I played the first stalker at launch on my ATI 9550 on a 17inch LCD LG 1280x1024 and it was amazing. Then I got a x1950Pro and I was lost for words when I first saw HDR in Oblivion and how good quake 4 was running.
You were really amazed by Oblivion? That game was ugly already back in the day, especially when you were used to playing FarCry, Half Life 2 and such games that looked much better already few years before. HDR, Bloom and stuff like that was super ugly, but Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl still looks pretty even even now. I play a lot of old games, but I am always shocked how ugly Oblivion is when I try it now and it was ugly already in 2006, Fallout 3 and New Vegas on the same engine were also very ugly, but it was ok for that stylised dark humor visuals, Skyrim was also super ugly in 2011, but there is a massive jump in graphics in Fallout 4, that looks pretty good I would say still with the same engine. BTW, don't take me wrong, I really like Oblivion and I would prefer it over Skyrim, but that game was super ugly. Back to Stalker, even when original stalker can look slightly more outdated now, there was such a big jump in lighting and shadows in Clear Sky that it still looks really good even today.
@Pidalin the HDR in caves when you had a torch and the reflections on armor were amazing. The open world was also amazing, for me it was jaw dropping. Stalker had a lot of issues with my x1950pro indoors the lighting and shadows were amazing but as soon as I went out the fps would drop like crazy and had to drop the fully illuminated settings. Tried many fixes but nothing seemed to work, it was a driver issue maybe but also the game was a mess at launch 🤓. I had it on original disk and I was young, never checked for updates even months after release.
Definetely not a bad system:) 7600 Gt was a good mainstream card in 2006 and with a Core2Duo its perfect i would say:). But the Geforce 7600 Series had probles with textures... it was blurry and not so sharp as it should be
@retro4fun358 I only had problem with Clear Sky at launch which was a driver issue preventing the game from running, had to wait a bit, I did end up buying a new rig 😂 SoC was running fine from the start
If it was made on UE5, you would need RTX 6090 for the same graphics. 🙂 I finished original Stalker on 7600GT AGP and Celeron D 2.8 GHz, it was playable in 1024x768, but not literally great.
@@retro4fun358 I never liked GTA, I always prefered Mafia, mainly because of I am Czech and Mafia is just our beloved game, but I remember that GTA SA looked really ugly to me and it performed pretty poorly for how it looks, it was just weird port from PS2.
@@Pidalin yes bad Port for the PC in terms of performance. It looks not great but better than PS2 because of the higher Resolation. Everyone benefits from different games. Tastes are different
I played the first stalker at launch on my ATI 9550 on a 17inch LCD LG 1280x1024 and it was amazing. Then I got a x1950Pro and I was lost for words when I first saw HDR in Oblivion and how good quake 4 was running.
You were really amazed by Oblivion? That game was ugly already back in the day, especially when you were used to playing FarCry, Half Life 2 and such games that looked much better already few years before. HDR, Bloom and stuff like that was super ugly, but Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl still looks pretty even even now. I play a lot of old games, but I am always shocked how ugly Oblivion is when I try it now and it was ugly already in 2006, Fallout 3 and New Vegas on the same engine were also very ugly, but it was ok for that stylised dark humor visuals, Skyrim was also super ugly in 2011, but there is a massive jump in graphics in Fallout 4, that looks pretty good I would say still with the same engine.
BTW, don't take me wrong, I really like Oblivion and I would prefer it over Skyrim, but that game was super ugly.
Back to Stalker, even when original stalker can look slightly more outdated now, there was such a big jump in lighting and shadows in Clear Sky that it still looks really good even today.
@Pidalin the HDR in caves when you had a torch and the reflections on armor were amazing. The open world was also amazing, for me it was jaw dropping. Stalker had a lot of issues with my x1950pro indoors the lighting and shadows were amazing but as soon as I went out the fps would drop like crazy and had to drop the fully illuminated settings. Tried many fixes but nothing seemed to work, it was a driver issue maybe but also the game was a mess at launch 🤓. I had it on original disk and I was young, never checked for updates even months after release.
Had Core2Duo and 7600GT, literally lived in between school and the zone
Definetely not a bad system:) 7600 Gt was a good mainstream card in 2006 and with a Core2Duo its perfect i would say:). But the Geforce 7600 Series had probles with textures... it was blurry and not so sharp as it should be
@retro4fun358 I only had problem with Clear Sky at launch which was a driver issue preventing the game from running, had to wait a bit, I did end up buying a new rig 😂 SoC was running fine from the start
If it was made on UE5, you would need RTX 6090 for the same graphics. 🙂
I finished original Stalker on 7600GT AGP and Celeron D 2.8 GHz, it was playable in 1024x768, but not literally great.
yes haha it's not a well optimized game...
but there were games which run more worse than this. Like Boiling Point Road to Hell or GTA San Andreas....
@@retro4fun358 I never liked GTA, I always prefered Mafia, mainly because of I am Czech and Mafia is just our beloved game, but I remember that GTA SA looked really ugly to me and it performed pretty poorly for how it looks, it was just weird port from PS2.
@@Pidalin yes bad Port for the PC in terms of performance. It looks not great but better than PS2 because of the higher Resolation. Everyone benefits from different games. Tastes are different