henke on 13/3/2011 at 14:54
I haven't encountered any bugs, just a few stutters, but I am running at max settings as well. I'm 7 hours in at the moment and I've only mucked about in the nothern part of the world so far, haven't gone down to Pripyat yet.
How do I get artifacts btw? I've already failed to procure 2 of the artifacts for Beard. Only "Firefly" left... though I have no idea where to get it or how. Am I supposed to find a Firefly anomaly somewhere? Are anomalies and artifacts linked together somehow?
Muzman on 13/3/2011 at 16:20
In short, yes. You'll find that there's various groups of artifacts that do particular things and each group has a couple of classes. The difference is basically in strength or potency. Most of the groups are associated with a particular anomaly or two.
Once you figure out the groups you can be fairly sure that where you find one class you'll be able to find another, but this depends on how good your detector is.
There's also a few super mega unique artifacts that you'll find (Tuna stole one from you by the sounds of it ;) )
Beard is a bit like the traders in Shadow of Chernobyl, in that he has a regular cycle of orders and you can go and get a bounty from him pretty much any time you like. So don't feel you have to urgently get missions from him and do them.
And you'll find actually getting to Pripyat isn't that straightforward.
Thirith on 15/3/2011 at 13:27
@henke: what sort of rig are you running the game on? Do you have a video card with 1GB VRAM?
Ostriig on 15/3/2011 at 14:36
I'd actually be interested in hearing that as my system's getting quite long in the tooth by now, a C2D 2.13Ghz with 3 gigs of RAM and a GeForce 9800GT.
As for you, Thirith, I seriously doubt your twin 460s won't be up to the task. I say just give it a try. ;)
henke on 15/3/2011 at 16:01
My specs? Oh shit I gotta get my Device Manager out for this one. I bought a new computer Christmas 2009 and it's a real high-end rig. Everything I've played on it has run just fine on max settings.
Ok here we go:
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Processor 3,2GHz
6GB RAM
64-bit Win7
and the videocard is a Nvidia GeForce GTX 260. Not sure how much VRAM in it tho. I'm guessing... a bunch!
edit: just had to start up CoP and doublecheck my settings, it seems I'm running on High, not Max settings.
Quote Posted by Muzman
Once you figure out the groups you can be fairly sure that where you find one class you'll be able to find another
Groups? Man I haven't been able to find a single artifact yet, much less any groups. I guess I'm supposed to use these detector things somehow, but how? I take one out and wave it around but the dials on it don't change, even when I'm close to anomalies. I'm quite sure I'm doing something completely wrong. IIRC in Shadow of Chernobyl artifacts were littered all over the place. Just lying glittering on the ground. Why can't I find any in CoP?
Thanks for the pointers though!
Muzman on 15/3/2011 at 17:29
Yeah, they thought that was a bit too easy (I think this way is more like the original plan).
The basic detector works by sound only. You just go to an anomaly and get it out (From memory they're on the map. I think some stalkers will point them out if you ask them too). The thing will beep a little bit if there's an artifact in range. Then you walk around a bit and if the sound gets faster you know you're getting closer. You won't be able find the artifact until you're right on top of it.
Better detectors have direction finders and the best one has a little scanner on it to make it easier. Which is good because many of the artifacts move around a lot, before you can see them.
And of course wandering around in an anomaly is often dangerous.
Ostriig on 15/3/2011 at 17:34
Quote Posted by henke
My specs? Oh shit I gotta get my Device Manager out for this one.
Click Start, right-click on Computer and select Properties for RAM and CPU. :)
Quote:
Ok here we go:
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Processor 3,2GHz
6GB RAM
64-bit Win7
and the videocard is a Nvidia GeForce GTX 260. Not sure how much VRAM in it tho. I'm guessing... a bunch!
edit: just had to start up CoP and doublecheck my settings, it seems I'm running on High, not Max settings.
Thanks henke! The specs sheet nVidia gives for the GTX260 states 896 MB. Overall a very nice rig and it looks like CoP Complete can still squeeze all the juice out of it, not a very encouraging state of affairs for people like me.
But definitely good news for Thirith, at least in the graphics department. Go for it.
Ostriig on 17/3/2011 at 14:12
Okay, that looks pretty awesome. But we need screens with thinner bezels.
mothra on 19/3/2011 at 05:14
as long as it is not possible to have a multimonitorsetup with interlocking edges and no borders between screens I will continue to invest my money in a bigger screen instead of 3. It's amazing what you can do but that just hurts my eyes.
