I'm considering upgrade. My old video card has aparently reached it's limit (probably somewhere in the last century ). I have 1700+ Athlon, 256 DDR, Matsonic MS8137C, etc. My old video card is Hercules 3D Prophet 4000XT 32 MB. It's KYRO based card in case that people on this conference don't dwell on such low hardware shelf, KYRO I to be precise (also no hardware T&L). Believe it or not I had some great times with it and it has spoiled me when it comes to IQ (image quality) in many older titles including RTCW and some other, not so old, titles. For comparison, RTCWolfenstein was set at 1024x768x32 trilinear filtering, with no setting below max and it worked smoothly (without glitches and slowdowns of any kind at all, althou I can't say what were actual FPS's, I dont think it was much above 50-60 in most cases). Of course I could not use FSAA in this game, but I did in some others. Bump mapping and other effects were very good, beyond anything I had the opportunity to see on my friends's MX400, MX420 and one GTS (those are the cards i had opportunity to see, live, so far:frown:.I would like to see some IQ not just FPS in my games be it Unreal 2, C&C Generals or Morrowind. So far I had a peek with my card at those possibilities. My budget so far is not much (as you could have guessed from my specs) but I would sacrafice some e100-150 (or is it $) at very most for a card that will show me some 2x (or possibly 4x) with AF and still have enough juice to go at least 800x600x32 (preferably 1024x768x32) in Unreal 2 and it's clones. I have seen a LOT of articles that deal with this topic but all are based arround some outrageous configurations which I will not have the opportunity to see in near future.
I appreciate your effort in sheding some light on my problem.
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