[Person of Color]

PsychoGoatee, on 23 October 2015 - 08:26 AM, said:

How severely is that still the case with ATI cards nowadys? My brother's computer had a 7870, a pretty solid 2gb ATI card. He played some eDuke in polymost on there and to me it seemed fine. I should've tested it before he took it out I guess.

He just got a new card, a GTX 970, so I could pop in the 7870 to replace my 560 ti sometime. Lately other than some Killing Floor 2 which plays great, I just play lots of eduke and GZdoom. And I heard similar things about ATI cards having issues on GZDoom. Although again, he played it and I didn't notice anything problematic.

So, should I stick with my current card for a while if I'm playing mostly older games? And would a card like the 7870 really have poor performance in eduke? Maybe just in Polymer mode?

It depends on what you're playing. With my 6970 I had less issues in legacy software compared to my 770 but I haven't tried my 290 yet. EDuke was very jumpy on my 6970 though.

My advice is to try it. See how it is. A 7870 is a little faster that a GTX 580, so it's definitely a step up. Just use Display Driver Uninstaller before making the switch.

Duke of Hazzard, on 23 October 2015 - 02:45 PM, said:

Polymer (and by extension the HRP) will never be relevant if you neglect AMD cards.

@Viper: My current Nvidias are stock Gigabytes and very quiet.

I agree. Intel cards are the most popular and AMD controls roughly 30% of the GPU market.

Also the Gigabyte Windforce cards are really nice. As a general rule of thumb, I try to avoid certain reference design cards. There's a price war at the top of the hill - Sometimes you get cards like the 290 or 680 that just suck cock, but OEM's need those magical cheap cards so they can fight it out.