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Testing Entry Level and Mainstream cards on resolutions like 1600x1200 with 16X aniso is simply wrong.
[Posted by: BorgDrone 
| Date: 09/21/07 02:08:27 PM]
| Date: 09/21/07 02:08:27 PM]
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Unreal Battlefield: Enemy Territory Quake Wars Performance Preview
Started by: BorgDrone | Date 09/21/07 02:08:27 PM
Comments: 14 | Last Comment: 11/28/07 07:26:18 AM
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[Posted by: Blind | Date: 09/22/07 05:46:15 AM]
| Date: 09/22/07 05:46:15 AM]3.
I was going to say something clever about AMD sucking ass but I just didn't bother. Benchmarks speak for themselves.
[Posted by: Mr. BonBon | Date: 09/22/07 12:59:09 PM]
| Date: 09/22/07 12:59:09 PM]4.
Who games with 16x Ansio?? This is a bit unbalanced reviewing isn't it?
It's unfair and unrealistic to say the entry level cards are two slow to play ETQW, they do well considering utterly maxed out detail and notorious system killing 16x AF.
One needs to bare in mind the 2400 8500 and 8600, 7600 etc are very common, and will represent what the vast majority of card sales and what gamers will be playing on quite happily. It would have been nice to see how these cards perform with more realistic game settings, rather than all sliders maxed out, and brutal AF settings.
Backing off a bit of detail, dropping to 4x AF, would massively increase FPS with these cards and give them a fair showing. Frankly I'm impressed that this game performs as well as it does, I had my doubts about megatexture performance and memory issues, but wow - full credit to what ID have squeezed out of GPU hardware!
It's unfair and unrealistic to say the entry level cards are two slow to play ETQW, they do well considering utterly maxed out detail and notorious system killing 16x AF.
One needs to bare in mind the 2400 8500 and 8600, 7600 etc are very common, and will represent what the vast majority of card sales and what gamers will be playing on quite happily. It would have been nice to see how these cards perform with more realistic game settings, rather than all sliders maxed out, and brutal AF settings.
Backing off a bit of detail, dropping to 4x AF, would massively increase FPS with these cards and give them a fair showing. Frankly I'm impressed that this game performs as well as it does, I had my doubts about megatexture performance and memory issues, but wow - full credit to what ID have squeezed out of GPU hardware!
[Posted by: Phenomo | Date: 09/22/07 05:55:50 PM]
| Date: 09/22/07 05:55:50 PM]5.
i thought there was a fix for quake wars from amd,so that they delivered better performance
maybe that explains the bad scores?
maybe that explains the bad scores?
[Posted by: Jos | Date: 09/23/07 12:00:32 AM]
| Date: 09/23/07 12:00:32 AM]6.
Gaming is possible using a P4 3.0Ghz HT with 1GB DDR400 RAM and a GeForce 6800GT 256 MB AGP8x @ 1024x768x32 Med-Balanced settings no AA 4xAF hitting the 30+ FPS barrier. Not bad for outdated hardware
[Posted by: pitu | Date: 09/23/07 08:45:48 PM]
| Date: 09/23/07 08:45:48 PM]7.
Not true, you dont need 16 anisotropic or all on high to enjoy the game.
With medium setings 8500gt runs fine, and the game is fun.
With medium setings 8500gt runs fine, and the game is fun.
[Posted by: Akito | Date: 09/24/07 07:39:52 AM]
| Date: 09/24/07 07:39:52 AM]8.
You're much too restrictive about graphics quality being required for enjoyment. Outside the PC space, the PS2 , Wii and DS are massively popular (and in my experience a lot of fun to play with) but are utterly graphically inferior to even the cheapest card discussed here.
You would be doing a service to potential purchasers of lower-end cards by, instead of insisting on maximum image quality, simply lowering the settings until you achieve 30 fps and posting comparison screenshots or video to show the visual difference.
You would be doing a service to potential purchasers of lower-end cards by, instead of insisting on maximum image quality, simply lowering the settings until you achieve 30 fps and posting comparison screenshots or video to show the visual difference.
[Posted by: sanity | Date: 09/25/07 10:36:27 AM]
| Date: 09/25/07 10:36:27 AM][1-9]
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