how do you program cold and bleak?

it's how you use it...

When I first put this computer together I was slightly concerned about Call of Duty 2 being able to run on it since I was using the 6600GT on an AGP bus and the forums were saying that it was giving the 7800 PCI-e problems. Since I've never used a 7800 powered machine, you can see that I'm not going to miss a higher framerate or more anti-aliasing since the game looks like this on mine! I have it set to medium to high textures, 2x anti-aliasing, 1024x768 screen ratio, w/ the screen output set to my Dell 2005FPW 21" LCD monitor's 1680x1050 supa-wide aspect. The card doesn't have to go through the cumbersome task of running it on the native aspect, but still looks normal on the screen w/ no slowdown. The words get a little fuzzy in this mode, but who's reading when there's Germans to kill! I haven't done any 3D testing to see what the system is capable of, but right now I really don't care.

postcards from the russian front.

It scenes like these that prompted me to find a screen shot program. I couldn't get over how the snow moves w/in the buildings, the lighting give a true feeling of winter, and the sounds (not in the screenshot, sorry) of scattered gunshots and artillery echoing throughout. As morbid as it sounds, I play this for the escape. With levels that look like this, it's hard not to get lost in it all; however when tracers are screaming by your head in lovely 7.1 surround you quickly get focused. I'll have to show some of the uniforms of the soldiers since they actually look like fabric! There are details everywhere that you can only see if you play the game multiple times; then you get a chance to smell the Russian winter roses, so beautiful this time of year.

As I see more scenes to snatch I'll post them. We'll drink in Berlin!