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User is offline   DavoX 

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Yeah, I want to upgrade and I want something powerful but cheap and quiet without using too many watts from the power.

So I have in mind an ATI 5870. I've heard ATI has problems with Eduke32. Does anyone know if this card in particular is bad for it? It's really important to me to keep using mapster32.
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User is offline   The Commander 

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As long as you use the 10.5 drivers you will be fine.
Anything above this will give you stupid white textures and make certain shadows go away.
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User is offline   Danukem 

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The white squares are only a problem if you use the blurry texture filters (like bilinear or trilinear).
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User is offline   The Commander 

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I would still stick to the 10.5 driver as I know how important lighting and shadows are is to his project.

This post has been edited by The Commander: 07 December 2010 - 10:38 AM

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User is offline   Mikko 

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No point getting 5870 as 6870 is almost as fast (and consumes less power) and much cheaper.

Polymer runs like shit though but I'm guessing it's the case with both cards.

This post has been edited by Mikko_Sandt: 07 December 2010 - 10:39 AM

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User is offline   DavoX 

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By using those drivers, will I stil be able to use Win seven and directx 11 to it's fullest?
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User is offline   lawl 

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View PostDavoX, on Dec 7 2010, 10:27 AM, said:

Yeah, I want to upgrade and I want something powerful but cheap and quiet without using too many watts from the power.

So I have in mind an ATI 5870. I've heard ATI has problems with Eduke32. Does anyone know if this card in particular is bad for it? It's really important to me to keep using mapster32.



Buy an HD 6870, its better and cheaper :x
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User is offline   Stabs 

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dude , gtx570 looking rather attractive atm
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User is offline   lawl 

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View PostDanM, on Dec 7 2010, 12:14 PM, said:

dude , gtx570 looking rather attractive atm


The HD 6870 is faster...
But the GTX 570 is good, too =/

Which Board do you have ?
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User is offline   Stabs 

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no way is the 6870 faster, in crossfire maybe

http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/nv...0_review/11.htm

iam running a gtx275 atm, next upgrade will be this gtx570

edit : all those early gtx580 reviews where all up against 6870 crossfire, i actually couldnt find any reviews doing single card comparisons

This post has been edited by DanM: 07 December 2010 - 12:30 PM

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User is offline   DavoX 

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I'm jumping from an 8800 GT, so I don't need an over the top card for now. I've got a quad core extreme 9650 that is still powerful.
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User is offline   SwissCm 

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Has anyone tried throwing in old opengl libs into the duke3d folder to see if that fixes the problem?
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User is offline   lawl 

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View PostDanM, on Dec 7 2010, 01:28 PM, said:

no way is the 6870 faster, in crossfire maybe

http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/nv...0_review/11.htm

iam running a gtx275 atm, next upgrade will be this gtx570

edit : all those early gtx580 reviews where all up against 6870 crossfire, i actually couldnt find any reviews doing single card comparisons



Yeah, but the GTX570 is an high-end card from Nvidia, and the HD 6870 not.

Lets wait for the 6970 and 6990 :rolleyes:
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