Gaming got my new 8800GT!!

[juggernaut911]

got it, installed it, reinstalled windows and it installed on E:\ which is gay, and ran the Lost Coast stress test, not even maxing out settings,
i got 114.06 FPS!!!
thats 114.06 more than I ever had! ginormous upgrade from Radeon X1300 Pro! NVIDIA FTW!

just thought I'd share that

 

[xcalibur]

I'm glad for you dude.
Just got my new graphics card yesterday as well. I'm downl;oading portal right now

 

[juggernaut911]

legally? lol


I went up about 6-7 thousand on 3dmark!!!!! WOOT!

 

[xJonny]

Nice one!

I know a friend who bought an 8800GT to replace an X1300Pro too

 

[Lurick]

Congratulations ... that's the same card I've got! It serves exceptionally well for the most part. The only qualm I have is that I have a widescreen flatpanel monitor, and I also tend to play a lot of older games in which higher resolutions and widescreen aspect ratios are not options. Registry edits can fix the resolution issue, but aspect ratios are another matter. In other words, the video card and monitor stretches the image out to look all squashed and ooky, just to fit the display's native resolution.

Most modern video cards (including the 8800GT) have ways in which to preserve aspect ratio for older resolutions, but unfortunately, there's a major bug in nVidia's drivers, and that feature has been broken for going on two years now. If they'd fix that, I'd be 100% satisfied with it.

If that's not going to be an issue for you, I'd say that you're set.

 

[ZPE]

Do gfx cards need to be installed on your hard drive? I thought it was just a piece of card that processes graphical data.

 

[Flozem]

Do gfx cards need to be installed on your hard drive? I thought it was just a piece of card that processes graphical data.

got it, installed it, reinstalled windows and it installed on E:\

No, but Windows generally is...

 

[Sn4k3X]

wow nice! 114 fps!
a year ago i switched from a pentium 3 1 ghz pc to a dual core 2,6 pc
with ati x1950 pro
and i was like WOW!!!
i can't even imagine how it would've been with the 8800gt man!

congratulations with your card

 

[superkrm]

Congratulations ... that's the same card I've got! It serves exceptionally well for the most part. The only qualm I have is that I have a widescreen flatpanel monitor, and I also tend to play a lot of older games in which higher resolutions and widescreen aspect ratios are not options. Registry edits can fix the resolution issue, but aspect ratios are another matter. In other words, the video card and monitor stretches the image out to look all squashed and ooky, just to fit the display's native resolution.

Most modern video cards (including the 8800GT) have ways in which to preserve aspect ratio for older resolutions, but unfortunately, there's a major bug in nVidia's drivers, and that feature has been broken for going on two years now. If they'd fix that, I'd be 100% satisfied with it.

If that's not going to be an issue for you, I'd say that you're set.

i think ur setup is bugged.
I'm having no problems running games at 4:3 on my 16:10.
You might need to fiddle with settings a little bit. It took me awhile to get it right.

And

welcome to the club juggernaught

 

[Prime]

Do gfx cards need to be installed on your hard drive? I thought it was just a piece of card that processes graphical data.

lol piece of card

 

[juggernaut911]

yay! I can play my Knight of the Old Republic (best RPG of all time!!!) now. X1300 would crash on low settings before I could take a step. 8800G plays max like nothing!


is there software I can use to view FPS?

 

[xcalibur]

yay! I can play my Knight of the Old Republic (best RPG of all time!!!) now. X1300 would crash on low settings before I could take a step. 8800G plays max like nothing!


is there software I can use to view FPS?

Try FRAPS

 

[juggernaut911]

doesnt fraps cost?

 

[xcalibur]

nope, I'm pretty sure its free

http://www.fraps.com/download.php

 

[xJonny]

"Registered users please visit the Members Area for the full version"

Implies that download isn't the full version and paid customers use the full version and I've used it before and I think the full version isnt free.

 

[BoneMonkey]

im soooooooo jealous!

 

[superrob]

Congrats

Ive had a 8800GT for 4 months and i really love the card

 

[Lurick]

i think ur setup is bugged.
I'm having no problems running games at 4:3 on my 16:10.
You might need to fiddle with settings a little bit. It took me awhile to get it right.

And

welcome to the club juggernaught

No, it's a very well-documented issue, and it's a topic of raging debate over on nVidia's official forums. Rather, I think what's going on in your case is one of the only known work-arounds for the issue -- certain monitors have the capability to adjust scaling for aspect ratios on their own. The newer drivers have the "use my display's built-in scaling" option set by default (check in the nVidia control panel to see). If your monitor is capable of it, then this will resolve the issue.

Unfortunately, my Samsung Syncmaster relies on software scaling, so I'm a slave to whatever my video card can do. It's an excellent monitor otherwise, though.

 

[juggernaut911]

it crashed my computer.

dang GMOD10


is Forceware 175.16 the latest driver?

 

[xJonny]

I think so.