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From what I could google up, you'd only get some weird game behavoir if you disabled vsync without limiting FPS. But I don't know anything about the subject myself.

Pay to win is absolutely common these days. I don't know why are you so excited :P

I think you can enable it for Directx with third party tools like Radeon Pro, which I intend to use instead of Catalyst.

I really liked ELFX when I first saw it, but it's a bit too realistic. I don't feel like running in complete darkness just because there is no light source. There are nice textures to look at you know. So for me, it's RLO.

Do not EVER buy XFX cards. I dare you. I visit litecoin forums and there's this finnish programmer and overclocker who digs in BIOSes and stuff, and based on his recent posts, XFX cards are horrible garbage mixture of as cheap as possible mismatched components and utterly messed up BIOSes. He only talked about 79xx and R9 280x/290(x) cards, but I have no reason not to believe every product line is like that. You will be much better off with basically any other brand. Let me dig up that post of his. I guess you can apply it somewhat universally: Keep in mind this was posted with cryptocurrencies mining in mind, so in the end it's not that bad. Just avoid XFX!!MSI seems to make ok cards as well. Basically you want something with non-horrible cooler (you'd have to read some reviews to get an idea about this, which might take time... usually there's plenty of good reviews on Techpowerup or Guru3d, if you feel like it), because it will be pushed hard while gaming, and those fans will spin. Now, R9 270x is rebranded slightly faster 7870. Let's compare some basic attributes. I have no idea which 7700 you have, there are few versions of that GPU: 7730 (that's some super lowend crap), 7750, 7770 GHz edition, and 7790. When describing a card, there are numerous important parameters, but for the purpose of this post, I will point out what I think is the most important. We have: 1) GPU and memory clock speeds 2) something called "config core" on Wikipedia, which basically describes some key attributes (I don't really understand this stuff at this level, just playing smart). It's written in colon-separated numbers, and it means Unified Shaders : Texture Mapping Units : Render Output Units 3) bus width, which describes how fast can data be transferred Let's make it simple. From left to right: core speed (boost speed) - memory speed - core config - bus width 7730      800      - 1125 - 384:24:16 - 128bit 7750      800/900  - 1125 - 512:32:16 - 128bit    (speed dependant on memory type, DDR3 vs GDDR5) 7770 GHz 1000      - 1125 - 640:40:16 - 128bit 7790     1000      - 1500 - 896:56:16 - 128bit R9 270x  1000(1050) - 1400 - 1280:80:32 - 256bit    (effective memory speed is 5600) Quite some difference, eh? I hope I didn't overwhelm you too much :P

Considering the universally accepted (from what I can see on the internets) conclusion that Vsync increases input lag, I was curious whether it wouldn't be better to just disable it, limit FPS to 60, and enable triple buffering (which, if I understand correctly gets rid of tearing when running below refresh rate)?

That's what I meant. Those are the configuration files.

I didn't think it was offensive?

What, FPS is somehow connected with physics engine? That makes no sense! (as in, that sounds like super stupid implementation)

Blessings don't alter textures I believe? I don't really care for descriptions, I am just looking at pictures :P P.S. The woman released alternative textures! -> -> -> -> I am so gonna do some mixing.

That's pretty obvious: unspecified garbage in config files. Too bad you didn't save them, people could analyze them :)

Ha, not bad! I would actually mix them together, heh. But Ren did a good job. edit: I don't get it! The fountain is blue on the screen on Nexus, while it's pretty much B&W on your. I demand it be explained! There's some instability in the universe!

Post screenshots!

My head is dizzy from all this, I will wait for 2.2.8 instructions :D

Don't fall for the max wattage nonsense. Just don't. 290x is roughly 250W on average. Yes it can hit way over 300 (like close to 400), but that's in unrealistic scenarios, like running FurMark. There, look. 700W PSU (if it's good brand, like Fortron, Seasonic etc.) is totally enough. It's easy to check what's going on, just keep GPU-Z running and check it from time to time (it assumes you know the default and boost clocks, of course). And check those temperatures as well. Another great monitoring program is HWiNFO, I use it for everything else. I am not entirely sure what's supposed to happen with too high power draw, but I'd guess it would rather be a crash, a BSOD, or a freze rather than downlocking. 290 is still new platform, it might be a driver problem. Latest Catalyst is 13.12, if you don't have it I suggest you grab it.

Just in case anyone is using this, big update is coming out either today or tomorrow. There was some endorsement race in the thread on Nexus and the guy promised to release something/everything he had in the works. I am really curious.

Oh I do believe you, don't get me wrong. It's just that I am confused by the normals and textures and whether I should bother and all.

It would be great if someone could elaborate on this further.

Music, eh? [video=youtube] [video=youtube] [video=youtube] I listen to all kinds of stuff, but it's on rock/metal basis 99% of the time.

I know, I couldn't help it in this case. My brain is full of WTF over this. Help!

You don't have to tell me!https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/459497-vurts-skyrim-flora-overhaul/page-704&do=findComment&comment=11566673 **** me sideways. Honestly. WTF? :o_O:

And people say aged cheese is safe!

Uh, oh. So if I use SRO, what do I download? Hi-res meshes, the only normal available, and SRO textures? Colour maps=textures? The inconsistency in terminology is killing me.

I just spotted the R9 290 part, and would like to remind everyone with such cards that unless you have an aftermarket version (which is somewhat unlikely as they only started appearing very recently), you might run into overheating problems and cards underclocking themselves as a result, which might be relevant to low FPS.

Could someone explain what those "normals" are? In fact, I don't understand the description at all. A complete set of LOD-files consists of - 1x mesh package - 1x normal-map package - 1x color-map package What in the bloody hell is all that?