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Yeah I made that up but it was fun!

Good point. My bad. Well it should at least get low UM. And no, there has been no public word of late concerning UM and SLI/Crossfire working together. On the up side, I'd consider it pretty certain the Devs want and assumedly will get it working eventually.

Better. You should be able to get some decent UM action. I'd guess medium UM or so based on Posi's chart.

I've said this before, perhaps in this thread but maybe not, just because the new test client says you can do UM, doesn't mean you really can. The CB is still ongoing so testing is likewise ongoing. Which means the final specs aren't set yet. For all we know, that message will pop up for anyone running anything whatsoever, regardless of actual capabilities. As much as it may be nice for the game to have that message, I fear it is spreading false hope right now to those with systems that just won't make the cut.

Well Vidiotmaps' map pack and Vanden's icon pack would qualify as mods and be the likely cause of those mod entries. But I'll take your word for it.

Don't know your specs but yes I'd expect it will run hotter. That assumes it works. Here's the deal, just because you have a PSU rated to 460W and the card says it wants at least a 450W doesn't mean you're in the clear. You need a mobo with a PCIE slot (I assume you have at least this), your PSU will have to have PCIE power connectors for your card, and you need enough amps on your 12V line to feed the card. Miss any of those and you're not going to get it to work.

Well, no one can actually answer that here, NDA and all. If you have CB access as you sound like, take the question to the beta forums.

Nothing to see here....move along....

That's a laptop chip and pretty much only the latest and greatest of those will have any hope of UM. Yours however, is not one of those. Sorry.

I've run into innumerable nonstandard PSU designs in my career and plenty of badly designed cases. But one actively designed to prevent access? Wow. Now that's impressive.

'Fraid not. The 9800GT and by general equivalency, 8800GT 512MB, form the bottom rung of UM performance per Posi. You're a good ways below that. Sorry mate.

On my system it switches to basic but only so long as the game has focus. If I switch to something else, Aero comes back on and goes back to basic only when I return to the game.

Well you're in the best position to say for certain but it looks to me like if you didn't mind doing a bit of modding, cutting those 'fins' off the side of the fan shroud would allow it to fit. Or you could just cut away the whole conflicting part of it if that would do better. Your PC so your decision but I'll trow it out there. And it shouldn't have any impact on the CPU cooling, particularly if you just cut off the fins. Thank you Dell and your wonderful case design!


You can ask the Devs but I doubt they'll say. They keep to their own schedule on such things. As for the $$, if you don't know what to spend it on just send it my way and I'll take care of it for you. More seriously, there's no need to spend that much on a PC, well, period. I don't know what you have now but if you're perfectly happy with it and the performance you get now, do nothing. Spend the cash elsewhere or save for a rainy day. If you're not happy with it, then just spend enough to get it where you will be happy. None of us here can tell you how to spend your money but we can suggest and advise things if you have some sort of plan in mind as to where you want to go.


Then it sounds like you want something in the high end of Posi's chart. The higher you go, the more assured you can be that it will do what you desire. From what is public, I'd say 5770, 5850 or better ATI-wise. Or like a GTX 280 or better if you prefer Nvidia.

An 8800GT 512 should be able to do minimum UM based on what we know right now.

Well based on public knowledge, the desktop should get UM at minimum settings I think. The laptop? No chance.

e9250t yes? Well I found a service manual with pics of your interior. It's still hard to judge for absolute certain but it *looks* like a standard size PSU would work in your box. From what I could find on the mobo specs, it uses a 24-pin and 4-pin power connector. So be sure any PSU you buy supports that and is rated for an LGA1156 board. The other apparent good news is you can from all appearances use a double-slot video card so most anything out there is viable provided your new PSU has the connectors and the juice to support what you buy. I'd make sure a standard PSU will fit before plunking down cash on a video card. Do some measuring and all that. I also can't tell how much room, length-wise you have. All the newer cards are a bit long so measuring there to determine what will fit is also good. Performance-wise, higher up the food chain will certainly be better. Particularly if you want to run UM maxed at a Hami raid. And I don't know if there even is a card capable of that. Dunno if any have happened on Test but until OB, nobody can say regardless. From public info, 5770s were said to do quite well but whether they can do *that*, well,....??? Obviously your budget will dictate what you can get but I'd suggest investing as much for the future as you can afford assuming you plan to keep this system for awhile.

Same sort of thing for me. ATI has released preview drivers for OGL 3.3/4 and I have those. Thus far, the problem has gone away for me. But it took the preview drivers to make it happen. None of the recent driver releases worked for me till those. So folks having the issue might give them a go.

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...ew-driver.aspx