Yes im very curoius here ... Smiles .. How many of you Have Nvidia Cards And how many of you have ATI Cards here ...
And to See the pro's and con's of each card if you would like ... i've heard good and bad about both cards .. but i'd like to see ... What works for the Majority of people in sl ... who can stay conected and who can and list the cards you use...
Cuz its seems to me some are having succuss with it and some arent ... and if so staying connected ... please List you card type and the setting that you are using ... this may help other users as well ,,,
Zeph
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Zephria Zapata
Anit-Gorean & Slave
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10-04-2005 06:54
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Ingrid Ingersoll
Archived
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10-04-2005 06:57
Yes im very curoius here ... Smiles .. How many of you Have Nvidia Cards And how many of you have ATI Cards here ... Abd to See the pro's and con's of each card if you would like ... i've heard good and bad about both cards .. but i'd like to see ... Waht works for the Majority of people in sl ... who can stay conected and who can and list the cards you use... Cuz its eems to me some are having succuss with it and some arent ... and if so staying connected ... please List you card type and the setting that you are using ... this may help other users as well ,,, Zeph I just bought a nvidia geforce 6200 because my ATI radeon 9800 fried after about a year. And of course, right after the warranty expired. I have no idea why. It had these weird splotches happening and then rainbow dots all over the ground and textures. A friend of mine had the same problem with the very same card when he ran SL. I'm hoping the nvidia will fare better. So far so good! _____________________
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Minoru Musashi
Oriental Flair
Join date: 20 Oct 2004
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10-04-2005 07:10
I'm using an ATI Radeon 9000 w/ 128mb. I purchased an nVidia card about 3 months ago w/256mb. All was well for about a week, then I started seeing green dots on the screen. A day or two later the board stopped working, so I switched back to the ATI card.
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Moopf Murray
Moopfmerising
Join date: 7 Jan 2004
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10-04-2005 07:11
Nvidia Geforce 7800GTX and I love it. I've had Nividia cards for the last few years and never had any problem with them.
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Katiahnya Muromachi
Ninja Mistress
Join date: 25 Jun 2005
Posts: 130
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10-04-2005 07:20
I've been using an ATi x800 for the past year or so in my main gaming rig and I am very happy with it. As someone who in no way swears allegiance to any hardware vendor (I have two ATi's, three nVidia, three 3dFX, two Matrox, etc..), I can tell you that at this moment, the most powerful graphics card is an nVidia.
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Zephria Zapata
Anit-Gorean & Slave
Join date: 7 Apr 2004
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Bewildered and Dismaied
10-04-2005 07:54
Cuz this is my Reasoning behind it .. see i have had a Nvidia geforce 5200 fx card .. and keep crashing ..so i got a nvidia verto geforce 6600gt APG x8 ddr3 card and get the same results as the 5200 card .. things lock up and a crash ..
So im going to see what happens when i use a ati card an ATI Radeon 9600 128MB DDR VGA Card w/DVI Tv Out V36. cuz i cant stay on any more using the nvidia card ... .. and my comp dosent crashe only sl crashes so i know is not my comp ... there something else that is wrong .. this is why the curisoty of this poll im really hopeing the the 1.7 update will help me too but ... im not sure at this point and time Zeph |
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Eggy Lippmann
Wiktator
Join date: 1 May 2003
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10-04-2005 08:00
Nvidia is the only way to go. SL is based on OpenGL, a graphical standard that Nvidia closely adheres to, while ATi is keen on ignoring.
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Ron Overdrive
Registered User
Join date: 10 Jul 2005
Posts: 1,002
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10-04-2005 08:35
I'm using an eVGA GeForceFX 5500 256MB AGP card with the 78.01 drivers, RivaTuner, and the PCI Latancy Tool and SL runs smooth as hell. Especially with RivaTuner's HighPerformance settings (SL isn't the most high end graphics wise so there's little difference in graphics unless you max out all your settings) and resetting the latancy to 64. Average between 15 - 30 FPS depending on the sim. Like in The Forest right now I'm running at 20 FPS.
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Jauani Wu
pancake rabbit
Join date: 7 Apr 2003
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10-04-2005 08:47
i dunno what eggy is talking about.
 i have exclusively used ati cards for 3d modelling in open gl and they have functioned superbly. i think nvidia probably has the edge if you only play video games, though. i <3 ATIi'm using a radeon x850 XT. the beauty of it is that it has a built in vent so that the hot air is blown directly out of the case rather than collecting inside. this is an amazing thing for SL because sl uses 100% cpu 100% of the time, creating a lot of heat! with my p4 3.4 ghz with hyperthreading turned off, i can play in most conditions with all the graphics settings turned on, a 256 draw distance and with antialiasing maxed out from the v-cards settings on 1600x1200 resolution. my fps ranges from 20 to 80. _____________________
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Lianne Marten
Cheese Baron
Join date: 6 May 2004
Posts: 2,192
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10-04-2005 09:25
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro.
