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I dont think it really matters as long as you have the video card that meets recommendations unless you are all picky...but i think of it as ford and chevy....some people like ati...some like nvidia, its all opinion, im sure both cards will run the game just fine.

all i can tell you from experience lower spec'd chips from ATI like the 9200 run hot

 

 

i cant say about the nvidia lower ones ( altho i have been told they dont run as hot)

 

 

but i know that 9200's etc run very hot otherwise they are pretty much matched.

Mine is a Radeon 9800, so I have no worries...espcecially for San Andreas.

I've got a GeForce FX 5200 (128 MB), I'm a little concerned. It just better do 1024X768X32, that's all I ask smile.gif

I have a FX 5200 256 MB PCI, and it better do 1280x1024 for SA. VC can do that just fine, so I think it'll work.

Mine is an X300 from ATI. people say its not all that but i'm fine with it so far. Running MP2 at 1024x768 with all options tuned up to High and I am yet to see a stutter (except for smmoke and fog effects). I'm thinking of buying another card though just to make sure that I can keep up with the games that are going to come out next year.

 

Anyway, I don't think that i'll have a problem running GTA:SA.

ATi and nVIDIA cars will be pretty much the same. It's not like HL2 or Doom 3 with people trying to get as many frames as possible you know. You wouldn't notice the difference between playing it on a ATi card or nVIDIA.

 

@Camaro d00d man, my friend has a AGP fx5200 and it runs crappy on 1280x1024 so don't expect anything better from your PCI fx5200.

i wouldn't recommend doing that. Playing in 800x600 will work just fine, aything lower than that and you'll start to see the game looking a little a little funny.

i concur....i hope my 5500 FX 128mb passes with flying colors....on 1028X768 or one of those

Mine is an X300 from ATI. people say its not all that but i'm fine with it so far. Running MP2 at 1024x768 with all options tuned up to High and I am yet to see a stutter (except for smmoke and fog effects). I'm thinking of buying another card though just to make sure that I can keep up with the games that are going to come out next year.

 

Anyway, I don't think that i'll have a problem running GTA:SA.

I have the exact identical card, except I would be getting PC but then I'm going to get the xbox version just incase the card runs the game like garbage. I have to say that ATI is only good for Half-Life games, and that Nvidia is basically good all around gaming.

I'm on a Geforce FX5600 256mb rah.gif . Although i don't really think it will make much difference to the actual gameplay. Obviously if you've got a top of the range titanium card it will display the graphics better than a MX440 or something similar.
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sparky63 : It might work, you never know, I played battlefield 1942 on my laptop that had a 16mb nvidia GFmobile card, even though the min. specs were a 32 mb card.

 

For those of you that dont have very good cards, I suggest that you reformat/do tweaks to your harddrive and windows so you can achieve 1024x768 without much lagg. That means turning off all unnecessary processes, no resource hogs, turning off the indexing service, getting latest drivers, and most of all, adjust windows for best performance. <-- helps alot.

 

If Im not mistaken GTA is a directX game so it should run better on Nvidia cards.....I remember them being better at directX and ATi at openGL but I cannot confirm this.

 

I also read that R* will work harder on making this port run even better than VC. (remember gta3?), so Im sure that unless you have a really crappy video card the game should run very well.

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