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Fozzy The Bear:

Without breaking the bank is a relative term really... depends how big your bank is....

It's also a matter of personal preference. I happen to like ATI cards because they've always caused me the least trouble.

The above spec 9600XT is pretty reasonable... It'd take you up to DirectX 9 functionality at a reasonable speed and relatively low cost. Basically go as fast as your budget can stand. Your next step after a 9600 is a 9800... After that, most of the ATI cards seem to be headding for being PCI Express rather than AGP.

That said, they have released the X800 on AGP as well, but I suspect that might fall into the breaking the bank catagory.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

SOAPboy:

Sapphire before jetway..

And frankly, id never buy another sapphire as long as i live..

southpaw13:

I just thought that the video card specs was not that big of a deal.  Now I want to head to a ATI chipset and don't want to put a V8 Big Block in a Ford Focus....

Southpaw

Fozzy The Bear:


--- Quote from: southpaw13 on March 23, 2006, 06:51:26 pm ---I just thought that the video card specs was not that big of a deal.  Now I want to head to a ATI chipset and don't want to put a V8 Big Block in a Ford Focus....

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Agreed... It depends what else you want to run apart from Mame....

I run a lot of other stuff. There are a lot of games that mame doesn't support (yet) but which have had PC releases. Things like 18 Wheeler, which even if Mame did support it would run pretty poorly under emulation. 

"Densha De Go" "Densha De Go 2" "Densha De Go 3" (Japanese arcade train driver simulation) is a another example of that situation.  All of which rely heavily on DirectX and graphics speed.

"House Of The Dead 1, 2, 3"  "Virtua Cop" etc etc again have the same problem. The PC releases are as close as we can get to the arcade versions right now.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

southpaw13:

Good point, but I am just using it for Mame.  So now what is the best ATI option?  The only thing I really need to do with it is rotate the screen without a big performance hit.  My geforce slowed down basic games like Tron when rotated...

Thanks,
Southpaw

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