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06:31.25sbGnarfoz: "I have just sent your request to our Music engineers, so the country may be adjusted"
06:33.37lojikanyone here use wine to play wow on linux?
06:33.46quiescensonce upon a time
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06:34.42lojikjust wondering. i'm new to linux, and i really just want to delete the windows partition. but every time i launch wow, i get an error on the loading screen.
06:35.13sbhttp://www.wowwiki.com/World_of_Warcraft_functionality_on_Wine ?
06:35.47sbalso http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=28973
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07:26.34pompy~lart sb
07:26.34purlblasts sb with a huge firehose then strangles sb with it
07:26.39pompy~wowwiki
07:26.39purl#REDIRECT [[wowpedia]]
07:26.42pompy:D
07:27.12quiescenso.o
07:30.48sbohai
07:30.54sbpatcbnoes
07:40.08quiescenspatcbnoes?
07:44.01sbpatchnotes :D
07:48.33nevcairieli generally like the ability pruning, out with the useless things you cast without thinking on cooldown
07:50.22Megalonshreds nevcairiel
07:50.57nevcairielbe careful, i can shred you back, and now even directly in your face
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07:52.47winknevcairiel: that means every main attack of any class? :P
07:53.08Megalonface2face shredding is where it's at
07:53.56nevcairieli also like how they are stripping professions of their combat benefits, maybe i can train my druid in herbing again without people laughing at me :p
07:54.14winkyeah, that would be neat
07:54.29winkbecause I am sticking w/ Skin/LW since 2005
07:55.14nevcairieli was alchemy/herbing for ever, but at some point i dropped herbing for LW to get the benefits
07:55.45winkI said screw benefits :P
07:55.57wink+crit from skinning on a rogue is not totally useless
07:56.03nevcairieltrue
07:56.08nevcairielbut herbing is pretty much useless
07:56.11winkHaste!
07:56.20nevcairielbut on a cooldown =/
07:56.45nevcairielas a healer i loath haste cooldowns
07:56.55winkI was joking :P
07:57.00nevcairielwhen you need to react really fast, you dont have time to r emember to use acooldown
07:57.13winkI usually bound it to an emergency heal
07:57.18winki.e. not normal rotation
07:57.21winkon my shammy
07:57.38nevcairielmy emergency heal was macroed with  swiftness for instant
07:58.00winkyeah, if you have that. only on druid :P
07:58.08nevcairielbut yeah i never really used the herbing cooldown thing
07:58.22nevcairielanyway, /me goes to read the druid class changes block
07:58.33winkreads email
07:58.53nevcairielat least they got rid of symbiosis, that spell freaked me out
08:01.02sbpompy: what? :O
08:02.17winknevcairiel: it was awesome. either I was trolling my raid to give me taunt or the druids did it by themselves
08:02.40winkgiving the CR to paladins was good tho
08:04.01nevcairieloverall, the changes really read positively
08:09.06quiescensdurids is best \o/
08:28.16znfwhat? patchnotes>
08:28.28znf:o
08:28.29znfFUN
08:28.52nevcairielin before znf QQs
08:29.04nevcairielbecause we all know he will
08:29.11znfnevcairiel, there will definatelly be complaining!
08:29.46nevcairielyou should head over to mmo-champion, its full of people complaining
08:30.25znfoh, complains from Scribes! that's a sure one
08:31.15nevcairieli'm still not sure how scribes ever made much money, every character only needs to buy their glyphs once, its not like its a consumable
08:31.37znfon a high-pop realm, there's a lot of newly leveled chars :P
08:31.45Humbedoohvellums mebbe?
08:31.57znfAt one time I brought down the glyph market on my server. Got a few angry e-mails.
08:31.58nevcairielvellums cost like nothing
08:32.25znfAm I the only one that feels Garrisons to be kind of over-hyped?
08:32.56znflike something you do on the first month of the expansion then forget about it?
08:33.00nevcairielthere isnt really any info out there yet to decide either way
08:33.12quiescenso.o
08:33.14quiescensin my day
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08:33.29quiescensyou had to destroy your existing glyph to switch to a new one
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08:33.31nevcairielcould be something fun to do, i imagine
08:33.50nevcairielquiescens: nah, you always just learned the recipe once and then could use them
08:34.00nevcairieli think at least :p
08:34.05znfwoah @ bye bye crit!
