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Wow has this card seem to be forgotten in the threads lately 
People considering owning or already own this card, fear not in Doom 3 for new drivers are coming.
Before I used the 4.9 beta catalyst, I was using the 4.7 and playing Doom 3 at 1280x1024 with 4x AA on high quality (I like anti-aliasing and I can notice it if I'm just standing around)
With the 4.7 drivers it was playing just fine with say a small hic-up ever once in a while. And I do mean SMALL hic-up.
I tried the new 4.9 opengl driver and WOW what a difference. It doesn't slow down at all and the game looks and plays great. I don't know how the x800 pro is dealing with the new driver, but x800 xt plays the game smooth as glass.
Tip: instead of installing the whole 4.9 betas, open the 4.9 exe with winzip into a temp directory. Search for the file atioglxx.dl_ (this is still zipped) Open this file inside of winzip yet again and extracted it (atioglxx.dll) Copy your new dll into windows\system32 folder (rename your old file just incase this gives you problems) and bingo, now you have the new opengl driver without having to install a whole new beta catalyst driver. YET still keep in mind, this file is STILL in beta too. But this is just a glimpse to how good the driver is going to be.
Btw, I think that timedemo thing is crap. It was displaying HORRIBLY but the game was playing fine. Although after updating the new opengl driver, the timedemo was playing better, but still poorly. The actual game on the other hand plays perfect without a hitch.
I didn't play the game at 1600x1200 (honest didn't even think about it till now) but I didn't bother since the [H]ardware guide said it was only playable at that resolution without AA, but I have a feeling the new driver is really going to fix that when it's official (opinion seeing the huge performance difference for 4.7)
AND LASTLY: Nvidia makes a good card. They had the same framerate "problems" vs ATI's card when first shipped. New drivers/patches came out and made Farcry just as fun and fast as ATI's. Both cards are good. Thank you if you actually read all of this
People considering owning or already own this card, fear not in Doom 3 for new drivers are coming.
Before I used the 4.9 beta catalyst, I was using the 4.7 and playing Doom 3 at 1280x1024 with 4x AA on high quality (I like anti-aliasing and I can notice it if I'm just standing around)
With the 4.7 drivers it was playing just fine with say a small hic-up ever once in a while. And I do mean SMALL hic-up.
I tried the new 4.9 opengl driver and WOW what a difference. It doesn't slow down at all and the game looks and plays great. I don't know how the x800 pro is dealing with the new driver, but x800 xt plays the game smooth as glass.
Tip: instead of installing the whole 4.9 betas, open the 4.9 exe with winzip into a temp directory. Search for the file atioglxx.dl_ (this is still zipped) Open this file inside of winzip yet again and extracted it (atioglxx.dll) Copy your new dll into windows\system32 folder (rename your old file just incase this gives you problems) and bingo, now you have the new opengl driver without having to install a whole new beta catalyst driver. YET still keep in mind, this file is STILL in beta too. But this is just a glimpse to how good the driver is going to be.
Btw, I think that timedemo thing is crap. It was displaying HORRIBLY but the game was playing fine. Although after updating the new opengl driver, the timedemo was playing better, but still poorly. The actual game on the other hand plays perfect without a hitch.
I didn't play the game at 1600x1200 (honest didn't even think about it till now) but I didn't bother since the [H]ardware guide said it was only playable at that resolution without AA, but I have a feeling the new driver is really going to fix that when it's official (opinion seeing the huge performance difference for 4.7)
AND LASTLY: Nvidia makes a good card. They had the same framerate "problems" vs ATI's card when first shipped. New drivers/patches came out and made Farcry just as fun and fast as ATI's. Both cards are good. Thank you if you actually read all of this
