God bless my 9800 Pro

"Rick Carney" wrote...

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

6 FPS is perfect?

Don't use FSAA with Halo, will slow it to a slideshow !!

Rick Carney wrote:
"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?

6?? hmm, dunno where u got that from, more like 30 i think

ALright I'll try it later. I thought I remembered everyone bitching about
the frame rate. I gave up on it after a while because it was choppy.

Thanks


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"Rick Carney" wrote...

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

6 FPS is perfect?

Don't use FSAA with Halo, will slow it to a slideshow !!

In article , Blaedmon says...
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.

My SE is 256 bit...


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Normality will be restored once we work out what normality actually is.

Rick Carney wrote:
ALright I'll try it later. I thought I remembered everyone bitching
about the frame rate. I gave up on it after a while because it was
choppy.

Thanks

I seem to recall that most of Halo's framerate problems were with the
GeForce FX line, similar to how the FX caards got their asses handed to them
with the HL2 benchmarks from last year.

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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).

Yeah, I upgraded from an Fx5600 to a Radeon 9800 pro ($250 CDN, a decent
price if you aks me), and I am SO happy with the improvements. Especially
after how freaked out I got when I found out how ****ty half-life 2 ran on
the fx cards last year. I just need to upgrade my PC's RAM now :s

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fred wrote:
Can you run it at 16 by 12 resolution, everything maxed out, with
AA-enabled, at 70FPS..... ? An X800 or 6800GT can -- least my 6800 GT
can,
think that's all folks were trying to say. I just replaced my 9800
PRO,
which I agree is probably the best buy at the moment.

Dunno. I never even bother enabling AA in my games. HL2 is the fist game I
ever enabled even 2x on, and I get great framerates on my 9800 pro and the
graphics look great to me. Of course I'd prefer an x800 card, no doubt about
dat, but I don't have the money or a pci express slot. Plus I'd probably
need to upgrade my p/s.

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BAMMO wrote:
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

It's not more than two years old, is it? I thought the 9800 Pro cam
out in August 2003.

I thought that was when the 9800 XT came out. Dunno. These things get
released too often it's hard to keep track

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I can see your point Greg. I have a 9500 pro (non L-shaped mem/bios
enhanced) ATI card that has done its job for "God and Country" as the Brits
would say. I did pay a pretty penny of 200$ at that time. It did run every
game very nicely until Doom 3. Again, I said "nicely".

That I think is the ice-breaker for a 9500 pro (oem)., Doom 3. I just
replaced it with another (oem) 9800 pro and the game is 95% smooth as
butter. I hold some of that into account that my system lacks on the 3
generic sticks of ram I have. Only 1 gig total of pc2100 on a board that
can hold more. The rest is:

AMD 3000+ fsb333
80 gig w/XP Pro OS
C-media 8738 sound (better than onboard AC '97)
20in. Monitor
Latest Omega Driver

3DMark 04 - 5700

I love my 9500 pro. That was my best purchase. I have it in my 2nd pc and
that thing still holds on well with every other game. The 9800 pro is a
sweet piece, but it does not offer a jump like a 9500 pro did for its day.
At least to/for me.

SL

p.s. long live the VooDoo 1 !!

SL
"Greg Sumner" wrote in message
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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 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).


The 9800 Pro is simply still a decent video card. ATI's public relations
department originally stated that you would "need" a 9800XT to enjoy
Half-Life 2 to it's potential, and a 9800 Pro isn't much slower. PC Gamer
magazine also originally said that the 9700 Pro was something of the
unofficial video card of Doom 3, so I would have expected the 9800 Pro to
hold up well there also. STALKER should be good with it too, if not they'll
lose sales of the game since it's not realistic to expect that most folks
will shell out big bucks for a new video card because of one game.