Currently Im Using a Nvidia Geforce 7600 GS (by Fusion....), and I really want 2 play Half life 2, CSS, Portal (when it comes...) on High Settings, or their maximum, but my recommended settings are pretty much medium for all, so I was wondering if there was any good GPU's that you can recommend (PCI, Preferably Under $150 Canadian, so thats about $100-ish USD) Thanks in Advance! Â
Have you tried any of the games? I'm not sure about portal but i used to run CS source and HL2 on almost all max with an old ATI 9600, my buddies x1300 card in his laptop does it perfect, i dont see how your 7600 would have an issue...
My 6600GT could max it out without anti-aliasing... and that was with recommended settings, too. :| Try cranking the settings except for AA up to high, and see what happens.
you dont need to go any higher than a radeon 9550 or the equivalent Nvidia card. But id say if ur spendin monye u might as well go big and get the 8800GTX or GTS as posted above, i personally have the GTS and it is worth every single solitary penny.
Dude You can run HL2, CSS etc.. maxed out on a geforce 6200. So ethier its a cpu,ram problem
If you have a 2+ ghz cpu you can max out if you have more than 512 the same thing. So ethier your doing something wrong or you dont have at least a 2ghz cpu and 512 ram...
my x800GTO runs on the highest settings, save a few AA and filtering things, at 60fps on 1280x1024. (Stinky Pentium 4 3.0 and 1.5GB of 2700 ram, too...upgrading in may =D)
That card came out years after HL2 was even out. I can max the graphics on a radeon9600 and get smooth fps as long as I leave out HDR. However, I am not sure how the next source games might take advantage of newer hardware but I am sure you can run episode 2 wihout too much trouble. At least for now you can play source games maxed out.
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