Specs Question ATI Radeon X1600 PRO

[Rogeiphone]

I want to know if I can run Nexuiz on Ultimate with good FPS at 1024x768 with these Computer Specs.

Pentium 4 3.4 Ghz Processor (with hyper threading)
ATI Radeon Sapphire X1600 PRO (with 512mb memory)
2 Gigs of RAM
a 500w power supply
Hyper threading enabled Micro ATX motherboard

This is a pretty sick video card, not the newest shit (cant afford the newest shit), but its a game beast. it can run COD2 at MAX, BF2142 at MAX, and stuffs like that. Hoping it can run Nexuiz at MAX too at 1024x768 res.

Thanks for the help!

[SavageX]

Should be fine with normal settings, won't be enough for Ultimate. Ultimate is more an inside-joke than a serious quality preset.

[Ed]

ATi cards and drivers generally aren't as good with OpenGL so you won't get the same kind of performance that you would with an nVIDIA card of the same age and price. Normal settings should be OK, high will be the most you'll get.

I would also rather go with more resolution than ultimate settings as 1024x768 is pretty low for a modern game.

[Morphed]

I would go with normal settings and max texture resolution and maybe turn on shadows for dynamic lights, if you still have too much fps, you can try to turn on hdr lighting
this should run nexuiz in prefect quality as intended

ultimate is using relief mapping, and not even single texture in nexuiz is optimized for this, so sometimes its looking really ugly imho

[Melcar]

Normal should be playable. You may be able to go to High at that resolution with no problems. HDR will kill your performance (the thing eats up half my frames with my ATI cards); I wouldn't bother with it and instead use Bloom if you want lighting effects. Shadows add more to the overall eye candy effect in my opinion, and they don't chew up graphics card as much. Things like particles will depend more on your CPU, so I would lower them down a bit to maintain playable frames.

[Lee_Stricklin]

Should be fine with normal settings, won't be enough for Ultimate. Ultimate is more an inside-joke than a serious quality preset.

My last two video cards (ATI Power Color HD 2600 512MB AGP when it chooses not to crash, Nvidia EVGA 7600 512MB AGP) ran it on ultimate settings... at about 5-10 fps lol. My current rig can almost max this game on a 1280 x 1024 if it weren't for the over-use of reflections on that Starship map that drops my fps below 10.

[MaKR]

Those are decent gaming specs, but the ATI cards seem to max out around there. I used to have a x1650 pro 256mb which I ran at 1280x720. I found the best way to get performance and quality is to crank up video details but lower the shading in the effects menu. The shading is what seems to add the most lag to the performance. Here's the steps I follow to get good performance and higher quality:

1] turn on fps monitoring so you can see your fps
2] set monitor resolution to the monitor's preferred resolution - resolution gives detail
3] set texture quality, particle quality, and ansitropy to max
4] turn on flash blend approxomation, but turn off all realtime lighting as this lags ATI cards the most
5] turn off coronas, bloom, etc. as they only serve to make the game look more cartoonish imo
6] check your fps now, hopefully you have >60 fps - if not then you'll probably need to lower resolution.
7] if #6 was ok, set cl_maxfps about 10 fps below what you are currently getting - this adds stability and makes it even smoother

I have 2 systems currently running higher end ATI cards - a x1950xt with aftermarket cooling and a hd4870. Both run similar settings to described above at 1680x1050. The x1950xt hits 120 fps and the hd4870 hits 150 fps. Believe it or not Nexuiz has enough balls that when maxed out it can make that hd4870 run below 30 fps, and even some newer maps make it lag from the 150. idk what it is with mappers lately but a lot of the newest maps have fps lag issues and ppl don't seem to care to do anything about it. But whatever you do, do not boot up Sabayon with your computer plugged into an hdtv...... specifically don't run 3d accel at full 1080p resolution. That's why I have the x1950xt and not the x1650pro, so I suppose frying that thing did do me SOME good lol.