Gibbo is getting an R600!!

mishima · 10 Apr 2007 at 15:20

I would test Oblivion on that card really, It pulls FPS right down because its so demanding. My GTS and others suffer, I wonder if the R600 does - if you can get a copy Gibbo would definately be worth testing.

Mattus · 10 Apr 2007 at 15:22

Run Oblivion. All SupCom is gonna prove is that quad core CPUs are fast.

melbourne720 · 10 Apr 2007 at 15:22

How about whoever sends Gibbo Oblivion & Stalker gets free delivery on their next order?

Gibbo · 10 Apr 2007 at 15:23

Hi there

We also have a few hundred Splinter Cell Double Agent games here. Any good for benchmarking with?

lay-z-boy · 10 Apr 2007 at 15:25

Thats if you can get the game to work

jrodga2k5 · 10 Apr 2007 at 15:25

Gibbo said:
Hi there

We also have a few hundred Splinter Cell Double Agent games here. Any good for benchmarking with?

I believe poorly ported game but would certainly be worth a go

Vertigo · 10 Apr 2007 at 15:29

Gibbo said:
Wheras 3D Mark 2005/2006 are quite a bit slower under Vista.

You using the 101.70s under Vista? With these I'm getting slightly higher figures than with the 97.72s under XP (Opty 165 @ 2.8Ghz, 8800GTS @ 640/2000)

bfar · 10 Apr 2007 at 15:31

Ulfhedjinn said:
It's sadder that Oblivion runs better on my 8800GTS than S.T.A.L.K.E.R. does, at least Oblivion looks good.

Agreed. a lot of it comes down to how well they're designed and coded.

With tight budgets and deadlines its becomming very common. Some of the biggest games were quite buggy on release - FEAR, Farcry, Halflife2, Dark Messiah to name but a few.

And lets face it, we're a largely tolerent consumer group - we're going out and buying badly coded games!

In STALKER's case I think it didn't help that its been flung around differnet development teams and has had parts of its original design cropped.

FirebarUK · 10 Apr 2007 at 15:32

I never found HL2 to be buggy :confused:

melbourne720 · 10 Apr 2007 at 15:36

FirebarUK said:
I never found HL2 to be buggy

Until I got an 8800 GTS lol

edit: carp Source Fog joke...

spb251272 · 10 Apr 2007 at 15:39

FirebarUK said:
I never found HL2 to be buggy

It was at the beginning - it used to have problems with stuttering that were solved with a patch after a month or so. I think it was down to some sort of prefetching - a bit like one of the reported probs with Stalker. I've disabled prefetching in Stalker, which means quicker load times, and no crashes so far (on 101.70 in Vista).

ihatelag · 10 Apr 2007 at 16:27

Gibbo said:
Upto now I've built the system and am using a BFG 8800 GTX OC. At the moment its scoring:-
3D Mark 2005 - 17,250 (Windows XP)
3D Mark 2006 - 11,950 (Windows XP)

HOLD ON! What system and can I buy it from you? Nearly 12k 06 Marks...YES PLEASE !!

afraser2k · 10 Apr 2007 at 16:29

lay-z-boy said:
Thats if you can get the game to work

Obviously the fault of PC hardware not being up to the job of running it.

Tombo · 10 Apr 2007 at 16:35

afraser2k said:
Obviously the fault of PC hardware not being up to the job of running it.

lol ubisoft.

LoadsaMoney · 10 Apr 2007 at 16:35

Its a shame the top end R600's are still an 80nm process when the mid/low range cards will be on a 65nm.

jaykay · 10 Apr 2007 at 17:24

what about call of duty 2
that game pushes graphics a lot and looks good compared to todays games

pegasus1 · 10 Apr 2007 at 18:55

ArmA at high res with full view distance and all settings to max, 16xAA/AF. I doubt quad SLI would be able to hit 30fps on that.

what about call of duty 2
that game pushes graphics a lot and looks good compared to todays games

That doesnt push a 8800gtx

LoadsaMoney · 10 Apr 2007 at 18:58

Its also capped at 60fps.

pegasus1 · 10 Apr 2007 at 19:03

LoadsaMoney said:
Its also capped at 60fps.

COD2 or ArmA, i presume COD2.

LoadsaMoney · 10 Apr 2007 at 19:05

Yeah sorry, CoD2.