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Post by Retired DM Gallin on Jan 12, 2006 15:09:12 GMT -5
They've got S-video, which is what I use, still good quality. Most video cards come with 1 or 2 dvi ports, some agp to dvi adapters, and they usually have a single s-video port as well. Most all TV's, DVD players, what have you, can recieve S-video input. Then you need an RCA adapter (I think that's what they're called) To split the audio from your computer into the Red and white audio cables. Plug 'em in and start the party!
~Gallin
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Post by Retired DM Gallin on Jan 12, 2006 15:16:36 GMT -5
on the topic of 7800's, they are amazing cards actually, but they are not the highest, obviously. However, getting a card that can run F.E.A.R. at full settings, 1280x1024 4x anti-aliasing, 16x antistropic filtering, and soft shadows enabled, all at 51 fps, I'd say it's one sweet buy at $300. I'm running an Evga Geforce 7800 GT 256mb PCI-Express. I love my life ;D i have a X800 XT i run it at all max with the same resolution EXCEPT soft shaows at 55 FPS and with soft shadows 40 FPS and mine is over a year old and the 7800 is what 2, 3 months old? and can only run it that much higher? seems kinda, well crappy then again F.E.A.R is an extreamly demanding game. lol unlike counter strike where i get mid 100's for FPS, i once got 163 FPS totally maxed Keep in mind the 7800 GT is NOT the top of the line from Nvidia. That's one of their GTX models, another 150 bucks on top easily. Soft shadows is also an extremely demanding feature that ranks up there with anti-aliasing. Tom's hardware rocks. Enough said. ATI doesn't spend money on advertising? Who's logo got slapped on the front of every Half-life 2 package, one of the best selling games of all time? And Doom 3? Both companies are spending plenty on advertising, though my loyalties lie with Nvidia at the moment. They focus more on using shaders, popular in F.E.A.R. and Battlefield 2. ATI is better at rendering things faster, making it the choice for Half-Life 2, Doom 3, and the like. However, I certainly do support their competition. That's what keeps prices down for the consumer and let me buy my 7800 GT for just 300 bucks. ;D ~Gallin |
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Post by Foomanchu on Jan 12, 2006 15:34:23 GMT -5
neither Half Life 2 nor Doom 3 had the ATI logo on them  and nVidia beat the heck out of ATI in Doom3 and always will because of the way they built it, and hugely because of the fact it's OpenGL. nVidia has their logo and intro movie on ... an uncountable number of games. I could try to think up a list of games but I fear I don't have that much spare time lol and I don't want this thread to become an argument  i like talking about hardware/software haha especially with ppl who also like it and are knowledgable  oh and as for the GTX...those damn things are blazing fast if you buy the right ones :S but ati will trump them, then vise-versa and so on and so forth |
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Post by louiscypher on Jan 12, 2006 16:01:50 GMT -5
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Post by Retired DM Gallin on Jan 12, 2006 23:11:01 GMT -5
neither Half Life 2 nor Doom 3 had the ATI logo on them and nVidia beat the heck out of ATI in Doom3 and always will because of the way they built it, and hugely because of the fact it's OpenGL. nVidia has their logo and intro movie on ... an uncountable number of games. I could try to think up a list of games but I fear I don't have that much spare time lol and I don't want this thread to become an argument i like talking about hardware/software haha especially with ppl who also like it and are knowledgable oh and as for the GTX...those damn things are blazing fast if you buy the right ones :S but ati will trump them, then vise-versa and so on and so forth Haha, welcome to the ever-changing field of technology, where the moment you buy something, it's outdated. As for ATI slapping their name on the games, you may be correct that they didn't put it on half life 2 or doom 3, but I know that on the graphics card, they did buy the right to be the "preferred graphics card" and slapped the HL2 or Doom3 logo on the ATI boxes. |
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Post by Foomanchu on Jan 13, 2006 9:52:29 GMT -5
that's right, i know they did HL2 because they gave out free copies of it with new gfx cards, as for doom3 :S dunno, don't remember promotions but i may very well be wrong, and i checked my HL2 box when i got home yesterday! it has a small ati logo on the back at the bottom that's like... 0.5cm x 0.5cm that simply says ATI lol but yea they both have their strong points so they're both great cards and framerate scores are usually only like 10fps off tops |
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Post by marklar on Jan 13, 2006 21:00:19 GMT -5
my card (ATI X800 XT) came with ever hook up in the box  |
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Post by mark lar on Jan 25, 2006 3:05:52 GMT -5
some reason i can't sign in BUT! ATI JUST released the X1900 XTX with 48 pixel pipelines!!!!!!!! and yes it out does the 7800 GTX by alot, no...but get the sapphire one and it will
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Post by Foomanchu on Jan 25, 2006 13:30:06 GMT -5
"16 pipelines and 48 shader processors." core clock is 650 and mem clock is 1550 but apparently nVidia is pumping out the 7900, just weeks after ATI's release, and it will be based on the G71 core...which is 32 pixel pipelines clocked much higher :S ... it's all up in the air right now.
