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Title: Do ShineMaps work with Radeon 9200 se Sapphire?
Post by: Atalhlla on July 14, 2004, 11:20:18 am

The topic says it all, really.  I've always believed that the topic of a question post should be as helpfull as possible. so... "Do Shinemaps work with Radeon 9200se Sapphire?"  Or maybe "Does the 9200se Sapphire support shinemaps?"
I wanna know cuz it's the cheapest Radeon card I could find while still being somewhat decent.  If all else fails, though, I suppose I could go with the Gforce4 MX on Turns' suggestion.

Title: Do ShineMaps work with Radeon 9200 se Sapphire?
Post by: Black Wolf on July 14, 2004, 11:28:19 am

I have a GF 2 MX that supports shinemaps - I reckon you'll be OK :p

Title: Do ShineMaps work with Radeon 9200 se Sapphire?
Post by: kasperl on July 14, 2004, 11:45:00 am

Well, a 9600 is generally priced about the same, and I suggest taking that one if possible, but a 9200 should. A 7000 is suppossed to as well, but there are some major driver issues with Radeons. Anything over 4.4 breaks shinemapping.

Title: Do ShineMaps work with Radeon 9200 se Sapphire?
Post by: aldo_14 on July 14, 2004, 12:03:56 pm

Aren't cards going to drop drastically in price now the new GF / Radeons are out, tho?

just a though.......

Title: Re: Do ShineMaps work with Radeon 9200 se Sapphire?
Post by: Taristin on July 14, 2004, 12:46:46 pm

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Originally posted by Atalhlla
The topic says it all, really.  I've always believed that the topic of a question post should be as helpfull as possible. so... "Do Shinemaps work with Radeon 9200se Sapphire?"  Or maybe "Does the 9200se Sapphire support shinemaps?"
I wanna know cuz it's the cheapest Radeon card I could find while still being somewhat decent.  If all else fails, though, I suppose I could go with the Gforce4 MX on Turns' suggestion.

No.  It doesn't. I had one for 1 week. It didn't shine. Don't get it.

Title: Do ShineMaps work with Radeon 9200 se Sapphire?
Post by: Kamikaze on July 14, 2004, 01:13:50 pm

The 9200 sucks. It's slower than the 9100.

Title: Do ShineMaps work with Radeon 9200 se Sapphire?
Post by: Hippo on July 14, 2004, 01:15:12 pm

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Originally posted by Black Wolf
I have a GF 2 MX that supports shinemaps - I reckon you'll be OK :p

Same here... I can run every feature, albeit in 640x480 32Bit, with only 320 Mb of ram, on a p3, with a gf2 mx, and I'm hitting 60Fps... It'd go higher if w2k didn't cap it there...

Title: Do ShineMaps work with Radeon 9200 se Sapphire?
Post by: Taristin on July 14, 2004, 06:50:04 pm

I'm on w2k. To get higher frame rates, raise your refresh rate on the monitor. I get 75.

Title: Do ShineMaps work with Radeon 9200 se Sapphire?
Post by: Hippo on July 15, 2004, 07:56:53 am

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Originally posted by Raa
I'm on w2k. To get higher frame rates, raise your refresh rate on the monitor. I get 75.

Is that the control panel, or Admin panel? Cause I never noticed it before in the control panel...


*found it...*


My monitor only supports up to 85, and that screws up all the resolutions... (screen loks smaller) and when i tried for 75, everything was turned 90 degrees to the left... :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

but wasn't there a remove framecap thing somewhere?

Title: Do ShineMaps work with Radeon 9200 se Sapphire?
Post by: Taristin on July 15, 2004, 08:27:26 am

turn off vsync. But that's kinda deceptive, and possibly dangerous... methinks.