah I have a network and junk like that...actually to tell you the truth I forgot this was about TOMI and actually thought that we were talking about Sam & Max which I only have on disc...and tbh I prefer not ripping my S&M dvds...but now that I realise I have TOMI in installer form I should really just move them over via network...lol
Yeah it still seems a bit odd that the solid states are so expensive now...they have been around for at least a year or two now and considering read speeds and such the price per GB is pretty lousy...would have thought the takeup would have been better considering the many benefits a SSD has over a platter HDD... :P
In any case, overall I have about 5-6 TB worth of storage I can use, so Im set for the moment...about 60% full...but obviously the internet has played a massive role in inflating my storage requirements...I remember my first computer had a 1.96GB HDD and it lasted my entire family for 5 years before we upgraded! lol...then once the internet hit...BAM! Worst thing back then was convincing my parents that getting a new hard drive was a good idea...
The prices will come down eventually. At the moment it's best to use them to speed up boot and frequently used apps. It's better to store your mass of other stuff like movies and mp3s on regular drives.
Meanwhile, a magazine article I just read recommends buying two of the cheaper Kingston SSDNow 40GB drives and setting them up in a striped RAID array and that means you end up with 80GB of SSD goodness for less than the price of an other brand 64GB SSD. Worth thinking about.
6Gb RAM
Intel Core2 Quad 2.40GHz
32" HD Ready TV being used as a monitor, all performance meters turned way up.
Plays absolutely beautifully
Apparently they used to get very Hot (which is odd for SSDs).
Pentium IV 2.8 Ghz HT
512mb RAM
Geforce 7300GT 256mb
Games played at 1024x768 at graphic level 7, but i can set it up to 8, the only reason i don't is because it causes some frame drops every 2 seconds. so basically, yhea....
Well, if its multiple SSD's mounted in the same unit with a raid controller built in as well then maybe...while SSD's dont get overly hot usually the chips should still generate heat...why do you think RAM these days have heat sinks all over them? Eventually we're gunna prolly see RAM fans in our computers...lol
@Commissioner, Im not sure where you live, but where I am it actually seems cheaper at the moment to go with a 64GB...a quick perusal of the major stores suggests that its either 32 or 64 at the low end...I think I shall continue to wait in any case...
3,06 GHz Core 2 Duo
4GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 4670 256 MB VRAM @ 2560 x 1440
1TB HDD
2GB RAM
NVidia 9800GTX+
Windows XP x64 Edition
Playing at 1920x1080 on a 50inch plasma screen at max detail
Dude, 9 IS the highest setting.
3GB RAM
ATI Radeon 3650 512mb
Windows Vista
Graphics setting 9, runs perfectly.
1.6ghz amd athalon X2
vista,
128mb ATI, cant remember which chipset
have to run it on lowest resolution
first 2 episodes dip in framrate usually whenever the narwhals in view.
episodes 3 and 4 run without any complaints, id say bout 40fps
really need to build a new computer, i have the know how just not the wallet or time
Here's what the article I read suggested:
This Kingston SSDNow 40GB drive on newegg costs $130 and has a read rate of 100MB/sec (fast for a drive, not so fast compared to other SSDs).
This is the drive I have, a 60GB OCZ Vertex with a read rate of up to 230MB/sec which is more than double the Kingston drive. But it costs $239.
The article I read suggested getting two Kingston drives and RAIDing them to give you about 80GB of space at similar read performance to the single OCZ drive would cost $260 which is $21 dollars more than the OCZ drive but at least you get another 20GB of space... so is it more cost effective? Maybe.
And the OCZ drive really is a 64GB drive, but as we all know, drive manufacturers count 1 million megabytes as a gigabyte, when in practical use Windows says a gigabyte is 1048576 megabytes and so it only shows up as about 60GB in Windows which is why OCZ brands it that way.
Are you sure that you didn't knock out any cables inside the PC while you were fitting it in? Does the PC turn on when you take the new card out?
Did you plug in the PCI-E power cables into the graphics card, and is your old Power Supply Unit powerful enough to handle the new card?
You'll probably need a new power supply unit.
is that 3650 a PCI express card or an AGP?
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.16 Ghz
3GB Memory
OS X Tiger 10.4
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T6600 @2.20 GHz,
4GB RAM
GeForce GT 230M
1366x768
Windows 7 home premium 64 bit
At highest quality.
- AMD 1900+XP (1600 Mhz)
- 768 Mb of RAM
- 128Mb video memory (ATI Radeon)
- WinxP
My other computer is a laptop:
- AMD Athlon x2 QL-64 (2.10 per core)
- 4Gb RAM
- 512 Mb of dedicated video memory, able to 'gram' memory of the RAM
- Win7
I don't remember the resolutions of the screens and I'm too lazy to search it. But I should say that, although the first computer is too 'short' on requirements, the game went perfectly well. Okay, visual effects taken to their lowest leves, but, tunning really nice.
On my laptop, the visual effects were on their full capability, and the aesthetic change is very notable betwen computers, but the running itself of the game (not counting the load time and stuff between 'screens') is really similar, once you adapt the effects and stuff.
I was very surprised when I first ran chapter one on my old desktop PC, because I thought I wouldn't be able to play it.
Is that 4650 the ddr2 or ddr3 version?
8GB Ram
1GB 4870
1920x1080
I'm not certain but I just discovered it's actually 256mb not 512.
Seems to be pretty good, plays smoothly at TV (and laptops) native resolution, just have to turn the quality down a little bit but nothing noticeable. Just have to use a mouse instead of the touchpad. Thats a good thing anyway, i can sit comfortably on the sofa with a mousepad on my lap.
Nvidia GTX260 896MB DDR3
Crucial 4GB DDR2 800MHz
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Plays perfectly on full settings at 1600x900.
Played the first chapter on my old pc however..
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.22GHz
Nvidia 7600GT 256MB
2GB RAM
Windows 7 Release Candidate 32bit
Had to lower that to about 5 detail at 1600x900. Although my parts were dying, so I do believe that was what was throttling the performance.
OS:Windows 7 Home Premium
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68-UD3R
CPU: Intel Core i7 2600k
RAM: 8gb of DDR3 Memory
GFX: Asus GTX560
Running super-smooth at 1600x900 quality 9 in full screen with v-sync off.