Just been given a Radeon 9200 64 gcard, as I only have a standard 4mb agp card so I should be able to play the odd game now! – I know it’s no world beater but will it cope with the likes of MOH and Jedi Knight? And also what do you guys think the equivalent would be in Geforce Terms?


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Rad9200 is a decent card, you are a good 20% slower than the old Rad8500LE, somewhere near a GF3TI200 which is a good comparison because both have DX8. In fact the Rad9200 is better than GF3TI200 becaue you get MUCH better '2D' image quality, usable AF, hw DVD playback, lower power usage, less heat output, quieter card, DX8.1 (vs GF3's DX8.0), TVout and dual display (with dual RAMDACs). 64MB is evermore limiting but for what the 9200 can play well it won't hurt much anyway. Not a world beater but still enough to play many relatively newer games pretty well. Don't forget your CPU plays a part too, esp in certain games. If your CPU is below 1ghz then I would suggest you always force 8xAF on in the drivers to use up the otherwise untapped gfx card power.
Even the fastest GF4MX (MX460) are a fair bit slower than the slowest GF3 (TI200) and also lack DX8 which is very bad indeed (and getting worse). GF4MX are enhanced GF2 archy so way inferior to the GF3 when it comes to 3D in every dept and game. The GF4 series was made up of the GF4TI (enhanced GF3) and the GF4MX (enhanced GF2). The enhancements are big improvements in the '2D' image quality, 3D speed, a little better AA+AF, hw DVD decoding (MX only), standardised TVout and dual display.
Setting up your driver options ... you mean things like TVout and dual display or optimisations like AA, AF etc. I would suggest you leave it set to application/auto controlled. Rad9200 can do AF with very little hit, most games you'll probably want 4xAF - 8xAF (forced on in driver) but AA is unusably slow so forget that.
but i guess default settings will be fine. - thanks Jim