08:34.12quiescensnoes ):
08:34.12znffrom primary stats
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08:34.27quiescenswe had to replace existing glyphs
08:34.29nevcairielcrit from int never really felt all that strong to begin with
08:35.28znfit was still something we had from there
08:35.31znfalso quiescens is correct
08:35.41znfyou had to replace the glyphs completely before they made it a learnable spell
08:41.28znfI'm afraid that WoD will shrink the healer numbers, as more and more people won't be able to heal properly
08:45.53quiescensi don't know what wod stands for o.o
08:46.45quiescensi think trying to fiddle with healing to make it more "dynamic" or whatever so that more people will play healers never really works
08:46.56znfquiescens, that's my concern.
08:47.01quiescensyou'll just end up losing some of the people that were playing healers in the first place
08:47.15znfHealing seems really easy right now, so a lot of people roll healers
08:47.23znfNo important decisions to make
08:47.31quiescensand the people that weren't, are still going to prefer their existing role
08:47.58znfGoing back to having to make important decision is a nice change to the actual game-play, but people will be afraid to try it out.
08:48.29znfalso, I'm pissed about racials
08:48.39znfeveryone gets some stats out of it, except undead :-(
08:48.46quiescensyou're overpowered
08:48.47quiescensgo to sleep
08:49.23znfand troll still sounds OP
08:49.50winkfuck racials, we should be Human Males :P
08:50.05Megalonall should be might tuaren
08:50.23MegalonWHERE IS MY PLAINSRUNNING?
08:50.33quiescensgives megalon a cookie
08:50.35znfArmy of the Dead now deals 75% less damage and is only available to Blood Death Knights.
08:50.36znfWoah.
08:50.42znfShocking.
08:52.55znfSymbiosis has been removed.
08:52.58znfWell, that didn't last long.
08:53.11znfbut, finally, bye bye mangle!
08:54.18nevcairielznf: healing right is brain dead stupid though, I used to enjoy healing because it wasn't just blind spamming, but that changed over time, so glad they are trying to bring it bakc
08:54.37nevcairielright now*
08:54.42znfnevcairiel, as I am, too, I'm just concerned of what will the effects on raiding groups will be
08:54.52nevcairieleasier for me to find a healing spot!
08:55.35znfBinding Heal is no longer available to Shadow Priests.
08:55.37znfow :-(
08:55.45znfHymn of Hope has been removed.
08:55.46znfyay
08:56.04znfRenew is now available only to Holy Priests.
08:56.05znfow :-(
08:56.09znfVoid Shift has been removed.
08:56.10znfand ow again
08:56.55znfso that means shadow is left only with flash heal, heal and prayer of mending
08:57.18nevcairielyou're a dpser, you fool
08:57.38znfyes, and? utility!
08:58.01quiescensoverpowdered
08:58.04znfI really liked Void Shift, though
08:58.08znfdon't care for the others
08:59.18znfwait, what
08:59.18znfPsychic Scream is now a level-15 talent, replacing Psyfiend, and has a 45-second cooldown (up from 30 seconds).
09:00.04znfSo no more baseline fear? :-/
09:00.14nevcairielisnt scream the aoe fear
09:00.26znfYes...
09:00.39nevcairieldont you still have single target baseline
09:00.55znfOnly "Psychic Horror" wich requires Shadow Orbs to use
09:01.06nevcairielthey are trying to nerf CCs
09:01.15znfWe've grown up with Psychic Scream! :(
09:01.21nevcairielits not gone
09:01.38znfThat means I have to choose between root and aoe fear
09:02.34nevcairielstupid paladins can bubble out of cyclone now :(
09:02.49znfIt doesn't even mention what I can't do with Mass Dispel anymore
09:03.25quiescensebil paladins
09:04.15znfnice of them to combine the 5% haste into one buff
09:06.37znfHealing Potions no longer share a cooldown with other potions, but instead share a 60-second cooldown with Healthstones. The cooldown will not reset until the player leaves combat.
09:06.41znfit took them 9 years!
09:06.49nevcairielyeah noone used healing potions
09:06.57sbvoidshift was bad
09:06.59nevcairielnot that it'll change much, since most raids have a lock anyway
09:07.57znfsb, voidshift was awesome!
09:08.01znfmy save-the-tank button!
09:10.34znfMkay. I reached the shadow portion. I'm pissed.
