Oh, my...

I remember liking IWar 2 already, graphics-wise, except for some artifact flickering I tend to get on ship modules/pods sometimes (nVidia driver weirdness and a buggy nVidia laptop graphics chipset that I also overclock ridiculously woo!) but, DAMN, this game looks good on the super-cheapo ("Sceptre"? heh) 42" 1080p TV/monitor I just nabbed! Nothing like a meter-and-a-third diagonal of explode-y goodness, even if the panel is about as simple and un-"smart" as they get. *shrug* I use it attached to a laptop anyhow, who needs a smart monitor? lol

Good Karma for helping my dad pick up a mint Honda 90, I guess; I picked up this display for $100 from the same guy.

[non sequitur]Google Honda 90s, they're REALLY cool little vintage 90cc, 4-stroke, true road/dirt bikes, that look like a little motor scooter but have standard transmission (with an entire low range for climbing steep hills!). The hubs also were, like some Russian bikes I've seen, containers for fuel/water, if you like, and also make it float if you end up in a lake or river :lol:. I'm SO jealous![/non sequitur]

But hey, I can play IWar 2 in style, without dropping $300 or so, weyhey! And the panel, while "dumb", is also otherwise pretty decent.

Glad to see this forum still alive; you guys helped make my week.

Actually, I bought my 40" TV screen *because* it's dumb. I don't like my TV spying on me, which is what smart TVs do.

We have an ancient TV screen that predates 1080p. We thought it was so cool that it wasn't a CRT! :lol: We use it to watch movies as a family or play Gran Turismo 5 on my brother's PS3, but we've seen a grand total of 1 TV broadcast on it. If we want to watch a TV show, we get it on DVD.
But yeah, every time I play I-War 2 I think "not as shiny as ED, not as techy as SC, but somehow it still looks stunning!"
Also, that flickering you mentioned may be simple z-fighting, which I-War 2 suffers from a lot.

--IronDuke

Some of it, yes, but my last desktop PC didn't have the issue at all, or at least very rarely, running a 550 Ti, compared to the known-super-buggy 360M in my laptop.

The nVidia 300-series mobile cards were pretty much all crap, due to SEVERAL nasty bugs. For example, after any reboot, if I try to run any graphics-intensive software, the card rapidly heats to failsafe temps and shuts the PC down. But if I 1st change the GPU and VRAM clocks (up or down, and even if I return them immediately to the original state) then the temps suddenly fall to normal values and stay there; I can even overclock the card quite a bit at that point, no problems. Seriously, WTF?

I'm lucky I figured out how to get it to work, I guess *shrug* .