nvidia 6800LE - what settings for gaming

[sare^baw's]

i dont play games much but was hoping for some advice on what are the best video settings i should use for my graphics card. What settings and resolutions should i use?

at the moment im playing half life 2 and NFS most wanted and i think the movement should be smoother. Will be trying quake 4 and battlefield 2 next.

is there a guide anywhere that can help me get the best settings for gameplay? Nothing is overclocked as its a htpc i have and i dont have any idea about overclocking.

whats the best way to test or monitor what performance im getting so i know im getting the best out my graphics card

PENTIUM 4 3GHZ CPU
OCZ PC4400 1GB RAM
LEADTEK WINFAST GEFORCE 6800 LE 128mb
SAMSUNG 913N 19" MONITOR

just run 3dmark 2005 free trial and scored 2504 does this sound about right?

 

[p4radox]

If you have a TFT monitor (you have) then you should try and play at its native resolution - that is its highest. At anything lower the image will appear blurry because the screen has a set number of pixels, and the monitor will have to "straddle" images across pixels.

The games you mentioned should be ok on medium settings I reckon.

 

[no_1_dave]

Depends on the game, use what ever works best...

 

[Macabre]

Quake 4 - Med/High

Battlefield 2 - Medium

Stick another gig of RAM in to get BF2 on all high, and possibly X2 AA.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

try to do some pipeline unlocking on that card. its very easy to do and can offer a substantial speed boost.

 

[thefishdude]

for half life 2. have all details on high then 2xaa 2xaf vsync off hdr off. try that

 

[Bane]

Can't remember if this is the same guide I used, but my Leadtek is fully pipeline/shader unlocked (never got around to trying to overclock it). Pictorial guide here.

Will help increase your 3D Mark score slightly.

 

["andy"]

whats was the difference between 6800 and 6800le ?

was it only that the LE had just 8 pipelines ? and the 6800 had 12 ?



when my agp 6800 had all the pipes unlocked it scored 5051 on 3dmark05 under air not bad for 128mb of ram agp gfx lol

i loved that card RIP

but use rivatuner to try and unlock your cards pipes .if it works its gives a great boost .


http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=920179

 

[sare^baw's]

thanks to all for the advice, i tried unlocking the extra pipelines but no joy when i played half life the picture was breaking up.

my card seems only to have 8 pipelines as suggested, i tried it with 12 and 16 but still problems with half life, i used rivatuner and managed to unlock 2 extra vertex units to give me 6.

i have upped the clock speeds to get an improvement.

 

[MoD_Callidus]

I'd see if you can offload the card on the bay and pick one up from here, I just bought one which does unlock to 16/6 it also OC's rather sweetly. I paid £45 incl del and given that I sold the 5700 Ultra it replaced for £35 it was a nifty deal.for comparison here's some benchies below

XP2700+ 1 gig 166 fsb PC2700, 80 gig ATA.

5700 Ultra '03 score 3590
5700 Ultra '05 score 835

6800le '03 Score 10789
6800le '05 score 5215

 

[thefishdude]

would have thought them details should run half life 2 fine my rig at the moment is

amd 2600xp barton (1.8core)
1gig value ram
x800xl256mb running standard. agp

and i can play half life 2 just fine with the spec i said running at 1280x1024 res. fps 25-50 depending on whats going on.

i dont know how a 6800le compares to my x800xl thouh.