[BravoFxTrt]

The two are the best GPU money can buy. Although considering what advertisements can and will offer, but its after the purchase and installation ,does the show begin. Wow or WTF is some of the expressions we do. Wow is a good thing, WTF is a bad thing, but we get what we pay for. The honest truth is pay lots of bucks or what you can and the monitor screen gives you your moneys worth, all be it if you know how to tweak your video card for optimum/maximum image, well then there you go. That's all we get and your purchase decision and all the tweaks, well is all your going to get.

[GeneralPsycho]

so....

I am having a little difficulty what your post is saying. Are you trying to decide what graphics card we recommend? or you want to get at a certain price?

[BravoFxTrt]

Neither my friend I posted in general for those whom are in a process of/or interested in what GPU information from which a decision may give insight to make there own decision 8)

[KG64_Cnopicilin]

I have melted three nvidia gpus in a row. Frustrating because I have a laptop. FSX works at full but CoD4 doesn't work at all.

[GeneralPsycho]

I have been an nvidia user, oh, since the beginning which was august 2004 with
FX5200>6600GT 128>6600LE 256>7600GS 512>8800GTS 512>8800GTS 512 SLI

This is my history of vid cards in chronological order

Right now, my main PC is on a routine maintenance(motherboard cooked), so I use my gaming laptop that plays this game on max at 1080p HD 15.6 inch display
This laptop has GTX260m 1gb GDDR3 which is equivalent to 9800GT

[BravoFxTrt]

My self have owned 2 Nvidia cards but am still on my second ATI card only because of a new system. I'm overclocked and my graphics display is awesome. ATI HD Radeon 4870 1GB, DDR5. "ROCKS"

[BravoFxTrt]

This is what its all about

[Murilo Specht]

Given that the only ATi I ever had had FPS drops, game crashes, artifacts and stuff, buying another ATi never crossed my mind ever since.

[BravoFxTrt]

I know ATI has its own graphics direction, but a thousand words

[fly_zo]

Nvidia here....


also thread moved from announcement section

reg
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[stansdds]

Il2 was designed to use OpenGL, Nvidia's API. ATI cards now use an OpenGL wrapper, so you can use "perfect" settings in Il2, but as far as I know you are limited to "water=2", whereas with an Nvidia card you gain access to the "water=3" and "water=4" settings. The only problems I have with Nvidia are their drivers. It seems every new driver is geared towards performance in a specific game and may help new cards, but their backwards compatibility actually induces poor performance or instability with older cards and/or older games.

My Nvidia experience has been with a 6800 Ultra, 7950GT and now a 8800GT.

[Guest]

Il2 was designed to use OpenGL, Nvidia's API. ATI cards now use an OpenGL wrapper, so you can use "perfect" settings in Il2, but as far as I know you are limited to "water=2", whereas with an Nvidia card you gain access to the "water=3" and "water=4" settings. The only problems I have with Nvidia are their drivers. It seems every new driver is geared towards performance in a specific game and may help new cards, but their backwards compatibility actually induces poor performance or instability with older cards and/or older games.

My Nvidia experience has been with a 6800 Ultra, 7950GT and now a 8800GT.

The thing is though that water=2 on an ATI is perfect water. I get the white caps on the waves, and when I view them up close I can see them moving. I can recall reading somewhere that water =2 on an ATI card is the same as water=4 on an nividia....

[DK-nme]

So, what to buy?
I've always been using Nvidia cards, but now I've read, that ATI or is it Radeon cards are better. I'm considering to buy a Asus Nvidia 260 or 275 card, but a friend recommends the ATI card instead - because of the Nvidia crisis. Well, what do U reckon I should do/buy? Nvidia or ATI???


DK-nme