What video card do you use?

[ethernal3]

Originally posted by Achmed20
My ***** is longer then urs :P

PS: stupid thread

We don't care. We're all computer geeks. You play this game too. You're not the one to talk. (btw you spelled it wrong )
~Chris

[Beaumont]

Xyber:
98 SE can only support 512 megs of ram.

[____________marinoni]

I have around 15 fps in trade, i dunno in mission. setting all at medium 1152 x 864 32 Bit.
My setup
AMD t-Bird 1000
320 meg ram
Ati- Radeon nVivo 64 meg ddr (the first radeon)

I never had any problem with this ATI radeon card. My system is old, but Ao is really playable. I'll change it eventualy.

[________________Cado]

Actually, windows 9x does have support for up to 4 GB of RAM .... it's just horrible unstable with anything above 768 MB for some odd reason. Heck, it even starts having problems over 512 MB.

But it CAN handle up to 4GB and yes, I have seen it done just to show it off.

Even then, I'd recommend using Windows XP if you have the money for a system with 4GB RAM.

[Sorzella]

Xtacy GeForce4 Ti-4200 128MB
P4 1.8
512 800Mhz RDRAM
WinXP Service Pack 1

Was running smooth as Barry White in every part of AO at full max settings until 14.6 which now I run like crap almost every zone.



Sorz

[ethernal3]

You don't lose any stability, rather you lose efficiency and usage of the RAM... so performance starts to degrade per megabyte when compared to lower RAM numbers.
~Chris

[_________________Dakxx]

os: xp sp1
cpu: amd 1900xp
memory: 333mhz 512mb
disks: 2 ata 133 20gigs in raid0
vidcard: ati radeon 9700 pro (the one with the power connector hehe)

I run ao at 1024x768 32 with 8x anisotropic filtering on and 2x antialiasing.

I get around 40 fps almost everyon ein cities and sometimes in the 20's when its a packed house. but in missions and out in the wilderness, i get on average 75 or 80.

If i turn of anti aliasing and anisotropic i can get 100's most of the time but ao looks a lot better with antialiasing on (:

also, i do get some flickering when ao starts up but thats it, and yes it did crash the last time i tried to switch to the desktop.

Ayien

[Beaumont]

I run 512 meg ram on 98 SE.
When I posted that on the Earth and Beyond boards someone told me that 98 would only handle 256 meg of ram.
Another guy posted an article by Microsoft stating that Win 98 SE could only handle up to 512 megs of ram.
He had a link and everything.

[Sorzella]

Originally posted by Slinki
I run 512 meg ram on 98 SE.
When I posted that on the Earth and Beyond boards someone told me that 98 would only handle 256 meg of ram.
Another guy posted an article by Microsoft stating that Win 98 SE could only handle up to 512 megs of ram.
He had a link and everything.

I can personally tell you that my other Win98SE box w/ 512MB of RAM runs like a champ.. I tested this thoery using 256MB and 512MB with memory hog games and DEFINATELY noticed that Windows 98 utilized the 512.... Even AO with 256MB would start caching hard drive space with 256MB after playing AO for over 30mins ish... But with 512MB in 98SE I played AO for hours and hours and never hit caching..

[sheana]

LOL im running AO on a dinosaur of a machine a p3 700 running a Voodoo 5500 (remember those? hehe) saving my pennies for a new machine my hubby nabbed the last new one we bought <sigh> (as well as the nice new confy computer chair I bought for myself

The game is suprisingly solid on my ole faithful machine , rarely crashing at all, lag being the only problem for me.

[Atremis]

Currently have a Radeon 8500. I hate the heck out of it.

I was going to get a GF4 Ti4600, but I have since decided to wait for the NV30. Or is that GFFX now? Whatever.

Right now I am at home at my parent's house for Thanksgiving break. Tonight I played AO on their P3 500 / TNT2 (32MB). I have to say that performance wasn't really that much less than my Athlon XP 1800+ / Radeon 8500 (64MB). This says one of two things, or both:

1) The AO engine doesn't scale for s***.
2) The Radeon 8500 is a complete POS.

[Aerinyi]

Radeon 8500, Athlon XP 1600 with 512 megs of ram. My rig runs well, what problems I have I'm pretty sure stem from my crappy internet connection.

[cathrax]

p4 2.6ghz
1024 MB ddrram
GeForce4 Ti-4200 128MB
Win XP

runing just fine
I never had any problems

[kaldurhan]

my old system was a (hold on to your hats now)
p2 450
640mb ram
asus GeForce2 gts 32mb ddr
7200 rpm disk

worked pretty good actually.. cept when being in a VERY crowded place..

my current system is:
amd xp 2100+
Geforce4 ti 4600
512 mb ram 333mhz
WD-SE 7200 rpm..

works like a charm

[Darkbane]

The Win9x familly supports up to 512Mb, more than that it will not make sensible use of, and is not recommended. WinNT supports either 2Gb or 3Gb and I've no idea about Win2K and WinXP (though I think 3Gb is the maximum on a 32-bit processor as the other 1Gb of address space is needed for i/o, bios etc).

[Knightwulf]

AMD Athlon XP 2600+ 2.133GHz 333 MHz FSB
Leadtek A250 GeForce4 4600ti 128 MB
Asus A7V8X w/gigabit LAN and Serial-ATA RAID
2x Corsair XMS 512 MB PC2700(333 MHz DDR) 2-2-2
3x Western Digital 120 GB 1200JBSE 8mb cache drives (2 in RAID-0, one in an external FireWire caddy)
2x 3ware Parallel-ATA - Serial-ATA converters for the internal drives.
SoundBlaster Audigy Platinum Ex
Windows XP Pro SP1
DirectX 9 Beta
Detonator Version: 40.72 official WHQL certified

I have no problems running AO in 1600x1200x32 with true 4x FSAA (not Quincunx) with full detail, view distances, etc. I don't believe I've ever dropped below 20 FPS (Though I find it rather amusing that I can run any other game on the market at the same detail level, resolution, FSAA setting, etc and be shocked if I drop below 90 FPS.. ) . ...and since I always run in windowed mode, alt-tabbing isn't an issue.

[Knightwulf]

Originally posted by Atremis

1) The AO engine doesn't scale for s***.
2) The Radeon 8500 is a complete POS.

Uhm.. That would be a resounding YES on both accounts.