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It's true that mine's an old system. But what I've learned is that you shouldn't expect miracles from a new card, even if the benchmarks say so (they say 50-60 FPS in Oblivion!).
And yes, it's Geforce 9600GT.

Originally Posted by Elysia

But what I've learned is that you shouldn't expect miracles from a new card, even if the benchmarks say so

Agreed. GPU benchmarks should really be used as a comparrison to other cards. Because, the other components in your system are going to play a large role in how the game runs.

Originally Posted by Elysia

That explains why I can still get choppy framerates on a 9600GT (in Oblivion) which is superior to 8600.
Don't expect miracles.

Coppiness is usualyl when some part of the system is being bottlenecked due to transient loads. Sometimes it helps to turn down the graphcis settings, even if the GPU can handle it, sometimes the CPU cant feed it the info fast enough and you still get chop.

I got the 8600 because its only $99 now, which is cheap enough for me to justify it as an experiment, since my current card, an X1550 still runs all my games, but wont let me run rapidmind.

Originally Posted by Elysia

It's true that mine's an old system. But what I've learned is that you shouldn't expect miracles from a new card, even if the benchmarks say so (they say 50-60 FPS in Oblivion!).
And yes, it's Geforce 9600GT.

My cousin has a 9600GT which gets about 50-70FPS indoors and 30-50 outdoors. This is with all settings maxed AAx4 and AFx16. So, I'd imagine something else in your system is bottlenecking you.

This is also an area where LCDs sort of kill gamers on non-high-end systems. To have a game look decent at all you are restricted to the LCDs resolution which is usually one that is too high for mid to low range systems to run smoothly.

I love my LCD also, it's jsut some times running a game in a res lower than 1680x1050 would be nice ^_^

Yeah... LCDs don't have to run at any particular resolution. It's plasma TVs that have native resolutions. ...and besides, what size is your screen that it needs to run at 1680x1050? Memory could potentially be the bottleneck on Vista. I'd like to hear the full specs of the computer in question, though.

You can change the resolution, but it will not look nearly as good. If you put your LCD on it's native reolution and look at an image and then put it on something lower and look at the same image, you should notice quite a large difference (Assuming the image quality is decent on the LCD to begin with).

I'm not saying it's impossible to change the resolution, but it takes a huge visual hit.

Originally Posted by indigo0086

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