Johnny The Homicidal Maniac Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 and if it doesn't help then buy the original....J/K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhinopotomas Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 If you have a Geforce 2 or lower it wont work at all, I speak from experiance with GTA3. I am a proud owner of a Geforce 4 Ti 4000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Neon~ Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 O.K. i am sarting to get worried... What about my specs: XP Pro 1400MHz 256Mb RAM GeForce 2 32Mb So will it work... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt0153 Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 i doubt it, ATI in many peoples opinon BUT NOT ALL(dont spam me Nvidia lovers) make great cards. I have a Radeon 9000 and its solid. You should be fine with that card. ive heard things like the ATI cards have problems with there drivers, is that true? i basically use the nvidia cards bcoz thats what i know, have no experiance with ATI. Used to be, untill they started useing the Catalyst Drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garfield Ip Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 I only noticed a slight difference in the 64mb and 128mb versions of the 8500. You only need 128mb if you're running at 1280x1024 or higher. Otherwise it's a waste. O, will the same thing happen on 9500? I am considering a 9500 but only the 64Mb ones are in my budget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exkabewbikadid Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 I only noticed a slight difference in the 64mb and 128mb versions of the 8500. You only need 128mb if you're running at 1280x1024 or higher. Otherwise it's a waste. O, will the same thing happen on 9500? I am considering a 9500 but only the 64Mb ones are in my budget The 9500 Pro is an excellent card, but it's going extinct by the Radeon 9600 Pro. Don't mistake the 9500 Pro with the 9500 non-Pro 9500 Pro - 8 pixel pipelines 9500 non-Pro - 4 pixel pipelines As far as I know, the 9500 Pro only comes in the 128 MB version and all 64 MB versions are non-Pros. I've not read any reviews on the non-Pro version, so I can't make a solid judgement on it's performance, but I still think it would be a solid card based on how well the 9500 Pro performs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTAGuy Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 Check my specs below in my sig: They are pretty good eh? MY system ownz GTA3, because I run it in Win98SE, so I don't have that problem with the textures not showing up when the frame limiter is off. So I run it around 100fps without Anti Aliasing or Anisotropic Filtering on and at 1024x768x32.. With AA on 4x and Aniso at 16x, I get around 60-80 fps. So a 9500 Pro or 9600 Pro wouldn't be much slower, but when you run GTA3 or VC in WinXP, it will probably stutter like hell cuz it did on my system until I stuck GTA3 on Win 98SE... I'm definately putting VC on my Win98SE partition... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assassinator Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 I was wondering if Vice City will work well at 1600X1200 with my system specs, here they are.... pentium 4 2 ghz ATI radeon 9800 pro 1 gig pc 2100 ram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liteflihi Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 I was wondering if Vice City will work well at 1600X1200 with my system specs, here they are....pentium 4 2 ghz ATI radeon 9800 pro 1 gig pc 2100 ram no doubt. I've got an 8500 64mb 275/275 and it runs great at 1280x1024x32. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rollergirl Posted May 16, 2003 Share Posted May 16, 2003 I'd recommend an ATI Radeon 9700. Top of the line graphics card that has dropped like 100 bucks in price, but it should run vice city smooth,beutiful, clean and most importantly fast. I guarentee you'd get at least 40 fps on that baby. I bought a GeForce FX 5200 for about $80 and now that Rockstar/Take2 has released a patch for Vice City, it runs great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djspl Posted May 16, 2003 Share Posted May 16, 2003 my game runs like glass with at 1024 x 768 x 32, 4xAA, 8xAF, quality vid card settings, draw dist at full, frame limiter on. I have tried other resolutions, but I get a little stutter (emphasis on little) when I go into the garages, which bugs me. At 1024 x 768 with AA and AF on, the game looks gorgeous and doesn't slow down anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garfield Ip Posted May 17, 2003 Share Posted May 17, 2003 I only noticed a slight difference in the 64mb and 128mb versions of the 8500. You only need 128mb if you're running at 1280x1024 or higher. Otherwise it's a waste. O, will the same thing happen on 9500? I am considering a 9500 but only the 64Mb ones are in my budget The 9500 Pro is an excellent card, but it's going extinct by the Radeon 9600 Pro. Don't mistake the 9500 Pro with the 9500 non-Pro 9500 Pro - 8 pixel pipelines 9500 non-Pro - 4 pixel pipelines As far as I know, the 9500 Pro only comes in the 128 MB version and all 64 MB versions are non-Pros. I've not read any reviews on the non-Pro version, so I can't make a solid judgement on it's performance, but I still think it would be a solid card based on how well the 9500 Pro performs. I have just bought a 9500 On my system which don't even have DDR ram nor a Ghz-level CPU, vice city runs smoothly at 50fps with highest quality setting have anyone heard of modding on 9500? I am now using a 9800 driver for my 9500 and it remain using 4 pipelines 3D mark 01 se is around 6500 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racer_x_2k1 Posted May 17, 2003 Share Posted May 17, 2003 vc runs 125-130 fps with 1280x1024 32bit res and 4xaa. pc specs athlon xp3200 kt400 dragon mainboard nvidia geforce fx 5600 3gb ddr ram 333mhz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddriver Posted May 18, 2003 Share Posted May 18, 2003 Hi I have a Dell Inspiron 4150 Specs P4m 1.7 256 Mb DDR 32 Mb Ati Radeon 7500 Do you think VC is gonna run? Should I buy more ram? I'm thinking of buying 512Mb more. What can I do to tweak the system? