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Im getting a 9700 np or pro card next and hope to play at 1024x769x32 with mid detail at 2xAA & AF at most. For the people that say the game will not run well on a 9700 then the game will be a sales flop.
In Canada a old Ti4600 is still over $350 and that card has been around forever so a 9700 still not be cheap 7 months from now.
Current Canadian card prices
the game has to run almost great with a 9700 pro.. the game will not sell if the game cant be played ATLEAST with a geforce 3... i dont think carmack is that dumb to create a game that can only be for high end users, considering thats a very small amount.
Well i've played that shitty game " Enter The Matrix " and i couldn't play it on 1028x768 ... too slow,.
My system is:
Athlon XP 1800+
GigaByte K7 Triton 400 Mobo
256 DDR Ram.
Sapphire 9700 NP.
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It's a new game and slow as hell. ( or is it my pc that's too slow for the new games )
What happened?:confused: Please tell us what happened to the Alienware 51:eek: .Quote:
im scared to upgrade ever again since when i did my major upgrade my alienware got stolen
My nephew runs that game in hi detail @ 1024x768 with no choppiness, so something's amiss here. His specs are : AMD 2600+ (T'bred at stock), GF4 Ti4200 @ stock and 2x256mb of PC2100 ram. Looking at this, it's possible that your cpu is not up for the chellenge or, more likely, your ram is insufficient. Your 9700NP is a damn sight better than his Ti4200. So it boils down to ram or cpu. Can't be driver related as I played the game with Cat 3.4 with no problem. Just speculating here, in all likeliness, I may be wrong:(Quote:
Well i've played that shitty game " Enter The Matrix " and i couldn't play it on 1028x768 ... too slow,.
Just bought the system in my sig. How do you think it'll fair? lol (dumb question).
What happened? Please tell us what happened to the Alienware 51 .
my area 51 was upstairs by the living room, and theres a huge window that faces outside and i guess you could see the computer and everything from outside, and just one day i came home and my area 51, my logitech z680s my flat screen were gone. i spent ALOT of money on that system then i had to invest in ADT security system because i dont want that to happen again.. my new computer stays in the basement.
Ouch!:eek: That must have hurt big time. Sorry to hear 'bout this, it WAS one sweet rig.:( Coincidentally, I have an ADT security system too;) , now I feel more secure whenever I leave home.:)Quote:
and just one day i came home and my area 51, my logitech z680s my flat screen were gone. i spent ALOT of money on that system then i had to invest in ADT security system because i dont want that to happen again.
I've already upgraded, P4 2.8C plus Radeon 9800 Non-pro. I'm not to worried. :)
Precisely :) Doom 3 looks graphically amazing but that doesn't always translate into great gameplay. HL2, however, should be worth it if not just to play with the physics engine they have. I have not been dissapointed by anything from valve. ID, I feel, has gone downhill since quake 1. I didn't like quake 2 and didn't play it and quake 3 was basically quake 1 with nice graphics. Hopefully they can return the emphasis to gameplay and not just pretty pictures with Doom 3 but who knows.Quote:
Originally posted by BoneThug$4Life
I am planning to upgrade my computer anyway. I am not just upgrading for Doom 3. I would upgrade it for HL2 though! :cool:
Damn straight! :) HL2 really looks good, but the only 'physics' engine I'm interested in is Alyx!:p Her 'physics' is of great interest to me:p Wonder if there's a patch or a cheat like the one for Dawn demo:p :D I gotta stop falling for these high polygon count cyberbabe!:( And yeah, I know, I gotta get me a life.:o :)Quote:
Doom 3 looks graphically amazing but that doesn't always translate into great gameplay. HL2, however, should be worth it if not just to play with the physics engine they have.
My system barly meets the minimun requirements for UT2K3 :(. I'm planning on upgrading my rig around christmas and if not that then a few months after pci express comes into use.
I never upgrade anything just for a game, but when my pc gets too old to play games that are slightly less than cureent......
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Upgrading can always be done in baby steps if budget's a constraint.;) Don't know what's in your rig but instant gratification starts with a new vid card, what about a Ti4200 128mb card?:DQuote:
I never upgrade anything just for a game, but when my pc gets too old to play games that are slightly less than cureent......
It's hard to do baby steps when you mobo is obsolete though.. like going from a socket 423 1.7GHz to like a 2.8cQuote:
Originally posted by mikeysg
Upgrading can always be done in baby steps if budget's a constraint.;) Don't know what's in your rig but instant gratification starts with a new vid card, what about a Ti4200 128mb card?:D
Too true! ;) I went from a pos XP2000+ palomimo to the 2800+ Barton and boy, did THAT make a difference.:D Still if one HAS to upgrade, one should look at one's own rig, decide if one can live with some bottle-necking when, say, one changes the gfx card. Then when there's enough $$ upgrade the mobo and cpu then the ram and so forth.:) Recently, my nephew went for a massive upgrade, burnt a hole in his pocket;) , he upped from an Atlon 1.2ghz to the XP2600 T'bred, got the same mobo as me (no prizes for guessing who's influenced him:p ) and bought the FX5200 128mb card.:mad: I smacked him on the back of his head and swapped the FX5200 for a Ti4200 128mb;) , now he's one happy gamer!:D I DID advise him to change his gfx card 1st, then the cpu and mobo would follow suit, but he wanted a massive upgrade.:eek: He's still using PC2100 ram, which would slow him down, but gaming on his rig is excellent!:DQuote:
It's hard to do baby steps when you mobo is obsolete though.. like going from a socket 423 1.7GHz to like a 2.8c
P.S. I believe he's HL2 and D3 ready, but he can't expect to get hi res with eye candy on (max detail and aa/af) Heck, I'm not even sure my rigs can do that, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Sorry for rezzing a slightly old topic but...I had to let this out:p
Well I'm planning on doing a massive upgrade...but I want to wait till PCi express and the new processors come out...this wait is killing me because I am scraping whatever $$ I have and I'm not happy w/ current gaming performance...but it's hard for me to earn money so i don't want to upgrade anything. I got $391 in cold, flimsy cash sitting here and another $200 I'm supposed to get for working 20 hours...:D
Edit: BTW Milo my mobo supports up to a 2 ghz processor....so HA!:p