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Hey,
As I'm after a cheap card, direct x9 functionality it not gonna be top of my list.. or is it? I hear the cheap cards are far too slow to do anything with it anyway even if they can display nicer-looking stuff. But are there any games that wouldn't run on a non-dx9 card? I've heard about people having problems with e.g. Deux Ex 2. Is this true? Far Cry for example on my battered old radeon 7500 displays the water as mostly bright red. Would this be a directX issue? It has the latest drivers, but I'd more likely put it down to the fact the card sucks eggs ![]() an awful lot, latest drivers seem to conflict with MS office of all things!) Cheers, Chris |
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Not Me a écrit :
Hey, As I'm after a cheap card, direct x9 functionality it not gonna be top of my list.. or is it? I hear the cheap cards are far too slow to do anything with it anyway even if they can display nicer-looking stuff. But are there any games that wouldn't run on a non-dx9 card? I've heard about people having problems with e.g. Deux Ex 2. Is this true? Deus Ex 2 looks great on my Ti4600. -- Merci d'enlever le-munster-du-frigo pour me répondre par mail. ICQ 248572128 "Every morning I wake up on the wrong side of capitalism." |
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:51:51 -0000, "Not Me"
wrote: Hey, As I'm after a cheap card, direct x9 functionality it not gonna be top of my list.. or is it? I hear the cheap cards are far too slow to do anything with it anyway even if they can display nicer-looking stuff. But are there any games that wouldn't run on a non-dx9 card? I've heard about people having problems with e.g. Deux Ex 2. Is this true? Far Cry for example on my battered old radeon 7500 displays the water as mostly bright red. Would this be a directX issue? It has the latest drivers, but I'd more likely put it down to the fact the card sucks eggs ![]() an awful lot, latest drivers seem to conflict with MS office of all things!) Cheers, Chris Depending on your taste in brands, you may want an ATI based card or a nVidia based card - One opposed to the other... But I am unsure of what you mean by "a cheap card".. Haven't you got a card that fits into that category right now..??? I don't know anything about ATI cards but cheap cards will give cheap performance results... Don't get into the DX9 syndrome. Just because a card can't take advantage of all the features in DX9, does NOT mean that it will NOT run in a DX9 environment... It simply means that it can't fully exploit DX9... It sounds like you already sussed that one out - Good approach..!!! All current and past games should run under DX9. That is unless you want to play games that are maybe in the same era as Blood2 or earlier. Even then Blood2 will still run but it runs only under certain settings and it may not even be DX9 stopping it from running well... I get to play one hell of a lot of the latest games as they get released and I have very little troubles with any of them. As a matter of fact, most of the problems are not DX or graphics driver related. They are from within the games themselves. That's what update patches are for... I too have had things like the "water" problem you descibed above. Somtimes it can be driver related and other times you need to look for update patches. If they are widely known problems, the games people usually try to address them. I tried DeusEx2 about a month ago. I had it for a while but have too many games installed and only half finished so I had to wait for a while before getting around to it. I played it for one single day, just until I was escaping the building it starts off in,, through a back entrance then grew tired of it and uninstalled it... I never did finish DeusEx the original though, so I reinstalled it and am present up to the Cathedral level. Last time I only just finshed the Hong Kong level. I might give DeusEx2 another try after this. I did notice it was quite hard on my graphics system though, as was the case when I first played the original a couple of years ago... From my limited knowledge on ATI cards, I would say you should get nothing shy of a 9600/9700 series to start to appreciate good graphics at a moderate cost. On the nVidia side, you have to really apply the noodle (brain).. In some cases, newer can be cheaper but newer may not be better... It really depends on where the magic line between cost and performance is.. Make sense - No..!!! Let me explain... While there are still some "Ti" series cards out there, which are not fully DX9 compliant, they still represent great performance but are still more costly than some of the lesser FX cards. Based on cost alone you may be tempted to go for one of these earlier generation FX cards but may be disappointed with the results. I simply could not imagine you totally enjoying DeusEx2 with an FX5200 unless you find some sort of magic minimum setting at a reasonable resolution. I would recommend an FX5700 as a starting point here but the the "cost" thing starts to kick in. Of course, if you can still find a Ti4200/4400/4600 at a greatly reduced price - go for it... Bang for buck, these may well be the best choices of all... If you are a dedicated ATI man (and I couldn't blame for being one) then it may well pay you to stick to them. I am sure that the older ones now are getting cheaper by the day.... Stacked up against some of the equivalent nVidia crop, they more than hold their own too... |
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"Not Me" wrote in message
... Hey, As I'm after a cheap card, direct x9 functionality it not gonna be top of my list.. or is it? I hear the cheap cards are far too slow to do anything with it anyway even if they can display nicer-looking stuff. But are there any games that wouldn't run on a non-dx9 card? I've heard about people having problems with e.g. Deux Ex 2. Is this true? Far Cry for example on my battered old radeon 7500 displays the water as mostly bright red. Would this be a directX issue? It has the latest drivers, but I'd more likely put it down to the fact the card sucks eggs ![]() (crashes an awful lot, latest drivers seem to conflict with MS office of all things!) Well the general consensus is that if you got a cheap DX9 compatible card like the FX 5200, you'd have DX9 support however it's too slow to really play any DX9 titles. |
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