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PCNUBY
09-10-2003, 11:29 PM
will a radeon 9600pro with a 2.5ghz athlon xp (w/512 dual-channel RAM) be able to run HL2 at high frame rates with all the features on high? would a 9500pro have run better?
ToyotaSupra
09-10-2003, 11:48 PM
It should be but Im not totally sure on this.
DrZaius
09-11-2003, 12:06 AM
Reviews were just released showing that the Radeon 9600 Pro was a great card for playing HL2 (as compared to nVidia based cards), so you shouldn't have any problems.
pam123
09-11-2003, 12:30 PM
The radeon will run it with no trouble.
Read this :http://www.tech-report.com/etc/2003q3/valve/index.x?pg=1
Surge1243
09-11-2003, 04:14 PM
Originally posted by PCNUBY
2.5ghz athlon xp (w/512 dual-channel RAM)?

Do you mean an XP 2500+?
PCNUBY
09-11-2003, 10:37 PM
yes the 2500+ (or 1.8ghz)
imbest123
09-11-2003, 11:59 PM
It is good enough
FantasySoul
09-12-2003, 11:09 AM
Originally posted by pam123
The radeon will run it with no trouble.
Read this :http://www.tech-report.com/etc/2003q3/valve/index.x?pg=1

A sad news for nvidia card owner......or maybe?
pam123
09-12-2003, 12:55 PM
FantasySoul,
No maybes this time.
Heres the midnight benchmarks from Anandtech : http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1863
He's being "diplomatic" but the problem is the architecture of the chip and no driver fixes are gonna get NVidia out of this one.
The 50 Dets do things like removing fog in scenes, cheating on screen chapter photos, and using various optimizations that trash the game. Which is why Newell won't recommend them.
Considering how much trouble NVidia is in they should simply have scrubbed this generation of cards, said "sorry", and gone back to the drawing board. It couldn't have been anymore expensive that way then it's going to be now.