Video Cards

[RussianVodka]

hi guys jus wondering wat r considered good video cards cause im compltely cluelees on the subject
ive apparently got a Radeon 9550 any info on this???

 

[siddharth2002]

hi guys jus wondering wat r considered good video cards cause im compltely cluelees on the subject
ive apparently got a Radeon 9550 any info on this???

Well what you've got is alright for games based on DirectX 8.0. Anything new coming this year probably won't run well on your PC. Get a Nvidia 6800, its a minimum now or even a 6600Gt or X800 would do the job.

 

[RussianVodka]

thx siddharth
also will different video cards effect the way cricket 2005 runs???

 

[siddharth2002]

thx siddharth
also will different video cards effect the way cricket 2005 runs???

well upto a point. If a medium-end card like Nvidia 6600 GT can max out all the graphical settings in Cricket 2005 than all the higher-end cards can do nothing but to improve the FPS(frames per second) rate provided vertical sync is turned off in graphic properties.
But difference will be visible between lower-end and medium-end cards.

 

[Deleted member 9102]

Edit: Chris Gayle

 

[kush]

Try visiting this forum: http://www.planetcricket.org/forums/showthread.php?t=15229&highlight=Video+Cards it may help.

 

[IloveGilly]

Is a Radeon 9600XT any good?

 

[aussie1st]

That is the medium range model. Basically any graphics card with 256mb is the one to get.

 

[Kev]

Well what you've got is alright for games based on DirectX 8.0. Anything new coming this year probably won't run well on your PC. Get a Nvidia 6800, its a minimum now or even a 6600Gt or X800 would do the job.

I have a radeon 9550, although I'm not really into gaming its an ok card (probably pretty cheap now too). It runs directX 9 apps fine and I wouldn't think there would be any problem running c2k5 with it.

 

[siddharth2002]

I have a radeon 9550, although I'm not really into gaming its an ok card (probably pretty cheap now too). It runs directX 9 apps fine and I wouldn't think there would be any problem running c2k5 with it.

That's not what I meant. Actually it runs becuase of backwards compatibility offered by Direct X 9.0c. Saying Direct X 8.0 or Direct X 9.0 is a way of categorizing the games based on their engines and the platform it was used to build on, also used for graphic cards. e.g- MMX 440 is a directX 7.0 card. Geforce 5200, 5300, Radeon 9550 etc. are Direct X 8.0 cards as are games like UT2004, Cricket 2004 and most others released before 2005. But will still run on a Direct X 9.0 card and configuration which would be Radeon X800 and others or Geforce 6200 and others because of backwards compatibility. So simply some Direct X 8.0 cards are compatible with Direct X 9.0 thanks to driver updates but still remain Direct X 8.0 cards in hardware.
As far as future is concerned or even now some games has a minimum requirement of a Direct X 9.0 graphic card (not Direct X9.0 compatible) so you see my point. e.g - for Unreal Engine 3.0 minimum requirement has been indicated as Geforce 6800 which is a DirectX 9.0 card it and it simply won't run or will have serious problems running on a card like Geforce 5600 or a Radeon equivalent.
Cheers!!

 

[Kev]

So simply some Direct X 8.0 cards are compatible with Direct X 9.0 thanks to driver updates but still remain Direct X 8.0 cards in hardware.

It is a DX9 graphics card though see these specs (Although if you are into gaming its probably not the best card to have)

• 4 parallel pixel pipelines
• 2 programmable vertex shader pipelines
• 128-bit dual-channel DDR memory interface
• AGP8x/4x

SmartShader? 2.0

• Support for Microsoft? DirectX? 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware
• DirectX? 9.0 Vertex Shaders
  • Vertex programs up to 65,280 instructions with flow control
• DirectX? 9.0 Pixel Shaders
  
  • Up to 1,536 instructions and 16 textures per rendering pass
  • 32 temporary and constant registers
  • 128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit per pixel floating point color formats
  • Multiple Render Target (MRT) support
• Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL? via extensions

SmoothVision? 2.1

• 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes
  • Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns, and centroid sampling
  • Lossless Color Compression (up to6:1)at all resolutions
  • Temporal Anti-Aliasing
• 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes
  
  • Up to 128-tap texture filtering
  • Adaptive algorithm with bilinear (performance) and trilinear (quality) options

HYPER Z? III

• Hierarchical Z-Buffer with Early Z Test
• Lossless Z-Buffer Compression (up to 48:1)
• Fast Z-Buffer Clear
• Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering

VideoShader?

• Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
• FullStream? video de-blocking technology for Real, DivX, and WMV9 formats
• VideoSoap? noise removal filtering for captured video
• MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration
  • DXVA Support
  • Hardware Motion Compensation, iDCT, DCT and color space conversion
• All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
• YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays?
• Adaptive Per-Pixel De-Interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion (temporal filtering)

Additional Features Dual integrated display controllers
Dual integrated 10 bit per channel 400 MHz DACs
Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI 1.0 compliant / HDMI interoperable and HDCP ready)
Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768 resolution
Windows? Logo Program compliant
ATI Catalyst? Software Suite

 

[siddharth2002]

Hehe laul u nice copy pasting . Yeah its a Direct X 9.0 but yeah a middle-end one though. Might give up on next gen games. BTW whats the fps you are getting on it in say Cric 2004 with vertical sync off or if u have played BF2 on it. Mine's an arsy MMX 440, really sucks.

 

[IloveGilly]

Woot, finally have a new comp with a nVIDIA GeForce FX5500!

 

[arghasen]

whats the minimum system requirements for running BLIC2005? I want to give it a try but wanna know wether it will run or not.
My config is
P4, 2.8 GHz
256 DDR
intel 82845G graphics controller (inbuilt)

 

[gaurav_indian]

My PC configuration is
P IV 1.6 GHZ
512 MB RAM
Intel 82845 motherboard(32 bit)
No Graphic Card
And Cricket 2005 working fine for me.
One thing which u can do if you have minimum requirements is that change the System Settings in Cricket 2005 to
Change Forced Detail to : off
Turn Shadows : on
Turn Anti-Alias : 0
Change Resoutlion : 800x600
Offcourse if you have the same configuration like me and if u don't have graphics card installed on your pc then u can try the settings which I have given.