Can a 256MB x1950xt display ultra textures in CoH?

Hi, first off, my system

- AMD Athlon 64 3700+ Stock (2.2)
- ATi Radeon X800 XL 256MB (Stock)
- 1GB OCZ PC3200 RAM
- MSI K8N Neo4 Motherboard
- WD 120GB HDD

Well I am thinking of buying a new graphics card to play CoH tomorrow, yeah that is the only game I'm going to be playing. Basically, I'd like to play at the max settings. My budget is of 250-270 (no more). So yeah I looked on newegg and zipzoomfly and found the X1950XT 256MB, which is supposed to perform a little better than the X1900 XT, at $260. However, I have heard and read that the 256MB won't allow me to play at Ultra textures? I am trying the demo with my 800XL and can run it at 1280x1024 everything on the max settings, except Textures (High) and Shadows (Medium), getting a 25 FPS average on the Performance Test. If I try Ultra textures it will crash after it's done loading ..

So, is 512MB a must to play with the Ultra Textures option? If it is, please help me find a video card which is as good as it or even better at the same price range? 7900GT?GTO?. I can play Doom 3 with ultra, and although it tells me that I need 500MB VRAM it works and I get decent frames per second.

THanks for your time!

Yeah, I am planning on playing the game at this settings:

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/6075/cohtj0.jpg

Since my x800 xl can't handle them

- Shadows - High
- Effects Fidelty - Ultra

Hope it works, cause I have read in the GFX reviews that it can't play them with only 256VRAM

Trust me .. it WILL play at Ulta Textures and beyond ...

X1950XT uses a highly clocked DDR4 memory .. it's fast clockspeeds enable it to perform and store large texture processes ..

for example .. on a 7800GTX 256MB ..you can play Ghost Recon 3 (G.R.A.W. ) at High textures .. even though the game clearly confirms the need for a 512MB texture memory for that process !

don't worry about that .. that card can handle any thing you throw at it !

I have a 256MB X1950XT and the Ultra textures caused problems at 1440 x 900.

I'll give it another go now I've updated to Catalyst 6.12 and let you know .

I was using the driver from the bundled CD, which I believe is a hacked version of 6.10.

My PC is a Core 2 Duo E6400 with 2GB RAM, so that shouldn't be the problem.

The game does look great and runs perfectly without Ultra textures.

I'll post back when I get a chance to test it out with the new Catalyst.

hi check my hardware below , i can play CoH on all max on that resolution quite fine, with minimal little slowdowns during multiple explosions and a mass of units

I have an X1950XT and I CAN run CoH on ultra, but it has some problems. This is mainly due to the rest of my system (1gb ram) I think though, and I haven't tried running ultra without 2D clock speed and with overclocking settings

takes some practice, but coh does not suck ass. im handling expert computers at this point, its all about not turtling.

oh, well yeah. but i meant just holding your territory together, because thats the most common fundamental mistake. rushing is really prevented anyway because every base starts with 2 machine gun platforms.
i bet youre a starcraft ling rusher ;p

lol bfme2 is a rusing game i just hate lol

coh is not so bard the first 2 games i admit i lost, but then after i got used to the game i just win on the hard medium, and gard lvl(but its tough thou) and medieval 2 is a nice game also, the multiplayer is fun u pick ur army and just battle out

no

If you have the money, go for the GTS. If not, the X1950XT can't be touched for the price. Also, put a good cooling solution on it, and the X1950XT is an overclocking beast.
By the way, ATiTool reports that the card doesn't draw more than 8.2A on overclocked settings and heightened voltages.
It would probably deal fine at 1600x1200, and you could always just overclock XTX.