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In answer to Alzirs steam id question:
I got a big massive popup saying steam id: cr_noble which obviously I wanted to change and there is an edit steam id link near by to change it to like =XDC= Alzir
Other way is on friends window, where your name is there is a link called “My control panel” which when you click you get shown your info and you can see the view and edit steam id links in a light blue colour, clikc on that and set your details and steam_id!!
I thought it was quite good when we used it for CS:Source
I hopefully might have sold my old Radeon 9800 to a friend at work for like £30 so I may well be up for buying this TF2 tomorrow for the weekend. It does look quite good to play.
Q’s:
How many levels has it got?
Is there any custom maps doing the rounds yet?
Who out of XDC and Rats plays this currently?
Have we got a server or is everyone playing on a certain server just now?basically what the rats have!
They have like 4 servers running or more I think on a couple of server machines 🙂
I think dedicated would be good as we need:
BF2 for Forgotten Hope 2 thats coming next month
BF2142 for the maxes
COD4 as proably quite a few will play this
TF2 as this seems to be doing the rounds just now!So how that works out 😛
Ok it seems that my graphics card is fine and it was because the catalyst drivers did different defaults (I installed the complete lot with the control centre this time)
I went through it all and changed the aa and af and so on to app decides rather than having it permantely on.
ran the 3d mark 03 test and I get 14954 3d marks instead of 9,996 3d marks like before. so that against the 4,867 3d marks I got with my old radeon 9800 makes this new card look like it might be quite good performance wise!
I like the look of this too from the videos i saw 🙂 should be able to play it well hopefully with my new gfx card.
Well I suppose the older ram and single core cpu will be holding it back a little bit.
I am thinking that the 3d mark 2003 test i did was not acurate for my new card.
basically the image quality was set for performance and AA and AF always defaulted to app decideds with my old radeon and the GF6800GT when testing those.
Having looked at it now with my new gfx card 4xAA and 8xAF is on and app decides is not ticked. also image quality is set for quality. So this alone I would suspect could reduce the score a fair bit as the new card is having to do more work than the other 2?
still got more testing to do with it. It was just that in some games its running a bit low on the fps than i was expecting that is all, namely my racing game (rFactor) i had that running at 1280×1024 with 4xAA 8xAF and max details and shadows and with a grid of 20 cars sat in front of me the fps is around 16fps which was a bit low, probably find its the shadows killing the performance a bit, but it doesnt half look fantasic if i can just get the FPS increased!
I have also installed the drivers off the cd that came with the gfx card now so need to see how they work compared to the 7.10 ones
@Lensman wrote:
Mugs – It might be worth checking that you’ve got the full AGP bus speed. If your card can do 8x, for example, but your motherboard only supports 4x then that will throttle the transfer of data between main memory and card and kill your benchmark. Or maybe your motherboard can do 8x, but for some reason has been set to a lower speed.
Poke around the display information dialogs to dig this out, and maybe your BIOS settings too.
Worth a check anyway, just to rule it out.
Thanks for the idea Lensman.
My motherboard is an Asus P4P800 with the Intel 965PE chipset which supports AGP 8x. I have checked the bios and not sure what to set my agp apature size to 256MB as I had it on 128MB for my old card which had 128MB ram on it. my new one has 256MB ram.
There is also another option about fast write which i have always had on and the ati smartgart thing says 8x.
My old Radeon 9800 ran at full speed quite happily also for the last 4 years or so.
may be its the drivers at fault. I have installed the ones that came with the card now. but need to do more testing tonight to see if that improves things.
@TurksMeister wrote:
Can someone tell me what the difference is between the most expensive three cards here – http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?&groupid=701&catid=56&subid=403&sortby=priceDesc
(All X1950s)
Ta
Ignore the Saphire card the 2 HIS ones are better. The main difference is the amount of ram 256MB or 512MB. The 256MB version looks to be clocked higher also which will give a few more fps.
Apart from my current queries about performance, the card I got The X1950XT is better than the Pro version in that it has the same GPU as the X1950XTX (RX580 instead of RX570) and it has 48 pixel shaders over 36 and its clock speed is 648mhz over 590mhz and the ram runs at 1400mhz effective which is in the same region as the Pro. (probably becuase the use the same type of GDDR3 ram)
Now back to my questions!!
Ok thanks insane.
Well yeah I agree with you, try playing the games and if all is smooth and ok then no problem. i am not a benchmarking person really.
But it seemed to be struggling so thats why i ran the benchmarking thing to find out if something was not right!
I need to run the 3d mark 03 test again i think, and possibly the AA and AF are on all the time by default it seems with this new card where as it was off previously on my old radeon and the gf6800gt tests which would have an impact on performance.
I checked online with 3d mark 06 and there is 1 other person with the same gfx and similar pc to me (but its updated m/b with socket 775 P4 not socket 478 P4 like mine and he has DDR2 ram, I dont)
I have uninstalled the 7.10 drivers and installed the ones that came with the card and got the below:
3d mark 06 score is 3451 for me and he got 4994.
Does anyone else have a gfx card which slows itself down during 2D and then runs at full speed during 3D? may be the card is not ramping the speed up?
Ok well I have uninstalled the 7.10 drivers and installed the ones that came with the card.
I have also downloaded 3d mark 06 and run it
Now this ran with 4x aa and 8x af at 1280×1024 as per the charts in toms hardware.
I got 1491 for SM 2.0 score with an overall score of 3357. There is one other system on 3d mark 06 lol which is running a P4 3.2ghz with DDR2 ram against my P4 3ghz with DDR333 ram. his score is 2248 for SM 2.0 and 4919 overall.
So I am losing out somewhere it seems.
Well that just confirms something is not right.
GF6800GT on that 1st chart shows 30fps and the X1950XT shows 71fps. so it should be miles faster!!
I am going to uninstall the catylst 7.10 drivers and install the ones that came with the card and see if that helps. noticed this before sometimes with cards and had it for a while with my old radeon 9800 and had to go back a few versions to get the full speed as the new drivers broke the old gfx cards lol. stupid ati. mind the X1950XT is not exactly ancient is it??
I see i can buy TF2 for £15 which is not bad. whats peoples impressions of this and is it a game that quite a few people are playing?
I see that you get a map editor as well. hopefully should be handled well like in CS:Source?
