Graphics Cards are pretty pathetic at the moment!

[Xaser04]

My new 8800GTX plays crysis very well at 1680x1050 with the XP very high hack. The game actually runs quite smooth despite low(ish) framerates (motion blur is 'low' as it makes me feel sick).

UT3, COD4, Quake wars all run perfectly (as they should).

google is your best friend , the best one to get right now is the 8800GT, it is not better than the NEW 8800GTS or the Ultra (the GTX is a waste of money dont buy it) the ultra is the best one but it is $500+ so unless you got that kind of money coming out of your pocket dont get it. The old 8800GTS is bad dont get it, get a 8800GT instead. between the 8800GT and the new 8800GTS, the 8800GTS beats it by a little bit. so if you need the extra boost, then get a 8800GTS if not get the 8800GT, it is the best card for price/performance. ATI has the 3870 but its not that good compared to the 8800GT.

I like how you say the GTX is a waste of money yet the Ultra is the best available.

My GTX was £17 more than the cheapest GTS available or the same price as the majority of GTS cards available (at the time of purchase). Most GTX cards however are still around the £300 mark and these indeed are pointless however if you search for a bargin then can be found.

 

[trog100]

people like crytek sell game engines.. showing what the game engine can do either now or in the future is part of the process..

again microsoft provide the means for future developers to do their stuff.. future being the key word here..

expecting current hardware to easily cope with future software is pretty stupid to be honest..

but the bottom line is.. its all one big merry go round designed to sell us new stuff..

the essence of selling us new stuff is simple.. make sure we are never happy with the stuff we have.. or at last not for bloody long.. he he he

trog

 

[cdawall]

i still prefer something that i will be able to play in the future that still looks amazing i mean the game is good adn looks as good as any of todays games on medium so why complain?

 

[KainXS]

Im sure we all remember Neverwinter Nights 2, that game looked pretty bad compared to oblivion and has similar requirements

the engine was terrible

I think that the developers adopt terribly coded engines because they have deals with Nvidia, Intel, Etc to force users to upgrade their components

 

[BloodTotal]

I like how you say the GTX is a waste of money yet the Ultra is the best available.

My GTX was £17 more than the cheapest GTS available or the same price as the majority of GTS cards available (at the time of purchase). Most GTX cards however are still around the £300 mark and these indeed are pointless however if you search for a bargin then can be found.

for that kind of a price it is reasonable before, but now the new 8800GTS is even with the 8800GTX if not better in some benchmarks.

 

[btarunr]

Remember Doom 3?

When that came out, very few machines were actually capable of handling it. 256 MB of video-memory was a luxury and 128MB mainstream, 64 MB as baseliners. With every generation of video-hardware we've seen that "wonderful game" coming out, people getting into zeg rush to buy it and play it properly, we've also seen the same situation, that of the current-gen hardware being not very competent in playing that game.

We've seen that with Quake II, III, Doom 3, and now Crysis.

When a developer sits down with his drawing boards, he usually seeks the support of big-time hardware manufacturers like NVidia, ATi, AMD, Intel so such big companies lease their working prototype hardware to these developers and they code the game. Only things turn out that the prototypes used when developing these games come out very late into the market as products.
id software used prototype NV40 cards from NVidia, some prototypes actually had 512 MB of memory (to code/test the ultra mode). Doom 3 was released, a little later the GeForce 6 Series came out full-cylinders and the NV40 GPU was used into making the top of the line 6800 series cards. Exactly the same time, VALVe had its hands on prototypes of the X800 from ATI and they went parallel.
That way, developers saved themselves the costs involved in buying cutting-edge hardware, and their games were made years ahead in technology. They either had to pay the hardware company a fee for using their prototypes or "optimise" their games for the hardware.

The same happened with Crysis, just that CryTek used hardware waay ahead of their market releases, probably Yorkfield on a 680i with three G80 in SLI (prototype/engineering samples of Yorkfield processors successfully ran on 680i).

 

[niko084]

You can easily run it maxed at 1920x1200 with 2x 3850 512's, 2x 3870 512's, 2x 2900 Pro or Xt's, 2x 8800GT 512's or 2x 8800GTX or Ultras

I can't say for certain on a 8800GTS except the new G92 ones.

 

[BloodTotal]

You can easily run it maxed at 1920x1200 with 2x 3850 512's, 2x 3870 512's, 2x 2900 Pro or Xt's, 2x 8800GT 512's or 2x 8800GTX or Ultras

I can't say for certain on a 8800GTS except the new G92 ones.

hes right, there is no point in buying the old 8800GTS models, the 8800GT is just a little bit more expensive and you get way more bang for the buck, even with one GT you should be able to pull alot.