What are you playing?

[windwhirl]

You guys realize that these pages are now taking about a minute to load up right? Which means... I scroll past half an empty page and don't even see all those nice screens.

Use spoiler tags! its so much better... I don't do it either all the time... but if you post more than one pic, why not?

Or insert the screenshots as thumbnails, like I did.

What are you playing?

hate posting vids here but its real short clip.. they have really improved the graphics. its pretty life-like imo TOW 2 launch

www.techpowerup.com

 

[jormungand]

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if i see fanservice i will ask, plz name??!!

 

[metalfiber]

You guys realize that these pages are now taking about a minute to load up right? Which means... I scroll past half an empty page and don't even see all those nice screens.

Use spoiler tags! its so much better... I don't do it either all the time... but if you post more than one pic, why not?

I always shrink my pics down to 720p and it really makes a difference. The pics from Soma i posted are 1 is 67KB, 2 is 124KB and 3 is 67KB.

 

[robot zombie]

I'd forgotten how good Shadow Of The Tomb Raider really is and it's going to take quite a game to follow it up, whenever that might be.
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Haha, I'm back on that one yet again, too. Such a complete package in terms of visuals and flow... and just attention to detail in so many regards. It's what a AAA experience is supposed to be like.

I always shrink my pics down to 720p and it really makes a difference. The pics from Soma i posted are 1 is 67KB, 2 is 124KB and 3 is 67KB.

That's pretty good. And here I am averaging ~ 300k with 1080p 90% JPEGs...

I'm just now realizing that screenshots are such a harddrive killer. I use reshade to handle it because it's so unobtrusive. I just checked one of several seperate Fallout 4 screenshot folders. It's about to hit 2000 screenshots, which is... 8 FRIGGIN GIGS. I have 35GB of shitty Fallout screenshots total. Of course, those are all png's. Can anybody explain to me why so many screenshot-capable apps use lossless formats by default when even a max quality jpeg will have no noticeable difference 99% of the time? They're screenshots. That's one bugger with reshade. Pretty sure it only does friggin .bmp (insanity) or .png (okay, but why?) I pick through the ones I really want via irfan and save as jpeg in dedicated folder.

It just seems like bad hygiene for the software. If you don't check, there's a good chance your screenshots are going to be unnecessarily huge files. They're helping unleash lag across the net!

 

[hurakura]

I am mostly just playing with myself

 

[Splinterdog]

A 1080p screenshot can be up to 3Mb if it's a PNG so I use FastStone to bring them down to 1366x768 or similar, which usually brings them down to about 200Kb as a JPEG.

This shot of Lara was a 3Mb png, but is now a 200Kb jpg. Besides, she needed a makeover

 

[Sithaer]

A 1080p screenshot can be up to 3Mb if it's a PNG so I use FastStone to bring them down to 1366x768 or similar, which usually brings them down to about 200Kb as a JPEG.

This shot of Lara was a 3Mb png, but is now a 200Kb jpg. Besides, she needed a makeover

I'm using a lazy/potato method.
Most of the time I just print screen in the game and then save as jpg in Paint.

My last picture here was 685 Kb with the 2560x1080 res I'm using, sounds reasonable to me but I could be wrong.

I just checked one of several seperate Fallout 4 screenshot folders. It's about to hit 2000 screenshots, which is... 8 FRIGGIN GIGS. I have 35GB of shitty Fallout screenshots total. Of course, those are all png's.

Not bad, and I thought that I had a lot of screens from the MMO I've played for ~7 years fairly actively.
Around 3.5 gigs but they are jpg and some not even 1080p as I had a lower res monitor when I started playing it and for a few years after.

To be honest I rarely take screens nowadays, back in the days its like I had my finger glued to that damn button or something.

 

[robot zombie]

I'm using a lazy/potato method.
Most of the time I just print screen in the game and then save as jpg in Paint.

My last picture here was 685 Kb with the 2560x1080 res I'm using, sounds reasonable to me but I could be wrong.

For that res I'd say that's pretty decent.

Not bad, and I thought that I had a lot of screens from the MMO I've played for ~7 years fairly actively.
Around 3.5 gigs but they are jpg and some not even 1080p as I had a lower res monitor when I started playing it and for a few years after.

