Problems with new 6800

[etzy]

There is no way u can play doom 3 at ultra settings... anyway, geforce 6800 is not worth buying either... it only has 128 mb memory and 12 pixel pipelines. a 6800 gt will definitely be much more worthwhile than that... the max settings that u can play doom 3 on is peobably high settings and 1024 X 768

 

[Hauk]

Yea, I've had my Chaintech AA6800 up around 425/825, but keep it at 380/800 now. With:

Athlon 64 3000
MSI K8N Neo Platinum
2x 512 Corsair PC3200 LL
SB Audigy 2

I can run Doom 3 on Ultra, 1024x768 4xAA 4xAF and Farcry @ maxed out no problem. On my 19" monitor, I've never seen the need to go higher than 1024x768.

I have to disagree with you etzy. The 6800 is quite a performer right now...

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: NightFalcon
Well I just applied the 1.2 patch and lighting seems to be good now. But the best I can do is 1024x768 and medium texture quality. On 1280x1024 it's completely unplayable. I don't know... I'll be reinstalling XP this weekend, maybe it's a driver issue that will be fixed after the reinstall.

Check your AGP aperture size. Set it to 256mb

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: etzy
There is no way u can play doom 3 at ultra settings... anyway, geforce 6800 is not worth buying either... it only has 128 mb memory and 12 pixel pipelines. a 6800 gt will definitely be much more worthwhile than that... the max settings that u can play doom 3 on is peobably high settings and 1024 X 768

My 6800 runs 1600x1200 High no problem. The difference between the 6800 and 6800GT in Doom 3 is negligible at best. Sounds like someone is just repeating crap they read somewhere.

 

[Keysplayr]

Check out the Doom3 sticky post on the first page of this forum to get an idea of what you should be getting in Doom3. As far as FarCry goes, I was able to play at 1024x768 everything high with 2xAA using my 5900U and maintain a minimum 30fps. Now I know your 6800 can do better than that. I currently have a 6800GT but haven't really compared benchmarks yet. As you can see, your rig is faster than mine.

 

[NightFalcon]

I read the big topics regarding AGP aperture size, and I played around with 64 and 128, but saw absaolutely no difference. I can try increasing it to 256, but not sure what that will do.