I will not be able to enjoy playing that game with the card you have.hacker_xyzzy

i used photoshop and some pics of moonknight.

don't ask how i got photoshop ;)

http://www.techarena.in/

THE INTERWEB is up in arms with stories about Nvidia cheating in Crysis, all of which seems a little 2005 to us here at l'INQ.

Those of you with memories longer than goldfishes will remember the crazy days of 3DMark 05, where it seems like even that bloke down the road with the crazy dog was caught fiddling with benchmarks. Nvidia killed image quality, ATI lorded it over the green team before being caught doing the same, and the whole thing led a bit of a revolution in benchmarking and image quality testing. No longer was 3DMark the exclusive arbiter of system performance and a good job, too.

Now the claims are back, with the green team's latest beta driver adding performance in Crysis whilst seemingly nerfing image quality.

The hype? That Nvidia's driver QA team are back to their wily ways. The real story? Come on guys - the performance increases being talked about here are barely a few frames per second, which is hardly anything to write home about. More to the point, given the increasing focus on image quality the hardware benchmarketing sites have run with, what are the chances Nvidia would shoot itself in the foot like this?

ALSO

http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/AMD_Radeon_HD3850_and_HD3870_-_AMD%27s_salvation%3F/5392-14.html

seems nvidia gave up a very small amount of image quality to boost frame rates. so technically, the 3870 DOES have better image quality. but almost un noticable

i would at least wait until dual core GPUs release. even if you don't get one, all the others should drop.

you might as well jump on a quad core CPU for the best price you can find too.

just don't order it piece by piece. you want it all at the same time. prices and technology DOES change that fast and you could be dissapointed in your purchase for your "computer that you plan on being done with in 1 month" by the time you actually get it up and running.

He's only complaining because he is jealous. If Intel was no threat then he wouldn't even be mentioning them.

How is it that Intel has a better product than AMD yet they're supposedly copying them?

Intel > AMD

+

Nvidia > ATI

It's math so simple, even an AMD processor could handle it!

jpkustra

Intel(I)>AMD(A)+Nvidia(N)>ATI(T)

I>A+N>T

so Intel is better than an AMD with an Nvidia card(s), which is better than ATI being the worst thing?

tell that to crossfire.

5/10

not really

8/10

Battlefield 2 and Battlefield 2142 crashes back to the desktop if i try to start it up, my specs are

Inspiron 1520, Intel Core 2 Duo T7500, 2.2GHz, 800Mhz, 4M L2 Cache
2GB, DDR2, 667MHz 2 Dimm
256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
160G 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive
Microsoft Windows Vista 32bit

it's a laptop, its probably my graphics card that can't handle it, but what do you guys say?

Spirit_Warriors

no, i think it's vista, i really do. mine was doing this when i tried to start it after installing vista. try running in SP2 compatibility