X800Pro - Doom3 was dodgy....I hope HL2 will run smoother!

[pyramus]

It took alot of tweaking and removing/installing of drivers to finally get Doom 3 to run smoothly and look good on my X800 Pro. I sure hope Half Life 2 doesn't cause similar problems.

The movies they have released of in-game footage look great. Lets hope it looks that good on the Radeon cards.

Any views?

[batboy]

Don't know about the X800, but my 9800 Pro is running Doom3 just fine. I'm using DirectX 9C and Cat 4.9 beta

[pyramus]

It runs ok now. At first it wasn't great. The 4.7 & 4.8 Cat drivers are a bit behind the times when it comes to Opengl. The 4.9beta drivers fixed that somewhat.

I am not sure what version of DirectX I am using. I know its fairly recent.

The latest Nvidia cards run it far better apparently. But I think HL2 was designed with ATI in mind. Judging from all the promotions from a year back anyway.

I would be tempted to sell this X800Pro for a 6800U if it were to boost HL2 performance.

[Drec]

My FX5950 runs D3 like a champ! and keep your x800pro, it will do fine in HL2 unless you like playing at 2024x1600 with full AA and AF on.