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Title: New graphics card
Post by: RandomTiger on December 09, 2003, 07:44:28 pm: I'm going to try and get a new graphics card but unlike most people Im going to try and get a really bad one.

My monitor takes two inputs that you can easily switch between my good one and this new one so I thought it would be useful to get a rubbish PCI card. I can use it to try and address some of fs2_open's problems with lower spec cards. Its a lot easier to fix this stuff if you can replicate it, might also help to optimise.

Any advise on which card I should go for, must be cheap (hopefully very) and actually avalible to buy from somewhere in the UK, must be PCI, probably 32 bit or 64 bit would be best and it would be good to have a non geforce card to give my 2nd test system a bit more range.
Title: New graphics card
Post by: Starks on December 09, 2003, 08:54:26 pm: Get a Riva TNT or GeforceFX 5200...
Title: New graphics card
Post by: Taristin on December 09, 2003, 08:56:31 pm: ...umm. GeForceFX 5200 is bad...?

Hehe, I had an Nvidia Vanta... Try that. :p
Title: New graphics card
Post by: RandomTiger on December 09, 2003, 09:56:20 pm: Quote
Originally posted by LLivingLarge
Get a Riva TNT or GeforceFX 5200...

I would go for a TNT2 if I could find one. GeforceFX 5200 (I take it thats the cutdown one then) is a bit too recent.
Title: New graphics card
Post by: Starks on December 09, 2003, 10:28:45 pm: What am I saying? I use the 2nd best PCI card on the market...

Chaintech GeforceFX 5200 128MB PCI
Title: New graphics card
Post by: Sticks on December 09, 2003, 11:25:38 pm: I might have my old TNT2 lying around if I can find it...

Edit: Wait, I don't think it was PCI...
Title: New graphics card
Post by: ChronoReverse on December 09, 2003, 11:30:59 pm: My old Matrox Millenium II barely supported 3D.

My old Ati Rage II Lt worked slightly better but still was worthless.

My TNT2M64 was a gem.

However, these cards all are rather old.

Perhaps you can get your hands on a Matrox Parhelia.
Title: New graphics card
Post by: IceFire on December 10, 2003, 07:53:19 am: ATI Rage or the original ATI Radeon or a TNT/2 may be a good suggestion. All of those still had good 2D abilities so you can always still use it for that....2D hasn't really moved since those cards came out.
Title: New graphics card
Post by: Kazan on December 10, 2003, 11:05:25 am: get anything nVidia and you'll have a first-rate piece of trash to play with
Title: New graphics card
Post by: mikhael on December 10, 2003, 11:28:31 am: I would take that as an excellent reference for Nvidia's quality. Basically anything Kazan rails against must be reasonably decent.
Title: New graphics card
Post by: kasperl on December 10, 2003, 12:31:43 pm: if you want a AGP TNT2 16 MB i'd be happpy to send it to you in trade for anything slightly better.
Title: New graphics card
Post by: Kazan on December 10, 2003, 06:30:43 pm: mikhael hasn't a clue what he's taking about

once again do I have to quote first-hand knowledge of nVidia's failure stats? it's pathetic
Title: New graphics card
Post by: redsniper on December 10, 2003, 08:31:09 pm: nVidia rox0rs!!!1
um, i mean... :nervous:
try to find an old voodoo card those are pretty crappy
Title: New graphics card
Post by: Taristin on December 10, 2003, 08:32:23 pm: ...I've not had trouble with my nVidia cards, and I've hhad 3...
Title: New graphics card
Post by: Triple Ace on December 10, 2003, 09:03:30 pm: My S3 Prosavage is craptacular.
Title: New graphics card
Post by: KARMA on December 11, 2003, 07:05:48 am: RT, probably you should go for an used card, maybe an old matrox pre-pharelia.
A g400 would probably be the best: it should be cheaper than the g550, when the g200 is probably too old, and it shouldn't be that hard to find.
And it could also come useful for you since matrox always had excellent 2d quality.
Title: New graphics card
Post by: spaceman spiff on December 11, 2003, 07:20:14 am: i got an nvidia riva tnt2 model64 pro.... too bad fs2 open r doesn't work on it.
Title: New graphics card
Post by: magatsu1 on December 11, 2003, 02:56:37 pm: plenty of PCI cards on ebay.
Title: New graphics card
Post by: übermetroid on December 11, 2003, 11:55:54 pm: Get 2 VooDoo 2s and do that SLI (or what ever) mode they did.

I remember wanting to do that so bad when I was little!
Title: New graphics card
Post by: ChronoReverse on December 12, 2003, 12:07:16 am: You mean multiple cards? Why not get a Voodoo5 then. It has SLI built into the same card.
Title: New graphics card
Post by: übermetroid on December 12, 2003, 12:18:17 am: Yea, but thats not as cool as having 2 cards... Its all about being cool!