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I see. My card is low end these days, but at 1366x768, it should be able to hold up well.

I already tried most of the fixes suggested on numerous forums and on reddit, and they helped a bit. I haven't tried the Vsync part. I will try and post back results.

I just tried a mod called 'Internal resolution multiplier'. Oh my word, the game looks a lot more sharper now! The blurry image is finally gone! I reconsider calling the graphics bland. It looks pretty now.
If anyone is curious, the mod does exactly what it says. It renders to the resolution you set, instead of stretching it across your screen. Plenty of other mods are floating around too. Do check it out if you guys want to.
http://nomansskymods.com/
 


Thanks for the tip. I will give it a try since I have not been thrilled about the way the game looks on my 1440p monitor.
 
I tried forcing vsync on, in the nvidia control panel. It didn't help. I set it to Adaptive, and it ain't half bad. Let me see what I'm getting without any.

You should also get 'Fast actions' mod, if you were annoyed with having to hold down your mouse button to click anything.
I want to try out a Reshade mod too.
 


It looks that way. I'll be testing out the internal resolution multiplier mod and the chromatic aberration/vignetting/scan line remover mod tonight.

Update: I did some testing tonight with the two mods I mentioned earlier in this post. They made a huge difference in my opinion.

I took the first screen shot a couple days ago with no mods. You'll notice the vignetting (dark spots in the upper corners) and scan lines near the top of the image. You might also notice that the textures don't look great even though I'm playing at 1440p with maxed settings.

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This second screen shot was taken tonight with mods active. The first mod removes the vignetting, chromatic aberration, and scan lines. I really hate these effects so this first mod probably made the biggest difference for me.

The second mod I used was the internal resolution multiplier mod. Apparently if you play at a resolution higher than 1920x1080 the game renders at a lower resolution and then upscales to your native resolution. This mod makes the game render at your native resolution. In my case that is 2560x1440.


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those have definitely made a good difference. a few others had mentioned them but after seeing your shots i decided to give them a try.
i also added the color correction MOD "Instagram filter remover", also makes a good difference.

the internal resolution MOD claims it is just a bug fix for some people who's game wasn't rendering properly. i can't say i really notice much of a difference with that one set at 1x alone so maybe mine was one of those already working correctly. so i set it at 2x and it does make everything more clear.

now hopefully i will get to my atlaspass v1 soon. spent a lot of time on my initial planet, like 20 hours.

 
As for me I dropped No Man's Sky. It is alrighty to play few hours before going to bed, but the planets look too empty and lonely for me, I get somewhat depressed.
I've also found new wannabe Sid Meir's corsairs game on steam, It's called Tempest, Im the big fan of Jolly roger thematic, so I've changed my spacesuit to saber and yo-ho-ho!

 
Newly released patches for No Man's Sky helped get rid of most stuttering issues for me. It's runnning well and I don't need to use the internal resolution multiplier mod anymore, although I am starting to not feel the incentive to play it all that much.
I haven't touched it in a couple of days. I played it for 10 minutes today, just to see how much has improved since the patch.
 
I finally finished 'The Witness', which I started off 7 months ago. I'd say it took me a decent 25 hours to beat it. I didn't 100% it or anything because that'd be really difficult. I did cheat on 5 or 6 puzzles because otherwise this game would just be in backlog forever, lol. When I checked, it showed I completed around 338 puzzles with 5 hidden ones. I activated 7 lasers (game has 11 but you need only 7 to beat the game). It was definitely a unique game, very cryptic, almost like each thing placed in the game world has a meaning. Great game and I enjoyed my time with it.

I just installed Black Mesa and I think I'll start tonight.
 
Yeah, it is fun. When you get the satisfation of having done a complicated puzzle, it makes you feel really clever. Like how the game's developer said, it assumes you are an intelligent person when you start off the game. IMO, it does a great job in teaching the player wtihout uttering a single word. You are forced to make your own assumptions and descriptions regarding each puzzle piece you see in the game.
If you want to try, I recommend not looking up puzzles online, unless you're really stumped, like how I got a few times, which led me to take breaks from the game (which is why I took 7 months...lol).
 
I've been going back to the Witness for several months too. I'll put it this way, this is a game where I keep a pen and graph paper handy while I play to help me solve puzzles. If it wasn't a great game I wouldn't ever bother with something like that.

It does a great job of teaching you how to do tougher and tougher puzzles without any sort of tutorials or hints. The environment and the things you learned from previous puzzles are usually all you need to figure out a new puzzle.

I will admit that I looked on Youtube a couple times when I just couldn't grasp the concept of what they wanted me to do but this is always a last resort because it robs me of that great moment when everything finally clicks and I figure it out on my own.
 
