mothra on 7/12/2009 at 00:18
i switched to english while playing risen the 2nd time and couldn't bear the voiceovers, they were worse than the german once which were already ... questionable but funny.
Nameless Voice on 7/12/2009 at 02:47
Quote Posted by Zygoptera
partly due to the occasionally ludicrous voiceacting.
The English voice acting in Gothic 1 was truly awful, all right. One or two characters were all right, the rest... ugh. Gothic 2 was a bit better. Gothic 3... somehow fades from my memory, all I remember is the orcs.
Quote Posted by mothra
i switched to english while playing risen the 2nd time and couldn't bear the voiceovers, they were worse than the german once which were already ... questionable but funny.
Really? I found them to be the best English voice acting in a PB game so far. (That's not saying much, is it?)
EvaUnit02 on 16/12/2009 at 02:49
Will Risen be able to run on the following shitbox?
Radeon Xpress 1250 128MB (integrated, I think)
Athlon 64 X2 4800+ 2.4GHz
4GB DDR2 RAM
XP SP3
I've moved cities and am left without my PC for the moment and have to make do with the above POS.
Thanks in advance.
Nameless Voice on 16/12/2009 at 02:59
Not sure about the graphics card, but everything else in that system is up to spec. That sounds like a laptop card - it's very hard to find decent benchmarks of those, particularly comparing them to desktop ones.
I don't think Risen is particularly intensive in comparison to other modern games. It certainly ran orders of magnitude faster and smoother than Gothic 3 ever did on my computer.
mothra on 16/12/2009 at 10:37
if you turn on all graphic options it IS demanding. It's also one of the few games I encountered that actively uses 3 cores all the time !!!
Be prepared to turn the settings down but it certainly will run on this setup imo.
Nameless Voice on 16/12/2009 at 12:23
Well, I had all the settings at maximum, and my computer is a little old at this stage (Core2Duo @1.87GHz, 3GB RAM, 512MB 8800GT), and I only had very slight stuttering in some areas such as the monastery.
mothra on 16/12/2009 at 13:54
interesting, on what resolution did you play ?
I have the same setup, a little better VGA and 3.0ghz dual core and it ran 20-40fps which is not stellar but ok so I guessed his system will have to turn down Ansiotropic filtering at least. I also tweaked my config so I have better view distance and turned off the DOP because it basically just blurred the background and that is not what DOP should do.
Nameless Voice on 16/12/2009 at 15:44
1280x1024. All settings maxed with 16 AF.
It was probably 20-40 FPS too - though I can't say I checked the actual framerate. It wasn't the absolute smoothest game ever, but it was smooth enough as to be pleasantly playable (except for the occasional stutter, mostly in the monastery.)
mrle01 on 16/12/2009 at 21:06
So, did anybody play as a archer? i think I've read somewhere that bows and crossbows are little bugged in that reloading speed (or what it should be called) doesn't decrease with higher skill levels, haven't tried it myself (just finished the game second time in a row, so I'm gonna wait a bit before playing it again).
Can anyone confirm this or is it just a false rumor? Because on my next playthrough I was thinking in either playing as a pure archer for the Don or a axe wielding Warrior of the Order.
driver on 17/12/2009 at 01:05
I have started as an archer, though I'm not very far into it. I can tell you that the melée weapons that require Dexterity to wield still do damage based on Strength, so if you don't buff your Strength as well, then you'll only be doing damage from the weapon stats.
Which is naff.
