ATI or NVIDIA?

[Antrodemus]

Originally Posted by doggydoggo

I only paid $50 for my 9800. My point was that decent video cards these days can be $150 to $200.

Of course, but any video card can only behave as stable as the system its plugged into.

Originally Posted by doggydoggo

If I spent that much cash on a card, I would want it to be stable and work properly.

??? I don't understand... have you bought a card at that price, and it hasn't been "stable"?

Originally Posted by doggydoggo

Secondly, I understand that game settings need to be altered for performance from time to time, but when you have to go into system setings and dumb everything down just for the thing to be stable, that I have a problem with.

??? What did you have to change at "system level"? If you're talking about having to drop the detail levels to get it to run smoothly on the 9800, you shouldn't be too surprised... it's 4 year old card after all.

[DeerHunter UK]

I've got an ATI Radeon X850 with 2 gig of system ram and the game runs ok. Unfortunately my CPU (AMD 2600+) lets the side down and the game does bottleneck and slowdown as a result.