"The very latest GPU from ATI or NVIDIA"

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Sanjuro

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This is what Doug Lombardi said about The Lost Coast. I have the other specs easily surpassed, but...does this mean an ATI X800 XT Platinum Edition won't work? It's not even a year old yet. :-(
 
I was actually a bit worried about that myself...then again, he says it's a few weeks away, while the R520 is a few MONTHS.
 
The "latest" would probably refer to the 6800GT or X800xt. If he meant it literally, then that would mean we'd all be getting the 7800gt for $600 :)
 
Yea, that was his standard answer before the 7800 was released, and he probbly just hasn't changed it yet. Any x800 should run it fine :)
 
How about a ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 128MB card?
 
even with anything but 2x7800 in SLi, HDR is going to bring any system to its knees. Its a VERY computation intensive rendering technique. So while my 6800GT will run it, I'm not expecting anything better than 25 or 30 fps average.
 
Sanjuro said:
This is what Doug Lombardi said about The Lost Coast. I have the other specs easily surpassed, but...does this mean an ATI X800 XT Platinum Edition won't work? It's not even a year old yet. :-(
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I can't even believe you are asking that question.... :rolleyes:
 
Would a $313 X800XL from newegg run it well? Will it will it huh huh huh?!1111! I think the only way to find out people is to get a very good video card (at least a X800) and find out when the level comes out. Then you can say "oh my video card that I just paid $600 for is only getting me 30fps! What a piece of cr@p!" My motto is people if it looks puurty and it runs fast, at least 100+fps, then its good. You don't need to empty your life's savings for something that will be old 2 years from now. And be sure to get the 256MB and not the 128MB lol! :naughty:
 
:| Does this mean my 9250 won't be able to play it? T_T
 
why are all of u asking such stupid questions only high end cards can play it the x800 and geforce 6600 and up prob.
 
MY MOTHER****ING GOSH!

If your one year old 9800pro could run HL2 just fine, don't you think that your one year old- 6800gt would run theLC just fine?
 
giant384 said:
u must not know how fast technology increases
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Every 18 months, it has not been 18 months since these cards came out...
 
technology is more than video cards u have to keep u with the software
 
Milkman said:
Every 18 months, it has not been 18 months since these cards came out...
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Yes, lets apply a generalization put forward forty years ago about CPU's to the graphics card market.
 
I think people should stop worrying about whether their computer should run this thing- and accept that nobody knows for sure yet what will run it. Anyway, what would be the point of downloading this huge file, to play one level that looks like shit on your computer? Don't forget, it's all about the graphics with the Loast Coast (that's what it's made for), so if you can barely run it or not run it, what's the point?
 
jondyfun said:
Yes, lets apply a generalization put forward forty years ago about CPU's to the graphics card market.
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The generalisation doesn't really work anyway, some hardware more than double their power in 18 months whereas others only increase a few percentage points a year.
 
I run HL2 on my Radeon X800 AGP Gfx card and my Athlon 3500+ 2.2 Ghz processor, and HL2 works perfectly fine on all high settings, and I love it.
 
HDR is going to bring any system to its knees. Its a VERY computation intensive rendering technique.
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No HDR is not. Thats not what is so system demanding, it's the fact that it's HDR + Far Far higher polygon rates, bump mapping, etc... more everything.
Now whats system intensive is Ray Tracing. Even hardware Ray Tracing it just goes from hours to minutes.

Now when he said that he means a X800XT\X850XT and a 6800 GT. Those were the latest when he said them.
And there will be 2 options of HDR I believe..
High and Low.
High will be for the 6800 that I believe will use PS3.
While Low will be for the X800. There technically just 2 diffrent methods for doing HDR but the one for the 6800 will give better results, but they will both look really good either way. There was a thread that went into what they used for the X800 and the 6800 and how they differ.
 
Minerel said:
High will be for the 6800 that I believe will use PS3.
While Low will be for the X800. There technically just 2 diffrent methods for doing HDR but the one for the 6800 will give better results, but they will both look really good either way. There was a thread that went into what they used for the X800 and the 6800 and how they differ.
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The next card I'm getting is therefore an Nvida.
 
mehh :|
i bought my current 9800 Pro about 1.5 years ago and mainly because i had to get a video card.. the old one wasn't working properly.
anyway now i can't the lost coast? sheesh.
i know the computer hardware industry moves quick but damn...some times it just becomes unfair.
 
Question: will a 64-bit OS help this at all? I think I'm in good shape with this already, but will be moving to Windows x64 here in the near future.

7800GTX
P4 3.8GHz EE
1GB OCZ 800MHz RAM
800MHz FSB
D925XCV
SATA DVD burner blah drives blah... my system runs Doom 3 at 60 FPS @ 1024x768 with everything turned up all the way. 1600x1200 with everything turned up runs at ~30 FPS with dips below that if the action increases, so I'm guessing that I should be able to handle Lost Coast okay.
 
yes all 66/68xx cards has full SM 3.0 support but you will also need 1GB ram and a decent CPU to get high FPS.
 
Here's my understanding.. To get the most out of HDR your card needs to support SM3. If it doesn't then you can still run HDR at a reduced quality of service.
 
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