posted 01-18- 10:03 AM               

I noticed there have been questions about ATi and SDOE due to AT's reputation as driver hell. here's what I found>>>>>

Test system: 800Mhz Celeron with 100Mhz FSB and 256 MB ram. DirectX 8.0a

Screen resolution: 1024 X 768, all sliders maxxed

Desired framerates in ini file at default values

D3D under 1.5 and the patch, good frame rates, typically 50-60 fps (the AIW is clocked slower than a regular radeon and lots slower than the Radeon 7500 which uses the same radeon chipset version).
OpenGL, 30-40fps

Problems:
Transparent prop textures and fog have a bluish tint you can't get rid of. prop texture flickers some in OpenGL. These were the ONLY problems and the drivers for this card are MUCH better than the latest detonator drivers which screw up a LOT of thingsin MANY programs. One more note, these framerates are on a AGP 2X motherboard. The card is capable of doing AGP 4X if the MB supports it.

I would easily recommend a Radeon board (as long as the bluish fog/prop tints don't bother you). I have a friend with a Radeon LE on a 1GhZ Athlon 266FSB with 256MB DDR ram. He sees the same prop texture issues, but his framerates never dip below 60fps in any of the std missions.

In addition the hardware T&L makes CFS2 and B17 GORGEOUS.

I plan on upgrading the other computer later this year and I'll put the latest version of the Radeon 8500 in that one. Looks like Nvidia has some competition.

posted 01-18- 11:01 AM               

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Originally posted by greasemonkey:
In addition the hardware T&L makes CFS2 and B17 GORGEOUS.

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Oddly enough, T&L on the GeForce causes problems in B-17.

posted 01-18- 10:14 PM               

When it comes to CFS2 ... it is a vast improvement over the Voodoo 3 2000. I can use the highest texture settings on the planes and can see rivets! ... truely looks nice (too bad I couldn't fix the roll-rate wing damage annoyance or turn off the target box around targets ... argh!)

Still SDOE feels better to me than CFS2