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x800se pci
I am fairly new to computers and I bought a 8400 with the x800se card and I can't tell much difference on my games or videos from my old AMD K-6 with no graphics card. Am I doing something wrong or does all videos and background objects look blocky on all computers?
Dimension 8400 xp pro
3.2 ht pentium
1 gig 533 ram
18 in ultra fpd
It may be that you only need to adjust the settings, but you may also have joined the rest of us on this forum who are finding that our spanking new X800se cards are not delivering anything like the performance we expected (in many cases not running the games at all) and are still awaiting an explanation from Dell ... I'm not pointing the blame at anyone because I honestly don't know where it lies at this stage, but I'm just saying, you should be getting rich and smooth games performance and if you're not it may not be your fault ...
gordond2000
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Posted August 15th, 2004 21:00
One thing you can do that will make your games look much better is go into the ATI control panel (in advanced settings from the settings tab of the display properies) and enable Anti-aliasing and the other thing under it in the Direct 3d and Open GL tabs. Slide the bars on those tabs more to the right for better looking images.
Also, in the games that you play, you can turn up the graphic detail and resolution in the games settings page.
Also, one of the things that improves the most when getting a new video card is the frame rate. If you are playing pretty old games, you won't notice this so much. Like if you're playing CounterStrike, you won't really be able to tell much difference between getting 40FPS and 100FPS. But f you are playing newer games like America's Army, you'll notice a big difference between 10-15FPS and 40-70FPS.
Finally your x800SE will be able to play next generation games like Doom 3 at a respectable level, where-as you would absolutely no hope of playing one second with a computer with no video card.