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On the market for new video card

by Michael Cozzolino · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 07/27/2006 (8:12 am) · 4 replies

I had a motherboard, psu, and graphics card fried on me and i'm looking at the Nvidia geforce 7600 GT 256 MB

I had some performance issues with mmy fried 6600 with TSE and the 3.5 milestone had major improvements for it but I was wondering if anyone had any performance issues with the 7600? Not that i'm thinking it woud continue to be a problem but why not avoid it if i'm getting a new card anyway.
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    Torque Owner Chris Byars
    Ion Productions
    #1
    07/27/2006 (8:20 am)
    Go for the ATI Radeon X1600 Pro 512MB, 350+ FPS consistently.

    Doom 3 Maximum Settings: 100+ FPS
    GRAW Maximum Settings: 120+ FPS

    This is with 16x AF, 6x Adaptive/Temporal FSAA, and Maximum Quality Mipmap detail.

    <--ATI :)

    Torque 3D Owner Michael Cozzolino
    Big Monk Games
    #2
    07/27/2006 (8:23 am)
    I (will) have an SLI board again and from what I understand is I could use one ATI PCI exp but I couldn't have two like I coulld with Nvidia. I would like to have two cards in the not too distant future.

    Associate Scott Burns
    GG Alumni
    #3
    07/27/2006 (8:47 am)
    I run dual Geforce 7600 GTs in SLI on my rig at home. The performance is great on every game I've played with it so far. I don't have any raw numbers on hand but I run Fear, BF2, Dawn of War and Tomb Raider Legend all at Max settings.

    GRAW I'm still running at medium because I'm too lazy to manually edit the xml file, but I'm sure it wouldn't have any problems running at max. Denying access to settings based on specs is a major design no-no imo.

    As far as TSE MS3.5 goes I couldn't tell you yet as I haven't downloaded it to that computer yet.

    I recently came across something on ATI's site they're calling Crossfire Rendering. It looks like it'll be their version of SLI, it also mentioned using a thrid ATI card for physics.

    Torque Owner Chris Byars
    Ion Productions
    #4
    07/27/2006 (8:52 am)
    The third card they show of is with a system with triple ATI X1900s. One heck of a beast. (That eats all your money, not to mention) ;)