Spring RTS Engine

I get 50 fps with everything maxed (except grass because it's irritating), 8800gts, in the latest svn version.

clumsy_culhane wrote:do 8xxx series cards still play really badly with spring? because im about to upgrade my 7600GT to a 8800GT or GTX

Why? That's very nearly a downgrade...

How so?

just bought one for $50 aud,

SwiftSpear wrote:

clumsy_culhane wrote:do 8xxx series cards still play really badly with spring? because im about to upgrade my 7600GT to a 8800GT or GTX

Why? That's very nearly a downgrade...

How so ? do u mean in regards to spring? or in general. because the new 8800GT has almost the same performance as a GTX , but its $200 au cheaper.

For spring.

I'm sure it won't take long for spring to get sorted for the 8 series though, and when it does people then already have a better card, not speaking for myself though, i stuck with 7 series :)

Well, the 7x00 series cards was an EXTREAMLY solid card series... and while 8x00 series cards are strictly speaking capable of more, they tend to come with more problems and disappointments as well. In getting value for your money I would still recommend 7x00 series cards.

Fair enough, i'm happy with mine (Y)!

I just got a 8500 GT with 256mb, is their a card in the 7xxx series that outperforms this card?

gamer17 wrote:I just got a 8500 GT with 256mb, is their a card in the 7xxx series that outperforms this card?

For spring -> uh all of them? The 8 series apparently runs badly in spring.

clericvash wrote:

gamer17 wrote:I just got a 8500 GT with 256mb, is their a card in the 7xxx series that outperforms this card?

For spring -> uh all of them? The 8 series apparently runs badly in spring.

I'm talking about overall gaming, not just spring.

its a pity.. mm ill probably build a gaming (read: crysis and CoD4) and then a spring computer.. so i can have the best of both worlds..

Gaming :

Q6600
4 gb RAM
8800 GTS 512 (or maybe a GT.. or maybe a GTX.. ill see when i get it (late January)

Spring

core 2 duo
2 gb
7800GTX

Or, do like I did a long time ago when you need the best of two cards, swap them out every time you want to play something different :D

7900gs = 8600gts

Harbinger wrote:7900gs = 8600gts

Literally, or preformance wise?

If the latter, I'll kindly point out that different cards preform differently on different hardware, and while the card probably makes HL2 and crisis really nice, that says absolutely nothing about it's total performance quality as a card for basic rendering functions. New cards, while they chew through shaders like no tomorrow, seriously suffer if forced to crunch massive polycount's or massive sprite behaviors.

I'm trying to decide on a 7600gt or 8800gt, its a difference of about 200 dollars to put elsewhere in my system.

Will i be able to run games other than spring on decent settings with the 7600?

We have 8600 running on computer that runs pretty much word only.

got for the 7 series, so much more stable and they do run games pretty well, my 7600 can run supreme commander on pretty nice settings pretty well!

Is the 7600GS any good for Oblivion? I don't have to run it at max graphics or high resolution.