09:10.41nevcairielin other news, the b.net app officially launched chat now
09:10.53quiescensaren't you always, znf o.o
09:11.01quiescensgives znf a cookie
09:11.10sbznf: or "kill yourself button"
09:11.19znfso if I have a single target fight, I need to put on my mastery gear
09:11.22sb"yay, saved the tank - oops, got 200k random damage - dead"
09:11.23znfelse I have to put on my other gear
09:11.43sbFIRST ALPHA NOTES and znf is pissed already
09:11.44sb*sigh*
09:11.46znfsb, OFC
09:11.58znfbecause they never fixed us properly, ever!
09:12.45sbshadow dps is fine
09:13.05nevcairielbut its not better as everybody else, hence znf is not happy
09:13.23znfsb, no. Single Target is crap. AoE / Multi-Dotting is "fine".
09:13.53sbznf: #1 immerseus, #1 protectors, #1 sha is possible, #1 shamans, #1 nazgrim, #1 spoils
09:13.54znfAlso, I stick with my initial assesment - Divine Star will not be used by shadow anymore.
09:14.38znfsb, depends on how crappy the people in your raid are, c'mon...
09:15.09nevcairielit also depends how crappy the player of the shadow priest is :)
09:15.36znfthe only data we have is the raidbots top parses
09:15.43sbscrew raidbots
09:15.52sbnot using WoL anymore - so its useless
09:16.01znfmany people are still using it
09:16.08znfand it's still relevant
09:18.20znfthis will not make it into release: Auspicious Spirits (Shadow) - Your Shadowy Apparitions grant you 1 Shadow Orb instead of dealing damage.
09:18.52nevcairielmany things will change in the coming 5-8 months
09:20.08znfI'm confused about this: Enhanced Shadow Word: Death - When Shadow Word: Death's cooldown is reset due to not killing a target, the resulting Shadow Word: Death cast can generate a Shadow Orb.
09:20.19znfDo they mean the 2nd cast can generate an orb?
09:20.25nevcairielno, the first
09:20.40nevcairielsounds like it to me, anyway
09:21.03znfnevcairiel, but that's how it works now :P
09:21.12znfhence the confusion
09:21.26nevcairielmaybe the second then in addition, who knows
09:25.13sbwoah
09:25.18sbwink: hosteurope 1 ipv6 :D
09:29.37sbbut 8GB ram + 2 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz
09:29.43sblooks much better than strato
09:32.18winksb: the 30 eur one>?
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09:41.02winksays 4 GB here
09:41.18winkhttps://www.hosteurope.de/de/Server/Virtual-Server/
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10:18.21sbno ide
10:19.40quiescenso.o
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11:59.37Stanzillaznf: the 2nd ofc
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12:14.37sbwonder what will happen to inscription then
12:14.44sbif all glyphse are auto-learned
12:23.23znfnot all
12:23.26znfjust major!
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12:55.03FiskerStanzilla
12:55.06FiskerI'm excited
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14:08.53nebula169~framexml
14:08.54purlBlizzard's UI for WoW. Export code/art from the client by using the wow.exe -console or open 'World of Warcraft.app' --args -console after game loads press ~ and enter commands "ExportInterfaceFiles code" and "ExportInterfaceFiles art" (must be used on login screen); or view it online at http://github.com/tekkub/wow-ui-source , http://wowprogramming.com/utils/xmlbrowser or http://wow.go-hero.net/framexml .
14:28.29quiescensmoo
14:41.23bluipodcowMoooooooo
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14:49.50quiescensipodcow \o/
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15:08.45StanzillaFisker: why
15:20.47FiskerThe new start menu
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15:34.20Stanzillaok
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16:31.42Stanzilladiablo3 needs to stop killing my graphics card
16:36.30Fiskero w n e d
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17:13.49znfStanzilla, I hear it only affects nVidia stuff
17:14.26nevcairielnever had any issues
17:15.41znfnevcairiel, do you do T2+ rifts?
17:15.57nevcairielwhy would increased difficulty cause a crash
17:16.11znfstuff dies slower, more particle effects on a longer duration
17:17.25StanzillaFisker nevcairiel when's the next mid range cards due from nvidia?
17:17.27Stanzillasummer?
