andysmith45
Contributor
The XFX 8600GT Fatal1ty @ Rs 5250/- was not available and the dealer said that the XFX people were out of town so I bought the mercury 8600GT (256MB, GDDR3) instead for just Rs. 2550/-. The price diff. was anyway just too great to rsist.
When I updated the default drivers (6.14.11.6371) to the latest (6.14.11.7516), the framerates in Virtua Tennis 3 increased from 50fps to 75 fps while in Company Of Heroes, it increased from 36 to 46 fps (avg.). They were no change in fps in C&C: Generals and in C&C: Tiberium Wars. In C&C:Generals, I am getting 30-31 fps in the opening sequence (main screen) and 20-21 during the intro video of the USA campaign. Interestingly, I got the same fps when I reduced the graphics settings from ultra high to high. In C&C:Tiberium Wars, I got ard. 27-31 fps during the first GDI mission but sometimes for a couple of seconds, it goes below 10 fps.
I am running WinXP Pro SP2 on a Anthlon 64 3000+, Asus A8N-VM, 1GB DDR 400 (512x2), 300GB HDD (WD3000JD), Powersafe 500W (18A on +12V). The games were run at Full/Ultra High graphics settings at 800x600.
Btw, when was the 8600GT launched in India?
When I updated the default drivers (6.14.11.6371) to the latest (6.14.11.7516), the framerates in Virtua Tennis 3 increased from 50fps to 75 fps while in Company Of Heroes, it increased from 36 to 46 fps (avg.). They were no change in fps in C&C: Generals and in C&C: Tiberium Wars. In C&C:Generals, I am getting 30-31 fps in the opening sequence (main screen) and 20-21 during the intro video of the USA campaign. Interestingly, I got the same fps when I reduced the graphics settings from ultra high to high. In C&C:Tiberium Wars, I got ard. 27-31 fps during the first GDI mission but sometimes for a couple of seconds, it goes below 10 fps.
I am running WinXP Pro SP2 on a Anthlon 64 3000+, Asus A8N-VM, 1GB DDR 400 (512x2), 300GB HDD (WD3000JD), Powersafe 500W (18A on +12V). The games were run at Full/Ultra High graphics settings at 800x600.
Btw, when was the 8600GT launched in India?
and said that both mercury & xfx cost the same. Then the manager came over & after calling up the Mercury distributer, said that it cost Rs 2550/- :clap: . At first, I couldn't believe what he said and he had to repeat it. 