nVidia Cards...GGGAAHHH

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Why are nVidia cards ****ing awful at everything I swear. My X800XT is ****ed at the moment and is being sent off, so I got a replacement XFX 5900XT for my troubles and shit, which was nice, but its ****ing dog awful. I get like 20FPS in HL2 and I play a car game called trackmania and its fairly graphics intensive and its not too bad I thought this card could handle some decent shit, but its god damn awful. Anyone got anyways I can improve its performance, got latest drivers.
 
Question, did you remove the ATi drivers with driver cleaner at all???
 
theres obviously sum problem cos my mates got exact same nvidia card n he can play HL2 at 114 fps perios, his system is athlon 2600barton, 1gb corsais 3200, 2x 120gb hd on raid,
 
Its the 128 version. Made by XFX. I dunno it absolutely sucks.
 
Its an FX card which says it all really. Nvidia dropped the ball when they released the FX series simply because they were not as fast as the equivalent ATI cards and also they produced much a poorer image quality. I cant knock what Nvidia has done since then though. The Geforce 6 series are brilliant cards and more than a match for ATI's line up.
 
The 6 series simply owns the ATI's puny crappy x cards hahahahahaha
 
I really love my FX 5950 Ultra. Never had a problem with it. Even with Half-Life 2, I forced DX9 on it and I get reasonable framerates at very high detail. I do have alot of RAM so that could be helping alot but anyway.

I'm not saying that all FX cards are good, I'm just saying I've never had a problem with mine.

Also, why are you knocking Nvidia for its cards when you're ATI card is broken and having to get fixed?
 
I've got a 5900XT.
And the Asus K8VSE Deluxe too.
Couple of things you can try..
Apparently the XFX 5900XT was one of the best overclockers, So get coolbits or rivatuner and overclock it.
I'm guessing it defaults at 390/700 like mine, so on the standard cooler try upping that to 450/750, then run a few benchmarks, 3dmark2k1 etc and overclock a little more if you don't get problems, artifacts etc.

I've currently got mine at 480/850 using a custom Athlon XP HSF.

Also in HL2, enter "mat_dxlevel 81" in the console (or put it in an autoexec.cfg file into the CS and HL2 cfg folder) to make the card default to using direct x 8.1, No noticeable image loss, and you'll gain about 20fps.
With my AMD 64-3200, 1 gb corsair xms, I'm seeing about 85+fps constant in HL2 on max settings, It very rarely drops to 50fps when the action on screen is hectic.
You should be able to get at least this with a bit of tweaking.
I'm on the 66.93 drivers, although the 61.77 drivers were ok too.
 
I've got a 5900XT too.
Try to do what what oni_666 said. However i doubt you will have to force the 5900XT into dx 8 mode because HL2 defaults to that level when it detects the card.

Once you get it to a nice frame rate, im guessing you wont get the water reflections like that of a dx9 card when in dx 8 mode. There is a solution. HL2DX8ReflectionPatch.rar. search for in google or the steam forums. Hopefully at the end of all this, you should get something that runs smoothly and that "almost" gives you the satisfaction of your X800XT
 
pr0nking said:
Why are nVidia cards ****ing awful at everything I swear. My X800XT is ****ed at the moment and is being sent off, so I got a replacement XFX 5900XT for my troubles and shit, which was nice, but its ****ing dog awful. I get like 20FPS in HL2 and I play a car game called trackmania and its fairly graphics intensive and its not too bad I thought this card could handle some decent shit, but its god damn awful. Anyone got anyways I can improve its performance, got latest drivers.
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Hint, buy an Geforce 4 Titanium

I've got a GeForce 4MX440 at the moment and seems to run HL2 fine, except for the sound stuttering
 
yeh the geforce 6 series is great, it was just the FX series that let them down
 
B-MAn said:
yeh the geforce 6 series is great, it was just the FX series that let them down
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fx had crap architecture so couldnt fully handle dx9 like they said they would...nvidia suck atm but are making better cards recently.

ati are still the kings. bought a 9800pro, and am never looking back at nvidia lol. before this, i was a fan of nvidia...ahem...

until nvidia make some decent drivers, they will always be at a loss
 
Pureball said:
fx had crap architecture so couldnt fully handle dx9 like they said they would...nvidia suck atm but are making better cards recently.

ati are still the kings. bought a 9800pro, and am never looking back at nvidia lol. before this, i was a fan of nvidia...ahem...

until nvidia make some decent drivers, they will always be at a loss
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They are making decent drivers. Currently on the latest driver sets the latest benchmarks show practically all Geforce 6 cards outperform thier price equivalents from ATI in most gaming benchmarks. The 6200 cards easily outperform thier x300 price equivalents. The 6600GT cards just outperform thier price equivalent x700 cards from ATI. And as for the high end cards its pretty even matched With the 6800gt outperforming the x800 pro with ease but the x800xt platinum shines above the Nvidia 6800 ultra.

