Recommended video cards

[C.Brutail]

Gigabyte Geforce 7300 GS PCI-E - on most maps, in 800x600 all effects on (either bloom or HDR) all fine. With bloom it's much faster then HDR. I haven't run a banchmark yet, but I'll do one in the near future if needed.

[Ed]

From what you say the 7300GS is sufficient for playing Nexuiz on fairly high settings. That's important as it means that there is a budget card which people can get the effects that Nexuiz deserves to be played with. I'd think it's worth putting in the 'decent' category.

[Ed]

Time for another update here? Most of the cards people would consider getting now aren't in that list.

[Urmel]

I'm not sure if there's any serious need for an update atm. Everything from Geforce 7300GT up provides you enough power to play at a reasonalbe framerate, and if you want to play at ultimate settings, you'll have to choose some model from the 8800 series.

All the current ATIs seem to still cause various problems but are strong enogh for reasonable framerates as well, however depending on the OS and provided that they have a native RAM >64MB.

[Psychcf]

oddly enough I have an 8800 GT, Most maps I get in the 200-300 FPS range with ultra.cfg, but on custom maps like distonic or batcula I'll get a horrible framerate in the 30s. I have to switch to normal.cfg in this case. It could be the linux driver for nvidia is not performing too well. A lot of maps aren't very good with dynamic lighting on too, so that could be a factor.

Edit: when I said ultra.cfg I ment ultimate.cfg

[Spaceman]

http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/index.php?module=info

Low Quality - no realtime lights, no bloom
- 1 Ghz Pentium III or AMD Athlon
- Geforce2 Video card
- 512 MB of ram

[GlitchMaster]

There will be a lot of range with these cards as the 7300GT is quite different from the GS and then the LE is someway behind the standard 7300. Anyone got any of these cards for comment?

I know I'm kind of late to post in this topic, but whatever. Currently I am using a 7300 LE, and it runs fairly decently. I run at 1024x768 resolution, I have coronas, deluxe mapping, gloss, dynamic lights and shadows, and Normal Mapping on, as well as 16x AF (which I believe to be very important to have). I am playing with max textures, but I am using texture compression. I could easily do without compression, but I did it because of the loading times. It runs 40-70 fps, depending on the map and what's happening.

[Urmel]

My colleague runs a GF 7300GT on a 3GHz P4 Singlecore (WINXP) and gets around 70 - 140 fps at standard settings and 1280x1024, depending on the map.

[Lee_Stricklin]

Here are the settings I use on my ATI PowerColor HD 2600 512MB AGP Card. I had some serious problems with this card when I first tried to use it. After some tweaking though I got it to work pretty good.







I noticed on the mipmapping settings that there is no benefit (except in UT3) cranking it past the second lowest and it's a slight performance hit on your card if you crank it any higher and you really shouldn't set anything up to override your programs settings (doing that actually crashed my card on some games). Also your OpenGL-powered games will run a lot better if you enable triple-buffering.

[Xm4n]

What is up with these discussions of sorry-ass video cards?
WTF?? Why dont you all just grow up and get one of the 8800 series of NVIDIA video cards. How about get the 9800 series of NVIDIA video cards or the Nvidia GTX 200 series.

I got the Nvidia GeForce 280 GTX super high-end video card.
I make my framerates sky rocket to the next dimension!!!


Xm4n