Ati 4850

[Zoom2136]

Anybody tried this card with iL2... I'm looking to buy a pair of 4870 when they come out and was wondering if the drivers worked good with iL2... I've heard that the 3870 had stuttering issues (not sure if it was fixed though).

Thanks guys,

[Feuerfalke]

Good question. I'm considering going for AMD/ATI again, too. From what I heard the latest drivers fixed a lot of issues and gave an enormous performance-boost in many games. (IIRC 39% for CoD4 for 3xxx cards)

[crazyivan1970]

Originally Posted by Zoom2136

Anybody tried this card with iL2... I'm looking to buy a pair of 4870 when they come out and was wondering if the drivers worked good with iL2... I've heard that the 3870 had stuttering issues (not sure if it was fixed though).

Thanks guys,

Running 3870X2 here since the day it was released, never seen any stuttering or other negative effects. Performance of late ATI cards is fantastic IMO...and picture quality is FAR superior to nVidia (ducking ) in my opinion, of course.

[Feuerfalke]

I know we will be in flames, soon, but I totally agree with you, crazyivan1970.

When I switched from my old trusty 9800pro to the nVidia 6800GT I was honestly shocked how poor the rendering was. They have improved in terms of image-quality 2D and 3D over the last models, but it's still far behind AMD/ATI. To bad image quality isn't judged in any of the official benchmarks, because simple FPS is not everything...

[crazyivan1970]

I got your back on this mate... Now lets dig some trenches...

[JG27CaptStubing]

No... You guys are spot on in terms of Nvidia.. I switched from my trusty ATI to the 1950 Pro to two 8800GTs in SLI and haven't really looked back. With the 7 series and below the ATI had much better looking IQ. With the 8800s and above Nvidia finally got it right.

Now just to give some feedback. As of late I get a pulsing studder with my SLI setup in IL2 with all the eyecandy on 8Xaa and 16XAF but the frame rates make up for this weird studder effect. What is strange is I think a driver broke it because I never had the problem with earlier revs of their drivers.

Also I haven't tried the new DLLs either so I don't know whos at fault here but I mostly blame Nvidia.

In terms of other games these two cards have been pretty much flawless. The performance is better than the new 280 and clearly its about 300 bucks cheaper.

I'm really glad ATI stepped up to the plate with the 4000 series. It will force Nividia to get their act together. They've been living high on the horse for over 2 years now with their 8800 cards. Great cards but at a very high cost.

[GF_Mastiff]

Well I for one still don't see any improvements with ATI and open GL especialy with the new 8.6 drivers, I run ATI HD 3650s 512mb Sapphire Crossfire X set up and I had to go back to 8.4 drvrs. NVIDA has out done open-GL far more superior.

[BAXTER STOCKMAN]

I agree that Nvdia cards are much better than ati cards. I never had a ati card. I bought my first computer when i was 7 years old and it had a 256 color nvdia card. The second computer was a p4 1,3 ghz with 32mb nvdia tnt2. After that i bought a Athlon 2200 with a geforce 5700, but one day the card burned down so i went to the 6600. My second computer was AthlonX2 4400 with a 7900gt but it burned down after a year so i bought a 8600gt in july of 2007. And in january of 008 i sold the 8600 for 80 euros and i bought my super powerful 8800gt 512mb. The graphics are realy perfect with this card.

[robtek]

@Baxter Stockman

it´s very difficult to take someone serious who makes a decision knowing only one side.

[|ZUTI|]

Friend of mine got his 4850 radeon on saturday last week and he is able to run IL2 with no problems at all.

PS: why are you all posting in here if you have somewhat nothing to say regarding 3850 and IL2? Why? Why don't you just move along?