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Default Another Quick Techie Question - 07-13-2005, 01:30 PM

You know on the bottom of game boxes where the system requirements are, at the videocard requirements it usually lists something like "32MB Hardware T&L" and all that wierd stuff, and sometimes along with a list of supportable videocards?

Well, it'll sometimes just say "100%/Fully compatible DirectX9 videocard". Whats that supposed to mean? For all I knew, I thought every videocard out there could work with DirectXanyversion. Does it mean the card has to have some stuff that DX9 provides (Im not much of a hardware guru, so bear with me) and the card is capable of doing? Would a GeForce4 Ti be fulll compatible with DX9, or just DX8?

What Im really trying to ask is, is a Radeon 9250 256MB that much of an improvement over a GeForce FX 5200 128MB, even though the Radeon isnt a DX9-designed card?

My lawn-mowing thing went kaput, nobody wanted their lawn mowed in a 8 block radius around my house, so unless I can work at my moms friends Thai resteraunt setting forks on the table, Im pretty much still stuck with my $10 bucks a week.
  
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Default 07-13-2005, 01:53 PM

First off no that 9250 is hardly any better that the 5200. Second look for lawns that need to be mowed and try there. Keep at it sooner or later it will pay off.


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Default 07-13-2005, 02:12 PM

Tried it plenty. Problem is, theres these professional Vietnamese guy's who ride around our neighborhood, and only charge $15 bucks, so thanks to neighbor-to-neighbor recommendation, they pretty much do our entire neighborhood. I said $12, but they still said no...

Oh, and this already seems like a waste of forum space. I just found a refurb GeForce FX 5700 for $60. Still sucks, but it'll let me play BF2 atleast.
  
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Default 07-13-2005, 02:28 PM

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Problem is, theres these professional Vietnamese guy's who ride around our neighborhood, and only charge $15 bucks, so thanks to neighbor-to-neighbor recommendation, they pretty much do our entire neighborhood. I said $12, but they still said no...[/quote:15752]


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