I have been an Nvidia user for the past few years and have never had a problem on games that require a 32MB card. I hear lots of good things about the ATI 9700 Radeon but my Dad has that and that card gave nothing but problems when it was first released. less than 50% of the games he had (war and flying simulators mostly) would work on the 9700 without crashing. We found a beta patch that fixed most of the problems, and then recently a released patch from the ATI website that didnt seem to change anything. He still has a problem with NHL 2003 from EA Sports though. Every 3 seconds there is a hesitation and it gets really annoying. He has a 2.53 GHz, with 1Gig RAM, (all the top of the line stuff). He also had an ATI Rage back in the day and again that was nothing but problems on a lot of his games.
I had a 32MB Geforce2 MMX that worked great for me but i figured it was time to upgrade to a 64MB card for the hell of it. So I purchased the ATI 7000 64MB (im not made of money to get a 9700) and installed it. So far I am very un-impressed.
1) Now all games that load take this extra 8 seconds of blackscreen before loading, Thievery, SplinterCell, Tony hawk... all games..
2) In Thievery when looking at the Team Select screen i get these wavy lines in the back ground.. also when looking at the Objectives screen. But during game play it seems fine until I get hit.. then the wavy lines come back momentarily.
3) In Thief 2, I alt-tabbed to the desktop and back to the game and the menu screen dimmed way down. Then when I exited Thief2 after I was done playing, my desktop was set at this annoyingly High brightness and contrast level that wouldnt change until I rebooted my computer.
I have the latest drivers for the ATI so I dont know what the problem is. I do however have a 450Mhz with 384MB Ram so Im waiting for my motherboard and my 750Mhz processor to see if that changes anything.. but as for right now.. Im about to pull this piece of sh!t out of my computer and go buy a GeForce 64MB.
I've read the reviews and every one of the tech pros seems to think that the 9700 radeon is the best card they've ever seen.. but I've yet to be impressed by an ATI product.
What do you guys have to say about this?
I had a 32MB Geforce2 MMX that worked great for me but i figured it was time to upgrade to a 64MB card for the hell of it. So I purchased the ATI 7000 64MB (im not made of money to get a 9700) and installed it. So far I am very un-impressed.
1) Now all games that load take this extra 8 seconds of blackscreen before loading, Thievery, SplinterCell, Tony hawk... all games..
2) In Thievery when looking at the Team Select screen i get these wavy lines in the back ground.. also when looking at the Objectives screen. But during game play it seems fine until I get hit.. then the wavy lines come back momentarily.
3) In Thief 2, I alt-tabbed to the desktop and back to the game and the menu screen dimmed way down. Then when I exited Thief2 after I was done playing, my desktop was set at this annoyingly High brightness and contrast level that wouldnt change until I rebooted my computer.
I have the latest drivers for the ATI so I dont know what the problem is. I do however have a 450Mhz with 384MB Ram so Im waiting for my motherboard and my 750Mhz processor to see if that changes anything.. but as for right now.. Im about to pull this piece of sh!t out of my computer and go buy a GeForce 64MB.
I've read the reviews and every one of the tech pros seems to think that the 9700 radeon is the best card they've ever seen.. but I've yet to be impressed by an ATI product.
What do you guys have to say about this?
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