Graphics cards for SH IV?
 

I have an NVidia GeForce 7800GTX. It was top-line when I bought it but technology has continued to progress. Which graphics effects in SH IV will I not be able to enjoy with my current card, and what's your ideas on the best bang-for-the-buck card today?

Thanks!

think that card should be fine Bill. Im running a Geforce 6800 GT 256mb

what about an ATI Radeon x600 hypermemory 256mb?

A little difficult to say until we have the game, or see a detailed review with benchmarks.

Best bang in which price range? NVIDIA just released a 320MB version of their 8800 GTS. Depending if you wish to spend more or less (it's retails about $299 US), it may be a card to consider as long as you're not running Vista.

Ahoy Bill, a card with 256 megs will probably run everything, all effects on, perhaps not all textures to their max res.

wonder how many FPS ill get in SH4

im currently getting 120-140 in SH3 with GWX:hmm:
with full grapich settings
and grapich card settings on full:hmm:

Hi All

Has anyone dealt with TigerDirect. I already know about Newegg.
TD seems to have better prices for same card. Any news would be appreciated.

Trust me, that card will really struggle to run SH4. The fact that it's a hypermemory 256MB card means that it has 128MB of on board memory and it takes 128MB from your system RAM. If you can afford to upgrade...do.

the amount of memory isn't the best indicator of a cards performance, generally more is better, but isn't always the case. But an x600 is not going to run SH4 very well I expect.
The card's GPU is what matters most in it's performance, most cards are at least 256mb anyway these days.

ok im gunna look into more cards as mine can struggle a bit now, only sometimes

Just wait once SH4 is released and people have the game, I suspect we're going to have countless threads on this. I have a sneaking suspicion many will be surprised at just what it's going to take to get SH4 to look and run in a manner they're satisfied with. What makes things even more frustrating is when a game that looks as good as SH4 does, it's only natural to want to have all the setting maxed so you can enjoy the complete experience.

Ahh, the joy of speculation and waiting. ;)

Tiger Direct is a good company. We order from them and newegg mostly. Tiger D actually seems to ship faster.

I'm going to wait a while before updating video cards. When I do it'll definitely be something DX10 compatible. Looks like ATI is finally going to put a new line on the market--should be a chipset to combat nVidia's 8800 series. When this happens we should see prices come down on the high end graphics. I'm just a little--ahem--reluctant to pay $600 for a video card even though hands on experience shows me that they Rock. Better than 2 7900's in SLI mode.

A6600GT 128meg here, hoping it will run it well enough (fps wise) at low (medium?) settings.

guys, Iam using a ATI radeon x1600 pro, I hope It will do the job!:oops:

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thanks
Neal

PS: Is this card better than my 6600GT ?