How does 9800 Pro compare with modern cards?

[Doug]

"Happily play" current modern games? Let's see you play Doom3 on high
detail, 2xAA, 8xAF @ 1024x768. It'll be a hiccupping slide-show. I can
hardly wait to see how Fear and/or Stalker are going to play on my 9800 Pro.
640x480 anyone?

 

[higgy]

"Happily play" current modern games? Let's see you play Doom3 on high
detail, 2xAA, 8xAF @ 1024x768. It'll be a hiccupping slide-show. I can
hardly wait to see how Fear and/or Stalker are going to play on my
9800 Pro. 640x480 anyone?

You exaggerate. I only recently switched from an Radeon 8500LE because 2
or 3 recent games forced me to run at 640x480. The idea that a 9800 Pro is
"old tech" merely demonstrates you as something of a techo-victim.

Of course if you judge how well a game plays in terms of which options
you can check...


higgy.

 

[ofn01]

"Happily play" current modern games? Let's see you play Doom3 on high
detail, 2xAA, 8xAF @ 1024x768. It'll be a hiccupping slide-show. I can
hardly wait to see how Fear and/or Stalker are going to play on my 9800 Pro.
640x480 anyone?

I play Doom3 and RoE with absolutely no problems at 1024x768 on high
detail (which enables 8xAA), but I don't have 2xAA enabled.

Far Cry, Half Life2, Chronicles of Riddick, Battlefield 2 (Demo),
Brothers in Arms etc. all play fine at 1024x768 with high detail (with
half life 2 you can also enable 4xAA as well but thats the exception really)

Try disabling the AA in Doom3

 

[mhicaoidh]

Taking a moment's reflection, Doug mused:
|
| "Happily play" current modern games? Let's see you play Doom3 on high
| detail, 2xAA, 8xAF @ 1024x768. It'll be a hiccupping slide-show. I can
| hardly wait to see how Fear and/or Stalker are going to play on my
| 9800 Pro. 640x480 anyone?

Other than the 2xAA, I played through Doom3 with those settings and
it played great.

 

[Bobby]

(I would be interested to find out how the ebuyer service is in terms of

delivering the right product on time)

Scheduled to arrive Thursday. Arrived Thursday (3.30pm). Received regular
e-mail updates. Online parcel tracking let me know where the package was at
all times. No complaints whatsoever. So far, so good with Ebuyer.