gsmanners Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 There are good and bad points. nVidia cards do tend to exhibit more rendering errors, in my experience. The thing about nVidia is that you get PhysX which can be a big boost to effects rendering speed. That will give you a smoother experience for all FPS games (and FPS/RPG hybrids like FO3). nVidia makes a much better driver than ATI, and they support cards for much longer. ATI hardware is beefier and a better value, but I prefer nVidia for the reasons stated above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roughnecks2277 Posted January 21, 2010 Author Share Posted January 21, 2010 There are good and bad points. nVidia cards do tend to exhibit more rendering errors, in my experience. The thing about nVidia is that you get PhysX which can be a big boost to effects rendering speed. That will give you a smoother experience for all FPS games (and FPS/RPG hybrids like FO3). nVidia makes a much better driver than ATI, and they support cards for much longer. ATI hardware is beefier and a better value, but I prefer nVidia for the reasons stated above. What is a PhysX? I'm terribly sorry but I'm not good with computer parts and stuff? Is a PhysX recomended to get with a nivida or is it required? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skotte Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Maybe this should explain easier http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx_new.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilneko Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Until I recently upgraded, I played on High-ish settings with an HD 2600 XT...at 1600x900. ;) Why is this called ISO? Aren't they piracy?No. Not in this context. Also, the .ISO you're thinking of is simply a disc image format, no more no less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaysus Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 mind that only 6 rather dull games support physx so far ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsmanners Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Actually, it's closer to 20 but who's counting? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roughnecks2277 Posted January 22, 2010 Author Share Posted January 22, 2010 Actually, it's closer to 20 but who's counting? :) so can Fallout 3 support PhysX? Is Fallout 3 one of those 20 games? Again I'm sorry for all my dumb questions, I've never played Fallout 3 on my computer and this will be my first game that I have modded. I mean I have played Fallout 3 on my xbox 360 for a year now and I have all the achievements but you know. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaysus Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 nope... fallout doesnt support it... anyway as it seems you can also activate physx on ati cards by using custom driver patchesfallout uses havoc btw...imo its still far too early to use the physic ability of modern gfx cards to make a descicion on what to buy... there simply isnt a standard yet, intel and amd want havoc, nvidia wants physx (well they bought it) and ati gives a crap lol... their cards are fast enough :D if you really want physic wait for directx11, mmh oh its out yet lol, well me poor xp user wont see it anytime soon anyway :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roughnecks2277 Posted January 22, 2010 Author Share Posted January 22, 2010 nope... fallout doesnt support it... anyway as it seems you can also activate physx on ati cards by using custom driver patchesfallout uses havoc btw...imo its still far too early to use the physic ability of modern gfx cards to make a descicion on what to buy... there simply isnt a standard yet, intel and amd want havoc, nvidia wants physx (well they bought it) and ati gives a crap lol... their cards are fast enough :D if you really want physic wait for directx11, mmh oh its out yet lol, well me poor xp user wont see it anytime soon anyway :( I'm confused the one guy says he uses it for Fallout 3 so the gameplay would be smoother but you say it doesn't work? lol sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaysus Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 well fallout doesnt support it as its a havoc game... easy as that, i dunno if physx also gives a speed boost to non physx games but i doubt itimo physx will be gone for good in a few month anyway, directx11 offers a much better, more compatible way for developers to speed up their physic calculations, but who knowson top of that did ati rescently release the 5xxx series which is incredible fast and not that expenisvenvidia suffered badly since the riva128 days in which they still were revolutionary, by now ati is in my mind the choice to take, faster, cheaper and less bugs so far (ok in bf2 they suffered some glitches) btw, that amazon link to the 9800 is kinda expensive, thats a 2yr old card... the new ati 5xxx series starts around 300 and its prolly thrice as fast if not more, even those nvidia 2xx series are not that expensive anymorefurthermore doesnt the 9800 support directx 11 but only 10... hence it actually needs physx, sadly not that many games support it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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