Graphics Cards

Caestar · Post by **Caestar** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 12:19 pm

My PC is nearly 3 years old now its got 1 gig of mem since i upgraded it but i havent upgraded the gfx card yet..Its currently a G-Force 4 one. I dont get the mirrory water fx of New Frontiers or the Ability to change the appearance of Caestars Face as per catacombs facilitates. Is this because i need a new Graphics card. If so can anyone suggest one for me.

I Have heard that a G-Force FX 5200 might be able to accomodate this and they are around about £40.00.

I am using a P4 2g processor so that should be ok i reckon still.

Any ideas folks?

Post by **Xest** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 12:24 pm

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Seriously tho yeah, Catacombs models are dependant on graphics card, GeForce FX5200 probably isn't the best choice - if it's anything like all other budget gfx cards it'll be missing a lot of shader support and might not give you the flashy effects you want anyway. I guess either a Radeon 9800 pro or a GeForce 6800 but the 6800 is probably overkill for your system tbh. Going on a quick look through Scan the going price for 9800s seems to be like £110 - £120 though.

Elrandhir · Post by **Elrandhir** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 12:31 pm

Caestar wrote:My PC is nearly 3 years old now its got 1 gig of mem since i upgraded it but i havent upgraded the gfx card yet..Its currently a G-Force 4 one. I dont get the mirrory water fx of New Frontiers or the Ability to change the appearance of Caestars Face as per catacombs facilitates. Is this because i need a new Graphics card. If so can anyone suggest one for me.

I Have heard that a G-Force FX 5200 might be able to accomodate this and they are around about £40.00.

I am using a P4 2g processor so that should be ok i reckon still.

Any ideas folks?

Well best is ofcourse the newest Cards like Radeon X800, Nvidia 6800..
But I would go for Radeon 9800, if you want a Card that aint all to expensive, "FX 5200" is crapp =P.

Hatsepsut · Post by **Hatsepsut** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 12:41 pm

Been looking at gfx cards myself lately since my old GeForce fried.

Anyways, take a look at:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1780514,00.asp

According to them "Among the midrange offerings, the GeForce 6600GT offers the best 3DMark performance per dollar, leading both the 128MB and 256MB versions of ATI's Radeon 9800 Pro." and

"Among the higher-end GPUs, ATI's Radeon X800 Pro (average street price $384) delivers the most performance per dollar, followed by Nvidia's GeForce 6800GT (average street price $373)."

Jupi · Post by **Jupi** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 12:53 pm

Hatsepsut wrote: followed by Nvidia's GeForce 6800GT (average street price $373)."[/i]

i was in the same boat, had a 3 yo comp with a nvidia 440mx 64mb card, i recently got a new comp with a nvidia 6800 GTO 256mb, man i couldnt believe the difference or what i was missing out on graphically over the last 2 years it was like discovering a new game, combined with me 19"TFT flat panel its awesome, so now i can get all the benefits/ui's/trees/shadows/reflections etc etc go for it

clearbrook · Post by **clearbrook** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 1:12 pm

Caestar wrote:I Have heard that a G-Force FX 5200 might be able to accomodate this and they are around about £40.00.

An AGP-type FX5200 is more like 25 pounds in, for example, dabs (in the uk).

I bought one of those about a year ago, and it was a cheap card then, so I would expect that you should go for something a bit better (I put the card on top of a 866Mhz pentium, and it was hellish unstable until the cooling fan burned out after that it has run ok *shrug* I think the fan musta been to make it look fast

).

Gorom · Post by **Gorom** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 1:39 pm

Current *supported* Catacombs video cards

NVIDIA Geforce 2 Series "no reflective water or enhanced model support / highest framerate settings only" **
NVIDIA Geforce 3 Ti Series
NVIDIA Geforce 4 MX Series "no reflective water or enhanced model support / highest framerate settings only" **
NVIDIA Geforce 4 Ti Series
NVIDIA Geforce FX 5200 Series
NVIDIA Geforce FX 5500 Series
NVIDIA Geforce FX 5600 Series
NVIDIA Geforce FX 5700 Series
NVIDIA Geforce FX 5800 Series
NVIDIA Geforce FX 5900 Series
NVIDIA Geforce 6600 Series
NVIDIA Geforce 6800 Series
NVIDIA Geforce PCX 5300
NVIDIA Geforce PCX 5750
NVIDIA Geforce PCX 5900

ATi Radeon 7500 Series "no reflective water or enhanced model support / highest framerate settings only" **
ATi Radeon 8500 Series
ATi Radeon 9000 Series
ATi Radeon 9100 Series
ATi Radeon 9200 Series
ATi Radeon 9500 Series
ATi Radeon 9600 Series
ATi Radeon 9700 Series
ATi Radeon 9800 Series
ATi Radeon X300 Series
ATi Radeon X600 Series
ATi Radeon X700 Series
ATi Radeon X800 Series

Current *not supported* Catacombs video cards

All Voodoo series
All S3 series
All Intel on-board video
SIS chipsets
Kyro chipsets
Matrox Parhelia
All Diamond Multimedia series
Rage 128 Ultra Dell
Rage 128 series
Rage Fury Pro
NVIDIA Geforce 1
ATi Radeon VE
ATi Radeon 7000
ATi Radeon 7200
Hercules 3D Prophet 4000xt PCI
Any video card with less then 32MB video RAM
Any video card that does not support Pixel Shaders and Texture and Lighting effects

The following laptop chipsets may work with Catacombs with highest framerate settings selected, but they are not recommended and are not supported.

ATi Mobility Fire GL 7800
ATi Mobility Fire GL 9000
ATi Mobility Radeon 7500
ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
ATI Mobility Radeon 9200
ATI Mobility Radeon 9600
ATi Mobility Radeon 9700
ATi Mobility Radeon 9800
ATi Mobility Radeon X600
Quadro 2 GO
Quadro 4 GO GL
Geforce 2 GO
Geforce 4 4200 GO
Geforce 4 GO
Geforce FX GO

Caestar · Post by **Caestar** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 1:57 pm

im on a budget tbh so perhaps something along the lines of 50-60 tops i can afford at the moment . Will look at ge-force 6800 and radeon 9800 pro.

Keep your suggestions flooding in. and thanks

sargie · Post by **sargie** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:27 pm

i have geforce fx 5200 m8 and its not a bad card at all espeacialy if you are on a budget it handles the new catas graphics very well indeed and the water looks very nice. of course there are better cards if you can aford £150 plus but the gforce fx 5200 is fine. i bought a fx 5200 256 mb ddr 6 months ago from pc world for £99 but there are cheaper ones with less mb :ba:

Luinmir · Post by **Luinmir** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 5:28 pm

I have bough my self a Geforce 6600GT .. Its very Overclockble.. and should do fine ... Its bit lower than 6800 .. but many of my friends says 6600gt is better for the money than 6800..

So now i am just waiting for it .. so i can install it.

The card i use now is Geforce 4 ti