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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: FOGOLD on July 24, 2003, 01:59:58 AM

Title: Faster?
Post by: FOGOLD on July 24, 2003, 01:59:58 AM

Will a mid range card eg Radeon 9600 Pro or Geforce FX 5600 ultra be much faster than my Geforce3 Ti500 on my 1800XP 512DDR rig? I have my doubts.

I have read that AH shows really blurry text when AA and AF are used on new cards?

Any opinion?

Title: Faster?
Post by: Estes on July 24, 2003, 02:56:33 AM

i have blurry text when I turn on smoothvision on my Radeon 9500

Title: Faster?
Post by: Skuzzy on July 24, 2003, 07:17:00 AM

The blurry text is caused by AF (Anistrophic Filtering).  AA will not blur the text.

Title: Faster?
Post by: bloom25 on July 24, 2003, 09:58:56 PM

They will be faster, but not much faster.  What the newer cards will allow you to do though is make use of AA and AF without a prohibitive performance penalty.  A GeForce 3 Ti 500 is not a bad card, so it would be hard to justify spending $180 just to make games prettier IMO.