Video Card Support
by Brandon · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 12/11/2005 (2:09 pm) · 6 replies
Im sorry im sure this has been stated many of times. But tonight or in the following days I may be looking into buying TSE, My card runs The right ammount of pixel and vertex Shader. its like 1.7 but im not sure. But it is for DriectX 8.1. Would this be a problem? As TSE is DX9, And openGL. Just a question. Sorry if it has been asked, Good day, Bman
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#3
It's simply not good enough to deliver TSE development and gameplay performance IMO**.
By all means do not let that comment deter you from purchase of TSE. Sure you could get started on it.
But it's old and slow and obsolete by modern GPU standards.
Please do not take offense just trying to give you my opinion as a TSE developer. I am speaking more
in terms of a tool that would help you get productivity and playable framerate.
Edit: My personal recommendations for min TSE dev hardware for GPU is
ATI: 9800 Pro 128 or better (prefer 256)
Nvidia: 5600 128 or better (prefer 256)
Nominal hardware would be:
ATI: X800XL 256 or faster
Nvidia: 6600 256 or faster
High Performance TSE would be
ATI: X850 / X1800
Nvidia 6800 Ultra - 7800 series
12/11/2005 (4:27 pm)
That's not a moblity version is it? Anyway TSE may run with that card but that's more like.. yea I could push a car if it ran out of gas and it would move kind of thing.....It's simply not good enough to deliver TSE development and gameplay performance IMO**.
By all means do not let that comment deter you from purchase of TSE. Sure you could get started on it.
But it's old and slow and obsolete by modern GPU standards.
Please do not take offense just trying to give you my opinion as a TSE developer. I am speaking more
in terms of a tool that would help you get productivity and playable framerate.
Edit: My personal recommendations for min TSE dev hardware for GPU is
ATI: 9800 Pro 128 or better (prefer 256)
Nvidia: 5600 128 or better (prefer 256)
Nominal hardware would be:
ATI: X800XL 256 or faster
Nvidia: 6600 256 or faster
High Performance TSE would be
ATI: X850 / X1800
Nvidia 6800 Ultra - 7800 series
#4
12/11/2005 (9:54 pm)
Actually I may be well getting a 9800 Ultra for christmas. . But we will see if my funds are suffient i have many things to buy, Camara, Dj Gear, ahh so much.
#6
01/26/2006 (6:33 pm)
What about ATI's X1600XT? 
Associate Kyle Carter
Note that GeForce 4 MX cards are actually repackaged GeForce 2 cards and therefore will not run TSE.