Low-end video cards compatible with Cube?

by Pxtl on 08/16/2004 16:03, 29 messages, last message: 09/21/2004 09:41, 20221 views, last view: 05/18/2024 16:24

Hey all, I'm looking for a new video board (I still use a tnt2 on a 2ghz machine) and I was wondering about recommendations. I'm looking to do this on the cheap. So far I'm leaning towards an ATI 9200 (yes, I know its not DX9 compatible) - but how good is the openGL compatibility on that board? Does it work with Cube?

Alternately, what about the old 9000 card? Ive seen all-in-wonder 9000s that come complete with TV capture card and PVR software, something I've been looking into, but I'm worried about using the older hardware. Problem is that I really can't afford to splurge for a 9600 like I'd want to use.

Any recommendations?

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#21: Re: slow machine ???

by _Aardappel on 08/27/2004 00:46, refers to #18

why would anyone buy an A64 3000 with a 9600. That's like driving a ferrari with wooden wheels.

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#22: Canada

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#23: Re: slow machine ???

by Savage on 09/01/2004 12:39, refers to #16

AMD K6-2+ 500 MHz, Riva TNT. I love LOD :)

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#24: Steppin' up

by Random Guest on 09/06/2004 22:15

I worked for five years with nothing more than a 566 Celeron w/ 4mb integrated graphics card and 256mb RAM. I pushed that little sucker to play games that a Celeron has no business playing. About a year ago, I added a used 32mb Geforce 2 and managed to grind my way through Halo.

Using nothing but that $200 POS, I could still whip most of my friends at UT2k3.

An awesome computer is not neccessary for a great game experience, but it certainly does help.

Of course, I'm writing this from my IBM Thinkpad T42 1.8GHz Pentium M w/ 512mb RAM and an ATI Radeon 9600 Mobile, which pulls about 170 more FPS than I'm used to at 1400x1050.

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#25: Done.

by Pxtl on 09/06/2004 23:53

Picked up a Radeon 9600 A-I-W so it'll double as a pvr. Came with the remote control too, all for only 190 Canuckistani rupees ($190 CAN).

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#26: ..

by lethedethius...2 on 09/20/2004 03:54

I recommend a Radeon 9550... Pro. Personally.... For now I'm probably going to FRY'S and getting an nVidia GeForceFX 5200 128MB.... IT's 49.99... I cant pass that up. :P

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#27: ..

by staffy2000 on 09/20/2004 06:30

i would recommend a 9500 pro 128 mb. it has 4 more pipelines than the 9600 or 9550, is based off the 9700 and although hard to find is really cheap and has good performance.

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#28: ..

by staffy2000 on 09/20/2004 09:44

btw the 9500 pro kicks the 9600 pro in the guts real good. search for "far cry""9500" or "doom 3""9500 pro" in google

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#29: heheh

by Grogan on 09/21/2004 09:41

I've been using Radeon cards under Linux for a while. Currently a cheap assed Sapphire Radeon 9200SE. Not the best, but it plays cube OK with the open source DRI. I'm not at all interested in ATI's proprietary drivers. I've tried them, they work a bit better but at too high a cost for me. It limits what kernels I can use, and generally pollutes.

A Radeon 7000 or 7500 on the other hand, work quite well with the open source drivers.

Now, to the funny part. I just tried an experiment. My old box that I use as a fileserver is a pentium2 running at 266 MHz with 256 RAM and an ATI Rage Fury Pro 32 Mb AGP card (the system has only AGP 1x at that). I wanted to see how cube would run. I've used that machine as a desktop not long ago, so it was pretty much set to go, with the exception of getting my SDL stuff in order.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that cube runs decently at 1024x768. I'm getting between 18 to 25 FPS (as reported during play). This is with the default settings in autoexec.cfg and the precompiled linux_client. I played a few maps, metl3 and mpsp1. It doesn't suck! I'm going to go back to that box and play some more :-)

Grogan

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