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Offline TheflyingElk

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« on: February 19, 2004, 12:29:29 PM »
Hi all, I should have my new dell system walking thru the door anytime, P-4 3.4, 1 Gig of ram, xp home, The vid card is a ATI 256 9800 XT,  I currently use a nvidia  5700 ultra 128, any body need the Nvidia card? will give great deal, but the reason for the post is any advice on set-up for the ATI card? driver set? and setting would be helpful. I know there are issues with AH 2 hope they get those worked out. But with the p-4 with the 800 FSB should be a beast. any thoughts welcome :D
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Offline ChasR

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« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2004, 02:19:08 PM »
You should get a pretty good frame rate in AH2 with your set up, though perharps not as high as you'd get with the nVidia card you're getting rid of.  The 9800 XT will be faster in almost every other game.  I run the ATI Catalyst drivers, currently 3.10, but will upgrade to the latest, 4.2, when my lazy streak ends.   AH1 set up is:  1280 x 1024, AA x6, AF off (application preference),  all other settings to maximum quality, vsync on.  If you turn on AF you will probably find the map text and text in the radio buffer more difficult to read.  I believe Skuzzy recommended AF be set to application preference (off) for this reason.  Some folks swear by Omega drivers, reputed to improve image quality, but there is no performance advantage (maybe a bit of a disadvantage) in using them.
In AH2, I've experimented with quality settings, AA, AF, and found they make little if any difference at a given resoultion.  The exception being at 1600 x 1200 where 6x AA and 16x AF runs my 128MB card out of memory and frame rates drop into the 40s (tower, clipboard up, map view).
Be sure to uninstall the ATI drivers that come on your system prior to upgrading to the lastest driver.
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Offline mason22

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« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2004, 04:40:49 PM »
dibs on that Nvidia card!!

how much ya want fer it??
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Offline TheflyingElk

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« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2004, 08:47:42 AM »
Hiya mason 80.00 $ american sound ok Its a PNY 128 Geforce FX 5700 ultra been In my box about 3 months works fine but when new box gets here I will put the old Geforce 3 back in for the Inlaws, part if the deal for new box was wife said have to give Inlaws old box :p  so any way Dell says new box should be here 1-4 days so if you still intrested drop me a email Furcommando@charter.net
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« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2004, 11:19:20 AM »
email sent!  :aok
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Offline ChasR

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« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2004, 04:19:02 PM »
Everything you need to know about ATI video card settings and drivers can be found in the Rage3D Catalyst Forum .  It's a good read for the nVidia folks as well though not specific to their cards.
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Offline TheflyingElk

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« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2004, 06:29:10 PM »
Thanks for the Link ChasR :aok
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