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| What is the bare minimum for a video card in the "New Doom" era? by foolio 08/29/2003, 10:03pm PDT | ||||
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| 1st: thanks all for your informative small-LAN gaming advice. Noted, hugs all around.
I want to buy a video card RIGHT NOW. I am running a nVIDIA card--the "ripe with age" TNT2. This allows me to play intense, exciting games like "Descent" and "Descent II", and "Descent III" at a severely reduced framerate. And Counter-Strike, which has sustained me in times of need. But I need to upgrade. I saw the Fry's ad today, advertising a GeForceFX 5200 (regular, not ultra) for $80 straight plus tax. That places me $86.50 + 2 hours away from gaming glory, or so I think. And all at (approximately/close to) the speed of a GeForce4 Ti4200! I've done some rudimentary research and found that every game can be played at decent speed with a GeForce2 or greater. But I want to be able to play the new Doom when it comes out. And HL2, of course. I don't think either of those will run well on any of the cheap boards. So here (FINALLY, I know) is the question: What's the bare minimum to run the new Doom as it is meant to be seen (read 1024x768, reasonable AA)? I'm running a PIII 600MHz / 256MB of zippy PC100 SDRAM. And of course, a crappy video card. |
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What is the bare minimum for a video card in the "New Doom" era? by 08/29/2003, 10:03pm PDT  Re: What is the bare minimum for a video card in the "New Doom" era? by 08/29/2003, 10:21pm PDT Re: What is the bare minimum for a video card in the "New Doom" era? by 08/29/2003, 10:34pm PDT Who farted? by 08/29/2003, 10:21pm PDT I'll be going with the 9800 Pro in the next 5-6 months, myself. Also . . . by 08/29/2003, 10:37pm PDT I'm doing more reading, and apparently minimum spec is 733MHz by 08/29/2003, 11:15pm PDT |
