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AquaGeneral
Joined: Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:56 am Posts: 214 Location: Australia, Queensland
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8 Series Nvidia Graphics Cards
Only five days ago I bought a Geforce 8600 GTS. Only today I got CC up and running correctly, I installed all of the newest drivers and I must say that CC has never looked better. Every part of the game looks more crisp, text looks really clear. The sky's and backhgrounds look a bit oilyer.
To the people who are thinking of buying a new GFX card, make sure you suit with the 8 series Nvidia graphics cards.
For some reason when I capture a screen with either FRAPS or the game it gets captured at the resolution of 640x480
If I can find a way to capture in 1280x1024 than I can show you guys.
I had it on high resolution mode in the driver so that games will run at 1280x1024 regardless of what game it is. I do know that the GPU does nothing but you cannot use the high resolution mode in the control panel without a 8000 series or ATI's equivalent.
Last edited by AquaGeneral on Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:14 am, edited 2 times in total.
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Grif
REAL AMERICAN HERO
Joined: Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:25 pm Posts: 5655
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Re: 8 Series Nvidia Graphics Cards increases performance
Crispness != performance
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 2:37 am |
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AquaGeneral
Joined: Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:56 am Posts: 214 Location: Australia, Queensland
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Re: 8 Series Nvidia Graphics Cards increases performance
Grif wrote: Crispness != performance What do you mean by that?
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 2:44 am |
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Grif
REAL AMERICAN HERO
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Re: 8 Series Nvidia Graphics Cards increases performance
Crispness means your monitor is merely displaying at a good resolution. Performance would be CC never lagging, ever.
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 2:46 am |
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AquaGeneral
Joined: Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:56 am Posts: 214 Location: Australia, Queensland
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Re: 8 Series Nvidia Graphics Cards increases performance
Grif wrote: Crispness means your monitor is merely displaying at a good resolution. Performance would be CC never lagging, ever. 1280x1024 is pretty large, espicially on a small/medium (17') LCDMonitor.
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 2:50 am |
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Alenth Eneil
Joined: Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:34 am Posts: 2378
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Re: 8 Series Nvidia Graphics Cards increases performance
I lol'd.
Graphics cards do not have anything to do with CC.
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 3:26 am |
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Demented
Joined: Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:19 am Posts: 94
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Re: 8 Series Nvidia Graphics Cards increases performance
It could only be a driver thing, or the fact that something else changed that you didn't realize. In any case, if you're screen-capping at 640x480, it means the game's running 640x480 fullscreen... At least on software. I'd be impressed if they went to the trouble of scaling up lower resolutions so that a monitor could run at its native resolution.
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 3:33 am |
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AquaGeneral
Joined: Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:56 am Posts: 214 Location: Australia, Queensland
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Re: 8 Series Nvidia Graphics Cards increases performance
I had it on high resolution mode in the driver so that games will run at 1280x1024 regardless of what game it is. I do know that the GPU does nothing but you cannot use the high resolution mode in the control panel without a 8000 series or ATI's equivalent.
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 3:59 am |
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airdoo0
Joined: Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:04 am Posts: 5
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Re: 8 Series Nvidia Graphics Cards increases performance
Obvious ad is obvious, ect. If you knew a bit about cc you would know that cc barely if at all uses the graphics card.
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:00 am |
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Grif
REAL AMERICAN HERO
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Re: 8 Series Nvidia Graphics Cards increases performance
airdoo0 wrote: Obvious ad is obvious, ect. If you knew a bit about cc you would know that cc barely if at all uses the graphics card. Irony at calling a forum veteran a spammer is irony. Postcount is your friend.
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:03 am |
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airdoo0
Joined: Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:04 am Posts: 5
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Re: 8 Series Nvidia Graphics Cards increases performance
Grif wrote: airdoo0 wrote: Obvious ad is obvious, ect. If you knew a bit about cc you would know that cc barely if at all uses the graphics card. Irony at calling a forum veteran a spammer is irony. Postcount is your friend. i come from a place where there is no such thing as identity and the muddy clowns roam free. P.S. You- Sat Jan 27, 2007 Me - Tue Jan 09, 2007
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:06 am |
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AquaGeneral
Joined: Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:56 am Posts: 214 Location: Australia, Queensland
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Re: 8 Series Nvidia Graphics Cards increases performance
airdoo0 wrote: i come from a place where there is no such thing as identity and the muddy clowns roam free. Come on, just ignore something or someone if you don't like them, don't bother posting if you are saying something that either does not make any sense or anything that has a chance of offending someone airdoo0 wrote: You- Sat Jan 27, 2007 Me - Tue Jan 09, 2007 Who is more active?
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:10 am |
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airdoo0
Joined: Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:04 am Posts: 5
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Re: 8 Series Nvidia Graphics Cards increases performance
AquaGeneral wrote: Too many embedded quotes lol! It does make sense, but you have to have known and experianced the criteria of what i am talking about in order for it to make sense. HintEDIT: Hai gais lets all kiss and make up.
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:14 am |
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Grif
REAL AMERICAN HERO
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Re: 8 Series Nvidia Graphics Cards increases performance
airdoo0 wrote: It does make sense, but you have to have known and experianced the criteria of what i am talking about in order for it to make sense. HintOh lovely, a friendly /b/tard. Anyways, I've given a ♥♥♥♥ about CC since B11, you obviously have not, even though you were ironically correct in your original statement, CC uses none of the GPU.
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Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:22 am |
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AquaGeneral
Joined: Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:56 am Posts: 214 Location: Australia, Queensland
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Re: 8 Series Nvidia Graphics Cards
airdoo I was also talking about the part of offending someone. Not saying that GRIF will get offended but it still has that tiny little chance.
Off-topic: Sorry about replying to every reply but I feel the need to, because somebody needs to put this guy to a halt.
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