Tuggummi

7th February 2003 17:32 UTC

Another drunk thread! TOPIC: RADEON&AVS
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i know what you think about posting when drunk while i am! But! Despite of that, im still going to post this! hhaahahahah! because i don't care what you trhink WHILE im posting this new thread, so it's quite easy for me to do this without feelin quilty about it :D

Anyway, i just wanted to ask: Does anyonme have anuy expriences with RADEON graphichs cards with avs? I mean, im going to buy (most likely) a radeon gfx card in the near future (after 3-5 months) and i just want to know has anyone had any problems with RADEON 9000 PRO, RADEON 8500 LE or RADEON 9700 PRO graphics cards while viewing avs?

Now i know avs shouldn't be the main concer when buing a new gfx card, but since currently avs covers about 60% of my cpu usage i think i should consider whether or not avs runs smoothy&whit npo problems while viewing avs.

So if anyone has any opinions/experience/techcical statements about ATI's RADEON gfx cards, speak up NOW! before it's too late!


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anubis2003

7th February 2003 21:23 UTC

Well first off graphics card doesn't make any difference with smoothness of AVS(except for a small amount for buffers, etc.). But AVS does run fine on ATI Radeon cards and the overlay mode works well.

Jaheckelsafar

9th February 2003 08:35 UTC

I haven't had problems with my 9700 (the light demo looks just sick :D ), or my rage mobility. A while ago there were a couple of people having issues with ATI cards.

anubis2003

9th February 2003 21:51 UTC

Newest drivers should fix the problems. Worked for me.

legohead

9th February 2003 21:56 UTC

As long as you don't have an asus A7V333 motherboard you'll have no probs!!

Tuggummi

10th February 2003 05:57 UTC

Yeah, i know gfx crad doesn't affect anyway in avs, but after reading a couple threads about some people having problems with overlay modes, fullscreen modes etc. i thought i would ask if someone had any serious problems while using avs and having a radeon installed :)

Thanks guys, im pretty sure i'll buy a RADEON 9500 PRO, because im a student and im poor :(

MaxPudding

10th February 2003 08:10 UTC

radeon is quite good actually jukka!

Go and buy it then =D

Jaheckelsafar

10th February 2003 15:03 UTC

Not to mention that you can mod your 9500 to be faster than a stock 9700. :) (if you're very good at soldering (sp?))

Jaak

10th February 2003 15:18 UTC

Can U do the same with my *GeForce 4MX 440*?

jheriko

20th February 2003 00:00 UTC

I want an NV30/GeForce FX... whatever... or an R300 (aka Radeon 9900):)

Jaheckelsafar

20th February 2003 04:22 UTC

The NV30 doesn't perform that much better than the 9700. I was surprised when I saw the benchmarks for it. That and it takes up two card slots.

jheriko

20th February 2003 18:24 UTC

Its not so much the raw power of the thing as much as it is the multitude of features. Who can deny the awesome, yet pointless, power of 128-bit color?

UnConeD

20th February 2003 18:55 UTC

Mmm 128-bit color :). *drooool*

24-bit is not enough though... some color arrangements still form bands at 24-bit. The problem is not that the eye can see more than 16777216 colors (it can't), but that the distribution of shades among those 16 million is not equal, and a lot is wasted on dark tones.

Plus if you want to do color calculations, you need more than 24-bit so you avoid roundoff errors.

anubis2003

20th February 2003 21:37 UTC

Yeah, plus the human eye will pick up more bands in different colors. The human eye is very sensitive to green, for example.

legohead

20th February 2003 21:43 UTC

128 will be good for me - Graphic design in print media needs ICM colour correction to match the monitor colours to the printer output colours (CMYK). I don't think there's 128bit support yet.

By the way Jheriko - nice Red Dwarf quote back there! Fk I used to love that show.

Jaheckelsafar

21st February 2003 11:46 UTC

I'm pretty sure the 9700 could do it too. It's got the floating point architecture too. They just didn't see the point. :p

AVS would slow down sooo much.

Ace Rimmer was the best.

Tuggummi

21st February 2003 14:42 UTC

The human eye is very sensitive to green, for example.