Max Payne 2 better on Nvidia?

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PCTweaker5

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I was playing MP2 on my new 5950 Ultra and noticed that everything looks so much better than it did on my 9800 Pro. I used all of the same settings and it really does look noticeably better. The leather coats seem to have more shine to them as well as the guns and water and also the textures definately look sharper. Isnt ATI supposed to reign in the DX9 area over Nvidia because thats what I always hear? It also plays faster than the 9800 Pro with no hickups.
 
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McArra

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ejem. MP2 is NOT DX9. ATi is known to have better performance in MP2 than Nvidia. I'm starting to think your previous 9800Pro wasn't installed right.
 
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PCTweaker5

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MP2 *is* directX9 PAL! And how could the card not be installed right? It was properly seated and I used several different drivers including 2 different Omega's so believe it fanboy(s)!
 
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Originally posted by: PCTweaker5
MP2 *is* directX9 PAL! And how could the card not be installed right? It was properly seated and I used several different drivers including 2 different Omega's so believe it fanboy(s)!
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Where have you seen it is DX9?? DEVELOPER SAID IT WASN'T IN BEYOND 3D .

Max Payne 2 is a DX8.1 game although it requires the DX9 runtime (why is that, btw?). Was DX9 (hardware and API) made known to your Remedy partners when concept for this game started? If yes, why go with DX8.1? Too far down the development path already? Didn't envisage the quick take-up of DX9 hardware?

The project started as a content-only project, and we didn?t originally plan on taking the technology nearly as far as we took it in the end. Max2 requires the DX9 runtime, since it would be almost double effort doing the quality assurance on both DX8.1 and DX9.

The reason why we did not move over to using DX9 API calls was that we had a well-tested DirectX8 engine (Max Payne 1, 3DMark2001) that we could trust to run with pretty much everything (You can run Max2 on a Voodoo5 5500 if you want).

Changing to DX9 APIs would again have introduced a lot of QA and testing work, and as it wasn?t essential for the game nor would have increased its quality or graphical looks, it wasn?t done.
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Originally posted by: PCTweaker5
MP2 *is* directX9 PAL! And how could the card not be installed right? It was properly seated and I used several different drivers including 2 different Omega's so believe it fanboy(s)!
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well obviously you had something screwy with your setup if you get better framerate with your nvidia card as the benchmarks everywhere show nvidia lagging way behind in the game. belive this fanboy! :p
 
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PCTweaker5

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Thats a 9800XT Fanboy! I was talking about the 9800 Pro, I wasnt comparing all Nvidia's and ATI's. Snowman you dont know sh*t about my setup.
 
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Originally posted by: TheSnowman
Originally posted by: PCTweaker5
MP2 *is* directX9 PAL! And how could the card not be installed right? It was properly seated and I used several different drivers including 2 different Omega's so believe it fanboy(s)!
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well obviously you had something screwy with your setup if you get better framerate with your nvidia card as the benchmarks everywhere show nvidia lagging way behind in the game. belive this fanboy! :p
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and thats aa+af...
 
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Gagabiji

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Originally posted by: PCTweaker5
Thats a 9800XT Fanboy! I was talking about the 9800 Pro, I wasnt comparing all Nvidia's and ATI's. Snowman you dont know sh*t about my setup.
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The 9800XT is just a slightly overclocked 9800 Pro, so in that test the 9800 Pro still would have beat the stuffing out of the 5950 Ultra.

 
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Slick5150

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Originally posted by: PCTweaker5
MP2 *is* directX9 PAL! And how could the card not be installed right? It was properly seated and I used several different drivers including 2 different Omega's so believe it fanboy(s)!
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Why do you ask a question, then yell at the people giving you a response?

There was obviously something screwy with your 9800 setup, otherwise, you wouldn't have had the results you had. What the reason is I don't know, but, it's clearly the case whether or not you like it.
 
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Brian48

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I don't think it really matters. MP2 looks and plays awesome on just about any video card. I even got it to run fairly well on cards that it wasn't even suppose to run on (ie. my old Matrox G400 16mb AGP).
 
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Originally posted by: PCTweaker5
I was playing MP2 on my new 5950 Ultra.
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Strange timing on buying a card like that. Hope you got a great deal as the value will likely drop big time soon.

 
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McArra

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Originally posted by: zodder
Max Payne 2 on my 9800 Pro (everything cranked up) is the best looking game I have ever played.
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Have you tried farcry?
 
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Originally posted by: PCTweaker5
Thats a 9800XT Fanboy! I was talking about the 9800 Pro, I wasnt comparing all Nvidia's and ATI's. Snowman you dont know sh*t about my setup.
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You should be banned for even suggesting a Nvidia card has better graphics than an ATI card. Yet you have proven that you don't know enough about graphic cards and the code developers use to display object in their games.

So suffer in your fanboy noobness.
 
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PCTweaker5

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Originally posted by: PinwiZ
Originally posted by: PCTweaker5
MP2 *is* directX9 PAL! And how could the card not be installed right? It was properly seated and I used several different drivers including 2 different Omega's so believe it fanboy(s)!
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Why do you ask a question, then yell at the people giving you a response?

There was obviously something screwy with your 9800 setup, otherwise, you wouldn't have had the results you had. What the reason is I don't know, but, it's clearly the case whether or not you like it.
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Because these guys are so damn immature and are too glued to benchmarks they cant see otherwise. I saw better looks and performance on that game and if you guys cant believe it than I could care less Im having the fun and not you. Who the hell is Zarick and why would you call me a troll? I havent ripped anyone off!
 
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Originally posted by: Quixfire
Originally posted by: PCTweaker5
Thats a 9800XT Fanboy! I was talking about the 9800 Pro, I wasnt comparing all Nvidia's and ATI's. Snowman you dont know sh*t about my setup.
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You should be banned for even suggesting a Nvidia card has better graphics than an ATI card. Yet you have proven that you don't know enough about graphic cards and the code developers use to display object in their games.

So suffer in your fanboy noobness.
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Pot meet kettle...
 
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VIAN

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Also brighter, more colorful things make people feel better. Opposed to ATI that has a more natural color, Nvidia uses very vibrant and bright images. It's like that Coke-Cola thing. The can is red because it is supposed to make you more thirsty.
 
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