How is it working with the demo?
And what are your other system specs?
Opengl vs. D3D?
What resolution?
with everything turned on?
Asus A7N8X Deluxe
AMD 2700+
512MB Dual DDR
ATI 9700 Pro
Adaptec 19160 SCSI Controller
Seagate 73GB SCSI HD
Sony SCSI CD-RW
I prefer the look of OpenGL to D3D and performance wise I don't see much
difference.
~40fps
All options but dynamic shadows on. I find that dynamic shadows make a
really bit performance hit, and produce very little eye candy for the value.
But that's just my opinion...
Mike
I have a Ti4400 and run in Win98Se (WinXP runs like molasse) and got worse
fps with comparable settings.
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> Asus A7N8X Deluxe
> AMD 2700+
> 512MB Dual DDR
> ATI 9700 Pro
> Adaptec 19160 SCSI Controller
> Seagate 73GB SCSI HD
> Sony SCSI CD-RW
> I prefer the look of OpenGL to D3D and performance wise I don't see much
> difference.
60Hz)
> ~40fps
> All options but dynamic shadows on. I find that dynamic shadows make a
> really bit performance hit, and produce very little eye candy for the
value.
> But that's just my opinion...
> Mike
> > How is it working with the demo?
> > And what are your other system specs?
> > Opengl vs. D3D?
> > What resolution?
> > with everything turned on?
Achim
My PC runs it at 2048x1536x48 with 256x Aniso and 128xFSAA with everything
**MAXed** and it's perfectly smooth. Honest.
What CPU/RAM configuration are you using, Achim?
Jason
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> Ahhhhh, another ***-length contest :)
Yep, that's exactly what I was getting at. I'm so tired of the "I've got
everything maxed!" posts...... I'm also stunned at people who are prepared
to halve their frame rates just so they can have some crappy, blurry AA
turned on.
I reported my experience to allow others to get a more complete picture of a
piece of hardware they might be interested in buying.
You must have been reading my postings for years in this NG. Do I really
give the impression of being someone who'd be bragging about their
computer??
Achim
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Sorry, dude. As I said, I've just seen that "Maxed settings, 1600x1200 4xAA
blah, blah" a few too many times....no offense.
I have used the phrase myself in a couple of recent posts, relating a new
ATI card's capabilities vs my Ti 4400. Figured the info might be of
interest to anyone in the market for a similar video card, and you can't
really show the differences between the cards unless you dial up all the eye
candy. I also stated I never play games that way for FPS reasons, and
included FRAPS framerate numbers and testing methodology with the results.
Which is a good rule of thumb; back up observations with data.
That said, with a fast CPU and a 9700Pro card, you pretty much CAN max
everything out in most existing games and still get butter-smooth FPS. But
as the NR2003 demo shows, the next-gen games will still be able to make the
fastest hardware cry uncle. Thus was it ever... ;-)
SB