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David Valentino
Nicely Wicked
Join date: 1 Jan 2004
Posts: 2,941
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10-04-2005 09:28
I've always been an Nvidia user, but bought an ATI x800 Pro and had alot of glitches with it while trying to use SL. I returned it and got an Nvidia 6800GT OC and it has performed beautifully.
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Snakeye Plisskin
Registered User
Join date: 8 Apr 2005
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10-04-2005 09:57
I'm using an NVidea 6800GT 256 meg.
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Ghoti Nyak
καλλιστι
Join date: 7 Aug 2004
Posts: 2,078
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10-04-2005 10:00
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128
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Dnate Mars
Lost
Join date: 27 Jan 2004
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10-04-2005 10:01
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Cristiano Midnight
Evil Snapshot Baron
Join date: 17 May 2003
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10-04-2005 10:03
I am using a Geforce 7800GT 256 meg as well.
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Hiro Queso
503less
Join date: 23 Feb 2005
Posts: 2,753
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10-04-2005 10:58
2 x Nvidia Geforce 7800GTX's. Only had them a cple of days, before I was running a 5200, the difference is just awesome!
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Ingrid Ingersoll
Archived
Join date: 10 Aug 2004
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10-04-2005 12:12
i dunno what eggy is talking about. i have exclusively used ati cards for 3d modelling in open gl and they have functioned superbly. i think nvidia probably has the edge if you only play video games, though. i <3 ATI. but but... you said your radeon 9800 crapped out too. _____________________
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MJ Hathor
Purple Butterfly
Join date: 17 Mar 2005
Posts: 901
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10-04-2005 12:18
Nvidia 5700GO, 256mb here.
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Jauani Wu
pancake rabbit
Join date: 7 Apr 2003
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10-04-2005 12:28
but but... you said your radeon 9800 crapped out too. with the 9800, very occasionally the water and a few other surfaces would become a translucent rainbow crystal surfaces when i resized the screen. fixed with minimizing and restoring the screen or reloading the game. if memory serves, the problem with ati cards in the beta and first year of SL was ati wasn't working with LL to provide patches to the driver to accomodate SL's rendering engine. with my new card i get zero problems with sl. also, my cpu's temperature is down from around 70 degrees to around 55 degrees. _____________________
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Echo Dragonfly
Surely You Jest
Join date: 22 Aug 2004
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10-04-2005 13:42
XFX Gforce 6600 pcie 256MB, factory overclocked. Runs Shweeeet!
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Ashley Ennui
Registered User
Join date: 15 May 2005
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hehehe both!
10-04-2005 14:52
my desktop has the nvidia 256 mb card, and the laptop has radeon 9600 64 mb...
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Zapoteth Zaius
Is back
Join date: 14 Feb 2004
Posts: 5,634
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10-04-2005 15:09
Nvidia GeForce FX 5900
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Siggy Romulus
DILLIGAF
Join date: 22 Sep 2003
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10-04-2005 16:20
When if first joined I was using a radeon 8500 all in wonder - that was in 1.0 - and it would do all sorts of sporadic nasty things from texture flickering to locking up my PC.
Once I was well and truely addicted I went out and got a Nvidia FX5400 (I think) - and had absolutely no problems all the way up until my computer (literally) blew up one night (no fault of SL's there) I got all the junker bits in the house and put together a minimal spec machine I dubbed 'old crappy' with the old Radeon 8500 in it - suprisingly it ran very well - none of the old screw ups it used to have at all. Now I've build a new machine and using an Nvida 6600 --- and after some intial problems (glitching - freezing - crashing - which actually turned out to be a powersupply problem - not enough amperage) - I am quite happy with it. I think nowadays the gap between which works best is closing - personally after my initial swap from ati to nvidia I was more impressed with the nvidia card for non SL reasons. Siggy. _____________________
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Teeny Leviathan
Never started World War 3
Join date: 20 May 2003
Posts: 2,716
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10-04-2005 16:50
I'm using a Nvidia 6600GT, 256mb ram, PCI Express. I am able to bump up draw to 192 and run pretty decent fps (decent for SL, that is). I've used mostly Nvidia for years, but I've had both a 5600 and a 5700 die after nearly a year of SL each. You can never have enough cooling fans these days.
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Weedy Herbst
Too many parameters
Join date: 5 Aug 2004
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10-04-2005 16:55
ATI Radeon 9600XT Dual with 256 RAM. with Omega drivers. Works reasonably well for my purposes.
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