17:17.42nevcairielisnt 750ti midrange
17:17.58Stanzillathougth that's cheapo range
17:18.08winkisn't that a BMW? 750ti :P
17:18.15nevcairielnah 30 is cheapo range
17:18.30nevcairielbut anyway, there is no information on the new releases
17:18.49znfso 150€ is mid-range
17:19.10nevcairielits not low-end and not high-end, hence, mid-range?
17:20.11znfwhy are there no passively cooled mid-range cards from nVidia? :-(
17:20.55nevcairielpassive is overrated, needs ventilation in the case to work anyway, so you need some kind of active fan either case
17:21.04nevcairielbut it entirely depends on some 3rd party vendors building some
17:21.31znfonly one I can find is a GT 640 that is somewhat acceptable
17:21.58nevcairielcould probably build a 750 or 750ti in passive, since they are so energy efficient
17:23.13znfoh, it seems that my current card is better than a GT 640
17:23.14znfmeh
17:25.55znfhttp://gpuz.techpowerup.com/14/04/04/pc.png
17:26.06znfso old :-/
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18:12.52GnarfozStanzilla: late this year, so don't hold your breath if you need something now
18:13.04Gnarfoz750ti is on the lower end of "midrange", too :|
18:13.06StanzillaGnarfoz: was for a friend but yeah
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18:25.07nevcairielspeaking of, so how is performance now Gnarfoz?
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20:04.55Gnarfoznevcairiel: don't laugh, I've been standing in Thayd for about 2 hours now xD
20:05.11GnarfozI cranked most settings to max though
20:05.20Gnarfoznot sure what some of them even do, though
20:05.28Gnarfoz"view distance fogged" for example
20:05.38Gnarfoz"Parallax" could mean anything without context
20:06.04Gnarfozand Clutter Distance seems obvious, but is it the distance after which no more clutter is drawn, or the reverse? I don't really see a difference when moving the slider
20:06.23Gnarfozmost others seem to be of the "more is better" kind
20:06.25nevcairielit usually means how far away you see clutter
20:07.02nevcairielparallax in graphics usually refers to the motion of objects further away appearing slower
20:07.29GnarfozI'm not sure why they would let me control that
20:07.31nevcairieland some related concepts
20:07.52nevcairielanything distance-related can really fall under that
20:08.13Gnarfozlol, I hadn't even touched the slider before now. it only has two positions, "empty" and "full", and the number next to the slider stays at 1 for both.
20:08.52Gnarfozoh I found a spot where clutter distance is obvious
20:08.54nevcairieli guess it might simplify geometry of distant objects if its not on
20:09.00nevcairielor something
20:09.04nevcairiel=)
20:09.04Gnarfozyeah, maxing = stuff like grass appears further into the distance
20:11.05Gnarfozwell, vsync on + non-exclusive fullscreen means it hovers around 30 fps
20:11.24Gnarfozwhen there's lots of visibility
20:11.35Gnarfozwith walls and mountains around, it's going to be a bit higher
20:11.51nevcairielvsync should mean either 30 or 60
20:12.05nevcairielunless you use adaptive vsync
20:12.14GnarfozI use the ingame option
20:12.52Gnarfozit's enabled and says 25.5 fps, and said 40 fps before
20:12.58Gnarfozwhich means it's either not really on
20:13.00Gnarfozor whatever
20:13.21nevcairieli usually dont enable vsync anymore unless i experience tearing
20:13.29Gnarfozyeah, I'm going to try that
20:13.43Gnarfozalso, I noticed there's a lot of settings in nvidia control panel that there's no controls for in games
20:13.55nevcairielor i force adaptive vsync in the nvidia panel, which only does vsync for fps over screen refresh, because tearing is much more common then
20:15.48Gnarfozrofl
20:16.03GnarfozI just added Wildstar64.exe to the list of games and wanted to change something
20:16.10Gnarfoznvidia control panel application has stopped working :(
20:16.14nevcairielheh
20:16.34Gnarfozahaha
20:16.51Gnarfozit was ambient occlusion (the topmost entry)... which is now grayed out and says "not supported for this application"
20:17.11nevcairielit always says that unless  nvidia unlocks it for that game specifically
20:17.24Gnarfozafter adding the game, it's unlocked
20:17.27nevcairiel(or you haxor around with nvidia inspector)
20:17.28Gnarfozwhich is probably why it crashed
20:18.08Gnarfozwhy is it that way?
