STALKER beta

Anyone played it?

Really fun FPS, also very demanding though. I personally think its very CS: Source like but with much better graphics and other tweaked features. Thoughts?

 

its very choppy on the rig in my sig even on medium settings at 1920 x 1200
but it probally just hasnt been optimized yet

the thing i really hate about it is that the graphics are so unsharp its very difficult to see your enemies sometimes

 

Or eh... the fact that the 7900GS isn't capable of handling modern titles at that massive resolution....that might be a factor! Even a 8800GTS struggles with some new games with all options on at those sort of resolutions, so I don't see how you expect Stalker is 'not optimised yet', running at 1920x1200 on medium settings on a Go7900!

Of course maybe Stalker is going to be an extremely well optimised game like the Source engine, and relatively undemanding, but if it's anything like Company of Heroes, Call of Juarez, or some of the other gpu killers, then your 7900GS isn't going to be able to manage the strain you're putting it under, realistically.

 

How would I get this beta?

 

I wanna plaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

How does one sign up?

 

I agree with Havok, that is a really high resolution, my 7800GTX will struggle with it for sure, however my 8800GTX will eat it!!

 

I agree with that completely you need to have it on high detail to see enemies from far away. And the other gripe I have is both sides look relatively the same in that future looking suit. Finally I think the maps are confusing at the moment but it takes getting used to.

 

Still nothing how I can plaaaaaaaaaaay?

 

How would I get this beta?

 

It's been floating around the web for about 2 years now, beta build of the game, unless they've recently released another one to the public that I'm not aware of...

 

http://www.rebelz-nation.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=4#cat

 

Oh, you mean the leaked thing. I thought it was an official beta or something.

 

It is an official beta. You needed to get a beta key emailed to you and confirm your email address with a password on fileplanet before getting the file.

at least in my case.

 

Thanks for the link.

 

For some reason I have something against all military type shooters if the main player is not an American military force. lol

 

I played it at 1920x1200 with 8aa/16af and got avg. 50fps. If this is just the "badly coded beta" than the real game is gonna run GREAT!!!

I would say most of the textures in CSS look better than this game but they lighting effects and lightning looks extremely good in stalker.

 

Wow compstomper screenshot please!, do you have full dynamic lighting on (i had to turn it off it killed my fps)

 

I'll take some screen shots. I had everything MAXED!

 

Here are some screen shots. I told Fraps to take pictures every 2 seconds than I ran around the map shooting stuff and tossing grenades. I picked out a variety of the pictures and I will upload more if ya'll want me to. (I know these were not that good)

 

wow, that looks on par with the HL2 engine.

 

Nice screenshots. I must say, at least from the screenies, the graphics don't blow me away or anything. As andrew.brandon said, it looks very similar to HL2. I'll have to give th beta a shot. I am actually pretty excited about this game.

 

I'll turn on super sampling and take some more later today on the other map.

 

I'll definitely be gettiing the proper game when it comes out in 3 weeks.