Good video card suggestions?
 

What good video card thats maybe under $200 I can get to run the game smoothly? Im not talking about maxing out the settings, but enough to run the game fine and take in some of the excellent details. I want to get ready for BF Vietnam :dance:

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You are not going to get a decent video card for under $200 right now. You may find something that works ok, but it won't bring out the 'excellent details'. If I were you, I would look into an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro or 9800 Pro (for around $250-$300). These cards will kick ass, and fyi, Battlefield Vietnam will require a more powerful card than BF1942 does to look the same (due to way more details and increased visuals). Do yourself a favor and become an ATI guy, I did. It TRIPLED my 3d mark score from my previous Nvidia G4 4600 ti. Also make sure that you have at least 512 g of ram.

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Personaly i would stay away freom the ATI 9200 or below, i think that any Nvidia/Gforce cards would be your best option.

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I have both an ati and geforce fx card on diff pc's and i like them both. Just make make sure the card u get has a good clock speed.

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I've had the ati radeon(128mb) 9700/9500pro 1 year,never a prob, never updated anything, running all video, sound, details maxed out, ran nice w 512 ram,game loads faster when i added 512 more,pentium4 2.4mghz,I've heard of probs with radeon 9200.Better wait till you can get at least a 128mb card, maybey $200 will get one now.They're cheaper on the web, search.OuchThat Hurts.
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http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...450-8503&Tab=2

Hey guys, how about that one ?

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I just got my 5900ultra... SWEETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Go BigWyrm, you rock! Like BigWyrm said, get an ATI card, they are the BEST! Not only do they perform better in DirectX 9 games, but the AA (anti-aliasing) and AF (anisotropic-filtering) performance hit is not as big as in nVidorka cards. As you can see, I am quite an ATI fan, but then again there are those like DC2002 and Spidey who are big nVidia fans, so ask them how they like there cards.

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With my nvidia gf4 ti4200 I can run game at MAX on 1024X768 and it looks really good.

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I run the NVidia G4TI-4200 128 meg. For most cases it works good but there are times when there are several people fighting it out, especially when vehicles are present, it gets jerky, but that could be the server. I lost many of fight due to laggy screen. I also run it with an AMD 2500XP and 512meg PC 3700 Ram, Win XP Pro.

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I have the Gforce4 MX 440 it has 128MB onboard memory and i have 512MB of Ram. it works great i had to upgrade my ram tho it cam with 256MB when i bought it and the battlefield was just a lag fest. I dont know really much about comps but i think it's really good.

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I'm a nvidia fan, i just got an FX 5600, 256mb for $350 Canadian. Depends on your budget, from what I know all of the new GeForceFX cards would run it, just the higher model you buy the better it will run. Or any ATI cards from about 9600 up would run it nicely.

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I also run a Ti4200 & for the most part it runs just fine at 1024x768 32bit. My system specs are in my sig. I will also agree that you need as much system memory as you can afford. I noticed a major improvement when I added the second stick of 512, got a little better when I added the second drive in the RAID. I usually get 80-100fps on most maps. Not hardly any lag at all.

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id go with an Nvidia Geforce FX 5950 Pro thats a great new card that'll run any game you have smoothly. its a bit 'o moneys though

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Get a Radeon 9800 Pro for $268.00 with FREE SHIPPING! . It is a really nice card, and you can play with 4XAA and 8XAF, and it looks quite nice.

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Thats surprising Digital Death. My game (amd xp2000. 1024 ddr ram, gf4 ti 4200) only gets laggy on the new maps eg Urban Siege. Prolly another 512 of ram would see no jerkyness for you.

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Hi Officerpuppy,

That's a big NO!

I have benchmarked a standard 5200 and compared it to a standard GF4 MX440 and the best I got was about 15% improvement in FPS, so thinkof the 5200 as the low perofrmance budget priced card of the FX range. BTW Ic an pick up a basic FX5200 for AU$100 wholesale, a FX5600 for AU$200 wholesale. The FX5700 is next in the Nvdia Range, but don't go below the 5600. As for ATI, yes they do perform better, specially with AA and AF turned up compared to Nvidia, but they cost more, oh yes, and DON'T get the 9200 if you want decent performance.

If you want best performance with Nvidia get a generic 256Mb FX5600 and have 1Gb ram if possible, it does make a difference, specially with map loading.

have fun

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