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OT: Hi Jack, Take my Thread Please. ;)
Hi All, I just upgraded my graphics card to a nVidia gForce FX 5200. (and it only cost me $99cdn) ..and the installation was once again 'painless'. 
So, do any of you know of any good games that take advantage of all the cool features on my new graphics card? I downloaded a few of the demo's at nVidia and they look great, but I'm eager to see my graphics card in live action..
Q2: I currently have Jedi Academy and Neverwinter Knights installed, I haven't played them since getting the card, do they have 'extra' umph and pizzaz if the graphics card is up to par?
Anyway, One good thing,.. it has improved my frame rates in SE5. So just for that it is/was worth it.
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November 2nd, 2004, 09:00 AM
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Re: OT: I\'m a Proud Owner (Father?)
SE5?!?!? Gimme...
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November 2nd, 2004, 09:07 AM
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Re: OT: I\'m a Proud Owner (Father?)
Most current game say for a few high end FPS like DeusEx IW, and Doom 3.
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November 2nd, 2004, 12:39 PM
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Re: OT: I\'m a Proud Owner (Father?)
The latest entry in the MS Combat Flight Simulator is always a good test of frame rates. Better have some RAM though or you'll just choke it anyway.
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November 2nd, 2004, 12:48 PM
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Re: OT: I\'m a Proud Owner (Father?)
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Q2: I currently have Jedi Academy and Neverwinter Knights installed, I haven't played them since getting the card, do they have 'extra' umph and pizzaz if the graphics card is up to par?
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Don't know about Jedi Academy, but NWN doesn't get any extra umph or pizzaz... Things might look a little smoother if you were running on lower settings before, but even my old 64 MB Nvidia Geforce 4 can play it without much difference between medium and high settings... |
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Re: OT: I\'m a Proud Owner (Father?)
FarCry. Doom3.
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Re: OT: I\'m a Proud Owner (Father?)
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Anyway, One good thing,.. it has improved my frame rates in SE5. So just for that it is/was worth it.
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Will it be a minimum hardware reqiurement for se5 (I mean fx 5200)?  |
November 2nd, 2004, 02:57 PM
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Re: OT: I\'m a Proud Owner (Father?)
NWN's pizzaz is in the player made modules. Still not much graphics pizzaz I guess but definetly dont pass judgement on NWN based on what comes in the box.
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November 2nd, 2004, 04:10 PM
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Re: OT: I\'m a Proud Owner (Father?)
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NWN's pizzaz is in the player made modules. Still not much graphics pizzaz I guess but definetly dont pass judgement on NWN based on what comes in the box.
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What are you talking about? We were merely discussing noticing any differences in graphical output with his new video card...
I will say that even with all of the player made content, NWN is still rather vacuous... Too Diablo-like hack'n'slash and not enough roleplaying-based game play for a RPG in my opinion... And no, hack'n'slash with people that actually roleplay their characters is not really sufficient. Might as well stick to OpenRPG or some such pen and paper tool for that... |
November 2nd, 2004, 08:30 PM
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Re: OT: I\'m a Proud Owner (Father?)
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Will it be a minimum hardware reqiurement for se5 (I mean fx 5200)?
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I don't think a gForce FX card will be in the minimum specs, It ran fine with my gForce 2 MX. I just got a few more FPS with this new card. not like 100 fps more, just around 12-15 more fps, which can make all the diff. As far as I know the min requirements should fall in line with Starfury. So if you download the demo of Starfury and it runs, chanches are se5 will run on your system too.
FYI: Min sys specs are one of the things that gets tested during beta. That's why it's always good to have a range of sys specs in the beta. So any of you people with lower specs might find yourself in the beta due to lower sys specs. Wouldn't that be neat? Oh, and don't ask how or when to apply for the beta, we are not there yet, and Aaron will post on his malfador.com site all that info when he is ready.
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