Jess is really beginning to look real

Click the images to see full size.

Two renders. The first one is with the new IRay renderer in DAZ - this was rendered in about 6 minutes using just the CPU.


It's quite nice, certainly more realistic than the old Daz renderer.

This second one is using a plugin called Reality. I think I like it the most. The skin tones are very nicely done. You can see on her top to the right that you can see polys, so I will have to figure out what I need to do to smooth that off. You can mess around with focal length and stuff like that.

With this Reality render it just seems to keep on rendering until you decide to stop. So the longer you leave it the better it looks. I stopped it at about 6 minutes to see how the two compare in the same time.

I think her hand looks almost real in this one.

You can use the GPU to assist with the Reality renderer


So I need to somehow get the smoothing of the first one to work in the second one, then she should look cool.

I'm liking the Edge browser in win 10, been using it a few days, it's fast, compatible with all sites I've tried it with so far, it also has a nice dark skin that matches the new taskbar.

There is also a button called "reading view" click it and it blows away images and unwanted page content at the same time as enlarging the text, I think that might come in handy sometimes.

Anyone else used it ? like it ?

Here is a screenshot of Edge using the dark skin.

[attachment deleted by admin]

It works, I've tried it and it does improve image quality

Find out about it here:
Virtual Super Resolution

And this is how you enable it:

We talked about GPUz on the other thread, and it made me think it was time for this post.

Been using Radeon Pro for a few months now, had to switch to it after getting my R9270 and not being able to use ATI Tray Tool any more.

It's good, a bit techie but I like some of the features a lot.

You can make profiles for your games or anything that runs a game engine. (only works with AMD cards). In the profiles you have options for lots of goodies

On screen display to show FPS and info about the card, speeds, temps, usage %.

Set GPU and VRAM speeds (I use it mainly for underclocking)

Set hotkeys to turn on AA and other settings

Set CPU affinity

Plenty more but the list is too long.

Problem is I'm not sure if Radeon Pro is going to be supported any more, I think the guy has stopped development.

Here is a screenshot of my clock settings for F1 2013, running the card at half speed, the game still runs at 50FPS but the card runs cooler, takes less power, saves you cash and probably helps to prolong the life of the GPU, it's win win win

Well its my kind of gadget if nothing else

[attachment deleted by admin]

On my quest to replace my previous gadgets I found this.

GPU-Z

That article tells you a little about it and links to these downloads...

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/SysInfo/GPU-Z/

As you can see from the files the most recent one at this moment is July 30th and that's the one I have now and it's working nicely in 10.

Everybody knows that FSX (Steam) needs a 1024X768 screen. That's why I use my little Windows 8.1 machine for it.

Surprise, I've recently read on the web that FS2004 can run with a 1024X600 display! So I tried that (I loaded the 4 CDs) and it works fine on my vintage netbook!

Maybe some other sims could work too? But I must say that my golden age of simulators was running under Windows 98SE...

Thought this was neat:

World Record Eagle Flight From World's Tallest Building