Demo Screenshot Request Thread

**hoom** · 10-09-2006, 05:44

Surely a 4200 can do better than that?
How does it look running Rome?

**Husar** · 10-09-2006, 12:09

Originally Posted by hoom

Surely a 4200 can do better than that?
How does it look running Rome?

As a general rule I think newer games usually look worse on lowest settings that older games on highest settings while performance may be similar.
Also the TI4200 is not that new, I've had two other cards since my TI4200 and my newest card is getting old as well(6600GT).

The unstoppable technological race can be a pain in your wallet, but it also provides all the fancy graphics.

**hoom** · 10-09-2006, 12:37

Well, yeah I'm sitting pretty with a couple of months old C2D 6600 & x1900gt but I dunno, my hard campaigning radeon9800 kinda spoiled me I guess in being able to run anything from the dx7 oldies up to modern games like BF2 at 1280*1024 with medium-high game settings + 8*AF & 2*AA.
Heck, it was even pretty happy running RTR:PE at 1920*1200 with high-medium game settings (huge units) 8*AF & 2*AA.

**Big King Sanctaphrax** · 10-09-2006, 13:58

Hmm, well, I'm running a Ti4200, and it looks a fair bit better than that for me.

Mind you, mine is overclocked to truly dangerous levels.

**redriver** · 10-09-2006, 15:22

Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax

Hmm, well, I'm running a Ti4200, and it looks a fair bit better than that for me.

Mind you, mine is overclocked to truly dangerous levels.

try runnin' everythin' on min. settings for playable performance. surely I can make the graphics look a little bit better but at a heavy performance cost.. still not better than RTW though :P

btw, I have CoD2 and everythin' on max runs perfect. it looks and perfroms great. I've seen top of the line systems chock tryin' to run CoD2 on max.. why? because they have all those fancy-shmancy visual features my video card doesn't have.. so in short an old system can run a modern game with great/awesome graphics and have a very good performance. ya just need to know how to code :D

**Big King Sanctaphrax** · 10-09-2006, 15:56

Yes, my little 4200 has done me proud over the years. It's only in the past couple of months that I've been having problems with new games.

I've just ordered a 7600 GT though, so its time has finally come. Maybe I'll build a system for my sister and put it in there.

**redriver** · 10-12-2006, 23:19

Originally Posted by hoom

Surely a 4200 can do better than that?
How does it look running Rome?

this is how:

mind ya the graphics not on highest. I have it optimized for performance and have lotsa things on low or med.

in comparition this is what M2TW demo looks like with everythin' on low and textures on high:

ya be the judge.. not to mention that I can get much better graphics in RTW with evrythin' cranked up to the highest if I don't care 'bout the performance.