What Video Card Are You Using?
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Topic authorDon. Edwards
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Well so far its a resounding win for NVidia cards with ATI I believe pulling in 2 or 3. And someone in another post here on the forum said most users don't use NVidia cards. HA! Well so far I see this as proof that most of us are using NVidia and it looks like most of us are useing the present generation of cards with few Geforce 3s and GeForce 2s thrown in with a few old time TNTs here and there.
Keep giving the info everybody. We wouldn't want to slant this to much in NVidia's favor now would we.
Keep giving the info everybody. We wouldn't want to slant this to much in NVidia's favor now would we.
I am officially a retired member.
I might answer a PM or a post if its relevant to something.
Ah, never say never!!
Past texture releases, Hmm let me think about it
Thanks for your understanding.
I might answer a PM or a post if its relevant to something.
Ah, never say never!!
Past texture releases, Hmm let me think about it
Thanks for your understanding.
Don,
As I commented in the other thread, I fear this may be a selection effect.
The people who are most likely to respond are the people who use Celestia the most. People without Nvidia cards are less likely to be fans of Celestia because it's annoying not to be able to see all the features. I know it made me quite unhappy when I read Chris' comment that there will be new capabilities added that will only be viewable on the not-yet-released card. Granted, some people will "make do", and ohers will be fans enough that they'll replace their video cars, but many people won't.
As I commented in the other thread, I fear this may be a selection effect.
The people who are most likely to respond are the people who use Celestia the most. People without Nvidia cards are less likely to be fans of Celestia because it's annoying not to be able to see all the features. I know it made me quite unhappy when I read Chris' comment that there will be new capabilities added that will only be viewable on the not-yet-released card. Granted, some people will "make do", and ohers will be fans enough that they'll replace their video cars, but many people won't.
Selden
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bh
So, another oldie 8o)
Running Celestia on nVidia TNT2 Ultra 32 Mb 
Hope to change it soon
Regards,
Dave
PS: TNT died
. Now running a Voodoo 3 2000(16MB) from a friend 'til I can afford a new card. Celestia refuses to run(no drivers for WinXP->No OpenGL support, it seems)
Hope to change it soon
Regards,
Dave
PS: TNT died
. Now running a Voodoo 3 2000(16MB) from a friend 'til I can afford a new card. Celestia refuses to run(no drivers for WinXP->No OpenGL support, it seems)
Last edited by Condex on 23.12.2002, 21:05, edited 1 time in total.
selden wrote:Don,
As I commented in the other thread, I fear this may be a selection effect.
The people who are most likely to respond are the people who use Celestia the most. People without Nvidia cards are less likely to be fans of Celestia because it's annoying not to be able to see all the features. I know it made me quite unhappy when I read Chris' comment that there will be new capabilities added that will only be viewable on the not-yet-released card. Granted, some people will "make do", and ohers will be fans enough that they'll replace their video cars, but many people won't.
Its the same with any software though selden...Consider it Minimum requirements...Most games like the upcoming Doom 3 wont operate unless you have a high end card anyways...Not to mention Doom 3 wont be available for linux or MACs...well not right away...
I'm trying to teach the cavemen how to play scrabble, its uphill work. The only word they know is Uhh and they dont know how to spell it!
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FaLLeN_SOuL
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Ras',
I agree that high end cards generally produce better results (once the bugs are out of the drivers ). Unlike Celestia, however, their long development times cause most games to be a generation or two behind in their use of hardware features. As a result, many of them run equally well (or poorly ) on any of the high-end graphics cards. Usually the features that distinguish one brand from another at the highest end have equivalents in a subsequent generation card from the competition.
Some games manage to have large enough budgets and staff to write the code necessary to use each of the competing cards optimally. Unfortunately, Chris is just one person: he doesn't have the time to write all the code needed to compensate for the differences. I can't blane him for concentrating on the hardware he knows best.
I agree that high end cards generally produce better results (once the bugs are out of the drivers
). Unlike Celestia, however, their long development times cause most games to be a generation or two behind in their use of hardware features. As a result, many of them run equally well (or poorly ) on any of the high-end graphics cards. Usually the features that distinguish one brand from another at the highest end have equivalents in a subsequent generation card from the competition.
Some games manage to have large enough budgets and staff to write the code necessary to use each of the competing cards optimally. Unfortunately, Chris is just one person: he doesn't have the time to write all the code needed to compensate for the differences. I can't blane him for concentrating on the hardware he knows best.
Selden
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Ati Rage Pro don't know whether to upgrade.. or wait till i buy a newer mac....
don't know whether to upgrade.. or wait till i buy a newer mac...."then He smiled at me...pa-rump-a-pum-pum..... me and my drum"
My Card
Just a TNT2Ultra with 32MB. 
But just until Christmas.
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TVTExtreme4
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my 2 cents
ATI Radeon 8500LE with 128mb DDR. Hey what do you want for $108 about 9 months ago 
. With the exception of that stupid ring shadow error that keeps popping up. I’m happy with my video card. Contrary to popularly belief the ATI card are not that bad since the drivers have improved.
I guess the irony is that ATI may be more OpenGL compliant then Nvidea in the future, because they chose to go a different route with there shader language (Cg) Only time will tell.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,9220,00.asp
. With the exception of that stupid ring shadow error that keeps popping up. I’m happy with my video card. Contrary to popularly belief the ATI card are not that bad since the drivers have improved.
I guess the irony is that ATI may be more OpenGL compliant then Nvidea in the future, because they chose to go a different route with there shader language (Cg) Only time will tell.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,9220,00.asp
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admiraljustin
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