(No im not an Nvidia fanboy as I have an x800xt platinum :) and i love it!)
 
Looking into Nvidia for my next card. Got a 9800 Pro for HL2 and it refused to run. Worked fine on anyone elses machine, we tried swapping out a bunch of crap and formatting numerous times but in the end it wasn't worth the effort.

Geforce 6 you say?
 
Bad^Hat said:
Looking into Nvidia for my next card. Got a 9800 Pro for HL2 and it refused to run. Worked fine on anyone elses machine, we tried swapping out a bunch of crap and formatting numerous times but in the end it wasn't worth the effort.

Geforce 6 you say?
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How much are you willing to spend?
 
Well, I'm not looking to buy a new one anytime soon. The money I'm getting from selling off the 9800 is going towards broadband and stuff for me drums. But when I do get time to save for a card again... what kind of prices are we talking?
 
Im asking you how much your willing to spend so i can find the best card for you...
 
Well, I'd prefer not to spend more than $500. That's about 200 pounds (stupid pound sign-less keyboard). I got the Radeon for 400.
 
Force DX8 textures.

In console:

mat_dxlevel 81


frusion said:
The 6 series simply owns the ATI's puny crappy x cards hahahahahaha
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Only for bang for the buck.
 
Bad^Hat said:
Well, I'd prefer not to spend more than $500. That's about 200 pounds (stupid pound sign-less keyboard). I got the Radeon for 400.
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A GeForce 6800 128MB DDR would be perfect then :)
 
I heard the 5900XT was a pretty good card.. best one out of the FX range in terms of value/performance :)
 
[Matt] said:
A GeForce 6800 128MB DDR would be perfect then :)
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Awesome, thanks :) Could you recommend a site to order it from?
 
ComradeBadger said:
I heard the 5900XT was a pretty good card.. best one out of the FX range in terms of value/performance :)
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When I bought my 5900XT, I thought I was getting a 5900, since thats what the shop told me.
But when I checked the clock settings they were 400/700, and the 5900 is 450/800 (ultra is 450/850, I think).
Anyways it cost me £140 new.
Just the card, no games or software, but the software and games usually suck anyway. (apart from those 5900's with COD or Farcry for free).

If you wanna see a review of my card, its on www.guru3d.com its the 128mb Galaxy 5900XT with 2.2ns Hynix ram.

Reworked the original bios with X-bios editor, Got rid of the thermal cut off, Uppped the volts on gpu and ram by one tenth volt, and stuck the clocks at 480/850.
Then stuck (I love that word) an old Athlon XP HSF on it, and its been running like that for 6 months.

Clocking it from defaults upped my score on Aquamark 3 from 45,000+ to 51,550. Result!

Here's my mad modded 5900XT.

monster heatsink

inside the case
 
Hmm, well, I have a GeForce FX 5200, and it works a lot better than the old GeForce 4 MX I used to have with Doom 3.

I thought the HL2 GFX looked fine until I saw a video clip of HL2, probably from an ATI card, and I noticed that with my GeForce FX 5200, Dr. Kleiner's magnifying glass doesn't seem to magnify at all. GFX card issue or mere driver issue?
 
ComradeBadger said:
I heard the 5900XT was a pretty good card.. best one out of the FX range in terms of value/performance :)
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True but the FX range are terrible DX9 cards. They run DX8 and openGL well enough mind you.
 
The only game that brought my 5900XT to its knee's was Farcry,
I could get about 30-38fps on max settings, get into a raging firefight and that would drop to 10fps.
Doom 3 was ok on medium settings, got a constant 60fps on that.
And I'm glad to say that HL2 has'nt been so demanding.
Guess my card will last me another year at least, or at least until stalker drags it down to its knee's once again.
But it'll go in my daughters PC then, And hopefully I'll have a 6800GT, Although I'm considering an ATI card too.
 
I borrowed a friend's 5700XT and didn't really like it. I only realised after I gave it back that I was running it on an inadequate PSU. I didn't even know what that was beforehand :D
 
Best budget card around is the 6600 GT.
Faster then 9800 XT and 5900, as well as the new ATi X600. And its cheaper then all of them. Hard to find though.
 
Sparta said:
Best budget card around is the 6600 GT.
Faster then 9800 XT and 5900, as well as the new ATi X600. And its cheaper then all of them. Hard to find though.
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Its also faster than the X700
 
Sounds right up my alley.

/me chexorz that site

Haha, this is the most ironic derail ever.
 
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