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Joshua Calvert
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Posted - 2004.04.11 09:51:00 -
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I'm thinking of upgrading my graphics card - I'm currently running an ATI Radeon Pro 9800 bu wish to upgrade to a Sapphire Radeon 9800XT 256MB.
Does anyone have any experience of this card and any technical issues with Eve?
Don't want to waste ú256 on a card that won't work on my fave game.
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Joshua Calvert
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Posted - 2004.04.11 12:32:00 -
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Thank you.
Just been checking out some of the forums of games-other-than-Eve and apparently a lot of them are having great trouble with ATI 9800XT models.
I'll stick to my current card for the time being.
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Joshua Calvert
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Posted - 2004.04.11 16:49:00 -
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Joshua, u thing that weare going to look at you with better eye becaus you have much money and can sped alot of vid cards  
I'm never one to curry favour and, if I were to do such a thing, I'd hardly consider the ability to buy a new gfx card as something worthy of mention.
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Joshua Calvert
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Posted - 2004.04.12 08:56:00 -
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Well my systems specs are:
Windows XP Pro
AthlonXP 2700
1.5GB PC3200 DDR RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
Audigy 2 soundcard
Thing is, the limitation is probably my motherboard because it it maxed out as far as cpu-type and amount of RAM goes.
Guess I'll just save my pennies for 6 months and invest in an Alienware setup.
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Joshua Calvert
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Posted - 2004.04.12 11:03:00 -
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A-ha.
I play windowed (1152 by 864 or something like that) with moderate graphics settings and can't get above 25fps inspace regardless of what graphical settings I choose(it jumps to about 48fps in station) with cargo/scanner/chat windows visible.
I think I'll play full screen for a bit and see what that does for my fps.
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Joshua Calvert
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Posted - 2004.04.12 13:36:00 -
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EVE is almost 100% CPU. A GeForce 3 TI200 will run it almost as well as a 9700 Pro.
If you run EvE in windowed mode it treats it as a program and bypasses the video cards performance. I used to run two accounts both in windowed till i learned its better to just do both full screen.
Run eve in full screen and the video card takes over most the work load.
You're right - fps jumped up to 35fps inspace and 56fps in station when running full-screen as opposed to windowed (with same settings).
As long as the fps is above 30fps in a game like Eve I'm not too concerned.
Only First Person Shooters need really high frame-rates for mouse control, I guess.
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Joshua Calvert
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Posted - 2004.04.12 13:48:00 -
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Giga-Byte GA-7VAXP.
I'm just bothered by the performance issues - I feel I should be able to get better frame-rates from Eve.
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Joshua Calvert
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Posted - 2004.04.12 14:15:00 -
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I've got a GeForce Ti4200 laying around that I never use - gimme 100M isk and it's yours 
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Joshua Calvert
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Posted - 2004.04.12 15:53:00 -
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Thanks for the help, haggis.
The only Athlon 64 cpu supported by my mobo is an AMD Athlon 64 2800 - not worth the upgrade since I'm running an AthlonXP 2700 already?
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Joshua Calvert
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Posted - 2004.04.12 16:42:00 -
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I've already configured my Windows services via the Tweaktown.com guide and Viper's XP services guide...
I don't run anything in the background when playing Eve.
I've spent the last couple of days using Rage3DTweak to configure different graphical settings ranging from best performance to best quality and the different beween frame-rates is marginal.
It's bugging me.
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