But they will not run as fast as they will with a top of the line card. Also while I don't care too much about future games the fact remains that a faster card today will run tomorrow's games faster.
While that is true people still get over 60fps with a geforce 2 and radeon and run their games in high resolutions.
You're wrong - it makes a large difference. I would not be able to run my heaviest games at 1152 x 864 x 32 if I had anything slower than a Ti500.
BFG, your only describing your preference. Most people on this board don't need 150fps and are happy with 60fps. I get over 80fps in that resolution. Does that mean I need to upgrade? My games run smooth and that's what matters. Does it affect my gameplay? Not. I still will whoop your ass in Unreal T. since I don't play quake 3. You always describe your preference but that fact of the matter is that your preference is completely off with a typical gamer. It doesn't make a large difference but a tiny one. It makes it little bit smoother.
So don't buy it then. I'm not forcing you to but to me it is worth it so that's how I choose to spend my money. Just because you can't justify it, it doesn't mean that there's not a valid reason to do it.
All I'm saying is there's a way to game efficiently without buying the latest greatest hardware. I can still use AA in racing games, use Aniso. filter in FPS games. While gaming is fun it's not my life. I've got mouths to feed and bills to pay. I've always been a hardware enthusiast where I buy the card to learn more about it but real gameplay doesn't affect by buying the latest hardware.
No it isn't. Do you think (for example) that there's a difference betwen 135 FPS and 120 FPS in Quake3? Well there is. Try playing the Dredwerktz map and go to the outside area with all of the bots set to nightmare difficulty and all firing a wide range of guns. That outside area will either slow down to framerates in the high 30s or the low 50s depending on whether you get 135 FPS or 120 FPS in the timedemo of demo four.
I never said there wasn't a difference between higher fps. But your just being anal if you ask me.
Now go to the other side of the area and try to rail someone standing on the ledge. Without ultra high framerates it's impossible to do this so your ability to play the game is severely crippled. All because somebody made the blanket statement that there's no difference between 120 FPS and 135 FPS.
That is probably a game flaw. You should email carmack and bi+ch him out for making even the geforce 3 ti500 craw in certain situations. Tell him not to do that because Nvidia=god
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There is no magic number which is the pinnacle of performance so any such blanket statements you make are false. Don't under-estimate the defintion of playable and don't over-estimate your system's abilities.
There is no magic number but their is rule of thumb at 60fps. Long as the game doesn't dip below 25fps - 30fps there is no problem. And the voodoo did this very well while Nvidia and ATI don't.
While that is true people still get over 60fps with a geforce 2 and radeon and run their games in high resolutions.
You're wrong - it makes a large difference. I would not be able to run my heaviest games at 1152 x 864 x 32 if I had anything slower than a Ti500.
BFG, your only describing your preference. Most people on this board don't need 150fps and are happy with 60fps. I get over 80fps in that resolution. Does that mean I need to upgrade? My games run smooth and that's what matters. Does it affect my gameplay? Not. I still will whoop your ass in Unreal T. since I don't play quake 3. You always describe your preference but that fact of the matter is that your preference is completely off with a typical gamer. It doesn't make a large difference but a tiny one. It makes it little bit smoother.
So don't buy it then. I'm not forcing you to but to me it is worth it so that's how I choose to spend my money. Just because you can't justify it, it doesn't mean that there's not a valid reason to do it.
All I'm saying is there's a way to game efficiently without buying the latest greatest hardware. I can still use AA in racing games, use Aniso. filter in FPS games. While gaming is fun it's not my life. I've got mouths to feed and bills to pay. I've always been a hardware enthusiast where I buy the card to learn more about it but real gameplay doesn't affect by buying the latest hardware.
No it isn't. Do you think (for example) that there's a difference betwen 135 FPS and 120 FPS in Quake3? Well there is. Try playing the Dredwerktz map and go to the outside area with all of the bots set to nightmare difficulty and all firing a wide range of guns. That outside area will either slow down to framerates in the high 30s or the low 50s depending on whether you get 135 FPS or 120 FPS in the timedemo of demo four.
I never said there wasn't a difference between higher fps. But your just being anal if you ask me.
Now go to the other side of the area and try to rail someone standing on the ledge. Without ultra high framerates it's impossible to do this so your ability to play the game is severely crippled. All because somebody made the blanket statement that there's no difference between 120 FPS and 135 FPS.
That is probably a game flaw. You should email carmack and bi+ch him out for making even the geforce 3 ti500 craw in certain situations. Tell him not to do that because Nvidia=god
.There is no magic number which is the pinnacle of performance so any such blanket statements you make are false. Don't under-estimate the defintion of playable and don't over-estimate your system's abilities.
There is no magic number but their is rule of thumb at 60fps. Long as the game doesn't dip below 25fps - 30fps there is no problem. And the voodoo did this very well while Nvidia and ATI don't.
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