View Single Post
  #6  
Old January 21st 04, 08:42 AM
Darthy
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 23:34:21 +0100, "--Jerry--"
wrote:

If you have any GF4 card you do not need to upgrade your graphic card for
next 3-6 months and then a new GPU must appear. All games are running OK on
full GF4 cards (NOT MX!!!). I tested Radeon R9700 and FX 5900 and I did not
notice any improvement in speed in any applications. All that was present


I will kind of agree on that... but a person who can't afford an
ATi9800/5900 today will tomorrow as their prices are now hitting below
$200. (ah competition)

But a 5900/9700 will smoke a Ti4x000 card anyday, try a modern game -
not Quake3, get back to us. On my same hardware, it's a noticable
difference in game play.... if you have a Celeron 2.4Ghz or old P3
system - it won't make a difference.

Drivers are so well opimised for GF4 cards that I was surprised that FX and
Radeon cards do not bring any noticable acceleration exept in tests. That is
valid for any GF 4 card (Ti 4200, 4400, 4600 and 4800SE).


Not on your machine. You don't seem to know much about 3D video....
anyone worth their grain of salt knows that a 4800se is a 4400 with a
new name and AGP-8x thrown in (results = nothing)

And one thing - ATI drivers sucks. ATI cards are so fast, picture is so
sharp, colours are so vivid but drivers... They are not so bad in Windows
but in games are horrible. Flashing shadows, missing textures, missing


What games? None of my games do that. FUD. From GLtron to UT to
UT2003 to MS TrainSimulator to HALO to COD, no problems.

keeping ATI R9700 card in my PC. Look how often new ATI drivers appear. All
users that are using ATI cards admitt that there are some problems with
drivers. Some of them never used Nvidia cards and they do not know how
important good drivers are.


Never had a problem with ATI drivers. Had problem with the last batch
of Nvidia drivers. Nvidia comes out with drivers more or less the
same as ATI. FUD

Both have issues... yes. But none are perfect.

So for now I am still using my Ti4800SE and am waiting for new card from
Nvidia.


Good for you, enjoy your Ti4400.


--
Remember when real men used Real computers!?
When 512K of video RAM was a lot!

Death to Palladium & WPA!!