This means...cheaper X800's lol .. yay!
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Post by Quadhund/Greenhouse on Jan 25, 2006 13:55:46 GMT -5
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Post by Foomanchu on Jan 25, 2006 16:13:01 GMT -5
*drools* if i had the money... lol ...just wait like 1/2 a year and i bet they'll already have rushed out ati X3000 series and the nVidia 9900 cards silly graphics card manufacturers...btw quad...you have the funniest damned sig. i've ever seen ahahaha |
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Post by racestark on Feb 14, 2006 18:47:56 GMT -5
I know this thread was more for bragging about what you're system has or what you'd like to have, but I couldn't think of anywhere else to put this.
I've been having a problem with NWN for a while now. Nothing major, just annoying. REALLY ANNOYING.
About half the time I start the program, it runs fine for about a minute. Then it just cuts to my desktop as if I just minimized a window. The program still runs, it's just sitting in my toolbar on my desktop. I click back on the program and it runs again with no problems. Then every five minutes or so it does the same thing. It persists like this for about half an hour and then just stops doing it.
Now I know I'm not hitting my windows key (located between the left "ctrl" and left "alt" keys) which would do this if I wanted it to. I did a virus scan and all that, too, a few days ago, so I know the system's clean (and running at a decent pace, I might add).
Anyone got any ideas? And please don't say reinstall. I'll have to retire and dedicate the whole remainder of my life to waiting for it to reinstall.
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Post by AnvilX on Feb 14, 2006 18:56:13 GMT -5
Racestark,
Have you checked your Virus Protection? My does something similiar If I just boot up and jump onto NWN. I have PC Cilian and when it checks for any updates it knocks me out of NWN and minimizes. You may want to check for any updates on your protection before logging onto NWN.
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Post by marklar on Feb 15, 2006 3:41:35 GMT -5
are you perhaps runnign soemthing like MSN in the back ground?
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Post by Grozer on Feb 15, 2006 12:28:07 GMT -5
I'd have to agree with Anvil... I use Norton and I regularly have NWN pop down minimized whenever Norton tries to update rules or asks me to address some app seeking permission outbound. I haven't been able to stop it from occuring without turning off my protection so I've personally given up since there is no way I am shutting it down.
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Post by marklar on Feb 15, 2006 13:12:19 GMT -5
I'd have to agree with Anvil... I use Norton and I regularly have NWN pop down minimized whenever Norton tries to update rules or asks me to address some app seeking permission outbound. I haven't been able to stop it from occuring without turning off my protection so I've personally given up since there is no way I am shutting it down. i also have norton, if you are downloading anything it tries to scan it to see if there is a virus. try stopping any downloads and playing, since i doubt it's updating rules if you are only using NWN and you have been play it for a while, you already would have told it what to do. |
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Post by racestark on Feb 15, 2006 16:06:02 GMT -5
No, all other programs aren't running and I never get a message telling me anything about my virus protection. It just minimizes like I described and starts right back up when I click on it in the toolbar on my desktop.
I'll just live with it. Thanks all the same.
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ATI was leading by a long shot, then nVidia started slapping their damn logo's on every game that would take their money! (just like Intel is doing, because AMD is taking them to town like none-other right now) so after spending all that money on adverts. it finally paid off. Remember, ATI didn't need to advertise like that 
and nVidia beat the heck out of ATI in Doom3 and always will because of the way they built it, and hugely because of the fact it's OpenGL. nVidia has their logo and intro movie on ... an uncountable number of games. I could try to think up a list of games but I fear I don't have that much spare time lol and I don't want this thread to become an argument 
oh and as for the GTX...those damn things are blazing fast if you buy the right ones :S but ati will trump them, then vise-versa and so on and so forth 
