Re: New system and graphics quality

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From: nmw... nicholus kamau
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 03:43

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you got that right ... but you know whats sad is that .. i wont get to
hear yuri say .. be one with yuri .. bohoo.. so any chance we will
ever get to see them in 3 d plus i think that the story is so damn
flawed and politically correct



"Mark Friesen" <iws...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<couda.20460$qL4.4...@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com>...
> I just finsihed building a new system, partialy so I could play Generals.
> My old system was a PIII 500 with an original ATI AIW Radeon.  The new
> system is a P4 2.53 533FSB and 512meg of DDR333.  I tried an ATI AIW Radion
> 8500DV in this rig.  The 8500DV only has 64meg and is clocked way down
> compared to a regular 8500 GPU.  This did not do well with Generals.  The
> action would get jerky and the cursor would disappear whenever I moved it.
> Even with the cursor still it would blink.  Needless to say playing was very
> difficult since I wouldn't be able to track the cursor during battle.  Over
> the weekend some local stores got ATI AIW 8500s in stock.  I snapped one up
> Sunday and what a difference!!!  Everything looks great and no hick-ups what
> so ever.  I can really tell that the AIW 8500 has a full functioning 8500
> GPU compared to the 8500DVs hobbled processor.
> Just a point of reference for everyone- stay away from the AIW 8500DV for
> Generals.

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