You can find a number of mine over at my Twitch channel here

http://www.twitch.tv/topken

 

Another day another rank... today i just lost a rank i really liked and that was the "COMEBACK KID" which fits perfectly to my latest fights as i seem to be losing fights at the start but then having an awesome comeback. My newly earned rank is "COUNTER PUNCHER" now so let's see if i can do more counters now . If things continue this way is going to be hard for me to keep my rank low lol!

Here the gameplay video of the ranking match that got me the new rank:

Nice!!! will follow you soon using my twitch account.

 

 

Me playing Mortal Kombat 2. I use to be able to beat it with 1 credit at the old arcades we use to have around here. Scorpion was always a favorite, but I also like to play others. MK2 was when the series really took off and I still consider it one of the best Mortal Kombat games. Of course some of the AI is interesting.

 

Playing Dead Trigger 2. The game is pretty easy with all my weapons upgraded to the highest levels. Still waiting for level 10 to timeout.

 

Damn!!! haven't played mortal kombat classics since long time.... i think is time to give it a go again. Thanks fivefeet8!

 

Here's a few older of mine:

I don't know if this one fits in but hell:

 

Is it because of the way you are recording the racing games, Strike105X? They look like a tan filter has been applied to the video.

 

Its the actual games, and coincidence, during that game time line in Most wanted that's how the lighting was (it was closing dusk or something if i remember), and Grid is known for its brownish hues.

The Fallout 3 one however was the one i had problems with when uploading to youtube it kept getting darker then the actual footage was...

 

Nice run strike! btw... you changed the soundtrack or is that track part of the game???? kinda confused now lol!

@fivefeet8 : Hmmm i think you will need some other games to max out your beast hehehehehe.

 

I killed the music in the games and used a player in the background. Most of the time its how i role .

 

Quite interesting because i do the same and most specially when playing fighting games or RE.

 

Anyone knows about this bug in Gears of War 3? it's 100% reproducible if you do the same thing again by waiting until your partner stay in the right place:

Found that bug today while playing GOW3(love the serie). Here is my gameplay video:

 

Playing some Saint's Row through the GRID streaming services on my Shield Tablet. Barely any controller latency at all with a few stutters, but I'm running it through an ATT Uverse 4 MB connection running 2 Ghz Wifi. Not recommended, but still works. Looks comparable to when I saw it played on an Xbox360. It's free to play for the time being.

 

Nice!

Talking about game streaming.... recently i was wondering about streaming other than usual steam games. After testing a bit i wrote a small app to stream Emulators over the network using steam. Wonder how nvidia does that as they have to capture the game while running and send the data over the network.

 

Talking about game streaming.... recently i was wondering about streaming other than usual steam games. After testing a bit i wrote a small app to stream Emulators over the network using steam.

What emulator are you streaming and how good is the streaming? That's interesting as you can also stream Steam over your loco Wifi with the Tablet.

 

It's probably not that much different from how Steam does it, but they have more dedicated hardware IP to virtualize the GPU and use Shadowplay to encode the stream. It's pretty low latency from what I've experienced, but only in California so far. They'd probably need GRID servers in many other areas for latency to be adequate in more areas.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/virtual-gpus.html

http://www.nvidia.com/object/cloud-gaming-benefits.html

 

Thanks for the info... i'm going to give a check tomorrow.

What emulator are you streaming and how good is the streaming? That's interesting as you can also stream Steam over your loco Wifi with the Tablet.

I tested CPS3 but was a quick test i made to see how it works by modifying a old version of my @ES app. Basically you add the Emulator as a foreign app that points to @ES which then runs a small code that immediatly runs steam streaming modules and after that my app hand over the emulator which acts as a game for Steam and voila!! the emulator is now streamed on your network

As for the performance i actually made a very quick test(which worked really well) so i didn't tested performance using more resource intensive emulators. I can do that tomorrow if you want and report the results.

 

I would be interested in how that compares to local streaming with the Shield Tablet as you can already stream emulators with their local PC Streaming features.

 

Local PC streaming features??? so you basically stream your desktop content? because that's quite similar to what i do. I'm checking NVIDIA's API SDK and it really sounds interesting.

 

Yeah, there are youtube videos of people streaming Dolphin Emulator from their PC to their Shield devices. It uses the local GRID streaming feature, but you have to have an Nvidia GPU installed on your desktop to stream to your mobile device. They also enabled Streaming from your local desktop system to the web too, but you need good upload bandwidth.

