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Tom|Nbk · 21 Jul 2007 at 18:37

One of the most highly anticipated titles of 2005 was Monolith's paranormal thriller F.E.A.R. Taking a look at the game's minimum system requirements, we see that you will need at least a 1.7GHz Pentium 4 with 512MB of system memory and a 64MB graphics card in the Radeon 9000 or GeForce4 Ti-classes or better, to adequately run the game. Using the full retail release of the game patched to v1.07, we put the graphics cards in this article through their paces to see how they fared with a popular title. Here, all graphics settings within the game were set to their maximum values, but with soft shadows disabled (Soft shadows and anti-aliasing do not work together currently). Benchmark runs were then completed at resolutions of 1,280x960 and 1,600x1,200, with anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering enabled.

Tom|Nbk · 21 Jul 2007 at 18:41

Apparantly from looking at a number of reviews soft shadows don't work with AA on nvidia hardware.

Tom|Nbk · 21 Jul 2007 at 18:48

All tested with 4xAA and 8XAF @ 1920-1200. The card is performing as it should Will.

Tom|Nbk · 21 Jul 2007 at 18:51

RavenUK said:
Well them results could well be fine, i mean i don't know if my 3.5ghz overclock will make much of a difference in fear against your stock 2.4ghz, i guess you will have to clock your CPU to see if it is a bottleneck.

It will make a massive difference

A. Because F.E.A.R is extremely CPU intensive.

B. The 2900 is severly bottlenecked at 2.4Ghz, It needs at least 3Ghz due to the high clock speed of the 2900 and the fact the cpu needs to deal with big sets of instructions from the drivers of the card.

Tom|Nbk · 21 Jul 2007 at 18:58

willhub said:
AA must need tweaking abit still with ATi drivers.

I wouldnt get your hopes up the card is performing as it should as many people here have already proved. Ive posted various benchmarks to show it performing on par with the GTS and as It should. I think you've made a lot of fuss over nothing tbfh.

Tom|Nbk · 21 Jul 2007 at 21:28

gareth170 said:
i tested my 2600xt again but this time in xp.. all setting on max, 1280x1024 see the results:

what u guys think of that?

Very good is that with no AA?

Tom|Nbk · 22 Jul 2007 at 17:26

RavenUK said:
It is kind of a poor design, i guess a fan blowing from the side would help out a little, they should have kept the same fan design seen on the x1950xt cards that blow the air in from the rear.

I disagree considering how hot this card runs the coolers are VERY efficient.

Tom|Nbk · 22 Jul 2007 at 20:39

LoadsaMoney said:
From what everyone is saying no, 7.6's are better as these decrease performance, but they do add the 24xAA.

From my testing there just as good as the 7.6s not really any perf improvements.

Tom|Nbk · 22 Jul 2007 at 21:55

The_Vindicator said:
Just ran the two demo's everything maxed at 1280x1024 with the 7.7's averaged 79 on buildings and 74 on short, not too bad I suppose

Not bad at all considering ATi are stilll heavly optimising their drivers for this engine

Tom|Nbk · 22 Jul 2007 at 22:08

dan1987 said:
The lost planet dx10 demo now plays without horrific artifacting

Do the benchmark and post results

Tom|Nbk · 22 Jul 2007 at 22:25

dan1987 said:
Didnt change any of the settings and got , snow 52, cave 54.

It froze my computer completly I when tried to exit the benchmark though

Oh and the card was at 860/2000

Good results what do you get at stock.

Tom|Nbk · 23 Jul 2007 at 02:52

dan1987 said:
At stock I get snow 45, cave 50.

what settings?

Tom|Nbk · 23 Jul 2007 at 21:32

fornowagain said:
Don't think this has been posted before.

ATI Catalyst 7.7 Performance Analysis

Confirms what most of us in this thread have basically said, let's hope the 7.8s bring some better performance increases.

Tom|Nbk · 23 Jul 2007 at 21:50

willhub said:
Am I the only one who has reverted back to 7.6?

I reverted back to my beta 8.40's

Tom|Nbk · 23 Jul 2007 at 22:22

Vogon said:
And were can one download these ?

In about a months time you'll have these

Tom|Nbk · 23 Jul 2007 at 22:41

Vogon said:
hmmm .. if I still have the card
Mind you at the lack of interest, I may have to sell the GTX instead

Accept Tute's offer !

(If he still want's it that is)

Tom|Nbk · 23 Jul 2007 at 23:04

Gerard said:
Benchmark showing pixel shader 4

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=95370

That reeks of crappy DX10 drivers from ATi, they best improve soon.

Tom|Nbk · 23 Jul 2007 at 23:09

willhub said:
Do you really think this is true?

Maybe its NV fanboys making it up? I hope to god this aint true, If this is true I'm deffenitly going to go back to a GTS I think, if that benchmark is true it surely means crap DX10 performance for the 2900 series.

No it's not made up its a real benchmark the problems are is ATi suck at DX10 drivers atm. A lot of work for them to do. But if you really believe that the 2900XT can't do better than an 8600GT in DX10 then shame on you and I'll eat 100 hat's if it turns out true once the drivers are perfected

Tom|Nbk · 23 Jul 2007 at 23:10

gareth170 said:
i don't think his allowed to say...

btw tom how long did it take ati to reply back to u about becoming a ati beta tester? i sent my beta form a week ago...

Hmmm how have you applied for the program?

gareth170 said:
nope isn't true

It's a real benchmark with real results problem is the 2900 just aint DX10 ready yet

from a driver point of view.

Tom|Nbk · 23 Jul 2007 at 23:13

willhub said:
Ok, because if those benchmarks do turn out to be true, then I dunno, it really will of been one of the worst things I could have done moving from an 8800, I mean now I could sell the 2900 for around 150 quid and get a GTS 320, but if those benchmarks turn out to be true, the 2900's will be worth next to nothing

Seems like the 2900's need to make a 200% increase in DX10 then, well at least in that benchmark.

If they do turn out to be true ill be the first to admit i was wrong and shove my 2900 in the bin believe me. But I knwo it isn't. I'd let those nvnews boy's enjoy there glory though :rolleyes:

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