New video card

[CyripticGhost]

So I was out at Best Buy today, and they had an ATI Radeon X1600 pro 512mb video card for $100 dollars and I bought it. My old card is a ATI Radeon 9800 pro 128mb. Am I going to notice a difference on my games?

[Nadokings]

Re: New video card

oh ya this card you just bought is way better and faster.

[CyripticGhost]

Re: New video card

Oh, because on Planetbattlefield forums, they are saying the card I just bough (Radeon X1600 pro) is not as good as the 9800 pro 128mb. I was like WTF!


So, I've had Quake 4 for a while, but it was too choppy on my old card. Could this new one run it well? And how bout BF2, what setting would you recommend? Oh BTW, its AGP, if that makes a difference?

[Nadokings]

Re: New video card

No they must be stupid, you will notice a diff.
I reccomend all high besides lighting turn it down to mid.

[CyripticGhost]

Re: New video card

Okay awesome. I had my hopes up super high when I bought this and I logged onto PBF and they just like said it sucked and stuff. I was like "Damn, waste of money" but since you say its good, I'll give it a go. Do you have one?

[[C22] yrethguad]

Re: New video card

Just plug it in and check it out. Don't be scairt!!

[Death Merchant]

Re: New video card

yeh its a fair amount faster

i would say x1.5 faster than the older card

plus it has HDR and SM 3.0 which is useful

[megawhompertoo]

Re: New video card

It's not a bad card, especially for $100. ati's newest revision is a x1650PRO (450mhz core, 1300mhz GDDR3 memory), which is more like a scaled down x1800 (near-performance card) than the older x1600Pro (400mhz core, 800mhz GDDR2 memory), which is more like a scaled up x1300.


This is a link that cloaker posted from a previous thread:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102057

from this discussion:

http://www.totalbf2.com/forums/showthread.php?t=103104

[Nadokings]

Re: New video card

i did have one my new is in ma' sig

[kitchener]

Re: New video card

You're in luck. Last night, Tweaks R Us just came out with Cat 6.11 drivers that are optimized for BF2. Read the FAQ there for instructions on a clean install if you haven't done it before (easy stuff), but up-to-date drivers are crucial and the tweaked WarCat 6.11s are the soup du jour.

[Nadokings]

Re: New video card

I updated my old 9600 series vc on my back up pc and they are now 6.11 i think.
and i hate it bf2 is a bit more lagy.
like WTF!?!!