20:18.20Gnarfozi.e. explicit unlocks
20:18.29nevcairielbecause it doesnt work with everything
20:18.35Gnarfoz+ does the global option do anything, then?
20:18.40nevcairieland when it doesnt, it causes funky behaviour
20:18.56nevcairielsimilar to how they have to unlock SLI rendering for each game individually
20:19.22Gnarfozalso I'm confused that many options have no "application controlled" setting
20:19.31Gnarfozwhen it's clearly something many applications control themselves
20:19.53nevcairielbut maybe they do it themself and can't really talk to the driver
20:20.08nevcairielwow for example has its own ambient occlusion these days
20:20.08Gnarfozhuh?
20:20.16nevcairielindependent of the nvidia setting
20:20.17Gnarfoznah, not talking about SSAO
20:20.35Gnarfozstuff like FXAA
20:20.43nevcairieljust saying because its one of the options without "application controlled" :P
20:20.47Gnarfozwhich Wildstar has its own settings for, but nvidia only lets me pick On or Off
20:20.57GnarfozI have it on Off, but clearly it works
20:21.02nevcairielwildstar may be doing its own thing
20:21.07nevcairielits not that hard
20:21.12nevcairielits just an extra pixel shader
20:21.15Gnarfozthe AO setting is unlocked for WoW btw
20:21.19Gnarfozthe nvidia one
20:21.31nevcairieli know, but you dont need to set it to on for SSAO ingame to work
20:21.49GnarfozI've never really fiddled with these in-depth settings in the nv control panel :F
20:22.19nevcairieli usually just enable AA-Transparency (if no FXAA is available), because otherwise transparent textures look like ass
20:22.39nevcairieland i dont like WoW with FXAA, since it makes font look weird
20:22.59nevcairielfonts*
20:24.04GnarfozI prefer "real" anti-aliasing, but that's going out of fashion with these engines that do... there was some technique that modern shader-heavy engines use which makes MSAA not work properly
20:24.35nevcairielthose engines have their own anti-aliasing sometimes which works OKish
20:24.39GnarfozRift was the first non-WoW MMO I tried out that had it, and I hated it, because my GPU wasn't powerful enough to handle FXAA and without it, the jaggies killed me
20:25.04nevcairielFXAA is rather cheap compared to high levels of MSAA
20:25.10nevcairielwhich is why many people prefer it
20:25.14nevcairielmuch less of a performance hit
20:25.27nevcairielif it didnt have the blurry-text problem
20:26.02Gnarfozwell, 4xMSAA looks fine for me, but yeah, performance hit
20:26.13Gnarfozbut it's not a matter of preference in many places, the engines just don't do MSAA
20:26.19Gnarfozwhat was that term :|
20:28.14nevcairieli just had to try again, and man, FXAA really does a number on text in wow
20:28.43Gnarfozthat's why Blizz doesn't offer it, I guess :D
20:29.44Gnarfoznegative lod bias: clamp
20:29.47Gnarfozwhen using anisotropic
20:29.50Gnarfozgood to know
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20:30.16Gnarfozhmm
20:30.24GnarfozWildstar has no setting for triple buffering
20:30.30pentium166does the "scene detail" slider work backwards for you?
20:30.40nevcairielif you got rid of vsync, you dont need ti anyway
20:30.46Gnarfoznevcairiel: that's true :D
20:30.55Gnarfozpentium166: i.e. lower setting = more detail? let me check
20:31.05Gnarfozpentium166: what am I looking at? what kind of stuff does it affect?
20:31.14pentium166i'm sitting in uh, some forest
20:31.35Gnarfozoh yeah, you're right
20:31.39pentium166when i slide it to the left i can see rocks in the distance show up, when i slide it to the right they pop out
20:31.46Gnarfozit's basically like clutter distance, but in reverse
20:31.47Gnarfozwtf
20:31.59nevcairielI'm really looking forward to WoWs new character models, the hair on my nelf always caused a bit of shimmering around the places where it hits the skin
20:32.03GnarfozI should find that thread on the forums again... there is one that explains some of these settings in detail
20:32.19nevcairielstupid transparent texture hair
20:32.25Gnarfozyeah, low tech
20:32.31Gnarfoz14 year old engine
20:32.31Gnarfoz:D
20:32.58nevcairielits the main reason i have to use AA-Transparency, otherwise my hair has aliasing :/
20:33.04Gnarfozget a haircut
20:33.09nevcairieli like this hair
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20:33.19nevcairielnever changed it
20:34.21Gnarfozpentium166: which server are you playing on?
