abt Bully: Scholarship Edition (PC)

[hullap]

hope it works fine on xp 32bit

darn, i cant find a torrent

 

[quan chi]

here they are talking about lot of bugs.*forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=737959now

 

[Ethan_Hunt]

Finally got it. The game looks really sharp & much like a next generation Bully. But a few gripes here & there. The FPS is capped at 30 for some odd reason. Even with V-Sync OFF it still yields the same result. I have set it at 1280x1024 with 8X AA & Shadows ON. The outdoor environments looks a bit fuzzy and sort of a dull feel but the indoors are stunningly sharp & coloured. Wonder what's going on. The controls are pretty OK. The game runs smooth enough. No bugs or glitches so far.

Here are some initial screens:

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[quan chi]

i dont know why these games give lots of blur and hdr effect to hide its sharpness flaws.

 

[Ethan_Hunt]

It's not blur but some sort of weird haze effect. The whole outdoor looks fuzzy as if a smoke grenade had just exploded.

On the PS2 the outdoors looked pretty good & colourful. The frame rates were massive issues on the PS2. But in this version the graphics are totally polished but the FPS is capped to 30 which is idiotic. Why on earth would one do that?

 

[quan chi]

well indoor effects are good.but capped at 30 is something bad.

 

[Ethan_Hunt]

Very bad actually. It suffers from some serious tearing when V-Sync is OFF. If the v-Sync is on the frames are not stable. When they drop they drop to a heavy 9 to 15Fps.

 

[quan chi]

well can tearing occur at 30fps.

 

[Ethan_Hunt]

With V-Sync OFF, yes it can. In some games though you won't be able to notice it.

 

[quan chi]

but i thought screen tearing only occurs when the fps exceeds your monitor refresh rate.which i experienced at fear.

 

[Ethan_Hunt]

Not necessarily. It can occur if the game is coded badly too. You have exhibit A in front of you.

 

[quan chi]

exhibit a??
btw is it not based on sa engine then why such a bad port.cant we open the frame limit by some third party software.

well then i will not get it for pc.

 

[Ethan_Hunt]

Exhibit A = This game.

It's ported by Rockstar England for the PC. The original one was developed by Rockstar Vancouver. This must have been a rushed out 360 port which in itself had a lot of bugs. It isn't based on the SA engine but an engine called Gamebryo. This is not completely buggy but the frame capping is irritating. As if right now I don't see a way to take that limit off either.

 

[s18000rpm]

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baetrice likes you. LMAO
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I'm having problem in Music Class.
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the screen just stays like that. the keys(w s a d) are not shown.
am i doing something wrong?

 

[Ethan_Hunt]

Have you got V-Sync turned off? If yes then turn it ON if you want to attend the classes else the tearing will render them useless. I'm already on Chapter 2. Skipped most of the classes expect Chemistry. Halloween was so much fun. The game looks & plays much better now.

 

[s18000rpm]

i hate the mouse control, R* cud've done a lot better.

v-sync is of, i'll try with it now.

btw, this is the only class i've problem in.

& yes, no crashes so far

 

[Ethan_Hunt]

The mouse controls suck. I got my 360 controller plugged in & voila everything was mapped perfectly. I wish they fix up the bloody FPS cap thingy soon. It's very annoying.

 

[quan chi]

well spiderman3 game was also like that.rockstar has bought their levels down.