God bless my 9800 Pro

Now that the two big "guns" are out -- Doom 3 and Half Life 2 (not to
mention Rome Total War), I can safely say my Radeon 9800 Pro was the
best computer purchase I ever made. This card is now over two years
old, there weren't even any DX9 titles released when it first came
out, and yet it runs the latest games without a hitch. I think that's
pretty amazing and a testament to how far ahead of its time it was
when ATI first conceived it. I had been worried I might need to
upgrade to an X800 or something, but thank God I didn't waste the
money. My trusty old 9800 Pro has done a marvelous job. (Now I'll
start worrying about whether it can handle STALKER).

These people who say you can't run Half Life 2 without an X800 are nuts. The
9800 Pro works perfect with the game. But it's still slow as hell with Halo.


"John" wrote in message
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Now that the two big "guns" are out -- Doom 3 and Half Life 2 (not to
mention Rome Total War), I can safely say my Radeon 9800 Pro was the
best computer purchase I ever made. This card is now over two years
old, there weren't even any DX9 titles released when it first came
out, and yet it runs the latest games without a hitch. I think that's
pretty amazing and a testament to how far ahead of its time it was
when ATI first conceived it. I had been worried I might need to
upgrade to an X800 or something, but thank God I didn't waste the
money. My trusty old 9800 Pro has done a marvelous job. (Now I'll
start worrying about whether it can handle STALKER).

There are also performance tweaks for the 9800pro in HL2
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=40872

All the tweaks there are good, but scroll down a bit for a ati-specific
tweak.

rms

Rick Carney wrote:
These people who say you can't run Half Life 2 without an X800 are
nuts. The 9800 Pro works perfect with the game. But it's still slow
as hell with Halo.


My bro has a 9800 pro, and Halo runs perfectly!

John wrote:
Now that the two big "guns" are out -- Doom 3 and Half Life 2 (not to
mention Rome Total War), I can safely say my Radeon 9800 Pro was the
best computer purchase I ever made.

I should have bought it, instead I got the 9500 Pro. It lasted two years
but ran out of gas with Doom3 (800x600 without shadows, playable but ...)
It would have been a better investment at the time to get the 9800 Pro.
This time I got the x800 Pro, I really hope it lasts 3 years.

GS.

John wrote:
Now that the two big "guns" are out -- Doom 3 and Half Life 2 (not to
mention Rome Total War), I can safely say my Radeon 9800 Pro was the
best computer purchase I ever made. This card is now over two years
old, there weren't even any DX9 titles released when it first came
out, and yet it runs the latest games without a hitch. I think that's
pretty amazing and a testament to how far ahead of its time it was
when ATI first conceived it. I had been worried I might need to
upgrade to an X800 or something, but thank God I didn't waste the
money. My trusty old 9800 Pro has done a marvelous job. (Now I'll
start worrying about whether it can handle STALKER).

I just got mine : when I got through the rigmoral of getting it working
(my machine had awful conflicts with it for some reason), it really is
an awesome upgrade.

What I find interesting is that usualyy with a game, everyone starts
pulling their dicks out in order to compare frame rates : It says
something for the gameplay in HL2 that no one has done that yet!
Everyone is too busy enjoying the game for the gameplay and not the
technical achievements and how it runs on their machines.

--
Walter Mitty
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Useless, waste of money research of the day : ***
http://www.tinyurl.com

On 11/18/2004 10:10 AM rms brightened our day with:

There are also performance tweaks for the 9800pro in HL2
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=40872

All the tweaks there are good, but scroll down a bit for a ati-specific
tweak.

rms




So create an autoexec.cfg with this:

snd_async_fullyasync "1"
r_fastzreject "1"

--
Steve ¤»Inglo«¤
www.inglostadt.com

"JimBob" wrote in message
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Rick Carney wrote:
These people who say you can't run Half Life 2 without an X800 are
nuts. The 9800 Pro works perfect with the game. But it's still slow
as hell with Halo.


My bro has a 9800 pro, and Halo runs perfectly!

6 FPS is perfect?

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:51:15 GMT, "Rick Carney"
wrote:

My bro has a 9800 pro, and Halo runs perfectly!

6 FPS is perfect?

I don't know what you are doing wrong with your machine, but my 9700
Pro has run Halo perfectly smoothly since the day of release.
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erm, sorry to slam your comment, but Halo does perform excellent on a
9800pro - I'm talking 256-bit here, not the se128-bit anyway.

"Rick Carney" wrote in message
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"JimBob" wrote in message
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Rick Carney wrote:
These people who say you can't run Half Life 2 without an X800 are
nuts. The 9800 Pro works perfect with the game. But it's still slow
as hell with Halo.


My bro has a 9800 pro, and Halo runs perfectly!

6 FPS is perfect?