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What is really going on ?
I've been working with CAD video cards for years, and the best card I ever used was the Matrox G450 / 550. Last year I built up an AMD 2000+ with the G450 and a gig of ram. I've also been a gamer, but not a die-hard, but Doom, Wolfenstein ... Then I bought Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault. Nice game until I reached the Snow Fields episodes. My G450 bogged down to about 1 frame per sec, and the game became difficult to play, but I finally got through it. I bought MOHAA: SPEARHEAD, and that was even worse .. impossible to get past one of the early episodes. I figured the problem was EA GAMES, and just forgot about it for a year, until I started getting complaints about video problems in my CAD labs .. Solidworks, AutoCAD. In looking for an answer, I bought on sale an ATI RADEON 128 9000 PRO for my home computer, and an ATI 9200 for my work computer. I had bench tested the G450 ( 3DMARK01 ) at 1050, and now the ATI cards at 6668, 7448 .... a gain of ?? 6 or 7 times in performance .. BUUULOOONNY ! The change in MOHAA and MOHAA: SPEARHEAD shows a gain in screen performance of more than 100x Both games became highly playable, and I went through them fine. Also, I had much better looking video and more sound effects. Right away, I see bench marks mean nothing. I've no doubt that these modern CAD packages are also moving in the direction of the newer video standards. How the heck does one judge these standards outside of the gaming industry ? Also, is there a (war) game that will kick my ATI 9000 in the butt? I want to test it. And, when in the hell is DOOMIII coming out ?? I know that is going to push video standards again. johns |
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Also, is there a (war) game
that will kick my ATI 9000 in the butt? I want to test it. And, when in the hell is DOOMIII coming out ?? I know that is going to push video standards again. johns For now, there's Battlefield 1942. I personally wouldn't buy the expansion packs if I knew then how small they were, and there's a decent foundation in the mod comunity for it. Not sure about DoomIII Though. You should start drinking prune juice and KY jelly cocktails right now, that will make things a lot smoother. -Felatio Love |
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if you like MoH then you have to try Call of Duty
but dont worry about Doom 3 cause it wont be out for a while and will probably require a 9500 or higher to run it decently. "johns" wrote in message ... I've been working with CAD video cards for years, and the best card I ever used was the Matrox G450 / 550. Last year I built up an AMD 2000+ with the G450 and a gig of ram. I've also been a gamer, but not a die-hard, but Doom, Wolfenstein ... Then I bought Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault. Nice game until I reached the Snow Fields episodes. My G450 bogged down to about 1 frame per sec, and the game became difficult to play, but I finally got through it. I bought MOHAA: SPEARHEAD, and that was even worse .. impossible to get past one of the early episodes. I figured the problem was EA GAMES, and just forgot about it for a year, until I started getting complaints about video problems in my CAD labs .. Solidworks, AutoCAD. In looking for an answer, I bought on sale an ATI RADEON 128 9000 PRO for my home computer, and an ATI 9200 for my work computer. I had bench tested the G450 ( 3DMARK01 ) at 1050, and now the ATI cards at 6668, 7448 ... a gain of ?? 6 or 7 times in performance .. BUUULOOONNY ! The change in MOHAA and MOHAA: SPEARHEAD shows a gain in screen performance of more than 100x Both games became highly playable, and I went through them fine. Also, I had much better looking video and more sound effects. Right away, I see bench marks mean nothing. I've no doubt that these modern CAD packages are also moving in the direction of the newer video standards. How the heck does one judge these standards outside of the gaming industry ? Also, is there a (war) game that will kick my ATI 9000 in the butt? I want to test it. And, when in the hell is DOOMIII coming out ?? I know that is going to push video standards again. johns |
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Your text formatting is odd... Unless your work has some limitations,
