| Video card [message #396450] |
Tue, 28 July 2009 14:38  |
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resistor1
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Does anyone have the 9800 gtx or Ati Radeon HD 4850? If so what fps do you get in Ren?
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| Re: Video card [message #396473 is a reply to message #396450] |
Tue, 28 July 2009 19:24  |
dr3w2
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i'd definately recommend going one step up if you can. I'm running a 512mb Radeon 4870 and it's fucking awesome.
Also renegade is heavily CPU intensive, not GPU.
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| Re: Video card [message #396477 is a reply to message #396450] |
Tue, 28 July 2009 23:23 |
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Also note that the human eye won't see any difference whatsoever between 60 and 300 FPS.
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| Re: Video card [message #396568 is a reply to message #396450] |
Wed, 29 July 2009 23:25 |
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RAM is so cheap that you're better off immediately adding as much as you can. You won't notice much of a difference in FPS during gameplay but your programs will open quicker and you'll get a much smoother experience overall. Just add 2 gigs of RAM: that way you'll be more or less at max for a 32-bit system (this is not 100 % true but no need to go into detail).
Eventually the problem with upgrading is that the moment you upgrade a component, another - non upgraded - component will become the bottleneck and will canalize the upgraded parts.
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| Re: Video card [message #396663 is a reply to message #396450] |
Fri, 31 July 2009 08:16 |
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I have a 9800 GTX+, but it really is only needed for the newer games, and it handles all of them well(even Crysis)
Make sure you have something like a core 2 duo so it wont bottleneck the card.
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| Re: Video card [message #397158 is a reply to message #396477] |
Thu, 06 August 2009 00:23 |
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| Goztow wrote on Wed, 29 July 2009 02:23 |
Also note that the human eye won't see any difference whatsoever between 60 and 300 FPS.
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Believe it or not, this isn't entirely true, at least not for everyone. I'm not sure who declared themself messiah and decided 60FPS was enough for anybody (I'm not saying you did... maybe it was Kane...).
I notice a big difference between 60FPS and 100FPS, so I'd definitely see it at 300FPS (although the gains get seriously diminishing the higher you go). I even see a difference between 75FPS and 100FPS. I've tried a lower resolution at 150FPS and damn was it fast.
It might not be so much that I "see" the difference as I am used to Renegade at a near constant 100FPS (thus, it doesn't bother me "as much" in other games, especially since getting a near constant 100FPS in newer games isn't always practical).
Ever since I upgraded to Windows 7, my monitor has been locked at 85Hz, but I can't get Renegade to display over 75Hz (it just stays Black). It's a GPU and/or monitor driver .ini problem I have yet to look into regarding Windows 7's handling of my monitor (basically, it's treating it as a CRT with a native resolution, leading to some funky side results), but the long story short is, Renegade "feels" slightly slower responsively to me at a constant 75FPS than it did before, and it does bother me a bit.
I also realize Renegade online only runs at 60 updates per second (60FPS), but that's neither here nor there with how responsive/smooth it is with regards to controls.
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