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DLP Starcraft 2 Tournament

Discussion in 'Gaming and PC Discussion' started by Zennith, May 24, 2011.

  1. JohnThePyro

    JohnThePyro Headmaster

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    Thanks to Rehio for sending me his & Sree's games.

    As soon as I'm not too drunk to stand, I promise to cast them.

    Only bad thing is I need to do it on low-medium graphics to maintain 30 fps =/ while recording.
     
  2. Deplore

    Deplore Seventh Year

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    Don't you have multiple HDDs in your computer?
     
  3. JohnThePyro

    JohnThePyro Headmaster

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    Hmm?

    I have a NAS with 10TB of storage space, but that's just storage space. When I was going to college I got the bright idea of buying a laptop so I could game on the go. At the time it was pretty much the best you could buy.

    These days not so much, and since it already runs very hot, I date not try and upgrade the video card. I'm going to buy a new desktop soon, but until then I stick with my old laptop.
     
  4. Rahkesh Asmodaeus

    Rahkesh Asmodaeus THUNDAH Bawd Admin DLP Supporter

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    Well shoot. Now my shitty play style is going to be commented on? :p
     
  5. Deplore

    Deplore Seventh Year

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    Because if you're using FRAPS to record, then you likely suffer stutters because you are recording to the same HDD that you are playing the game from.

    If you record to a different HDD, it will become smoother, and you can thus use higher settings in games.
     
  6. JohnThePyro

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    I record to the NAS and not on my install HDD.

    It's just the fact that my video card & CPU are rather old these days.

    It's sad how fast technology ages, seems like just yesterday I was laughing at my friends for having less than 120 fps.
     
  7. Deplore

    Deplore Seventh Year

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    You record to NAS via what connection? USB or 100 Mbps network or...?
     
  8. Solomon

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    Yeah, I actually had to turn down the settings on my SC2 because it lagged a bit at the start (and whenever something was going on). Technology ages fast. :(
     
  9. Deplore

    Deplore Seventh Year

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    I don't know, guys. SC2 isn't that demanding on hardware unlike couple other games. I have a GTX260 which I bought 3 years ago... still maxes SC2 like a champ.

    JohnthePyro, I understand, since he's on a laptop. But desktop fellas? Upgrade your computer, lol. It's not that hard.
     
  10. Solomon

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    My video card is older than that, DarkLord.
     
  11. Deplore

    Deplore Seventh Year

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    Older? 8600GT or below?

    3850 or below?
     
  12. JohnThePyro

    JohnThePyro Headmaster

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    When I record it's via eSata (because my NAS is literally 2 inches from my laptop dock where I plug it into my bigscreen TV and sound system, I can switch from the network to eSata quickly).

    My lappy specs fyi are 3.2ghz intel dual core, Nvidia GTX 260m, and 4GB DD2 ram.
     
  13. Solomon

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    I'm running two 8800GTs on SLI (should have just bought a single better card, but eh, hindsight).
     
  14. Zennith

    Zennith Pebble Wrestler ~ Prestige ~

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    I literally haven't understood this conversation for the last ten posts or so.
     
  15. Deplore

    Deplore Seventh Year

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    This is odd, because you really shouldn't have a problem maxing out SC2 on a single 8800GT. Hell, SLI 8800 is roughly equal to GTX260, so... it sounds like SLI isn't working properly. Do you have the SLI profile installed for SC2?

    Well, I'm sorry to hear it then. Hopefully you can build your own desktop later.

    Also... 3.2 Ghz C2D processor in a laptop? lol.
     
  16. Solomon

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    Welp, that was embarrassing. 0-2. GGs.

    I have to start playing this game again. :(
     
  17. Lukaskr

    Lukaskr Fourth Year

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    GG :s Sry for being late again. When is the next round?
     
  18. JohnThePyro

    JohnThePyro Headmaster

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    Was originally 2.8ghz, I OCed it to 3.2.

    I just finished casting the two games Rehio sent me, I'll be uploading them tomorrow. Give me moar.
     
  19. Capablanca

    Capablanca First Year

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    Veri beat me 2-0, time to take the loser bracket by storm I guess haha.
     
  20. Zennith

    Zennith Pebble Wrestler ~ Prestige ~

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    So.... JimmyCranberry, aka Noctis...

    you wouldn't happen to be a GrandMaster Protoss player, would you?
     
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