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Subject: Will My Reardon 9600 pro work with halo???
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Okay,im thinking of getting a Reardon 9600 Pro Video card and a person is telling me that it wont work with halo Is this true??

  • 10.21.2004 3:58 PM PDT
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Yep it will,I had onealong time ago it had alot of good Frame Rates now i got is a 9800 Pro :)

[Edited on 10/22/2004 2:04:24 AM]

  • 10.22.2004 2:03 AM PDT
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yah u'll be fine dont listen to the jackass that told u that because he is lieing to u!!!!!!!!!!

[Edited on 10/22/2004 6:49:17 AM]

  • 10.22.2004 6:49 AM PDT
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Heyyo,

LMAO! that is the biggest pile of money crap lie I've ever heard. Dude, I have a ATI Radeon 9600 PRO (even worse, it's sapphire, cheaper, and less stable :p) and it works fine with halo.

You won't get the best graphics n' what-not, but it'll run halo fine. My full computer stats are in my signature. For drivers? I find the Catalys 4.9 drivers work great, I've been trying the Catalyst 4.10, but my frames feel lower, I'm gonna run a benchmark to test this theory...

Check out this benchmark, it shows that the ATI Radeon 9600 PRO at full quality can still do a great job, especially compared to Nvidia's vidcard around the same pricerange (the 5600) btw, I had a 5600, NOT WORTH THE CASH. the 9600 PRO cost an extra $20, but for an extra 7F/S at least? that's easily worth the extra cash. The 5600 ran Halo like CRAP. If another player would turn on his flashlight? you'd lose 15F/S, enough to lag down halo on your comp, and give them the easy kill. It also sucks ass on newer games like Far Cry. I sold my 5600 to my old landlord (the fool, bwuahahaha!!!) and he had a stonger computer overall, but damn, my comp and my ATI radeon 9600 PRO would kick its ass, hand down, in all situations. So once again, this benchmark:

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20031229/vga-charts-0 9.html

Halo Results:
ATI Radeon 9600 PRO: 28.71 F/S (Average)
Nvdidia 5600: 19.84 F/S (Average)

And want proof of how much the ATI Radeon 9600 PRO will kick much more ass on newer games than a Nvidia 5600? check out this benchmark on Far Cry:

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041004/vga_charts-0 8.html

Far Cry results:
ATI Radeon 9600 PRO: 22.4 F/S (Average)
Nvdidia 5600: 5.2 F/S (Average)

I bet your bud said that caue he's Pro-Nvidia. Tell you bud that ATI has better budget cards, cause they do, big time.

[Edited on 10/22/2004 10:31:02 AM]

  • 10.22.2004 10:15 AM PDT
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Lol Halo works fine with a 9200 which is a terrible card compared to the 9600. That's speaking from experience btw I'm not just saying that, one of my other PC's has a 9200 and Halo works fine. Bare in mind you will need 512 system RAM though, my gf has a 9600XT 256MB and Halo was laggy coz she only had 256MB system RAM. I fixed that by upgrading to 512.

That's assuming you want the graphics turned up btw...

[Edited on 10/22/2004 10:52:27 AM]

  • 10.22.2004 10:51 AM PDT
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Save the money and might as well get the X800 Pro or 6800 whatever. It will last you for a long time.

  • 10.22.2004 4:16 PM PDT