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[legendboy]

I just bought an FX5900XT. Here are some Halo screen shots. Notice the little horizontal lines??? Are thoes supose to be there? This is on 1152 x 864 resoloution. I have the Nvidia utility set to "high performance", stock clocks. Even when i set it to high quality i still find images and movies not as sharp, and with the lines.


http://www.telusplanet.net/public/kaake/PC/Untitled-2%20copy.jpg

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/kaake/PC/Untitled-4%20copy.jpg

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/kaake/PC/Untitled-3%20copy.jpg

[rage2]

Serves you right for buying Nvidia lol!

[legendboy]

Originally posted by rage2
Serves you right for buying Nvidia lol!

hahaha i expected someone to say that :D

[GTS Jeff]

im no expert with this stuff, but have u checked your anti-aliasing?

[egmike]

man I think I have had too many beers cause I can see anything wierd on those screen shots where are the lines?:nut:

ha ha

[GingeRRRBeef]

Can I ask why you decided to buy Nvidia?

[legendboy]

it was on sale y0 :burnout:

[prosh]

If you're referring to the jaggies, they're normal. If you want to get rid of them at the cost of performance, turn on FSAA (full screen anti-aliasing) and AFiltering. Dunno how well ur halo's gonna run afterwards considering its a resource whore. have fun

[hampstor]

jaggies? if you can see jaggies then you need to stop camping :)

[legendboy]

Well, as it turns out it was my monitor :angel: But I gave in to peer pressure and bought a Radeon 9800 Pro :D

Some benchmark scores:

3DMark03
-ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 5620
-MSI FX5900XT 5085


3DMark01
-ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 16129M
-MSI FX5900XT 14237

[polaris]

The 5900xt is probably the best for buck in the market right now, for 200bucks you get a wicked card. A farer 2nd would be the 9600xt I think. You think the screen isnt "sharp" cause you have FSAA on, I'm guessing you have at least 4x, probably closer to 8x, FSAA on, but its hard to tell cause the pictures are resized. You can turn it off if you dont like it. Its just in the driver settings.

AF doesn't take anyway jaggies, it gives you better,sharper looking progression of texture compression.

[GorG]

yo nice how much did you pick it up for, that looks better then x-box btw nothing you can do about those lines, pretty sure at least

[legendboy]

Bought it at memory express for $399.95

[GingeRRRBeef]

^^^
I bought a Radeon 9800 XT a couple of months back for 600 bones.

Cost me an arm and a leg but I'm sooooo happy with it. Everything looks so nice! :D

[legendboy]

Originally posted by Silver_SpecV
^^^
I bought a Radeon 9800 XT a couple of months back for 600 bones.

Cost me an arm and a leg but I'm sooooo happy with it. Everything looks so nice! :D

ya the xt is big bux! :bigpimp: too rich for me

[GingeRRRBeef]

Originally posted by legendboy


ya the xt is big bux! :bigpimp: too rich for me

haha It was a total impulse buy but I don't regret it one bit :D

[polaris]

The 9800Pro is so cheap now, even compared to like a couple months ago. A 9800Pro can be had for like 300bucks now, compared to 600+ before.
The XT is expensive though, for double the price you get a card thats only like 5-10% faster MAX. Thats just insane. But for those that need the best, I guess this will be it. Since the top end nV 5950ultra isnt around yet.

[legendboy]

where can you get it for $300? cheapest i've seen is $340

[eur0]

newegg.com or memory express

and get the sapphire 9800 pro

[switch]

ATI 9800 PRO here, Nvidia sucks.

[EnRich]

Whats wrong with Nvidia cards??? Isn't that the same company which makes GeForce... ???

Rich