Gwx 2 and Graphic cards.

[Thunder]

Hey guys
With the advent of gwx i'm now putting a new machine together.The old one tended so suffer a bit with frame lag(ATI 9800).The new GWX sports a "real damage mod" with cool effects, and before i splurge out the cash i was thinking of the Nvidia 8800gt.I hav'nt got the new GWX( gonna put a new install on a new machine) but how are you guys finding it with your existing cards, and what are they?Cheers, forewarned is forearmed.

[Jimbuna]

I'm using the Nvidia 7800 GS with no complaints

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by Thunder

Hey guys
With the advent of gwx i'm now putting a new machine together.The old one tended so suffer a bit with frame lag(ATI 9800).The new GWX sports a "real damage mod" with cool effects, and before i splurge out the cash i was thinking of the Nvidia 8800gt.I hav'nt got the new GWX( gonna put a new install on a new machine) but how are you guys finding it with your existing cards, and what are they?Cheers, forewarned is forearmed.

I have an 8800GTX in one of my computers running GWX 2.0. Gotta say it rocks! The 8800gt should perform excellent since it's not that far off from the GTX. You will see a VERY noticeable difference from the ATI9800 to the 8800GT.

[iambecomelife]

I have an 8800GTS 640MB. It is excellent in terms of performance - I have found that it displays large convoys with little slowdown. However, it runs extremely hot (although I've heard the stock cooling has improved since I purchased mine). Also, NVIDIA's cards do not display sun glare in SH3 or SH4 at high AA/AF rates. If you are buying one of the more recent cards, make sure that your power supply is adequate - I have a 550W supply and there have been no problems yet.

[U-5000]

Well I am using a 2.4 dual core processor with a 512 mb PCI express video card and 2 gig of ram, I ran GWX 1.03 100 frames per second most of time. So no trouble with this I have a 7950gt invidia video card and 20x DVD .

[Thunder]

Iambecomelife, are you running with the rez fix(1280x1024)?

AGP Nvidia GF 6600 128 MB + 128 bit here. Will test GWX on it when available

[iambecomelife]

Originally Posted by Thunder

Iambecomelife, are you running with the rez fix(1280x1024)?

No. I used to use it but I had problems alt-tabbing out of the game.

Originally Posted by iambecomelife

I have an 8800GTS 640MB. It is excellent in terms of performance - I have found that it displays large convoys with little slowdown. However, it runs extremely hot (although I've heard the stock cooling has improved since I purchased mine). Also, NVIDIA's cards do not display sun glare in SH3 or SH4 at high AA/AF rates. If you are buying one of the more recent cards, make sure that your power supply is adequate - I have a 550W supply and there have been no problems yet.

640 MB ? what a hell were u thinking when u bought this card dude I bet no game will ever use as much as 260 MB of video card in the near future.. MB is useless unless bits - grapchical speed is low.. Just imagine what a wild animal would be the video card with 640 Bits

[CCIP]

Both my desktop GeForce 8600 GTS and laptop 8600M GS are running it excellently! There's a bit of a stutter on the laptop sometimes, though I'm not even sure that's video-related. Otherwise both put out a steady 60fps; port/convoys more like 30!

[Furia]

Originally Posted by CCIP

Both my desktop GeForce 8600 GTS and laptop 8600M GS are running it excellently! There's a bit of a stutter on the laptop sometimes, though I'm not even sure that's video-related. Otherwise both put out a steady 60fps; port/convoys more like 30!

I was just trying to PM to you this message but seems you have your PM mailbox full so I am posting it here.
Of course anyone that could help me would be most welcomed as well.
Thanks a lot!

I have just bought a laptop with this card, Nvidia 8600M GS and it comes with specific HP drivers for it.
However despite being a more powerful card that the one I have on my old PC, I got a not so good quality graphics with it. I guess it is about the settings on the Nvidia Panel.
However this is not my expertise area so I would really appreciate if you can let me know what are the specific settings you are using on your nvidia pannel for SHIII as well as the monitor ressolution and any other info you think would help me to be able to run SHIII nicely on my new laptop.

Thanks a lot in advance!!

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by Contact

640 MB ? what a hell were u thinking when u bought this card dude I bet no game will ever use as much as 260 MB of video card in the near future.. MB is useless unless bits - grapchical speed is low.. Just imagine what a wild animal would be the video card with 640 Bits

the 8800GTX has 768MB of video memory Overkill to the max.

Originally Posted by Racerboy

the 8800GTX has 768MB of video memory Overkill to the max.

MB is just a market trick to fool users as like it would be a better card The MAIN advantages of the video cards is in quantity of pipelines and bits (video processor and memory frequency too). So never believe that the more MB u have on you video card the better card u have, this is nonsence

[iambecomelife]

Originally Posted by Contact

640 MB ? what a hell were u thinking when u bought this card dude I bet no game will ever use as much as 260 MB of video card in the near future.. MB is useless unless bits - grapchical speed is low.. Just imagine what a wild animal would be the video card with 640 Bits

Well, maybe I bought it because reviews showed that some games benefited from the extra memory. Also, it was only a little bit more expensive than the 320 MB variety.

[stabiz]

The video-ram is not useless, try firing up a fairly recent game in higher resulutions with little video ram. Yeah, thats right ... stuttering.

As for the 640MB`s in the 8800GTS, yeah its useless if you play in 1024x768, but lots of people have huge wide screens now.