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Posted by 2dmin on Thu Jan 8th at 2:28am 2004

Yesterday, I got a Radeon 9600 XT for my birthday. In the box, as well as the card was a HL2 ticket, Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness, and loads of software. The card itself is wonderful, I was getting 300+ fps in HL based games

As well as all this, the control panel allows you to tweak it etc, and change OpenGl settings. There are some cool effects there, too. You can make it render anything Opengl with these different effects, like inverse colour, black and white, ascii (very painful for the eyes), and my favourite: sketch. here are some screenshots from counter-strike in sketch mode

www.snarkpit.com/pits/2dmin/nw_snarkpool0000.JPG

www.snarkpit.com/pits/2dmin/nw_snarkpool0001.JPG

I highly recommend the 9600 or 9700 series for great price/performance.

*EDIT* The effect works just as well in hammer too: www.snarkpit.com/pits/2dmin/sketchhammer.JPG

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Posted by R@lph VViggum on Thu Jan 8th at 3:13am 2004

I've had the Radeon 9700 Pro for about a year now and it's a really great card, haven't had a single problem with it. I'd recommend it also if were to upgrade your card.

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Posted by 2dmin on Thu Jan 8th at 3:20am 2004

OMG *pisses self*

If i do sketch mode in ns, when i turn on the flashlight as marines i can see through walls ...

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Posted by Skeletor on Thu Jan 8th at 4:35am 2004

LOL! [addsig]



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Posted by 2dmin on Thu Jan 8th at 5:39am 2004

what a scintillating remark.

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Posted by Jinx on Thu Jan 8th at 5:54am 2004

? posted by 2dmin

Yesterday, I got a Radeon 9600 XT for my birthday. In the box, as well as the card was a HL2 ticket

hahahaha you were ripped off!





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Posted by Cassius on Thu Jan 8th at 6:53am 2004

STFU lambastards.



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Posted by Bewbies on Thu Jan 8th at 7:33am 2004

ive been sayin this for months... 9700pro is best card for your buck.. [addsig]



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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Thu Jan 8th at 8:09am 2004

? posted by Bewbies
ive been sayin this for months... 9700pro is best card for your buck..

I can't quite imagine this being true for months. the market seems far to dynamic; but what do i know?

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Posted by 2dmin on Thu Jan 8th at 9:23am 2004

how was i ripped off, jinx?

Cassius, wtf is a lambasard? Just coz I get 300 fps and you get 30 in r_speeds of 500 ...

Bewbies, 9600 XT pwns j00

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Posted by Gollum on Thu Jan 8th at 2:17pm 2004

I suppose you have a 300 Hz refresh rate to go with your 300fps? [addsig]



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Posted by ReNo on Thu Jan 8th at 2:25pm 2004

Teeehehehehehe [addsig]



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Posted by Myrk- on Thu Jan 8th at 3:24pm 2004

Strange, I got no bundled software with my card. What make was yours? Mines Sapphire - apparantly the best make... [addsig]



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Posted by Forceflow on Thu Jan 8th at 4:07pm 2004

Geforce 4 Mx 460 ...



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Posted by Gollum on Thu Jan 8th at 4:19pm 2004

Hahahahaha -

My Geforce2MX < your Geforce4MX.

Yeah.

PS I wonder what that nifty "sketch mode" does to Tron 2?

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Posted by matt on Thu Jan 8th at 4:31pm 2004

Count youreself lucky 2dmin, I've only got a lousy GForce 2 MX400. Which lags even HL. [addsig]



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Posted by Bewbies on Thu Jan 8th at 6:40pm 2004

heh yea gollum... 300fps wont do much good if your monitor cant refresh at that same rate. however.. the game will still display above your monitor's refresh rate (as a number). hehe, i can get upwards of 350-400fps in counterstrike... and whenever i say so in game, people are like "wtf, liar"

also... anyone who has taken bio-1 knows that the human eye can only see about 75fps! so why does it really matter...? if anything, i think our crappy eyes need to upgrade to plasma!

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Posted by Wild Card on Thu Jan 8th at 6:48pm 2004

My brothers GeForce 2TI powers my PC. But in this case I wouldnt really call it power. But at the time it was great. I have a refresh rate of 120 and I have the option to use 3D shutter glasses without having to buy the expensive software.

Havent tested frame rates in HL yet though. But it does run the Realism Update in Counter-Strike with zero lag in frame rates. At least zero lag as far as the eye is concerned.

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Posted by Gollum on Thu Jan 8th at 6:51pm 2004

We've had the "the human eye can only perceive (30 / 60 / blah) frames per second" discussion before. As I recall, the consensus is that this is simply not true. There are two justifications:

1. Sciency-type studies that claim to show humans can perceive up to 200fps.

2. I can directly perceive (in Quake3 at least) a severe difference in smoothness between 30, 60, 90 and 120 frame-caps.

I'm still curious how all these 1337 CS players unlimit the Half-Life framerate from 100fps....

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Posted by scary_jeff on Thu Jan 8th at 10:05pm 2004

There is no always true limit on what people can see.

HL only goes up to 100fps, that's why they call you a liar.

As Tracer said, no card is the best buy 'for months'. Ever.




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