Doom 3 and Radeon X700

[dguy6789]

Originally posted by: Ike0069

Originally posted by: dguy6789

Originally posted by: blodhi74
let him get the card he wants ( 6800 128/256mb ).... in the long run when he updates the rig he will be happy .... getting a 9700pro or 9800 will cause him to upgrade the vid card in the near future

How so? The game developers have thrown ALL they have at us, doom3/farcry/hl2 ect..... and the 9700s play them all just fine at max settings. The next thing is unreal engine 3 based games, which wont be out till 06 at earliest.

Huh????????
I have a 9700 pro, and DOOM 3 is choppy on medium, and Far cry is about the same. No way a 9700 can play either at max or even close to amx video settings.

Either you are using old crappy drivers, or your system is a bottleneck one way or the other. My friend has a 9700 NON pro that runs doom 3 at 1024X768 at 16XAF at ULTRA settings just fine, does the same with far cry. His cpu is an athlon 64 2800, and mem is 1GB.

 

[Ike0069]

Originally posted by: dguy6789
Either you are using old crappy drivers, or your system is a bottleneck one way or the other. My friend has a 9700 NON pro that runs doom 3 at 1024X768 at 16XAF at ULTRA settings just fine, does the same with far cry. His cpu is an athlon 64 2800, and mem is 1GB.

Hmmm. I do only have an XP 2200+, but I'm surprised it would make that much of a difference. I know the AMD 64 does help quite a bit though. I plan to upgrade to AMD 64 after christmas.

 

[webmal]

Here's an excellent Doom3 card (6600GT AGP) for under $250: http://www.newegg.com/app/View...=14-150-080&depa=0

The 6600GT AGP performance is almost on par with the 6800 vanilla.

Webmal

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: Ike0069

Originally posted by: dguy6789

Originally posted by: blodhi74
let him get the card he wants ( 6800 128/256mb ).... in the long run when he updates the rig he will be happy .... getting a 9700pro or 9800 will cause him to upgrade the vid card in the near future

How so? The game developers have thrown ALL they have at us, doom3/farcry/hl2 ect..... and the 9700s play them all just fine at max settings. The next thing is unreal engine 3 based games, which wont be out till 06 at earliest.

Huh????????
I have a 9700 pro, and DOOM 3 is choppy on medium, and Far cry is about the same. No way a 9700 can play either at max or even close to amx video settings.

See the rig in my sig. It plays D3 very smooth at medium 10 x 7 and I played through the whole game at high 10 x 7. Just a few slow-downs when a lot is going on, but acceptable to me. Needed the Humus tweak to help with pauses at level loads.

I played Far Cry at high, and ultra high or whatever on Environment so I could see the little fishies and birds.

I played D3 and FC with my 9800 pro OC'd to XT speeds though.

 

[Ike0069]

Originally posted by: Fern
See the rig in my sig. It plays D3 very smooth at medium 10 x 7 and I played through the whole game at high 10 x 7. Just a few slow-downs when a lot is going on, but acceptable to me. Needed the Humus tweak to help with pauses at level loads.

I played Far Cry at high, and ultra high or whatever on Environment so I could see the little fishies and birds.

I played D3 and FC with my 9800 pro OC'd to XT speeds though.

That's what I would expect. I just don't see anyone playing Doom 3 on ultra-high with a 9700.

 

[batmanuel]

Originally posted by: dguy6789

Originally posted by: blodhi74
let him get the card he wants ( 6800 128/256mb ).... in the long run when he updates the rig he will be happy .... getting a 9700pro or 9800 will cause him to upgrade the vid card in the near future

How so? The game developers have thrown ALL they have at us, doom3/farcry/hl2 ect..... and the 9700s play them all just fine at max settings. The next thing is unreal engine 3 based games, which wont be out till 06 at earliest.

Keep in mind that around here "max settings" equals ultra high quality at 16x12 with AA and AF cranked to the max.