please reset to defaults with OutlookExpress (Worlds worst Newsreader). On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:55:15 -0800, "johns" wrote: I've been working with CAD video cards for years, and the best card I ever used was the Matrox G450 / 550. Last year I built Good "OLD" cards... they haven't changed in 4 years. Very stable, since they never changed. up an AMD 2000+ with the G450 and a gig of ram. I've also been a gamer, but not a die-hard, but Doom, Wolfenstein ... 1993~1995 games. Then I bought Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault. Nice game until I reached the Snow Fields episodes. My G450 bogged down to about 1 frame per sec, and the game ugh... I started getting complaints about video problems in my CAD labs .. Solidworks, AutoCAD. In looking for an answer, I bought on sale an ATI RADEON 128 9000 PRO for my home computer, and an ATI 9200 for my work computer. I had bench tested the G450 ( 3DMARK01 ) at 1050, and now the ATI cards at 6668, 7448 ... a gain of ?? 6 or 7 times in performance .. BUUULOOONNY ! What do you mean? You're talking a few generations difference in performance and driver advancedment. Matrox built their business on making BUSINESS cards with rock-solid drivers... they attempted to moderize their 3D graphics with the Pallara whatever, a $500 video card that is about the same speed as your ATI9000Pro. Thing is... (whisper) The 9000/9200 are bottom-end video cards, based off of a 2+ year old graphic chip design. They are considered sub-standard for modern gaming. MOH is an okay game, Call Of Duty is much nicer... both of these are OLD game engine tech games. Try out UT2003 / Unreal2 (About $15~20), it'll bog down the 9000... but has about 10x the detail of MOH/COD. marks mean nothing. I've no doubt that these modern CAD packages are also moving in the direction of the newer video standards. How the heck does one judge these standards outside of the gaming industry ? Gaming folks are hardest on cards... but read this anyways: http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic...229/index.html http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1955 Also, is there a (war) game that will kick my ATI 9000 in the butt? I want to test it. And, when in the hell is DOOMIII coming out ?? I know that is going to push video standards again. UT2003 is a bit tough... but for MODERN cards (9600Pro and above), its Half Life2 and Doom3 we're waiting for. We tend to call them shooters... When the new games come out, the WWII games will also be updated too... For about $150~250, you can have a very good video card. -- Remember when real men used Real computers!? When 512K of video RAM was a lot! Death to Palladium & WPA!! |
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Your text formatting is odd... Unless your work has some limitations, please reset to defaults with OutlookExpress (Worlds worst Newsreader). Habit I got into using Pine :-( Good "OLD" cards... they haven't changed in 4 years. Very stable, since they never changed. And the G450 is still the only card that has passed all the Solidworks video tests ??? The ATIs in general have little issues in CAD. I'm trying to get up to speed for the next generation of CAD in our labs, and clearly I'm not there. What do you mean? You're talking a few generations difference in performance and driver advancedment. Matrox built their business on making BUSINESS cards with rock-solid drivers... they attempted to moderize their 3D graphics with the Pallara whatever, a $500 video card that is about the same speed as your ATI9000Pro. Exactly. I hesitate to buy 100+ Matrox cards when I can probably get by with ATI 9200s at $70 each, and maybe even anticipate what the Engineering community is doing in presentation graphics. I just don't know, and they have no real way of testing their needs. The gaming community is the only way I see to go for now. Thing is... (whisper) The 9000/9200 are bottom-end video cards, based off of a 2+ year old graphic chip design. They are considered sub-standard for modern gaming. MOH is an okay game, Call Of Duty is much nicer... both of these are OLD game engine tech games. To me, right now, I was flabbergasted at their performance. Try out UT2003 / Unreal2 (About $15~20), it'll bog down the 9000... but has about 10x the detail of MOH/COD. I'll do it. We tend to call them shooters... When the new games come out, the WWII games will also be updated too... MOHAA: PACIFIC ASSAULT maybe. I hope so. I like the games I have ... but I see CoD on the shelves all the time. See if I can get a better deal than the local Gaming Shop. johns |
