allow me to reiterate, the card run like crap in either DX8 or DX9.. i tried them both.
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They do. They run on mine, which is
a "DX8 Card".
Although, this entire process of "DX
version cards" is ridiculous and annoying. I f**king hate
DirectX
A friend of mine came across this a while back:
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=838630
Sounds pretty fishy. Anyway, I have a mediocre 5700LE and HL2 runs fine on it. I just had to turn the shader detail to 'low'. I have the config set for dx9, seem to be getting dx9 effects (like warping) with no real performance hit. Like that article says, it's the shaders.
i am at a loss as to how come this card failed me so badly. even assuming the 5200 is not great, it is markedly bigger than a 9000ATI.
Like i said before the 5200 is probably the worst card in the world, ok there are worse, but Valve said that you should use at least a 5600 (4 running HL2 in DX9). Get an old ATI 9700 upwards for DX9, otherwise nVidia 6600 GT agp is the way to go.
All 5200's should be put on a big bonfire and melted.
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