Half Life 2 GPU Roundup Part 2 - Mainstream DX8/DX9 Battle
by Anand Lal Shimpi on November 19, 2004 6:35 PM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
GeForce4 MX DirectX 7 Performance
In our at_canals_08 demo the numbers speak for themselves, using the DX7 path even the GeForce4 MX440 is extremely playable under Half Life 2:
Performance looks even better in at_coast_05.dem:
Even in our most stressful demo, the GeForce4 MX does just fine.
While it may not look as good as the DX8 and DX9 codepaths, the DirectX 7 support in Half Life 2 is nothing short of incredible. Older card owners should upgrade their CPUs as needed but needn't upgrade their graphics cards unless they want better image quality, in terms of speed, even something as slow as a GeForce4 MX will do just fine.
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vladik007 - Friday, November 19, 2004 - link
cant wait for CPU benches. Again , great article , something i've come to expect here.Btw , when might u be releasing CPU benches ? I'm about to order my cpu/mobo upgrade this weekend so i can play with it over the Tgiving holiday , i'm thinking A643200+Abit 939 board. ( i've always ,since my 1st computer, owned Abit motherboard , so i'm not going to change ritual , too bad they dont make one with nforce3)
SMT - Friday, November 19, 2004 - link
Um, I'll say it again...I'm pretty sure Gordon has a flashlight throughout Nova Prospekt.