Before scrolling up to look for any prior posts you may have written, it seems best to add a warning about drivers. Officially, the Geforce 8nnn and 9nnn are not yet "Legacy" parts not being supported. Unofficially, support in current drivers is very poor for cards any older than the GT200 series; the 9800 and many games that are older than a couple of years simply won't work at all well with most newer drivers.
TimG wrote...
I have several PC's with NWN loaded. The best performers I have are 9800GT Zotacs (in two units, one Win7 Systemax w I7 processor and one HP with XP Pro). On stats the HP ought to be a dog and it is blazing fast. The two Dells are both better processors and more RAM but are much lower FPS. They have PNY Quadro cards 512mb each. I just orded a Zotac GT520 and a PNY GT430 to try. One Dell has a 1gb ATI 5450 (I think)? and it runs good FPS but can't handle shiny water.
Gorath Alpha wrote...
Quadros aren't for games, but neither is a GT 520. I don't think the 520 is nearly as powerful as an HD 5450, and the 5450 is pretty weak sauce. The 430 should be better than either the HD 5450 or the 520 (here is a comparison in which the 430 appears to be TWICE as good as the 520).
www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php.
IMO, the HD 5450 is poor, while the GT 520 is worse, although not a *LOT* worse (because the Geforce drivers support OpenGL more completely). Neither one is intended for game playing, but NWN is *quite* old by now, so all of them should be just fine,
if the drivers will support OpenGL functions. DeathWarding wrote...
)GIGABYTE GV-R787OC-2GD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
Wish it wouldnt be so choppy. The lag spikes make it not worth it for me. Wish i could resolve this.. . its like when im in game theres a program trying to open in the backround and its like flashin in a little... 
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Radeons generally are very poor in either KotOR or in NWN1, because they do not offer full support for OpenGL. Older Radeons work much better in the game than newer ones, especially the X1nnn series, like the truly gigantic Radeon X1950XTP I looked at in its box here yesterday. It seemed to weigh about ten pounds. The PC it was actually used in has been totally rebuilt, with nothing in that case the same as five years ago, when that one was still comparatively current (released late in 2006).
I started the OC with a 32 MB TNT2 video card, upgraded to a Geforce3 Ti200 for the expansions, and replaced that with a Geforce FX 5700 (bad exchange there). Periodically, I look at old games I may want to play again, clear off a space in my building area (spare bedroom mostly used for storage), and reassemble old parts in an old enclosure, test, and if it works, install the old game in question. Then, I give the PC a name, attach a label with that name and a game name, and stick it on a sturdy steel shelving unit as a reserve machine.
When the current games are no going to be played here because of things such as requiring Steam, or requiring any similar trash, such as Origin, I have to wait on the next Code Red game instead, and set down the up to date gamer system. Only then do I have a place to actually play an older game, using one of the Oldie PCs from the storage shelves.
Just Me
Modifié par Just-Me, 29 octobre 2012 - 12:19 .
