i wiped my HDD. stuck my TI4200 128meg by MSI in.
installed my drivers blah blah and lastly installed 41.09 nvidia drivers.
tweaked things up with Riva Tuner (im not settling for low texture quality cause i KNOW nvidia drivers lower it by default) for max IQ, enabled a few features that should speed things up etc.....
system is pretty much running clean and fast.
got a 3dmark of 10100 with the card running at 250/250(500). itll go to 295/575 or something ,but eh i just blew a card by overclocking so fvck that for a while
pretty happy. not a bad score for a 170$ canadian video card.
then i play some games.
image quality = FVCKING SHITTY
frame rate = no better than my 8500le
stability = crashes in my favorite games like Anarchy Online
this card, quite frankly is a P.O.S. the only way it surpasses my 8500le is in First Person Shooter games like Quake3, UT2k3 etc .
once you run a non standard game engine, like Anarchy Online for example which has very large landscapes and runs much differently, this card doenst perform. in AO with my 8500le i got 70FPS minimum @ 1024x32 with W-Buffer on for less image popping, and 8x AF. with little things like ColorFill enabled (ATI feature, color saturation) the picture was clear beatiful and crisp
TI4200 @1024x32 16bzbuffer and no AF AO runs and looks like shi!t. MipMap transitions are hard and uneven.
i tried the newest drivers, and others. about 5 differnet driver versions. all the same. and i KNOW how to set up a computer for gaming. im not the best , but i have been doing it for a few years now so i know im better than the average person.
IMHO Nvidia ONLY diesnt suck when game engines are tailer made for it, like UT2003.
in the real world of gaming tho, they are TEH SUCK.
this TI4200 is worth less than my 8500le. im so pissed
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installed my drivers blah blah and lastly installed 41.09 nvidia drivers.
tweaked things up with Riva Tuner (im not settling for low texture quality cause i KNOW nvidia drivers lower it by default) for max IQ, enabled a few features that should speed things up etc.....
system is pretty much running clean and fast.
got a 3dmark of 10100 with the card running at 250/250(500). itll go to 295/575 or something ,but eh i just blew a card by overclocking so fvck that for a while
pretty happy. not a bad score for a 170$ canadian video card.
then i play some games.
image quality = FVCKING SHITTY
frame rate = no better than my 8500le
stability = crashes in my favorite games like Anarchy Online
this card, quite frankly is a P.O.S. the only way it surpasses my 8500le is in First Person Shooter games like Quake3, UT2k3 etc .
once you run a non standard game engine, like Anarchy Online for example which has very large landscapes and runs much differently, this card doenst perform. in AO with my 8500le i got 70FPS minimum @ 1024x32 with W-Buffer on for less image popping, and 8x AF. with little things like ColorFill enabled (ATI feature, color saturation) the picture was clear beatiful and crisp
TI4200 @1024x32 16bzbuffer and no AF AO runs and looks like shi!t. MipMap transitions are hard and uneven.
i tried the newest drivers, and others. about 5 differnet driver versions. all the same. and i KNOW how to set up a computer for gaming. im not the best , but i have been doing it for a few years now so i know im better than the average person.
IMHO Nvidia ONLY diesnt suck when game engines are tailer made for it, like UT2003.
in the real world of gaming tho, they are TEH SUCK.
this TI4200 is worth less than my 8500le. im so pissed
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