MikeReiner
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Wiredchild said:Ok, so yesterday i grabbed a copy of Half-Life 2: Episode 1...Ok, i didn't grab it, that sounds like i stole it. I bought a copy.
I have an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (Skt939), ASUS A8N-E, 1GB Corsair DDR400 Dual Channel RAM, and a nVidia 6600GT PCI-E 128MB Oc'd to 586Mhz/ 1.17Ghz. Thing is, that always seemed pretty reasonable for playing games averagely...Though i have an LCD which means i have to play on 1280x1024, which sucks.
So, yesterday, when i got it running...I was a bit annoyed that it wasn't running on medium settings very fast, considering it 'recommended' high settings with Antialiasing off etc etc. So i put it all on the lowest and still was getting a very reputable frame rate.
Anyway, this is the thing. I wanted to take a screenshot for a mate so I put all the graphics on the highest settings like 16X Aniostrophic Filtering (whatever that is) 8X Antialising, and all the textures and models on highest etc etc. And, it runs perfectly smoothly, i must be getting about 30-40fps and it barely drops even when there's loads of action on the screen.
I was thinking about upgrading my videocard to a 6800 or something...But, i'm not sure now. The fact that it plays perfectly on high, and naff on low just doesn't make sense.
WHY DOES IT DO THIS!?
Cheers,
WiredChild
Thats about right for a 6600GT... Although bare in mind.. 8X Antialiasing doesn't exactly do anything on nvidia cards.. meaning it's really running with none. (atleast last time I checked it was like this, correct me if i'm wrong.)
Why do you have to use 1280x1024?.. when I was using my dad's PC which had an LCD, I could run it at 640x480. (crappy video card)
My 7600GT runs pretty well with everything maxed out, 4x aa, 16x af, 1280x1024.