Borderlands the game

Radical_Edward · Jan 25, 2010

TheLaughingMan said:
They get much better if you get your skill for them up. I got to 30ish and the Sniper Rifle became my new best friend.

Just got one of the Sniper Rifles, it's pretty decent.

I ended up finding 2 of the cannons today as well. But being as I already had one.... didn't need them.

Stak · Jan 28, 2010

Yes! I beat the main game. I found the lance soldiers harder than the vault guardian... :confused:

. Shouldnt the guardian be harder? Now i only need to do some extra jobs and level up.

Radical_Edward · Jan 28, 2010

Stak said:
Yes! I beat the main game. I found the lance soldiers harder than the vault guardian.... Shouldnt the guardian be harder? Now i only need to do some extra jobs and level up.

I found it to be about the same, sniper rifle and some cover were handy for the last boss.

FordGT90Concept · Jan 29, 2010

Stak said:
Yes! I beat the main game. I found the lance soldiers harder than the vault guardian.... Shouldnt the guardian be harder? Now i only need to do some extra jobs and level up.

Two words: Corrosive Multipliers. They'll fall like piles of goop. XD

Both times I killed the vault guardian, I used the revolver with "Endless Firepower." Ammo isn't an issue that way.

Stak · Jan 31, 2010

I just used my trusty shotgun. I have 24 round swith it

and a nice scope. Fire rate arond 2. And 15 scattering pieces per round. Accuracy round 40. Damage Is 95. +3 % damage. And AIM FOR THE EYE( i guess that was the blue thing). Really nice. Many crit hits in 1 shot. My mod is heavy gunner wich gives me +60% mag size, 55% fire rate, 3 metal storm skill and +2 of an other skill. And that at lvl 19.

Ps: Anyone with open ports who wants to coop with?

Pm me if you want to...

Kursah · Jan 31, 2010

I'm looking forward to the next DLC, Gamespot got a little more info on it, mech's, new weapons, increased level cap, a new vehicle, some different enemies, supposed to be the largest DLC yet.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6248492.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;5

Stak · Jan 31, 2010

Nice....

gvblake22 · Jan 31, 2010

Kursah said:
I'm looking forward to the next DLC, Gamespot got a little more info on it, mech's, new weapons, increased level cap, a new vehicle, some different enemies, supposed to be the largest DLC yet.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6248492.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;5

Hey, that looks awesome!

FordGT90Concept · Jan 31, 2010

Does that mean rocket launchers won't be useless anymore?

TheLaughingMan · Jan 31, 2010

FordGT90Concept said:
Does that mean rocket launchers won't be useless anymore?

I have been playing with Brick and they are not useless for him.

Radical_Edward · Jan 31, 2010

They are handy sometimes, but not as often as they should be.

I'm looking forward to the new DLC.

Stak · Jan 31, 2010

oh no?

i have an incendiary rocketlauncher and it owns bandits and lance soldiers. i needed to hit them 2 times, they burned A LOT and dead. the most useless weapon i have had was a corrosive rocket launcer. hated the effect (just a green splash

) and was only handy versus turrets. but this incendiary launcher is very good. it has 4X elemental damage

. thats probably why it is so good.

LifeOnMars · Feb 27, 2010

Hi, got the game a few days ago and I have been having performance issues with it. I've tried with various drivers and the best ones so far have been 186.18.

I play at 1280 x 1024 res
Use a GTX 275
and a Q6600 @3.6
4gb Ram
Win 7 64bit Ultimate
All settings maxed, 16AF

The game starts fine at a constant 60 with Vsync enabled, then after I have killed 9 toes it all goes to hell. Can slow down to high 30's low 40's in places where just earlier i had a silky smooth and constant 60fps. At this point, turning off dynamic shadows helps but even then the fps still drop to high 40's/low 50's and its just not smooth.

Any ideas please because at this low res, with this setup i expect more performance??

Mussels · Feb 27, 2010

try a defrag, disabling antivirus, etc.

LifeOnMars · Feb 27, 2010

I've defragged and avg is disabled as i read earlier in the thread it can cause problems.....no change

FordGT90Concept · Feb 27, 2010

If you got WCG/BOINC, F@H, or other CPU intensive task running, kill it before starting the game. Most new games are multithreaded and even idle work causes performance problems.

LifeOnMars · Feb 27, 2010

Nothing else that takes up any major cpu useage at all, I've seen someone first hand playing this smooth as silk on a 3850 ..... man i have bad luck with games, game itself looks awesome

LifeOnMars · Feb 27, 2010

Anymore help anyone?