So if you are at another location with good bandwidth at both ends, you can still play your PC software.

 

I've been meaning to play Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD and finally got the chance. It's probably the best looking PSP game I've seen yet because of the enhanced textures made to run on the PS3.

 

I've been meaning to try AMD's "Gaming Evolved" (Raptr) app to see how it handles recording.
It offers a Shadowplay-like ability to record, stream, instant-replay your game with less of a performance hit than conventional means.

First I wanted to try recording the BF4 Test server since that's what I was playing (the maps for the next DLC are great!) but turns out... It doesn't work. The App only works on games that are part of the list offered by the devs, and the CTE isn't supported.
So, I tried different programs and got lots and lots of shitty result. (DXtory crashes the game, Bandicam sucks, etc)
I ended up getting some good results with Mirillis Action! Quality was good, performance was good, but the filesize is HUGE and the file wasn't recognized by most software. Instead of encoding the video with the usual SUPER or Handbrake I had to use Mediamonkey.
It got much smaller, quality was still good aaaannnddd... Youtube ruined it:

Blurry, colors were crushed.
Btw: the server is in Normal mode. I say this since the next videos are in Hardcore.

After, I went back to BF4 proper and tried GVR. I started with the default high quality settings: 1080p, 60fps, something like 50mbit/s
Obviously the file was huge and since my bandwith is limited (damn joke) I once again decided to make the video smaller. Worked well, quality remains great aaannnddd youtube ruins it.

Shitty colors, blurry, yadda yadda

I figured I had to try sending the videos fully uncompressed to Youtube directly. So instead, I recorded the game with GVR at a much lower bitrate to see how it did. Surprisingly enough, quality wasn't that bad even after I went from 50 to 10mbit/s. I also made some more tests with 10, 15 and 20.
I uploaded a 1080p@60 video on Youtube aaannnddd... Not that bad.

It's not amazing or anything, but it's okay. Most of the finer details were lost, but it worked well.

Still, I wanted to try reducing the FPS when I record to 30 and increase the quality of the video. The result... Meh. GVR doesn't do well with 30fps.
I already had a small issue at 60: the sound is not properly synched in the video.
At 30 tho, not only is the sound worse, but the video is FAR from being smooth.

Overall, not a bad start. I know they're planning to keep improving GVR. They'll also add Mantle support, which is nice. I had to record the vids in DX11, and I didn't enjoy the performance loss.

 

While looking through my old dvd's found an old hawks gameplay video i made...

 

My first Forza Horizon 2 demo gameplay:

I have to say that so far the game looks and feel great(1080p@60fps). Liking it a lot so far.

 

From what I understand, the game is 30fps, not 60fps.
They went hard on the resolution and the anti-aliasing (1080 + 4msaa) which definitely gives a great picture quality. I love me some good anti-aliasing.
Kinda surprising they skimped out on the anisotropic filtering, tho.

 

Really? when playing the game the framerate is insane hence why i thought is 60fps. Also in the game section it clearly says 1080p @60fps which is completely wrong. Damn you MS! Thanks for the info.

Still as you can see in the video the game runs amazingly well.

 

Alright... i bought KI Seasson 2 for 35€ again. This time i got Killer Instinct 2 and obviously TJ Combo for the start. My issues seems to be mostly fixed now after a new patch. There are few things that bothers me still but it feels more solid now. Here my first TJ Combo gameplay:

TJ Combo seems to be one of those players that when someone gets good at it is gonna be a hell to beat.

UPDATE:
Here my KI2 gameplay:

 

Gave another try to Dxtory with a different codec. ("OpenEncodeVFW Encoder using AMD APP/VCE")
I also wanted to test the 60fps on Youtube.

Much better results than before.
I can probably still tweak the settings a little bit to get a better video quality, but for the time being it's good enough.

I went on the BF4 test servers and tried the Halloween changes. They created a "night mode" for a map + added a "LSD mode" for whoever is currently holding a flag (in Capture the Flag).
Basically: you run fast as hell, jump high as hell, and your head is on fire. You're also limited to using your knife.

I didn't get good footage of the night mode as a normal soldier, but here's a video showing what it looks like to hold the flag (I'm chasing the enemy flag carrier):

I end up dying to Friendly Fire. Hardcore mode server.

 

Currently trying to make Onechanbara for the Wii play decently with the 360 Xbox Controller: