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#21
April 19th 04, 03:59 AM
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"Sept1967" sept1967@highstream.(Erase)net wrote in message ... New cards almost always NEED a fast CPU to "push" them. Take a look at Toms' Hardware. They have several charts (benchmarks) with the same video card, using a slower CPU, and faster CPU. The same video card can gain as much as 25% (or more) performance just by having a faster CPU pumping out the data. If you go to higher resolution or image quality, you will need a faster graphics card, not CPU. At higher resolutions games are graphics card limited, not CPU limited. This means unless you game at 800x600 or 1024x768, you might benefit from a faster video card even if you have a slower CPU. 
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#22
April 19th 04, 06:08 AM
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"Mr. Grinch" wrote in message
3.159... That's what I'm going to do. But the waiting is killing me! Argh! With a name like yours?...c'mon. :-) (Just kidding of course)
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#23
April 19th 04, 08:00 AM
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"teqguy" wrote in message news:
You guys have to take these games with a grain of salt. And the Dawn demo that supposedly required a Geforce FX to run? Weeks later, college kids had it running on a Radeon... and running BETTER at that. A patch was later released for the Geforce 4 and lower series to emulate an FX... didn't do a bad job either. That was a good story but did you ever try it yourself? It wasn't just a Radeon, it had to be a Radeon 9800 Pro with 256MB memory. Personally, tried the patch on a Radeon 9800 Pro with 128MB and it didn't work. So much for that anecdote. Besides, that was yesterday's news. Have you tried the Dusk 5900 demo? Funny how there isn't any claim that it can be run on a Radeon or that it can be patched down to a Geforce 4. Don't believe everything you read except those things you already have a preconceived notion about seems to be a common theme on the Internet.
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#24
April 19th 04, 08:37 AM
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On 4/18/2004 6:22 PM Skippy brightened our day with:
"Inglo" wrote in message . com... On 4/18/2004 5:35 PM Mr. Grinch brightened our day with: I've already got what I need to play Doom3, an XBox. Oh yeah baby! Nothing like Doom3 at 640x480 resolution. (I know the XBox can do higher resolution than that... but even the scaled down Doom3 that the XBox may get will bring it to it's knees...) If you can handle 5 minute level loads I bet it'll look fine on the XBox. I'll be playing it on my overclocked like a mutha AthlonXP w/ Radeon 9600 Pro though too, and I imagine the 96/800s will do alright as well. -- "Cocaine's a hell of a drug" - Rick James Steve [Inglo]
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#25
April 19th 04, 08:53 AM
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#26
April 19th 04, 09:07 AM
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"PEACEMAKER" wrote in message .cable.rogers.com... then all the industry has to do is not write games that require extreme hardware? obviously people wanting extreme games is what is pushing the game industry. people who can afford 600$ video cards are more likely the ones to buy the games I disagree. A few demanding FPS's don't make up the whole of the PC gaming industry. Strategy games are more demanding than they were 3 years ago, but they are a still a far cry (pardon the pun) from some action games.
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#27
April 19th 04, 09:27 AM
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On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 04:07:22 -0400, "magnulus"
wrote: I disagree. A few demanding FPS's don't make up the whole of the PC gaming industry. Strategy games are more demanding than they were 3 years ago, but they are a still a far cry (pardon the pun) from some action games. State of the art games have been pushing PC hardware sales for over 10 years now, and PC gaming is still going strong. -- Andrew. To email unscramble & remove spamtrap. Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards, please don't top post. Trim messages to quote only relevant text. Check groups.google.com before asking a question.
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#28
April 19th 04, 09:38 AM
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"Joe62" wrote in message news  Remember the hype a few years back about how you wouldn't need to do this in the GeForce age? Nothing but marketing lies. Not necessarily true. If you want to up the resolution or image quality, a newer card on the same processor could still be do-able. The 6800 is only CPU limited at LOWER resolutions and without antialiasing. The antialiasing quality of the 6800 will be alot better than any of NVidia's previous cards. I have a GeForce FX 5900 (non-pro) but I'm going to be saving up to buy an FX 6800 (non-pro) if the benchmarks play out around the time of release.
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#29
April 19th 04, 10:21 AM
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"Andrew" spamtrap@localhost wrote in message ... State of the art games have been pushing PC hardware sales for over 10 years now, and PC gaming is still going strong. Bust at least 3/4 of the games out there have very modest system requirements. Out of the hundreds of games available, there are maybe only about 5-10 I would say are "demanding", and only maybe 2-3 I'd call "very demanding" (Far Cry would be one of them).
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#30
April 19th 04, 11:02 AM
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