To be honest I rarely take screens nowadays, back in the days its like I had my finger glued to that damn button or something.

I should go back to using nvidia overlay. With most games it seems to lag and half of the time it doesn't capture. Reshade is instant without even lagging the screen much if at all, so I can literally be playing straight up and pulling screenshots at the same time, like stop-motion.

I mostly don't take many either. With Fallout and Skyrim I tend to take a lot because I'm always modding. Lately I've been working on customizing a FO4 weather mod and full ENB loadout to go with it, so I'm taking lots to compare. It's only going to get worse when I start tweaking interior lighting.

 

[Sithaer]

For that res I'd say that's pretty decent.

I should go back to using nvidia overlay. With most games it seems to lag and half of the time it doesn't capture. Reshade is instant without even lagging the screen much if at all, so I can literally be playing straight up and pulling screenshots at the same time, like stop-motion.

I mostly don't take many either. With Fallout and Skyrim I tend to take a lot because I'm always modding. Lately I've been working on customizing a FO4 weather mod and full ENB loadout to go with it, so I'm taking lots to compare. It's only going to get worse when I start tweaking interior lighting.

Games like Skyrim/FO and well games that are good for modding its completely understandable imo.
I also had a 'few' from my Skyrim times and I assume there will be more once/if I ever go back.

I tried the built in one in AMD's driver but I still prefer my old way if possible. 'that MMO had its own way of saving screens and thats why I had so many, it literally took screens for you at the end of every run/Raid and if you liked the auto screens you could save them all instantly'

Now that I think about it, nowadays I almost exclusively take screens when I feel like posting here, hah.

 

[metalfiber]

Finished SOMA which had a really good story and gameplay.

Now on to Layers Of Fear. This is more of what one would call a walking simulator. You walk around a ever morphing house collecting notes and experience insane in the brain moments that propels the story forward. Your main quest is to finish a painting of what i know not. You'll run into a odd puzzle every now and then. When i say odd puzzle i mean it...in some cases you'll just need to look up or walk backwards. The story seems predictable but having not finished i can't be for sure.

A Ouija board puzzle that is practically impossible to solve without looking on the internet. A note in the room will lead you to the first clue. I could not find it...no that ain't it on the bottom left. Until you solve the puzzle you are locked in the room. I found this room at the beginning and i just started a new game then avoided the room altogether.

 

[Jetster]

Can you capture a game screen with Snipping tool? or TPUCapture? Usually under 300Kb

 

[rtwjunkie]

A 1080p screenshot can be up to 3Mb if it's a PNG so I use FastStone to bring them down to 1366x768 or similar, which usually brings them down to about 200Kb as a JPEG.

This shot of Lara was a 3Mb png, but is now a 200Kb jpg. Besides, she needed a makeover

I'm using a lazy/potato method.
Most of the time I just print screen in the game and then save as jpg in Paint.

My last picture here was 685 Kb with the 2560x1080 res I'm using, sounds reasonable to me but I could be wrong.



Not bad, and I thought that I had a lot of screens from the MMO I've played for ~7 years fairly actively.
Around 3.5 gigs but they are jpg and some not even 1080p as I had a lower res monitor when I started playing it and for a few years after.

To be honest I rarely take screens nowadays, back in the days its like I had my finger glued to that damn button or something.

I just use the great little tool called Image Resizer, from MS no less, IIRC.

 

[ShurikN]

I don't think the size matters if you post the pics as thumbnails.

Anyway, just finished Outer Worlds. Went for the best possible good ending, did all quests, got all companions. All in all it was fun. Expected maybe a bit more considering all the praise the game got, but at least the gunplay and combat were satisfactory *cough*fallout*cough* and the story was intriguing. Graphics were atrocious tho. Visually felt like a 2013 game.

Gonna start Remnant: From the Ashes next.

Oh and finally killed Hades in... well Hades. Took me around 40 attempts. And now the grind begins.

 

[SN2716057]

As it turns out I've never really played Greedfall.

And the first play-through of Tacoma.