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Try out UT2003 / Unreal2 (About $15~20), it'll bog down the 9000... but has about 10x the detail of MOH/COD. Yuk! Just tried it. UT is a Kung-fooey between robots. I've just can't do something that reminds me of a game-parlor no matter how detailed it is. Also, dl'd Battlefield 1942 demo. Hope the game is better than the demo. It claimed to have detail, but it was just another multiplayer running around a place shooting each other. Detail was crap compared to MOHAA. It was about the level of early QUAKE with no real mouse function suitable to good control in a war game. You've gotta move forward on mouse2 and that is all there is to that. This thing was all keybd with a little mouse add-on. Really old and too self absorbed with spawn-points and other nonsense. Seems there's two kinds of games out .. the ??-box PC adaptions with crappy controls on the keybd .. and the Wolfenstein war games that have an adult theme and well thought out controls. I can see these differences moving into the CAD packages too. Wouldn't that make your day to spend couple hours on a Solidworks design and have Solidworks totally sack your video and desktop settings when you quit. johns |
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Exactly what I was going to say. Look at FireGL cards, (or Nvidia's
QuadroFX) they for cad and other office use. Now they be real expensive (compaired to gaming counterpart), but some people have modded gaming cards to Business cards.. I remember Nvidia5900 - Quadro FX5900.. "Bill" wrote in message ... In article , says... snip Exactly. I hesitate to buy 100+ Matrox cards when I can probably get by with ATI 9200s at $70 each, and maybe even anticipate what the Engineering community is doing in presentation graphics. I just don't know, and they have no real way of testing their needs. The gaming community is the only way I see to go for now. snip More money, but newer technology. Have you looked at: http://www.ati.com/products/fireglt2-128/index.html ? Bill |
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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:54:31 -0800, "johns"
wrote: Try out UT2003 / Unreal2 (About $15~20), it'll bog down the 9000... but has about 10x the detail of MOH/COD. Yuk! Just tried it. UT is a Kung-fooey between robots. I've just can't do something that reminds me of a game-parlor no matter how detailed it is. Also, dl'd Battlefield 1942 demo. Hope the game is better than the demo. It claimed Nope... 1942 gets no better. dont waste your time on it. and well thought out controls. I can see these differences moving into the CAD packages too. Wouldn't that make your day to spend couple hours on a Solidworks design and have Solidworks totally sack your video and desktop settings when you quit. Sign of some sloppy programming... I use ProDesktop, its far more functional than CAD (unless perhaps you're CAD projects are buildings). There, you build in real time 3D. They used to have their software for FREE download (no support) but it sells for $1000+ ~ 100,000 depending on features and licences. (IE: You can build products with it, but it won't allow you to communicate with the hardware for manufacture). http://www.ptc.com/products/proe/wildfire/2dto3d.htm Or he http://www.ptc.com/appserver/it/icm/...e=en& tab=try They ended on 2004, the FREE use version... which I still have mine -- Remember when real men used Real computers!? When 512K of video RAM was a lot! Death to Palladium & WPA!! |
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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:54:31 -0800, "johns"
wrote: Try out UT2003 / Unreal2 (About $15~20), it'll bog down the 9000... but has about 10x the detail of MOH/COD. Yuk! Just tried it. UT is a Kung-fooey between robots. I've just can't do something that reminds me of a game-parlor Crap! I hit the SEND button before I finished!!! Hey now!! They are not Kung-fu robots. They are people in battle armor, some in skimpy outfits, big aliens, cyborgs and 1 class of robots. There is no hand to hand combat... strickly shooting. It is ABOUT eye-candy yes... but you asked for something that'll push you card.... Look at these screen shots. (you'll need to change the last 2 digits to see other images). http://www.gamespy.com/asp/image.asp...t2004pc/01.jpg And for the review: http://www.gamespy.com/previews/february04/ut2004pc/ -- Remember when real men used Real computers!? When 512K of video RAM was a lot! Death to Palladium & WPA!! |
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