ATI 9200 Radeon 128mb good enough?

[bones]

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Hey people

I currently have the ATI All in wonder Pro 128mb. does not have the Radeon
Chipset. I just got Unreal 2004 and it runs really choppy. would upgrading
my vid Card to the Radeon 9200 fix this?

My system currently is:

AMD Athlon 1100 mhz
512 Mb DDR Ram 266 mhz
40 Gig HD (Game is installed on D: drive not C: does this matter?)

i have to have all the grafix enhancements turned off and the game is still
choppy.

Best Buy has a sale 50% of the 9200 card and I was wondering if it's worth
it right now?

PLEASE PLEASE REPLY TO MY EMAIL ADDRESS djbonany@rogers..com <--remove
second "dot"

 

[Guest]

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"Bones" <djbonany@rogers.com> wrote in message
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> Hey people
>
> I currently have the ATI All in wonder Pro 128mb. does not have the
> Radeon Chipset. I just got Unreal 2004 and it runs really choppy. would
> upgrading my vid Card to the Radeon 9200 fix this?
>
> My system currently is:
>
> AMD Athlon 1100 mhz
> 512 Mb DDR Ram 266 mhz
> 40 Gig HD (Game is installed on D: drive not C: does this matter?)
>
> i have to have all the grafix enhancements turned off and the game is
> still choppy.
>
> Best Buy has a sale 50% of the 9200 card and I was wondering if it's worth
> it right now?
>

Processor is too slow. It's bottlenecking there. Maybe if you killed
everything not essential (google this: enditall) it might run semi-smooth,
but I'm doubting it. UT2K3/4 is quite processor intensive.

 

[Guest]

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goPostal wrote:
> "Bones" <djbonany@rogers.com> wrote in message
> news:d4udndoZ07dfxE7cRVn-jg@rogers.com...
>
>>Hey people
>>
>>I currently have the ATI All in wonder Pro 128mb. does not have the
>>Radeon Chipset. I just got Unreal 2004 and it runs really choppy. would
>>upgrading my vid Card to the Radeon 9200 fix this?
>>
>>My system currently is:
>>
>>AMD Athlon 1100 mhz
>>512 Mb DDR Ram 266 mhz
>>40 Gig HD (Game is installed on D: drive not C: does this matter?)
>>
>>i have to have all the grafix enhancements turned off and the game is
>>still choppy.
>>
>>Best Buy has a sale 50% of the 9200 card and I was wondering if it's worth
>>it right now?
>>
>
>
> Processor is too slow. It's bottlenecking there. Maybe if you killed
> everything not essential (google this: enditall) it might run semi-smooth,
> but I'm doubting it. UT2K3/4 is quite processor intensive.

I've got a 1.3 GHz CPU, 256 MB of RAM, and an ATI 9200 SE/64 MB, and I
think the performance I get is acceptable -- I get around 15 frames per
second. I don't play online, however.

 

[Schism]

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> I've got a 1.3 GHz CPU, 256 MB of RAM, and an ATI 9200 SE/64 MB, and I
> think the performance I get is acceptable -- I get around 15 frames per
> second. I don't play online, however.

Ugh, that's a horrible FPS to get, how do you not get a head ache?

 

[Guest]

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You must be getting way more than that. I play with a Matrox g450 w/16m meg, a much
slower card and get better than that at 640x480 anyhow.


>I've got a 1.3 GHz CPU, 256 MB of RAM, and an ATI 9200 SE/64 MB, and I
>think the performance I get is acceptable -- I get around 15 frames per
>second. I don't play online, however.

 

[user]

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9200 will not cut it.
to get a playable fps get a 9600 at least.

"Frank Morise" <Gor4a@newnet.com> wrote in message
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> You must be getting way more than that. I play with a Matrox g450 w/16m
meg, a much
> slower card and get better than that at 640x480 anyhow.
>
>
> >I've got a 1.3 GHz CPU, 256 MB of RAM, and an ATI 9200 SE/64 MB, and I
> >think the performance I get is acceptable -- I get around 15 frames per
> >second. I don't play online, however.
>