20:35.00Gnarfozahahahaha moving the render scale target slider to the right crashed the game almost instantly
20:35.49pentium166Cassus
20:35.49Stanzillayup
20:36.12Gnarfoznevcairiel: adaptive (half refresh rate) probably means "enable vsync over 30 fps", right?
20:36.20Gnarfozpentium166: ah, shame
20:36.24nevcairieli think it always syncs to 30 fps
20:36.42Gnarfozhm?
20:37.11nevcairielyeah, i just checked, it'll lock the vsync to 30 fps, so you cant go over it
20:37.17Gnarfozyeah
20:37.22Gnarfozthat's what I meant
20:37.41nevcairielseems like a useless option, unless you want a fps limiter for some reason
20:38.06nevcairielmaybe if you have a 144hz screen and want to sync to 72hz instead
20:38.35Gnarfozwell, maybe you dislike the experience of going from "movie fps" to "soap opera fps"
20:38.50Gnarfozand would rather be stuck on "movie fps"
20:38.57Gnarfozand be stable on that
20:39.03Gnarfozsomething like that?
20:39.11nevcairieli guess
20:39.16nevcairieldoesnt make much sense to me, but oh well
20:39.23Gnarfoz(not that it is really an accurate comparison, there is no motion blur here, and no shutter)
20:39.49Gnarfozit's like "ugh, jumping from 60 to 30 fps all the time" because of double buffering
20:39.57Gnarfozthat's quite noticeable
20:40.09Gnarfozcould use this option instead of turning on triple buffering
20:40.10nevcairielwell if it would really jump that extreme all the time
20:40.31nevcairieli guess
20:41.02Gnarfozthere's probably more than enough players whose setups can do 60 fps when looking at walls, but as soon as you face somewhere with some view distance, it goes to something like 50, which means 30 with vsync+double buffering
20:41.13Gnarfozetcc
20:41.21Gnarfozanyway... I'm setting it to adaptive for now
20:41.50Gnarfozthe rest, I'll leave as is, mostly "application controlled" or "off" where that is not available
20:42.04Gnarfozhope I'm not wasting power anywhere this way ;)
20:42.22nevcairielthe game runs slow as it is
20:42.37Gnarfozyeah, the much famed "optimization still to come"...
20:42.47GnarfozI have no reason to believe it's going to come, at all
20:42.48Gnarfoz:D
20:43.09nevcairielis that just make believe from the players, or did at least something official say that?
20:43.23GnarfozI'm inclined to say the former, but I haven't actually checked
20:43.53nevcairielbecause right now its really quite slow
20:44.00nevcairieldont want to know how it looks in group or raid content
20:49.49Gnarfozwuahhh
20:49.51Gnarfozrender scale 2.0
20:50.07Gnarfoz95% gpu load :P I can hear her blowin'
20:50.18StanzillaI tried that in battlefield, took my half an hour to get back to the menu to change it back
20:50.19Gnarfozbut still ~28 fps
20:50.22Stanzillabecause vram was full instantly
20:50.52Gnarfozeheheh, gpu-z says "percap reason: thrm"
20:50.55Gnarfozyou don't say
20:51.08nevcairielrender scale increases the resource requirements exponentially
20:51.13GnarfozI'm aware
20:51.23GnarfozI'm amazed it even produces a playable framerate
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20:52.36CloudfozSpeaking of which, my screens just went black
20:52.57nevcairielnow you overheated it
20:53.17CloudfozWow, that wasn't just the graphics driver it actually crashed the OS and rebooted
20:53.41CloudfozThat's not really supposed to happen
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20:57.19nevcairielmusic cuts out during loading screens, they should fix that, mighty disturbing :p
20:59.19nevcairieli get around 50 fps now watching an open valley without much npcs or players moving around
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22:47.24GnarfozI shouldn't have slacked so much tonight
22:47.47Gnarfozonly now read that this weekend ends at like 19:00 UTC on sunday
22:48.08Gnarfoz(compared to the last two which ended at like 06:00 monday)
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23:59.52znfStanzilla, http://i.imgur.com/eMxnbRr.png nice

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