Radeon 9700 Pro All-in-Wonder

[+Fates 63]

Ok, the Radeon 9700 Pro AIW is installed and everything is working as advertised. Running Latest Bios, and drivers for the the mobo and card. Had a little trouble at first and thought I was gonna be dissapointed, but I stuck with it and read the forums and followed everyones instructions.

 

My Framerates for Nascar with everything turned to full on and 43 cars reaches about 115Fps. I also rewired my PC to provide some extra cooling and I'm now at 33 Degrees C. I'm seriously looking into a water cooler (Koolance). Seen a system at CompUSA and realized....DAMN thats quite!

 

I'm sure I still got some tweaking to do, but everything is running stable so far. (knock..knock)

 

Can't Wait to benchtest against someone...just need the software to do that.

 

SYSTEM:

Antec SOHO 350 Case

Asus A7V8X Mobo with SATA/RAID/USB2.0/1394/5.1 Sound/Broadcom 10/100 LAN

AMD 2400 XP (not overclocked yet) 2.0Ghz

Radeon 9700 Pro All-in-Wonder w/ Latest Catalyst 3.1 Drivers

Kingston 512MB DDR 2700 RAM

ThermalTake Volcano 9 Coolmod HSF

Envision 19" Flat CRT

Saitek X45 Hotas, Logitech Wingman RumblePad

 

I should say that my ONLY dissapointment so far has been with the built on sound drivers. I'm not sure exactly where the issues lies, but Nascar 2003 forces my sound card to go into an Environmental Mode "Quarry". This means that everything that creates sound...ie..ICQ, RW, Game all have this reverb on...this is VERY annoying. I've since updated to the latest ASUS drivers and it seems that other applications from ATI have done the same thing intermitantly, while Nascar seems to have gotten worse. I have a SB 5.1 live card in my desk...I may just turn the onboard sound off and install it. Don't fret Beer...SFP1 sounds remain unharmed.

 

Tested more tonite...NO probs with Enviro Mode "Quarry" except from Nascar2003....shot Papy off an email tonite.

[SDirickson 0]

Care to post some FB pics? Like the nice water and terrain?

[+Fates 63]

If by "FB" you mean Fat Bastard, I posted my pic in the PICS Thread.

 

If you mean "Forgotten Battles", well...Send me your game...I'll be happy

to. I suppose I could wait for a demo to be released for FB and show

some pics from that. I just got off the IL2 site...don't go there often...

(since props are for smashing bugs) and I didn't find a Demo for FB...only

the original.

 

The game is graphically stunning, and from what I see and hear..it's also

incredible realistic. I played Janes WW2, and I also played the IL-2 Demo.

Both, IMO, were excellent games.

 

Send me the game...I'll indulge you retinas!

 

 

Cheers

 

Fates

[SDirickson 0]

Fates, I'd send you the game... If I didn't spend every waking moment playing it. FB is definately the best WWII flight sim ever released. Before that, Il-2, and before that, Jane's WWII Fighters.

 

The demo will be out sometime, but I would definately suggest picking this one up. Especially since the upcoming patches are going to be introducing some more jet aircraft to supplement the current Me-262.

[*Fast Eagle* 0]

I've heard a lot of games have probs with the radeon card? is this overcomable?? In a reasonable easy manner or do you need to be a tech guru to fix the issues