Right my thoughts on the x1900xtx so far......
When i turned my pc on i thought it was a bit loud it sounded a bit like a whistle, but the noise went after a several seconds. During post i always a have a logo of DFI Lanparty but it was all colured weird i think it was some sort of artifacts
When i got onto my windows screen it looked fine and everything looks normal, i ran 3dmark05 and no artifacts just a nice score
Afterwards i ran a series of games (at1280x1024) and these are my thoughts:
Farcry- Put everything on maximum (when i mean everything that means EVERYTHING) the first thing i noticed the loading time for the level took ages but it does that anyway. When i got onto the game there was a slight stutter but afterwards was tottally smooth. The graphics looked the same as my x800xl did apart from the water which looked quite a lot better
Rome total war- I maxed everything up and done a skirmish with 9660 men on the battlefeild (when i was choosing my men i had a warning telling me that performance will decrease due too large numbers). It was right, it looked lovely but very slow.
Doom3 & expansion pack- ran them both but had a lot of hassle trying to put everything on max i could have 1280x1024 res but no AA?? but the game still looked nice on ultra settings but not much different than my x800xl.
quake4- had the same trouble with the AA as doom3 (maybe its an ID Software thing) but this game did look quite a lot better on ultra. And no stutter on this game only a little at the start of the level and the loading times.
call of duty 2- Ramped everything up and went on the desert mission so i could see the detail better (i think ive lost my save now all well ill have to do that blinking hard level again). This game so far has the most difference in quality in graphics ive mentioned so far. And its so smooth as well even with the scope up and and looking at a smoke nade.
FEAR-With everything up this game looked a lot better and its got one of the best effects ive ever seen in a game. I was looking at a barrel with fire coming out and above it was heat haze
. The smoothness wasnt that good it did feel a little slow in the outdoor areas.
HL2 Loast coast- what can i say other than amazing. The HDR looks superb and the water effects is better than farcry. The game was very smooth and the HDR was in full affect....i must have been blinded about 5 times just to see it again and again
With all that done i would say that im very impressed but the performance wasnt as good as i was expecting with the chuggy bits that i found in some games. But that could be put down to the game itself or other parts of my pc that aint worthy of the x1900xtx.
Now im thinking what game shall i play all the way through with my new card im stuck deciding between hl2 or fear Ive still got to finish cod2 but thats so hard im on the hardest setting on a d-day mission.
If theres anything else you would like to know about the card ill be glad to help.
