I just bought a PNY 5600 Ultra for the wifes computer, and now I am totally pi$$ed. While its not my main gaming rig, it does see it fare share of gaming (esp. IL-2 online). I never expected this card to run HL-2 with all the bells and whistles, but at the very least to be playable at 1028x768. I knew I should of gone with the 9600PRO to replaced the modded 9500 (PRO) I burnt. I want some one to feel sorry for me :-(, and for that young punk that promised (sold me) that there was nothing comming out within a year that this card could not handle.
There is one thing I do not understand in this whole HL-2/ATI/Nvidia gun battle. I thought DX9 was a standard setting that established how the pixel shaders run or work. Why would a game based on the refrence API for DX9 need any optomizations to run on a certain card that is supposed to be DX9 compliant. Why should the developer of HL-2 have to create a special code for Nvidia or ATI, when ATI and Nvidia are supposed to comply with what MS calls for in DX9. I think its stupid for me to have to run my DX9 card at DX8.1 in a DX9 game so that it can be playable. Yes I preordered HL-2, and that is why I am upset. I am not a fanboy to any camp of GPU/CPU, but I am a consumer that feels letdown.
I had a GF2 SDR, and these is no DX7 game that it will not play at acceptable fps's. I have a GF3 TI200, and there is not a DX8 game that it will not play at acceptable fps's. These cards are not the cream of the crop in there respective DX category, and while none provide 300+ fps they do not stutter, or crash, or give me slide shows of the action. But now I have a FX5600Ultra that will not play the FIRSTS DX9 out to market, what do I look forward to when this game is modded, and made even more demanding, other than to a replacement.
Det 50.xx is supposed to fix these issues. How? The little respect I have left for Nvidia will be lost if I get square graphics like an atari 2600 (exagerating) in order to able to play DX9 games on my DX9 card.
Well I feel better now that I vented.
There is one thing I do not understand in this whole HL-2/ATI/Nvidia gun battle. I thought DX9 was a standard setting that established how the pixel shaders run or work. Why would a game based on the refrence API for DX9 need any optomizations to run on a certain card that is supposed to be DX9 compliant. Why should the developer of HL-2 have to create a special code for Nvidia or ATI, when ATI and Nvidia are supposed to comply with what MS calls for in DX9. I think its stupid for me to have to run my DX9 card at DX8.1 in a DX9 game so that it can be playable. Yes I preordered HL-2, and that is why I am upset. I am not a fanboy to any camp of GPU/CPU, but I am a consumer that feels letdown.
I had a GF2 SDR, and these is no DX7 game that it will not play at acceptable fps's. I have a GF3 TI200, and there is not a DX8 game that it will not play at acceptable fps's. These cards are not the cream of the crop in there respective DX category, and while none provide 300+ fps they do not stutter, or crash, or give me slide shows of the action. But now I have a FX5600Ultra that will not play the FIRSTS DX9 out to market, what do I look forward to when this game is modded, and made even more demanding, other than to a replacement.
Det 50.xx is supposed to fix these issues. How? The little respect I have left for Nvidia will be lost if I get square graphics like an atari 2600 (exagerating) in order to able to play DX9 games on my DX9 card.
Well I feel better now that I vented.
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