Recent content by mockingbird

Are you that Simon that used to work for Videologic and posted on the PowerVR forums?

Like I said. My bro has a Radeon X1400 and it is simply not good enough to play Jedi Academy - which is a Quake3 game (Though Outcast was also Q3 and not nearly as visually appealing as Academy) - at his LCD's native resolution of 1280x800. Is it a mobility thing? Maybe they don't make them...

Interestingly revealing. Video card manufacturers getting a little ahead of themselves. It's like Abit when they tried to dump PS/2 from their "IT7" mobos. (Yea, yea. I know. I'm living in the past) The immediate solution that comes to mind is to use a PCI supplementary card for older...

I'm planning to get a mid-range system, no SLI. What does ATI's r7xx hold in store?

I would disagree with this. My brother has a Radeon X1450 on his C2D laptop, and it's not powerful enough to drive Jedi Academy at the native LCD resoution of 1280x800. I'm referring to OpenGL 1.5 and Directx5-8.1 games.

I still play some Quake3 based games like Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast. But it looks like I'm way behind ;) ;) ;) Oh well, what can I say, money's been a hard thing to come buy lately.

I remember back in the day I hated my Radeon, because one of the follies of the Radeon architecture, was that if you lowered the color depth to 16bpp, you would still get the same speed as playing in 32bpp. ATI touted this as a "feature". With nVidia cards, you were able to get a huge speed...