Any other UT2k4'ers here?

Bond · 03-30-2004, 10:50 PM

I'm not sure if it's still a 9700 Pro, but it's somewhere around that range. I played a successful game of Onslaught without it locking up. I'm going to play a few more games just to make sure it's working.

Jason1 · 03-31-2004, 12:15 AM

Welp I got mine ordered thanks to Jonbo, so I should have it sometime after April 20th. I cant wait. Id be absolutley willing to play on a regular basis.

Seth · 03-31-2004, 03:50 AM

I want the game THAT bad but my priorities are not geared towards games.

Hopefully I'll be able to purchase it soon. Haven't touched the demo in over a month though. Time and circumstances.

And some advice by those qualified.

How taxing is Half Life 2 going to be? I haven't been in the loop with this game recently but it was running pretty ****ty on the latest geforce cards last I heard.

That sucks cuz I'm still sporting a ti 4600. Anyone have more info on this. Playable at lower settings? How low? etc?

thanks

Jonbo298 · 03-31-2004, 03:53 AM

No one is sure how well it'll play on Nvidia cards, but from what I've heard, Ati cards will run the game better and the game will look better also because Valve is taking advantage of some specific DX9 things that Nvidia's cards won't be able to do at all. So Valve, last I heard, is trying to make HL2 run as good as possible but they are having a hard time because they made it specifically around Ati cards using specific effects that won't hurt performance as much as it would on an Nvidia card. I'm not a fanboy to Ati, but thats what I've heard for awhile now.

Seth · 03-31-2004, 03:57 AM

Ya I've heard the same. I hate how Valve has whored themselves out to one card. I hope this isn't a growing trend among developers. I wonder how much they got from ATI to tilt the game towards their line of gpu's?

Bah. I'm looking forward to HL2 more than any other game but I'm not sure if my system will be worth it. I don't want to ruin the gaming experience just because my system is aging.

Gah, seems like yesterday that i bought this rig.

Jonbo298 · 03-31-2004, 04:15 AM

Valve wanted to take full advantage of DX9 and Ati is the only one that has full implementation of DX9. Nvidia is pretty damn close (I heard NV has 80% of the DX9 stuff) so its not saying it wont run as good. Just stating that to get the best maximum experience from HL2, a Radeon card will do it. Valve isnt going to shut out Nvidia, its just that they will have to not have a few graphical things here and there, but other hten that, your card should be able to at least play it on the lowest settings.

Null · 03-31-2004, 10:13 AM

it'll run fine on nvidia cards. its all a driver issue. thoes latest tests where it was running good on ATI and bad on Nvidia, ATI had brand new drivers, Nvid had old.

And sides that your not going to have to worry about the directx 9 issues because 4600 is a DX 8 card and wouldnt be able to do the DX9 stuff anyway. (it'll still look good, just wont be able to do some of the fancier things)

my fan died on my 4200. so i had to go out and buy me a R 9600XT. had wanted to wait untill the new nvids and ati's were out. but alas. needed something to use the pc