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On Mon, 31 May 2004 02:00:46 -0700, "johns" <johns123@moscow.com>
wrote:
>
>> newest demos due to my inadequate video card. Should I upgrade everything
>> or can I get along by only getting a new video card? what do you
>recommend
>> for Doom3 , Halflife 2 , Far Cry etc.?
>
>My system is Athlon 2000XT with 1 gig ram on a Gigabyte
>7ZXE ( VIA chipset ... ugh! ). The mobo was one of the
>last of the 7ZXEs put out, so it runs fine. The CPU is clocked
VIA chipset is fine.... while its not quite up there with Nforce, it
is solid and fast.
>around 1660 .. so I think we have about equivalent systems,
>except I'm running XP. Video card is ATI Radeon 9000 128
>Pro. I paid $64 for it just this year. It took some work to
>figure out all the silly problems, but now I run Far Cry very
>very well. As for Doom3 ?? What's that. It is never coming
>out because Far Cry has stolen its thunder totally. As for
ATI 9000 may run it fine by that card's standards (3 years old), but
its nothing to a 9800Pro, full detailed maxed out.
??? Doom3 is never coming out? That statement makes little sense.
There are always games coming out. How many WWII games came out in
the past 18 months? 3-4?
Doom3 should still look better than Far Cry, but it won't have the
SHOCK value anymore... same with HL2.
>Half Life 2. I found the first Half Life to be a total bore
>and the keyboard jumping to be a nuisance. Nothing will
>convince me to buy Half Life2. It is out of date already.
The original HL is boring, the game concept is interesting, I got it
free from the stupid Steam Account with my ATI card... so I'm supposed
to get HL2 for free. But yeah, the STUPID thing that drove me away
from HL was spending 10 minutes moving little boxes to reach the
ceiling...!! How weak! Moving back and forth and doing much of
nothing... controls a bit more complicated than needed. I think I got
bored and stopped playing it when I got back to the main entrance with
the guard (Still deep underground) - er perhaps I took a lift to one
level up... not much more than that.
HL2, should and HOPEFULLY be better - as long as they don't bore us
with stupid puzzles. (Hence, I like games like UT2004).
>I recommend you try to get XP, up the ram to 1 gig,
>and pick up one of the ATI Radeon 9200 128 Pros
>for about $80. Be sure to install the latest Catalyst
>drivers ( 4.5 ), or you will have load and crash problems
>with Far Cry. All of my other games work perfectly
9200Pro? Geez, pay $180~200 and get an ATI 9800Pro (256bit RAM) and
get about 4-5 times the performance. The 8500~9200 series is VERY
SLOW. Geez, $120 would get you at least a 9600Pro.
>.. RTCW, MOHAA, Spearhead, etc, CoD. I have
>no problems with any of them. Then for the future,
Wow... name 3 games running Quake 3 engine... duh, of course they RUN
well with your 9000 card. Working on a 4 year old gaming engine.
I played COD in 1600x1200 - all maxed out... great game, still easily
out-dated by UT2004, Fry Cry, etc.
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- 15yr old boy in Washington was disciplined for drawing such images.
- White House blows cover of an undercover agent because her husband said there were no WMD (before the USA started the war) - her job was finding terrorist. (This makes sense?)
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