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Originally Posted by Cohaagen
I decided to put off building a new box for another six months and replaced my Geforce 6200 PCI with a brand new 8500GT (also PCI) instead. The card is surprisingly good, particularly so considering all the peevish naysaying virgins who claim that even £10 spent on a PCI card is £10 wazzed up the wall...it chews through HL2: Episode Two (full detail/HDR/x2AA/x8AF and about 45fps average), Portal (same), S.T.A.L.K.E.R., CS3 and Illustrator, Autocad and a few other things I've been running.
Problem is, GWX now runs like a three-legged dog. Even with AA and AF off I barely get 10fps on bridge/external - I was getting 30+ before with the 6200 with both of those on.
P4 Northwood 2.8
1.5gb RAM
Sparkle Geforce 8500GT PCI, 256mb DDR2 (box-clocked at 450/900/400)
Forceware 169.21 (the latest)
nearly zero fragmentation and no crap (ie. Norton) running in background
I am completely stuck. The 6200 is on eBay so I can't fall back on that option. I've changed nothing else except the card, so I'm stumped as to what the problem may be. No artifacts or anything weird on screen...very strange. If anyone has had a similar problem, I'd really appreciate a helpy-out here. As much as I love HL2, the card is a step down for me if it can't run SH3.
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yeah...ive got a radeon 6200 xt bran new 1900 mem clock 830core with 512 meg ram 128 bit rate with the best cooler they make stock and a 2.2ghz (kinnda slow) proc w/2 gigs ram. and in port i get low 30's fps but in the hundreds inside in places and the 100's out in the open ocean
what gives... it seems when im within view of land it tanks but in port, it REALLY tanks
in all respects my card is better and it still gets killed by gwx in port...rather than killing it...heck it's a 2 year old game even with better shaders the geomentry is low and some of the stock texs.
intreseting enough...i get high frames in half life (i think) (although i don't have AA cuz a 15" screen isn't that bad and my card is owned by AA) but day of defeat:source i only get 35 or so in avalanche and a few other places with high hdr.