Graphics Card Advice

[Sulla]

Hi Guys,

I have an Asus 128mg MX card. Just got Deues Ex 2 and found that my card does not support pixel shading.

Am looking for a reasably priced card that will give me better performance and the pixel shaders that DE 2 need.

Any help is appreciated

Sulla

 

[Nights_L]

how much are you willing to spend?
a brief what you can get that have good shading ability.
ATI:
Radeon9500/9600 (Pro)

nVidia:
GeForceFX5700 (Ultra)

 

[ufo_warviper]

Whether you gain a performance improvement (even though only an MX card is involved) greatly depends upon the other compononents of your PC system. Please inform us what hardware you have, and then we will be able to provide effective counsel on a possible solution to your prob. All of us at THG hope everyone has had a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a great New Year's Resolution.

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[Sulla]

Hi Guys,

Here are some of my sys specs from drectx daig:

System Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation
System Model: Dimension 8100
BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A08
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1700MHz
Memory: 512MB RAM
Page File: 523MB used, 725MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0b (4.09.0000.0902)

Card name: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Display Memory: 128.0 MB
Current Mode: 1152 x 864 (32 bit) (75Hz)
Monitor: Dell E771a
Monitor Max Res: 1280,1024


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Sound Devices
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Description: SB Live! Wave Device

I have 3 120mg HD's (one replaces one of my CD drives) I work for a games company, lots of testing etc and differnt game builds etc.

The system is a Dell Dimension that has a Dell MB. Internal modem has been removed, use an alcatal ADSL modem.
External zip drive.
TDK DVD and CD rewriter.

The problem with the present card is that it seems it does not support pixel shading, it runs every other game I have fine, even some of the really intensive ones, but have not until DE2 found anything it won't run. The pixel shading is whats the killer.

As I think the likleyhood of these being used more and more is high, I was looking at possibly changing my card, but don't want to spend an arm and a leg 😉

Any advice very welcome, hey and thanks for the replies already guys. I must admit I prefer Nvidia based cards <G>

Shaun

 

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