I really enjoyed Black Mesa but I love the Half Life series in general. In fact I finished all the accomplishments in Black Mesa and I don't often do that. Getting that hat to Xen was a bitch. :lol:

Mankind Divided is great. If you liked The Human Revolution you will like Mankind Divided. It's also the new Crysis. Even with a 980 Ti I have to significantly reduce graphics settings to get playable frame rates at 1440p. I'm using the Very High preset with no MSAA and I'm getting about ~55FPS average. From what I've seen even a GTX 1080 can't do the Ultra preset at 1440p. It will be interesting to see if DX 12 support will help or hurt.

If you guys like a good story driven puzzle game I can't recommend The Talos Principle enough. Very cool game.
 

Sometimes you gotta do it. Otherwise you'll just lose interest and never finish it. I had reached 6 lasers months ago. For activating the 7th laser, I needed to get through one puzzle that I just couldn't get my head around. I occasionally used to come back to see if I could do it, but still couldn't get the logic. Checking out the walkthrough made me realise one mechanic I was not aware of. After getting through that, I got the motivation to play the game more. So, in a way checking the walkthrough proved beneficial.

The port for Mankind Divided is good, right? I saw negative steam reviews and I thought it was because of a poor port, but it turned out to be people loathing the microtransactions.
I want to try out the Talos Principle. Let me finish Black Mesa first 😛.
 


From what I have heard from people like Jeff Gerstmann the port is very good. There are negative Steam reviews and posts in the Steam forums about terrible performance and optimization but I take that with a grain of salt.

There are obviously genuine cases of games with bad PC optimization but in Mankind Divided's case most of the posts I read say that because they can't get 60 FPS (sometimes 100+ FPS) with maxed settings it's terrible optimization from lazy developers. Most of these people didn't even bother to tinker with the settings. They just tried the game and found that they couldn't max it out so they automatically write a negative review calling it a trash port and refund the game.

I hate reading stuff like this because I worry that it will hurt developer's ambition to make advances in PC graphics. When did PC gamers decide that if they can't push every slider all the way to the right with maxed settings a game is trash? I want games to come out that push the boundaries the way Crysis and the Doom series did even if that means they won't be maxed out by most people until future GPU generations come out. I think developers will be nervous about pushing those boundaries because when they do people cry poor optimization, the game gets mixed reviews on Steam, and there is a high refund rate. I'm not talking strictly about Deus Ex here. It's just the trend I see with PC gaming in general.
 
just got a "fly low" mod that also makes it much more fun when cruising

this was a great game. i've been telling myself i'm going to get back and finish it for most of this year now. a new DLC package had been released that i keep meaning to get, think that may be my mission this coming weekend.


really dying to try Mankind Divided, but will be waiting some time before purchase i think. maybe after some actual story DLC content is added and/or the price goes down. unless someone wants to familyshare me a copy 😉
am about 70% through my 2nd playthrough of Human Revolution, this time the Director's Cut.

 
I haven't finished The Talos Principle yet either. I'm in C3 and I'm at 100% up to that point. I had to cheat to figure out a few of the stars but I refuse to cheat on a regular challenge. I was about to pull my hair out on one of them and that's when I played The Human Revolution again. :lol: I played the last hour of it Tuesday and started Mankind Divided literally right after I finished it.

I'm averaging mid 40s - lower 50s FPS in Mankind Divided with the Very High preset and MSAA off. The game is a beast. It's the first game that's made me wish I had a faster card than my 980 Ti. I was going to buy a 1080 Ti anyway. Now I wish they would hurry it up.
 
Mankind Divided at 1440p. Very High preset. MSAA off. VSynch - Triple Buffering. And I had to set Shadow Quality to High from the Very High preset to get it smooth.

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6700K at 4.6Ghz
16GB DDR4 3200 cas 14
EVGA GTX 980 Ti SC ACX 2.0+
Steam folder is on a 500GB 840 Evo.

Game is crazy demanding. Looks like even the 1080 can't max it at 1440p.
 
see so many negative reactions and reviews. why didn't Crysis & Warhead get this negativity for pushing GPU boundaries? i'm glad to see it happen again. in videos and images i've seen the game still looks great at mid-high settings. just phenomenal at ultra.
maybe it could be optimized some but it still has effects that many games haven't reached yet.
 
Ah yes, I was just about to post about that new game. It looks good. I think I heard once that they were doing a new game, never knew it was so close to release, and there wasn't much talk about it either. I never played Myst or Riven or any of the games made by Cyan, but I've heard that they were great. Reviews look promising too.
 
tried the Myst games in the passed and never got much into them but so far this seems to be pretty cool. spent about 20mins on it early this morning and the scenery is gorgeous. so far kind of like The Vanishing of Ethan Carter but more fantasy themed.

one of the few games i've seen that have Occulus options built-in if any of you have one yet.

 

I'll try that. You should try out the 'Deep Space' mod. Makes a lot of changes in color, especially space. It looks dark and the pulse jumps look more cooler with this mod.

 
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