[OT] BattleField2 demo released

I was reading about ATI's new chip.. (after you pointed out that the x800 is not best) and I was flabbergasted at the speeds they are claiming them to run in the next generation.

/me goes and relooks up link.. BRB

[edit] [quote]ATI is also believed to be preparing RV530 and RV515 versions of the R520. The R520 itself is expected to support ATI's answer to Nvidia's SLi multi-card co-operative rendering system, and has been claimed to support up to 32 parallel pixel processing pipelines, though not all of them may be enabled at launch. The chip is said to support GDDR 3 memory clocked to 1.8GHz effective. The core has been reported to run at 700MHz.[/quote]

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Thanks for that info about the pixel shaders Reno, I had considered
getting a Raedeon, but after doing a bit of looking around I set my
sights on the 6800GT, or if I can't afford it, the 6600GT actually
performs pretty well and is significantly cheaper. I'd probably just
wait till I can afford the 6800 though.

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6600GT is a very good buy - if I were to be getting a card in the near
future, it would be the one (unless a price cut brings the 6800GT to
around the ?150 mark).

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w00t, thank you Addicted to Morphine, I tried retrieving and I'm good
now. So my online nickname is sHo0tThEcHiCkEn (FT was
taken). Someone get soem good servers up.

You should thank Sloth as well, he posted a guide that helps tweak and get the most out of the BF2 demo.

My name is AddictedtoMorphine in BF2... so keep an eye out.

We need to find a server that we can all play on together.

My Bf2 name is JoeMah

I ussually play on 64 person servers with no time limit.

I am almost always Special forces, im pretty good at takeing out any thing with C4.

You should thank Sloth as well

awwww shucks blushes

I'm not really playing BF2 atm, doing a bit on my comp map, yea that's
right, i'm entering :razz: turns on firewall now you won't be able to get
me out!

/crawls back to crack house

64.34.82.50:16567

I think the server is called ***Devils***. It's run on a 64 bit
Linux Dedicated server thingy. It was friekin sweet! 64
players on, and under 70 ping. I got in with one squad that was
reallyt good and it was awesome. Great server, but I'd expect
often quite busy.

67.18.16.58:16567

I had some fun their last night.

Well, I don't want to revive an old thread, or one about the demo, but at the end here we were talking about good servers.

Texas Bong Wars; 69.93.149.194:16567

That is an awesome server, 64 slots, usually around 60 players on, under 200 ping. Sweet.

On the subject of the Nvidia 6800, I bought a 6800 (not GT or ultra)
for ?130, and the pixel pipelines and vertex shaders can be unlocked to
the same as a GT. The clock speeds cant be increased very easily but
It's pretty good value for money.

p.s. I havent tried unlocking the pipelines/shaders as my processor and
ram are too slow to keep up with the 6800 as it is... more upgrading...
yay :sad:

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<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting Senshi</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>p.s. I havent tried unlocking the pipelines/shaders as my processor and ram are too slow to keep up with the 6800 as it is... more upgrading... yay :sad:
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First law of upgrading clearly states that you should never increase one piece of hardware beyond the capabilities of the entire system. Why would you buy a card that works faster than the CPU?

I can however acknowledge that not buying a bargain piece of equipment is hard to do.. tis no loss if it will fit in machine #2 when you build it. :smile:

My luck however is, you will have bought an AGP 6800, and your next PC will only have a PCI-E slot. :sad:

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I bought the game about two days ago -- everything about the game is great, the vehicle driving, graphics -- only "unbalced" thing I don't like is the infantry combat. An example being that once anti-tank players use up all of their rockets, they might as well commit suicide -- the mp5 is absolutely useless.

The only problem I have found with the game, (and bare in mind, my computer is very powerful) is that it lags too freaking much. Yet my ping stays around a constant 21. :shocked:

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Breaking the laws of mapping since 2003 and doing a damn fine job at it

My lag is fine, I just keep down the graphics. My uncle, who is a
complete nut, recently bought a supercomputer. Its got 8 GB RAM,
just crazy crazy specs. He runs the game on highest everything,
and it runs smooth as butter.

On the subject of the Nvidia 6800, I bought a 6800 (not GT or ultra)
for ?130, and the pixel pipelines and vertex shaders can be unlocked to
the same as a GT. The clock speeds cant be increased very easily but
It's pretty good value for money.

p.s. I havent tried unlocking the pipelines/shaders as my processor and
ram are too slow to keep up with the 6800 as it is... more upgrading...
yay :sad:

How can I unlock these pipelines......

rs6 said:
How can I unlock these pipelines......

By a very dangers but rewarding procedure known as "Flashing"

If its anything like the 9800 series cards, you can make certain models "think" they are better by flashing the bios to a better model.. EG, a 9800pro can sometimes be flashed to think its an ultra.

Problem is, several companies make 9800's and some use inferior parts and refuse to flash.. others have some good parts mixed with bad, and some are already ultra cards downgraded to pro's.. As silly as that sounds, it takes them but a moment to flash an ultra card to a pro card at the factory.. the theory is, sell twice as many pro's as ultras as only a marginally lower price, and you make more money overall in sales.

the pipelines and other hardware is all controlled by the bios.. If your card is capable of upgrading by flashing because it has the better parts.. then you will have a better card when you are done.

research your make, if you do a thorough job, you will know in advance your chances of success..

failure to do a thorough job, and you will not succeed.

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? quoting rs6

How can I unlock these pipelines......
By a very dangers but rewarding procedure known as "Flashing"
If its anything like the 9800 series cards, you can make certain models "think" they are better by flashing the bios to a better model.. EG, a 9800pro can sometimes be flashed to think its an ultra.
Problem is, several companies make 9800's and some use inferior parts and refuse to flash.. others have some good parts mixed with bad, and some are already ultra cards downgraded to pro's.. As silly as that sounds, it takes them but a moment to flash an ultra card to a pro card at the factory.. the theory is, sell twice as many pro's as ultras as only a marginally lower price, and you make more money overall in sales.
the pipelines and other hardware is all controlled by the bios.. If your card is capable of upgrading by flashing because it has the better parts.. then you will have a better card when you are done.
research your make, if you do a thorough job, you will know in advance your chances of success..
failure to do a thorough job, and you will not succeed.

I knew that much. I wanted more detialed instructions, like where i can get the stuff needed to flash it, how to flash it, and stuff like that.

rs6 said:
I knew that much. I wanted more detialed instructions, like where i can get the stuff needed to flash it, how to flash it, and stuff like that.

Would you like someone to do it too?

Jeez, there is a little known and sometimes easily overlooked web page known as Google

try using it. Do not make me regret typing all that other post. :rolleyes:

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First law of upgrading clearly states that you should never increase
one piece of hardware beyond the capabilities of the entire system. Why
would you buy a card that works faster than the CPU.

<div class="abouttext">Message submitted 4 minutes after original post:</div>
Sorry for double posting, I have no idea how quoting works, i cant edit
that post without just adding to the quote. Probably me just being a
noob, anyway I'll finish off the intended post. edit aaaah so thats how it works... :smile:

I bought the card for the sole purpose of being able to play BF2 and I
dont have enough cash to upgrade the rest of my PC. I'll end up selling
the card when I do decide to upgrade, or I might just get a whole new
PC and use this one in my room. I also had no idea of how much my
processor/RAM affected the performance of my PC until I got the 6800, turns out 1.8Ghz and PC2700 just dont cut it any more...

rs6 here is the page to meet all of your requirements
Unlock
Geforce 6800

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