On Tuesday 25 January 2005 13:28, Fergus Wilde wrote:
Bleh! I'd have thought 480 a whacking heavy-duty server PS. Well, I suppose if I'm building a new PC anyway I can incorporate such a power supply. I'll admit though, seems a very un-green thing to be doing just to play a game ... Thanks Gerhard, very useful warning, I would never have guessed that.
Just a side note, those cards mentioned I would guess what is recommended for really smooth high resolution high detail game play. I've seen Doom 3 works quite alright on a GeForce 56000 Go (notebook) with 64mb vram (dedicated in that case). I think it was running in 800x600. I've also seen it on a middle-of-the-range nVidia card with 128mb - can't remember the model. This was on an athlon64 with 1gb ram, it ran at 1280x1024 32bit colour with all detail levels turned all the way up, and it was super smooth. It runs smoothly at 640x480 on my old Radeon 7500 128mb (crappy PowerColor card with buggy firmware - don't ever buy PowerColor), but I suspect the lack of performance in higer resolutions might also have something to do with the fact that my PC has SD-RAM, and not a lot of it either. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za