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kilaen at 06:01pm 11/21/2004
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How can I run these Half-Life 2 benchmarks? Is there a saved demo I
can download for comparisons?
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Anonymous at 10:41pm 11/18/2004
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One thing I'd like to add that I don't know if the FS staff has
mentioned. I have an ATI x800 pro and I run games on my Samsung
HDTV (CRT 16:9 30"). The x800 pro has native component video
support and HL2 so far is the first game that I know of to truely
support 16:9 resolutions on the PC. I am running it 1940x1080 with
all DX9 eyecandy turned on and it is absolutly beautiful! Other
systems specs are Athlon XP +3000 (333FSB), 1 gig High Speed Corsair
DDR 333, Abit NF7-S (Rev 2.0).
Half Life: Source suports it too and I look forward to going through
it again in all its 16:9 goodness!
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David, Cardiff, U.K. at 08:57pm 11/18/2004
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i still can't see mine there
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Anonymous at 07:08pm 11/18/2004
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your edge is alot bigger the % is a lot more too but now l see why
NVIDIA could not get off there bums sorry for being so hard on you
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Anonymous at 04:39pm 11/18/2004
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hey I finally broke down and got hl2 thru steam. It acutally is
quite playable at 800x600 on my ti4200 with 1.3ghz duron. And the
graphics are pretty good too,except for the jaggies but you stop
noticing that when there's a bunch of soldiers shooting at you. I
also did a stress test in cs:S and I got 46fps at those same
resolutions and cs:S is definately playable. so my conclusion is
that I won't need to upgrade my system in a hurry and can afford to
wait when the prices drop, ie when a 6800gt/x800 gets to around $150
=) I guess I just read hardware reviews for the drooling factor.
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GX-Brandon at 04:24pm 11/18/2004
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#59/64/66/67: NVIDIA was called the day before the article went up
and I asked which driver to use, HL2 performance things they've
noticed and I received no answer. ATI and NVIDIA were given equal
treament in my book, I can't help it if they choose not to respond.
Also keep in mind that I was told to use 66.93 for the 6600 GT AGP
review which went up on Monday so as far as I knew that was NVIDIA's
latest driver. My next article will use 67.02 though. I also noticed
that their conclusions are the exact same as ours, so I don't know
why one guy commented that they were right and we're wrong when all
3 sites give ATI the edge.
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Anonymous at 02:48pm 11/18/2004
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l think so too why use beta on ATi and not on nvidia it looks like
ATi benchmarks any way l think anandtech and [H]ardocp are more spot
on
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Anonymous at 10:00am 11/18/2004
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Bias Benchmarks. Ati does not have that big lead in other benchmark
that I seen, which i considered more reliable then this.
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EyeMaster (View my Profile) at 09:55am 11/18/2004
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Boy, i tell ya, I am sure glad I'm not the one writing or taking
care of articles for a web site like this! Having to deal with
people that don't understand how hard it is to even get articles out
that quick!
I imagine FS is doing as good as they can, swaping parts, reimaging
and reinstalling games, testing again and again the same !@&# thing
just to get a number in the end! and for all your efforts, all you
get is a graph that people keep criticising!
The simple reason for a HIGH end video card test first is because
it's human nature to go faster and better! it's GREED! Oh yeah!
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