Bloom Effect? » Forum Post by Megalomaniacman

kryo

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Simply, it makes shiny things shinier.

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your first game buddy? .))

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No I have owned the game since it was released in February. I just never turned it on. I don't know why I didn't think about asking this in the beginning, but thank you for your help Stardock.

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lol

he thinks you are stardock now how funny is that

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Don't tease.

Heatman, you know the way when you look at a really shiny metal object on a really sunny day, the way when the sun hits it, it'll have this haze of blinding light coming off of it?

Or on a dark night, when you look at the streetlights, and they have this big glow around them?

That's bloom, and that's what it does in the game.

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I have never enabled the « Bloom Effects » option because I have 2 year-old GeForce 6800, and because I have read on the forum that enabling that visual option might cause framerate slowdowns.

Is that correct, or is it « safe » to enable the option ?

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From reply #4, reacting to post #3 :

he thinks you [= kryo] are stardock now how funny is that

Nothing funny there.

He's simply using a « figure of speech » which is called, in rhetoric, a metonymy ...

... since kryo is a part (employee) of a whole (the Stardock corporation).

Instead of finding normal figures of speech « funny », click here to educate yourself :

Metonymy

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wheew..... i think im returning 2 college.. i dont understand anything from whats sed here :/

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On the other hand, one might argue that it is, rather, a synecdoche :

Synecdoche

It depends on which definition of a metonymy is used.

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Pleazzze, Annatar : don't hijack the thread !

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I have never enabled the « Bloom Effects » option because I have 2 year-old GeForce 6800, and because I have read on the forum that enabling that visual option might cause framerate slowdowns.Is that correct, or is it « safe » to enable the option ?

Sorceress,
It is most definitely safe to turn it on and see how it impacts your system. The 6800 still isn't a halfway bad card at all and should run Sins fine. Typically for any game the Bloom Effect requires more muscle and thus may slow framerate. In my opinion, it's better to have the mapping and details set to as high as possible and forego Bloom effect but it's trial and error on your system to find a nice happy medium between graphics and performance.

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Yes, I agree with you (post #12) : « The 6800 still isn't a halfway bad card at all », and it does run SINS very fine, with texture quality set at Highest (as you recommend).

My dad and I have been playing at SINS without any graphical or framerate problem since the June 2007 Beta 2.

My question was related to what I had read, on another thread, in February, that enabling « Bloom Effects » could negatively affect performance.

I could proceed by « trial and error », but I don't like to experiment when things are working super. But I guess that enabling bloom to see what it does wouldn't cost me anything : I always could disable that option again if I perceived framerate drops.

Thanxxx, drish311 !

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I have been running the game with Full graphics and had no frame rate problems at all.
I currently have
AMD 64X2 Duel Core 4400+
2 gigs of Ram
Nvidia 6600
X-Fi Gamer extreme sound card

The only problems I have had is, the game will sometimes stop for 15-30 seconds then pick back up and play just fine for the rest of my session. I'm very sure that the hang-up is related to Sound but dont know for sure.

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I'm not quite sure what you mean by "negatively affect performance". Any graphics option that turns up the "prettiness" will negatively affect performance. it's just that if you have a more powerful computer, you won't notice.

But in general, turn up prettiness, performance goes down.

Turn down prettiness, performance goes up.

-HM

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jeez i was just trying to be funny (

sorry

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No problem, rayredlab :

I was just having some pretentious fun with my linguistic sophistry.

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I have an 8800 and a core 2 duo with 4 gigs ram.

Why no dynamic shadows, per pixel lighting, and hdr?

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Because the game was designed to run well on some fairly old machines

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I have an 8800 and a core 2 duo with 4 gigs ram.Why no dynamic shadows, per pixel lighting, and hdr?

And a pony! I bet you want a pony, too, right?

No, wait, there are ponies. You must want a monkey. A big ol’ space monkey that goes ook ook ook as it flails around in the dimensionless vastness of …

You don’t want a monkey? What do you want? I mean, other than “features” (and it pains me to call them that, considering) that less than 10% of the target audience can ever see? I may have a disgustingly expensive piece of cutting edge computing hardware plopped down here with massive monitors humming in sedate but coldly calculating self-satisfaction, but most people don’t and won’t. Stardock, sensibly, wants to sell to most people, and no amount of magic fairy dust made of three-letter acronyms will make that any more likely.

What is it with you and the HDR / per-pixel shaders / Direct X 10 Saviour Edition stuff, anyway? Seriously. Do those things actually make games better? No, of course not. That’s a ludicrous proposition and not even forum posters would be so direly imbecilic to put it forward. So what is it?

I swear, you just can’t give people nice things.

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I wasn't being serious fool

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What is it with you and the HDR / per-pixel shaders / Direct X 10 Saviour Edition stuff, anyway? Seriously. Do those things actually make games better? No, of course not. That’s a ludicrous proposition and not even forum posters would be so direly imbecilic to put it forward. So what is it?

They look pretty. And tell me -- if we went back to the days of ASCII art, would you be happy or unhappy? I mean, it doesn't interfere with your gameplay!

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It should've been obvious that I wasn't being serious btw, considering I said dynamic shadowing.

On a massive scale like this game, not even a 9800gx2 would run a game like that with dynamic shadowing.

Hey, don't let logic get in your way of ranting about good graphics though, Squid.

Go play with your Wii.

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C'mon now, it's not an altogether unreasonable request for HDR. I look forward to getting that perhaps in the expansion(?). (or Sins 2?) Many games coming out these days have bloom and HDR options. (you can have either or none active)

I have a high-end rig. I force my Anti-Aliasing and Anistropic to 16x and it looks absolutely amazing.

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From reply #4, reacting to post #3 :
he thinks you [= kryo] are stardock now how funny is that Nothing funny there. He's simply using a « figure of speech » which is called, in rhetoric, a metonymy ...... since kryo is a part (employee) of a whole (the Stardock corporation).Instead of finding normal figures of speech « funny », click here to educate yourself :Metonymy

So um, yea, it is better that some one thinks your a fool, rather than opening your mouth and removing all doubt.

Learned some new pretty words I see there, lol j/k you just left yourself open for that one.

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