2405FPW on geforce4 ti 4200 - 128MB

[joriz]

My Dell 2405FPW- 24" is coming. i have geforce4 ti 4200 - 128MB. will this particular video card work? what are the pros and cons? i like playing HL2-CounterStrike...

do i reallly need to buy a new expensive video card?

please advice.

Thanks,
Joriz

 

[sellmen]

Yes, you will need a new video card if you plan on playing modern games with decent framerates.

Your monitor has a native resolution of 1920 x 1200 - a TI4200 will absolutely choke at that resolution.

 

[joriz]

will it break anything?? my new monitor?? MB?? video card???

can you please expound on what do u mean by choke?? will i get BSOD??

do you think i will get by using my old card? what about if i play DVD??

 

[magnumty]

by choke he means it wont run games at respectable framerates at high resolution, it will probably play dvd's ok, and surf just fine. i have the 6800nu and the same monitor and it rocks for me!

 

[joriz]

Again i dont understand what is respectable..at least on layman's perspective....Let's say im playing counter-stike...will i lag a lot?? or will it actually take time to paint/refresh my screen noticeable from naked eye? If i rush going to the bomb site running, will i get a lot of missed frames like my movement or others will not be smooth?

i guess 3D image will not be that defined and smooth? but will the rugged edges noticeable like picture will gonna be crooked? will this be true when i play DVD??

I dont wanna spend another 450+ bucks for another video card? if i can get away with it. i will.

thanks for your reply.

 

[kylebisme]

Originally posted by: joriz
If i rush going to the bomb site running, will i get a lot of missed frames like my movement or others will not be smooth?

Yeah, but not just rushing the bomb site, just looking around no matter how little is going on.

However, you can just run at 960x600 and get 4 pixels on your screen to every one from the card which should run just fine.

 

[Dman877]

Aren't thos dells good at scaling? You could prolly run fine at 10x7 or whatever.

 

[MJGunn]

Well, I run a GF4 ti 4200 with my 2005fpw. If you can't run at the the monitor's native resolution, the dell is extremely good at scaling. I run doom 3 at 840x525 (exactly half the 2005's native resolution), and the quality looks the same to me as 800x600 used to look on my crt.

You might be surprised at how well HL2 runs though, I run it at 1680x1050, with all the options on high except for water detail (and of course, no AA or anything like that), with no problems at all.

 

[kmmatney]

You won't break anything by using your Ti4200, it's simply depends on whether you are happy with running games at a reduced resolution from what the monitor is capable of.

You may have to add "resolutions" to the video diver, in order to get useful screen resolutions for some games. This feature is available through the NVidia driver,

 

[kylebisme]

Originally posted by: MJGunn
If you can't run at the the monitor's native resolution, the dell is extremely good at scaling. I run doom 3 at 840x525 (exactly half the 2005's native resolution), and the quality looks the same to me as 800x600 used to look on my crt.

Heh, the monitor doesn't have to be good at scaleing when you run at exactly half the native res; quality of scaling comes into play when you run resolutions that don't map directly to the native res. Best I can tell LCDs simply don't handle such things well by nature, how does it look when you try 1280x768 and such?