Ah-Ha!

[Texun]

I think I am finally starting to understand the reason why people go for the really high end video cards. A while back I got a 128 meg GF4Ti-4200 Golden Sample from Gainward and it's worked out great. I really couldn't tell much difference between the GF4 and the GF2Ti that I had been using, but then I have never been a big time gamer and most of the games I play are usually at 8x6 or 10x7 at 32 bit. Since I felt that the GF4-4200 was great I asked myself.... what's all the fuss about over the 4600 or the 9800Pro?

I upped it to 12x9 in CounterStrike last night and found out, the video was not nearly as smooth! In fact, I played it for about 3 minutes and went back to my Open GL, 10x7 @ 32bit.

10x7 had always looked fine for me. My eyes aren't the best so the thought of upping it didn't seem such a great idea to me, but now I think I understand why everyone wants more-more-more, the detail was great.

Just thought I would share my findings as I have seen others post messages in here wanting to know how what the differences is between card A and card B. This may not be new to 99% of you, but for someone who is dabbling with games a little more now days the difference (an need) for a fast card is pretty clear now.

Thanks,

 

[Glitchny]

i somehow think that you should be able to play CS at higher resolution that that with the card you have.... easily uless u are running AA and AF all the way up

 

[Texun]

Yep. It's turned up. I'll try with it off and see what happens. Thanks!

 

[KillaBong]

Even with them on... I mean come on, its cs... I run it in openGL 1600x1200 4xAA 8xAF, and it never dips under 100fps.

 

[Genx87]

Something is goofed up if you arent running at Max in CS. I can run any of the Half-life mods on a GF2 MX pretty much maxed.

 

[Texun]

I thought it should do better, but then I never pushed it before so I wasn't sure. I dropped the AA\AF and it's fast again. I have no idea why it had the jitters in CS but it did, even though I never tried it more than once. I have 4109 drivers, XP2400, Abit KX7-333 and a gig of RAM. I have pushed the clock a little but not much. It's at stock now and works fine. Still, like 99.9% of the others in here when something doesn't work the way it should I get the urge to start ripping things apart. Anyone know of a site that sells wing nuts and studs for computers?