HossHuge · Feb 27, 2010

Have you installed the patches?

LifeOnMars · Feb 27, 2010

Yeh, it's fully up to date, as is directx and my sound drivers.

DanishDevil · Feb 27, 2010

Try turning the settings down and see if it helps. Namely the AF.

LifeOnMars · Feb 27, 2010

DanishDevil said:
Try turning the settings down and see if it helps. Namely the AF.

Should I really have to though, seriously? Anyone who has played through this with a similar rig to mine with a similar card, let me know what performance was like for you please.

mlee49 · Feb 27, 2010

LifeOnMars said:
Hi, got the game a few days ago and I have been having performance issues with it. I've tried with various drivers and the best ones so far have been 186.18.

I play at 1280 x 1024 res
Use a GTX 275
and a Q6600 @3.6
4gb Ram
Win 7 64bit Ultimate
All settings maxed, 16AF

The game starts fine at a constant 60 with Vsync enabled, then after I have killed 9 toes it all goes to hell. Can slow down to high 30's low 40's in places where just earlier i had a silky smooth and constant 60fps. At this point, turning off dynamic shadows helps but even then the fps still drop to high 40's/low 50's and its just not smooth.

Any ideas please because at this low res, with this setup i expect more performance??

Dude you should have crazy high frames for your 275 on that resolution. I play it at 1920x1200 with a single 275 and have absolutely no problems.

I did have a problem similar though. I would be playing fine until a pop up came along, namely picking up a new weapon or in the weapon assignment screen and frames would drop to like 14ish.

The problem was driver/SLI related though. I posted about it a few pages back I'll look at it again and touch base with ya.

Edit, This was a fix for my SLI issue which I'm sure is related to your troubles. From page 32:

mlee49 said:
The drivers alone are the problem with this game + SLI. The EVGA SLI Profile update fixes it, but I had to drop down to 2x 275's and I think thats where the problem lied. Going from 3-2 cards, but here's what I did to fix it:
Disabled SLI
Uninstalled the Evga SLI enhancement update
Restarted
RE-Installed the Evga SLI update
Opened Nvidia CP and enabled SLI
Restarted game with no slow downs.

Drivers I used then, and now that officially support this game:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_64bit_195.62_whql.html

Perhaps a fresh driver install will help.

TheLaughingMan · Feb 27, 2010

This maybe a long shot, but I had similar issues with Assassin's Creed. The drivers you are using 186.18 or one that was released around the same time was the one that disabled PhysX when ATI is your primary GPU. On the same note, it broke my temp control for my GTX 260 I guess because the board has an AMD/ATI chipset.

My point being, my card would start to overheat and the game would be really choppy after 10 to 20 minutes of play and would only go back to normal if I quit playing for a while. I can't say if you have the same issue, but the fix may help.

Fix: Turn Fan control on manual in the Nvidia control panel. set the fan to run at 85% speed. Play the game and the trouble should stop if I am right.

P.S. If you want a Rocket Launcher worth having for anyone, look for one of the precision RL's. The accuracy will be something like 97% and up, low clip size, but will have a strange effect. If you shoot a wall with it, the missile will stick for a few seconds, then BOOM! If you find one, it will have 100% damage to targets on impact instead of the normal rely on splash damage only crap. Get it, use it, love it.

LifeOnMars · Feb 27, 2010

mlee49 said:
Dude you should have crazy high frames for your 275 on that resolution. I play it at 1920x1200 with a single 275 and have absolutely no problems.

I did have a problem similar though. I would be playing fine until a pop up came along, namely picking up a new weapon or in the weapon assignment screen and frames would drop to like 14ish.

The problem was driver/SLI related though. I posted about it a few pages back I'll look at it again and touch base with ya.

Edit, This was a fix for my SLI issue which I'm sure is related to your troubles. From page 32:

Drivers I used then, and now that officially support this game:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_64bit_195.62_whql.html

Perhaps a fresh driver install will help.

So are you saying I should try those drivers but obviously without the SLI enhancement as I'm running a single card?

Oh and The Laughing Man - I'm using MSI Afterburner with a fan profile and my temps never go over 70-74c but i shall keep checking. Funny you should mention Assassins Creed though, as I had problems with that also.....it would drop to 30-40 frames in DX 10 looking at the shimmery sky

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