NVidia Quadro FX1100

[bawhabmw]

Hey all,

I was hoping I could get some understanding about graphics cards.

A year ago I bought the NVidia Quadro FX 1100 card since I read that it worked well for 3D apps. I primarily use Maya and the card is great.

BUT when I want to play games like "Black & White 2" I have to lower all of my settings the the lowest quality and it still chunks along. Now this card still goes for about $600 in some places and I have a hard time believing that I can blast through Maya just fine but my games don't match up in performance.

My question is, is there anything I can do to get good gaming performance out of my card? or is this specific line of graphics cards only good for Maya and other 3D app work?

Also, if it IS only good for Maya and such, would there be an issue if I install a second graphics card into my machine, say an ATI radeon x850 XT. Is that possible without an SLI connection?

Thanks for your help.
|Ben

p.s. my system specs are WinXP SP2, P4 3.2HT, MSI PT880 Neo MOBO, 1G RAM (dual channel 2x512mb)

 

[BlacKJesuS]

FX1100 is a 5700....its not the game or the system...weak graphics card

you can try to use just the regular nvidia drivers (if you arent already) also try overclocking...use Rivatuner or Coolbits


you cant install the quadro and the x850 at the same time because u have AGP....sli is also pci-e...which you dont have so no its not possible

 

[Cooler]

Originally posted by: BlacKJesuS
FX1100 is a 5700....its not the game or the system...weak graphics card

you can try to use just the regular nvidia drivers (if you arent already) also try overclocking...use Rivatuner or Coolbits


you cant install the quadro and the x850 at the same time because u have AGP....sli is also pci-e...which you dont have so no its not possible

yep whole FX gen is bad for gamming(anyone who tells you differnt is fanboy).

 

[bawhabmw]

ok thank you much!

 

[darkswordsman17]

What has been failed to be said though is that nearly all the Quadros won't perform too well in games because their drivers are heavily written with 3D programs (not games, but stuff like CAD, Maya, etc.) in mind, and thus their peformance is heavily altered. When you pay that much money for the card, you're really paying for the software, and less the hardware (as has been stated, your card is the equivalent of an FX5700, which is a mid-range card from 2, almost 3 generations ago in video cards).

Unless you have motherboard that features two PCI-e slots, you're not going to be able to put in another card thats good for gaming. You might look into replacing your card with a 6800 Ultra/GT. I remember reading about someone setting up a dual-boot setup where one partition was for gaming and it worked like a 6800 Ultra, and then another partition was for work, and the card functioned as whatever Quadro card the 6800 Ultras were. Unfortunately I don't recall the website for this or anything, and I don't remember how well or even if he did for sure get it working well, but it might be worth looking into.

 

[BlacKJesuS]

do a google search for "softmod"

 

[Regs]

The Quadro class is targeted for computer-aided design (CAD) and digital content creation (DCC) applications. They were net engineered for main-stream gamers.

 

[IlllI]

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
What has been failed to be said though is that nearly all the Quadros won't perform too well in games because their drivers are heavily written with 3D programs (not games, but stuff like CAD, Maya, etc.) in mind, and thus their peformance is heavily altered. When you pay that much money for the card, you're really paying for the software, and less the hardware (as has been stated, your card is the equivalent of an FX5700, which is a mid-range card from 2, almost 3 generations ago in video cards).

:thumbsup:

 

[Steve]

Yep. Quadro, FireGL, and Wildcat cards are not gaming cards. They're workstation class rendering cards.

 

[Avalon]

I know you can softmod a fair amount of Geforce cards into Quadros, but I don't know if the same can be done the other way around. Either way, you'd have an FX5700, like everyone else mentioned, which won't cut it for most current games.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

lol FX5700 is pants to start with, then it'll be hampered by being tailored specifically toward CAD apps and not games.