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicetopia Posted May 18, 2003 Share Posted May 18, 2003 All these Radeon numbers are confusing me. EDIT: By the way you have plenty of RAM. I have 128 DDR (256 RAM technically, then) and my Vice City runs fine. But you could use a new video card. I don't know Radeons for sh*t, but I do know that 32 MB is pretty low. GeForce 2's are 32 MB and GeForce 4's are 128 MB. I'd say you'd need a better video card. But, that's just by judging the MB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA3Freak-2001 Posted May 18, 2003 Share Posted May 18, 2003 3gb ddr ram 333mhzIsn't that overkill GeForce 4's are 128 MBThey also come in 64MB in the MX series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicetopia Posted May 18, 2003 Share Posted May 18, 2003 I never understood the purpose of the MX series. According to nVIDIA, the MX series is for "computers on the go" I assumed this meant laptops... But why get an MX when you can go for the big bang and get the Ti series? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA3Freak-2001 Posted May 18, 2003 Share Posted May 18, 2003 I never understood the purpose of the MX series. According to nVIDIA, the MX series is for "computers on the go" I assumed this meant laptops...No Nvidia say that for the GeForce4 Go models which are designed for laptops. It says it here http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=geforce4 But why get an MX when you can go for the big bang and get the Ti series? And about the MX series, I have one and I would have a TI if my motherboard supported 8x AGP, or do the TI's come in 4x? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddriver Posted May 18, 2003 Share Posted May 18, 2003 EDIT:By the way you have plenty of RAM. I have 128 DDR (256 RAM technically, then) and my Vice City runs fine. But you could use a new video card. Thing is, i don't know if i can get a new video card for my laptop. I got the highest one for this model, the 32 Mb Ati 7500. I don't like it, but it was my only option. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicetopia Posted May 18, 2003 Share Posted May 18, 2003 Ti's do come in 4X AGP. I had a Ti4200 as an 4X AGP and I fried it, so I sent it back to my manufacturer and they accidentally sent me an 8X AGP, but hey, I didn't complain. So yes, they come in BOTH 4X and 8X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mxlegend Posted May 18, 2003 Share Posted May 18, 2003 i doubt it, ATI in many peoples opinon BUT NOT ALL(dont spam me Nvidia lovers) make great cards. I have a Radeon 9000 and its solid. You should be fine with that card. ive heard things like the ATI cards have problems with there drivers, is that true? i basically use the nvidia cards bcoz thats what i know, have no experiance with ATI. The ATi cards used to have very bad drivers. They even cheated peopel with them. They changed the settings of the Quake Benchmark, so that it tan in 8bit colours @ 640x480 and stuff, so that it outperformed better cards. But that is i beleive a thing of the past. I am not too fond of ATi, because my parents have the ATi Radeon 8500le, while its a nice performing card, the newer drivers (3.1, 3.2) stopped it from working in some games. Whereas, i have had many Nvidia cards, and still got 2 in PCs at the moment (GF3 Ti200, GF4 Ti4800) and both run the game flawlessly. BTW, Nvidia has the best cards out at the moment. They stole it from ATi, with their GeForceFX5900ultra (NV35). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mxlegend Posted May 18, 2003 Share Posted May 18, 2003 Ti's do come in 4X AGP. I had a Ti4200 as an 4X AGP and I fried it, so I sent it back to my manufacturer and they accidentally sent me an 8X AGP, but hey, I didn't complain. So yes, they come in BOTH 4X and 8X. Actually, that wouldnt of been accident. As far as i know, they dont make 4x Cards anymore. They only make 8x Cards, since there backwards compatible, and possibly more effective in an 8x Board... although from what i've read, AGP 8x isnt any better. Unfortunately i cant do my own experiments till next year. The board i got this year is only AGP 4x, but its definitely a nice motherboard. (ASUS P4PE /L) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Posted May 18, 2003 Share Posted May 18, 2003 vc runs 125-130 fps with 1280x1024 32bit res and 4xaa. pc specs athlon xp3200 kt400 dragon mainboard nvidia geforce fx 5600 3gb ddr ram 333mhz Unless you open more than 50 pictures at once in photoshop or you do video editing, why the heck do you have 3 gigabytes of ram....what drives you people to do this type of stupid stuff? I have 1 gig of ram but thats because I edit professional video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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