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X1900series owners or very soon to be owners

bakes0310 said:
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 :p

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.
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Does anyone else agree with that whats your veiws
 
Kesnel said:
From what I'm hearing this is happening to everyone, it's nothing to worry about. :)
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Yeah that pic looks like that, looks about 8x colour lol, its nothing to worry about, its not the card, just that pic, i disabled it from showing. :)

Welcome to the forums Ice 9 btw. :)
 
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Yes they'll be the CCC, unless you can just install the display drivers, and use ATi Tray Tools, or a CP from an old set like you can do on the x1800's. :)
 
Im loving this x1900xtx i decided to play through fear again and its great ive got up to the bit where you see that fat dude turn the turrets on so im about halfway.
After playing the game for a bit longer ive found that the game really does play well with everything maxed it looks amazing. Its very smooth but the only time it chuggs and stutters is when at the start of a new level or when i reach checkpoints.
I love this card anyone else happy as me with there new cards :cool:
 
bakes0310 said:
Im loving this x1900xtx i decided to play through fear again and its great ive got up to the bit where you see that fat dude turn the turrets on so im about halfway.
After playing the game for a bit longer ive found that the game really does play well with everything maxed it looks amazing. Its very smooth but the only time it chuggs and stutters is when at the start of a new level or when i reach checkpoints.
I love this card anyone else happy as me with there new cards :cool:
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Yeah first thing i did when i got my x1800 XT was to start Fear again with it maxed out, looks class, and runs awesome. :)
 
So how do I clock it :( Control center doesnt work, Tray Tools doesnt, ATi Tool falls over cos it doesnt know the 3D Volatges :(

Mem did 810Mhz before falling over tho.

Conc
 
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