I learned that linking the images is better.
More than 2 pictures I place in spoilers.

edit: I see that even linked images maintain the size so I guess that doesn't help with loading?

Spoiler: 2 more pix

 

[metalfiber]

Regarding Layers Of Fear, I found a different Ouija board room that had the note...it still can't be solved unless you write down every three number set you come across in the game. That lead me to the finish of the game. It was ok but SOMA was two bucks cheaper and a whole lot better. I've started Layers Of Fear 2 i got free from Epic. So far it seems better than the first one...the story isn't as predictable as the first one anyhow.

This shot of Lara was a 3Mb png, but is now a 200Kb jpg. Besides, she needed a makeover

How long did you work on that purple nurple?

 

[Vayra86]

I am mostly just playing with myself

TMI!

Can you capture a game screen with Snipping tool? or TPUCapture? Usually under 300Kb

I use this... its very simple, requires nothing new... and custom shortcut. Size with full quality is about 1000-1500kb per pic. So its not super small, but you can tweak that as you please. A consideration: if you game at resolutions higher than 1080p, a quality reduction might be useful. Full size jpeg will easily hit 6 MB on 4k I reckon. But yeah resolution is the cleanest fix for size really. Nice to see people are considering options

Snipping Tool I think is a hassle for in-game.

 

[metalfiber]

LAYERS OF FEAR 2 is a whole lot better than the 1st one imho. The story is good and not predictable, gameplay, puzzles and the fact that one can die, which i have many many times. All of this leads to a better game...plus it's it was an Epic freebie.

 

[milewski1015]

Spent the weekend logging the hours on New Vegas after getting it working (thanks again @dirtyferret for pointing me back to that Bethesda support page). Got to the northern area of the map for the first time (stupid deathclaws making me take the scenic route) and I feel like everybody and their mother wants to give you a quest. In the south, I had a pretty good handle on the side quests and did just about all of them that I picked up (aside from the ones that required you to do stuff in the north), but now that I'm up North, I'm drowning in quests. I feel like I end up researching about as much as I'm actually playing the game - want to make sure doing X quest doesn't auto-fail Y quest because Jane Doe dies or something. Some might argue that for a first playthrough I should just go through the game naturally, but I wanna make sure I get the good guns . I'm playing a stealth sniper character. I have ED-E and Boone as my companions at the moment, so I get crazy-far enemy detection and enemies are highlighted when I'm scoped in. Nothing quite as satisfying as hitting a sneak critical headshot and watching your target just crumple. Was trying to delay siding with a faction until I absolutely have to, but some random Legion hit squad attacked me even though I was neutral with them - needless to say, they're not too fond of me anymore. I'm currently on great terms with the NCR, but I wouldn't be opposed to betraying them if one of the other two factions proves interesting.

Definitely enjoying my time with the game so far. Will likely pick up the DLC once I finish the main story (since stupid past me wanted to save the $6 or whatever the difference was between the base game and the GOTY when I picked it up on sale over a year ago).

 

[rtwjunkie]

A couple of those New Vegas DLC’s are among the best DLC’s in gaming, IMHO.

 

[Vayra86]

This UW real estate has me speechless at times. Loving it.

Look mommy, I can see all of our houses from here!

56K alert...

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Leading the charge... I might wallpaper this one lol

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Think I'll revisit this weather simulator some more, too

FPS took a nosedive to 45-50... dangling around the Freesync range limit of 48hz but I have yet to discover the first tear, have enabled Gsync. Odd but true...

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[ne6togadno]

why you have grass growing on your head?

 

[jallenlabs]

Still playing CODMW multiplayer daily. I havent played the single player or the warzone, lol. Gotta get that fix ya know. Ill play some Dawn of War Soulstorm modded out here and there too.

 

[Vayra86]

why you have grass growing on your head?

STEALTH... man. Bolivia has a whopping two provinces where this might be of any use.

 

[kurosagi01]

Finished AC:Syndicate 2 weeks ago, still playing Monster hunter world trying to beat Arch tempered Valkhana,Fatalis, Alatreon and Kulve Taroth are the only monsters left to beat.

 

[Splinterdog]

Fired up MSFS20 for the first time in ages yesterday and by golly it still looks good.