GForce 4 Mx Series
Has anyone else bought any of the crappiest graphic cards ever? I remember thinking anything GForce had to be good, and I could a MX 420 for only €100 a year and a half ago! Then I started seeing reports that this budget card wasn't really that good..
And now, just now, I happened to acquire the new Prince of Persia .. No GForce 4 MX cards supported!! They even support the GForce 3! Even the Deux Ex 2 demo doesn't even work on this piece of crap! It says so in the readme!
Anyone else suffering from bad graphic cards? Let's share the pain here!
And now, just now, I happened to acquire the new Prince of Persia .. No GForce 4 MX cards supported!! They even support the GForce 3! Even the Deux Ex 2 demo doesn't even work on this piece of crap! It says so in the readme!
Anyone else suffering from bad graphic cards? Let's share the pain here!
Lol, I used to have a voodoo 5 (5500 AGP) (till 1 month ago now I purchased a whole new pc).
As you know 3DFX was bought up by NVIDIA (and their technology integrated in GForce stuff)which meant that I lost all support and there were no drivers for Voodoo 5 under Windows XP, so was relying only on 3rd party drivers. Anyway for those with voodoo 3/4/5 and XP AMIgamerlin 3.0 drivers rock! ).
I coudln't play all games released from 2 years ago (Well GTA 3 worked better then with a GForce 2 but Vice city was a hell cos I didn't get any text when I entered taxi's and stuff).
my biggest disappointment was that Rise of Nations didn't work (which I bought at his heigest market price when it hit the market) (Age of Wonders 2 didn't work either, and a lot of other games
)
But now I'm catching up on those games because with my new PC came a ATI Radeon 9800. So things are clearing up
.
Greetz,
Shampoo173
As you know 3DFX was bought up by NVIDIA (and their technology integrated in GForce stuff)which meant that I lost all support and there were no drivers for Voodoo 5 under Windows XP, so was relying only on 3rd party drivers. Anyway for those with voodoo 3/4/5 and XP AMIgamerlin 3.0 drivers rock! ).
I coudln't play all games released from 2 years ago (Well GTA 3 worked better then with a GForce 2 but Vice city was a hell cos I didn't get any text when I entered taxi's and stuff).
my biggest disappointment was that Rise of Nations didn't work (which I bought at his heigest market price when it hit the market) (Age of Wonders 2 didn't work either, and a lot of other games
)But now I'm catching up on those games because with my new PC came a ATI Radeon 9800. So things are clearing up
.Greetz,
Shampoo173
Well, uh.. if things are wonky, I suppose you could do like me: download patches/driver updates and hope that things work out (which they usually don't). 
Shampoo173:
That's strange. I had a voodoo3 (until I tried to run UT 2003). I could play every game out there that supported OpenGL. Albeit slow, it was good quality.
Since 3dfx was bought out by nVidia, I have refused to use an nVidia product on my computer. Also, I have seen (accurate?) reports that even the FX line of nVidia cards lags behing the Radeon. If you ever use an FX on somebody else's computer, you'll probably notice it's better at OpenGL than at DirectX. Hmm...
That's strange. I had a voodoo3 (until I tried to run UT 2003). I could play every game out there that supported OpenGL. Albeit slow, it was good quality.
Since 3dfx was bought out by nVidia, I have refused to use an nVidia product on my computer. Also, I have seen (accurate?) reports that even the FX line of nVidia cards lags behing the Radeon. If you ever use an FX on somebody else's computer, you'll probably notice it's better at OpenGL than at DirectX. Hmm...
Yeah before voodoo 5 I used to have a Voodoo 2 12 MB , in that time it was the best card around . (aah nostalgia )
Greetz,
Shampoo173
. (aah nostalgia )Greetz,
Shampoo173
Funny, I try to dodge ATI and go for nVidia. Then again, I won't be making any actual hardware purchases for a couple of months, if not years.
December 21st 2003, 09:37 PM
cyberdoc
The MX cards are a limited instruction chipset of the current chips. Meaninf in actual benchmarking a full Geforce 2 Ultra outperforms a GF4MX. Sad but true. Until about a year ago I worked in the PC industry as a tech. We id the benchmarks on the same rig using different cards and were astounded at the numbers. I will never buy an MX version of an nvidia card. That being said and the fact that I am an nvidia fan, the ATI radeon cards are ungodly powerful and fast. There is nothing that Nvidia has currently that out performs the new ATI cards. But for 400 dollars us and up who the hell can afford them right now?
How about one of these puppies? It makes you wonder, though. Notice how it's run by the R300, manufactured by ATI...
