Heh so true rollo so true. I was very surprised how my FX5900 cleaned up dark ages of camelot. That game has horrible hirrible jaggies. Now the game looks just fantastic.
There is no way you can run every game 1600x1200x32 wtih 4xAA/4xAF with "silky smooth" frames. Your CPU is far too slow. There are many games that would bring it to its knees. Try Halo, then come back with some common sense.
Well my CPU isnt exactly slow either. 2200Mhz XP is about as fast as they get. I would try Halo but i didnt think the game was very fun on the xBox. Right now I am waiting on HL2 and or Doom3 and a game called Battlefield Command which is due out in Spring.
I also noticed you said "right now" because you know its a poor card for future games :lol:
I said right now because every single one of the games I play "Right Now" I can do this with duh!
When I make a purchasing decision I make it based on what it will give me right now. Time and time again when people buy something for the future it never pans out in the computer industry. Just like all those who bought the original P4 thinking optimizations would be right around the corner, the people who bought the first Geforce256 for the T&L but found out by the time any games hit the market with T&L their cards were slow, and now people who bought a 9800 pro or XT for HL2 only to find out the game wont be out anytime soon and will give them a whole 60FPS @ 1024X768 when it does arrive.
These generation of cards while blazing fast in DX8 titles look rather pathetic for the new games coming out. 20 FPS for FF? Wow can I plop down 400 bucks to get that kind of performance now? HL2 on the best hardware spitting out 60-70FPS at 1024X768?
So I bought my 5900 to play the games I play today blazing fast. When the games I come out tomorrow play poorly then Ill upgrade to the next generation of cards when I need to. If I purchased a card today to play tomorrows games and expected it to play them great I would be living in a dream world.
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