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Which one?
EVGA GeForce 8600 GTS 5 (83.3%)
Sapphire Radeon x1950 Pro 1 (16.7%)
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Graphics Card for Willow; I'm not smart enough to know what to do!
Topic Started: Jun 11 2007, 04:16 PM (323 Views)
Willow
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GeForce 8600 GTS



I don't know anything about graphics cards, or computers in general for that matter. Luckily I have smart folks here at AoF to make my decisions for me :)

The first link is for the 8600 GTS, I'll have a link for the Radeon later.
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Wolverine
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i have a geforce my self and i like it alot. but i have no clue when it comes to graphic cards either. but i hear good things about geforce so i would go with that
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ZeroTM
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Definitely go for that GeForce card. It destroys the Sapphire.
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TragicHero
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Nvidia> Radeon... They use nvidia for PS3 don't they? :o
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Willow
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*note* I'm running on Window XP, does that mean this card won't work?
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It should still work, but the 8000 series is designed to support DX 10. Just make sure the rest of your computer can support it. My dip room mate bought a new card, couldn't get it to work, so he upgraded the power supply since it was underpowered. Then he found it still didn't work.... The card was DDR2, his board was DDR.
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Ocelots
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yea and this is a DDR3 so you better have some power in that machine to be able to run your video card.
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Jun 11 2007, 07:31 PM
*note* I'm running on Window XP, does that mean this card won't work?

No, but Vista would take more advantage of your card's power I believe.
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Phantasm
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that card and direct x10 can only be run on vista .
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Phantasm
Jun 12 2007, 11:43 AM
that card and direct x10  can only be run on vista .

Minimum System Requirements:

Intel® or AMD® compatible motherboard

At least 512MB system RAM

PCI Express® compliant motherboard

A minimum 350W system power supply

1 6-pin supplementary power connectors

50MB of available hard disk space

CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive

Microsoft® Windows® 2000, XP or Vista

VGA or DVI-I compatible monitor
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Microsoft has always claimed that DirectX 10 is an integral part of Windows Vista and cannot be implemented into other operating systems. However 19 year old Cody Brocious, a software reverse-engineer from San Diego, California, claims to have create a wrapper for Windows executables that make use of DirectX 10, allowing them to be used on operating systems other than Windows Vista.

Writing on the Alky Project blog, Brocious says:

As a fitting start to this blog, I'm proud to release a preview of our DirectX 10 compatibility libraries. These libraries allow the use of DirectX 10 games on platforms other than Microsoft Vista, and increase hardware compatibility even on Vista, by compiling Geometry Shaders down to native machine code for execution where hardware isn't capable of running it. No longer will you have to upgrade your OS and video card(s) to play the latest games.

The current preview allows you to run a number of examples from the DirectX SDK on Windows XP. They're not the greatest thing since sliced bread, but we want to whet your appetite. We hope to release builds in the coming months progressing from demos to fully functional games. We also plan to post on this blog from time to time with screenshots and videos of what's to come.

Is this for real or just a hoax? I can't say yet. I've downloaded the preview build and I've got the DirectX SDK coming in so that I can try out a few of the examples. When that's downloaded I'll get back to you. Personally, I'm skeptical at present. Even if some of the examples work, getting all of DirectX running on a non-Vista platform will be tricky, if not impossible.

I'll keep you posted.

[Updated: Apr 23, 2007 @ 10.25 am] OK, I've tried running the DirectX 10 examples from the Microsoft DirectX SDK on two systems and so far all I've seen are crashes. Not promising.


nice try zero read this
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Phantasm
Jun 12 2007, 05:31 PM
Microsoft has always claimed that DirectX 10 is an integral part of Windows Vista and cannot be implemented into other operating systems. However 19 year old Cody Brocious, a software reverse-engineer from San Diego, California, claims to have create a wrapper for Windows executables that make use of DirectX 10, allowing them to be used on operating systems other than Windows Vista.

Writing on the Alky Project blog, Brocious says:

As a fitting start to this blog, I'm proud to release a preview of our DirectX 10 compatibility libraries. These libraries allow the use of DirectX 10 games on platforms other than Microsoft Vista, and increase hardware compatibility even on Vista, by compiling Geometry Shaders down to native machine code for execution where hardware isn't capable of running it. No longer will you have to upgrade your OS and video card(s) to play the latest games.

The current preview allows you to run a number of examples from the DirectX SDK on Windows XP. They're not the greatest thing since sliced bread, but we want to whet your appetite. We hope to release builds in the coming months progressing from demos to fully functional games. We also plan to post on this blog from time to time with screenshots and videos of what's to come.

Is this for real or just a hoax? I can't say yet. I've downloaded the preview build and I've got the DirectX SDK coming in so that I can try out a few of the examples. When that's downloaded I'll get back to you. Personally, I'm skeptical at present. Even if some of the examples work, getting all of DirectX running on a non-Vista platform will be tricky, if not impossible.

I'll keep you posted.

[Updated: Apr 23, 2007 @ 10.25 am] OK, I've tried running the DirectX 10 examples from the Microsoft DirectX SDK on two systems and so far all I've seen are crashes. Not promising.


nice try zero read this

I'm just going by what the requirements on that videocard say.
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Willow
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I'm confused
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Some clarification: The Geforce 8600 GTS WILL run on XP, but DirectX 10 is only functionable in Vista at the moment.
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Willow
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Thank you Landon. :)
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