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Graphics Card suggestions?

Emberly

By Emberly,
Posted on: 2010-01-01 15:46 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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So this is quite the thread and I am not a technical kind of dude. I too am interested in upgrading my video card. I am looking at a Radeon 5770, but a friend tells me that ATI has problems in CoX because of openGL or something. I don't know what any of that means, so I am just gonna ask: are the Radeon cards a safe bet for CoX? I assume they will be OK with GR too, if they are OK with the current game.

edit: ok so there is an antialiasing problem? If I don't use AA is everything cool?
... see post #15 in this thread : http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...8&postcount=15

 

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Yeah that post doesn't say what the issue is or whether turning off AA fixes it but thanks!
ah.

No. the graphical glitches with water and the Depth of Field are part of the underlying problem, but there are additional glitches that occur if you turn on Depth of Field and Water regardless of whether or not you try to run AA.

 

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ah.

No. the graphical glitches with water and the Depth of Field are part of the underlying problem, but there are additional glitches that occur if you turn on Depth of Field and Water regardless of whether or not you try to run AA.
Oh that sucks, so my big radeon idea might not be that great until these fixes you mentioned are in the game for real

 

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Oh that sucks, so my big radeon idea might not be that great until these fixes you mentioned are in the game for real
eh. The game works fine with Radeon cards as is.

You don't even really need to do that much tweaking. Just leave water and Depth of Field turned off, and you'll probably never see a glitch.

 

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Yeah that post doesn't say what the issue is or whether turning off AA fixes it but thanks!
Anti Aliasing works on ATI cards currently, you just have to set it in the Driver menu rather than in-game.

An ATI card should be fine and certainly will be fine after GR. A 5770 is a good choice.

 

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Rylas, I was in the same boat (all my cards since 2003 have been NVIDIA cards), until a couple of months ago I had two NVIDIA cards fail on me and I waited a month for my distributor to get me a replacement (and in the end they couldn't; NVIDIA is making the cards scarce). I bought a Radeon HD 5770.

Yes, there are minor issues with COH. You're going to need to mess with the Catalyst Control Center in order to have FSAA back in COH. However, once I got past that, I'm really happy with the performance of the card, and it DOES run quieter and cooler than the GTX 260.

In Windows XP you'll have a few issues that a new driver should fix (the COH loading screens get corrupted if you alt-tab out of the game; doesn't affect the game at all, just the loading screens) and in Windows 7 you also have a few issues that are probably Aero's fault and would appear on a NVIDIA card anyway (I dumped Windows 7 last night and went back to XP, and they're gone).

If you don't miss messing with the Catalyst Control Center a bit, the 5770 is an excellent buy.
Thanks for the input everyone. I'll be looking into a 5770 for the time being. The fact that the PSU wouldn't have to be replaced helps. Though, a small part of me wonders if I should bother waiting around for Fermi to see what happens there.

@Rylas

Kill 'em all. Let XP sort 'em out.

 

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Thanks for the input everyone. I'll be looking into a 5770 for the time being. The fact that the PSU wouldn't have to be replaced helps. Though, a small part of me wonders if I should bother waiting around for Fermi to see what happens there.
I'm certainly waiting...with popcorn ^_^. (Okay, that wasn't fair .)

When Fermi is introduced, it will be in the high-end of the market. It would be several months more at least until a mainstream model (competing with the 5750 and 5770) showed up.

 

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I'm certainly waiting...with popcorn ^_^. (Okay, that wasn't fair .)

When Fermi is introduced, it will be in the high-end of the market. It would be several months more at least until a mainstream model (competing with the 5750 and 5770) showed up.
It's funny, I was just thinking that would be the case. That, and the prices would be way up there for a while.

I'm seriously considering this card, unless someone convinces me there's a better option.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150463

@Rylas

Kill 'em all. Let XP sort 'em out.

 

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It's funny, I was just thinking that would be the case. That, and the prices would be way up there for a while.

I'm seriously considering this card, unless someone convinces me there's a better option.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150463
You would be paying an extra $27.50 for an additional 15 mhz core clock speed (1.75%). Also if you really wanted that additional mhz, most manufacturers include software for you to manually adjust speeds on the card now; you could do it yourself.

The Sapphire version is five dollars cheaper still, and it's the model Leandro got and was satisfied with. If you have borderline-acceptable heat concerns, you might want the non-"factory-overclocked" () shrouded cooler type for ten dollars more though (Sapphire brand has the same price for this type).

Happy comparison shopping!