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geforce 5500 XT vs geforce 6600 GT

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Niflheim

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so i actually own a geforce 5500 and im not really satisfied of it (like playing half-life 2 as recommend gives me a high fps when theres a little action or outside scenes). having recently received a little money from the government, i went to the nearest store and took the best they had, a geforce 6600 GT 128mb.
i hoped it would make kind of a difference but i realized it doesnt really. is it normal? would the difference between those 2 should have been very obvious? i dont know actually.

my system is pentium 4 3ghz, with 1gb of ram. i thought it was good enough to run recent games with a new card. so is it the geforce 6600 that sucks? cause i have 2 weeks to return it and have my money back.

oyoyoy

thanks!
 
You should be doing well enough in Half Life 2...what settings are you running on exactly?
 
There is a significant differance between a 5500 and a 6600GT, especially in DX9 games.

Make sure you are using the most recent drivers available from NVidia. Not sure what else to say, but there should be a significant differance.
 
Originally posted by: Wolfshanze
There is a significant differance between a 5500 and a 6600GT, especially in DX9 games.

Make sure you are using the most recent drivers available from NVidia. Not sure what else to say, but there should be a significant differance.
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uninstall your display drivers, get the beta 67.66s from guru3d.com
 
well for half-life in now seems quite good. im now playing in 1280x1024 (LCD), everything at high, trilinear filtering mode and no antialiasing mode. what is lcd anyway? and should i put on the antialiasing mode?
i think ill stick with it 😉
what do those 67.66 drivers do?
 
LCD is liquid crystal display (AKA an LCD monitor). Steam usually pouts that in your options next to the native resolution of the monitor you are using. If you have a CRT monitor you can ignore this. If you have an LCD, its defidently better to run it at that native resolution.
 
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