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Professor Askew · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:14 am Post subject: New Machine--New Myst V

Wow!

When Myst V came out there was talk about what the game looked like on various machines. At the time I felt very lucky I had the PC I did compared to others who were not really seeing the bubble effect, the water on Noloben, and especially the graphic quality and movement of Esher and Yeesha. I was pretty happy with the graphics. The characters looked good if not a little jumpy now and then. The Noloben water was beautiful and the grass swayed in the wind. I really thought I was up to speed where EoA's requirements were concerned.

Since that time I have built a new machine. I won't go into a lot of tech detail except to tell you that the machine is running on an Athlon xp3800+, 1 gig of RAM, and here's the kicker.....twin 256mb nVidia geForce 6800 GT video cards in SLI mode. I cranked all the settings to max and holy cow!!!! It's like another game. Truly. K'veer is jaw-dropping. It also makes the Bahro look much more convincing. Todelmer is crisp, crisp, crisp. It's just gorgeous.

So, my advice is never throw out your old games. Because when you upgrade the machine, you upgrade the game.
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Daedalus · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:32 pm Post subject:

Myst V on a sweet machine:

Todelmer, Tahgira, Noloben, Direbo, D'ni = Surprised

Laki =

Professor Askew · Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:14 am Post subject:

LOL. It's funny that you say that. The first time I played EoA I went through the entirety of D'ni first. Don't ask me why, 'cause I don't know. From there I hopped around the Ages and ended with Todelmer.

This time around I'm playing "in order"...D'ni, Age, D'ni, Age, etc. It makes the game much more interesting. However, when you play this way, the final Age you visit is Laki. Not exactly what I call ending on a high note.

Pooor Laki. Poor little cartoon-looking Age.
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Cycreim · Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:02 pm Post subject:

Laki could have been so much more! It's a shame they had to rush it.
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dcos · Great Tree Member Joined: 21 Feb 2006 Posts: 1174

I quite liked Laki Confused

weldergeek · Great Tree Member Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 44

Daedalus · Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:23 pm Post subject:

I played the same way, finishing the GS first. Laki is the age at the end, so naturally I started there.

Luckily I finished.

So in order; D'ni, Laki, Todelmer, Noloben, Tahgira in terms of visits. I finished Noloben last, quite proudly.

Rils · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:08 am Post subject:

It's odd, I know a lot of folks don't like Laki'ahn, but I did. Reminds of those pictures of the Seychelles, one of my top 5 place to visit.

Originally I turned the video settings down when I first played it, as my machine is good but not top of the line. I went back and played it again a few months later, and turned everything up as far as it would go. What a huge difference it made, just going from mid-line to 11 on the scale! Made it so much more immersive, so much more incredible...

~Rils
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