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Gaming performance with the new 8800 GS?

Age of Conan ran at about 50fps with settings on max except shadows, which I disabled, character shadows look like crap in the game, and setting it to everything eats your fps, antialiasing at 8xq, resolution at highest ofc, so pretty nice, that was without sp 1 tho, hoping with that new sp included i'll get better videodrivers to keep the game from running out of bloody memory.
There's a thread on it at the Conan forums with a LOT of ppl using nvidia grafx cards on any system, saying they all got the same problem, just wait and bleed till funcom fixes it i take it :(
Think all top notched imacs will run every latest game at very decent speed at very decent settings, 512mb vram is quite the standard now, let's just hope either apple or nvidia are comin up with updated drivers for the stuff!
 
Ok portal ran extremely smooth with ABSOLUTELY everything on, 16x anti aliasing.

COD was kinda sluggish but still didn't look good. looks better on my 360 personally.

Crysis on high with Shaders on medium. no anti-a


all of these at 1920x1200 fullscreen.
 
I'm running Lord of the Rings: Online at the max settings and it not only looks amazing, but it runs very smoothly. I also noticed that the iMac top didn't get too much warmer running the game than it did under normal use in OS X, whereas there is a drastic difference in the heat that my 2.2 Ghz MBP puts out under XP versus OS X.

Needless to say, the iMac certainly handles gaming in bootcamp very well. I'm impressed.
 
I just finished installing Vista on my Nvidia 3.06ghz iMac and I am really impressed with the gaming performance. Everything smooth on 1600X1200 max detail for COD4. Everything maxed out on Assassins Creed is almost perfect on 1920X900! Crysis is absolutely tolerable on very high settings. I also tried Mass Effect, which is smooth as butter with max settings (ultra high texture) on 1920X900. And this was on stock (Bootcamp) drivers and no O/C :D

so... Have anyone figured out how to overclock this 8800GS for Vista/XP yet? :confused:
 
...same as sirmac... ihave vista32 on 3.06 imac and all games ive run have been perfect with only original bootcamp drivers.....mass effect is amaaaaazing and crysis is fine tho the game for me its not interesting :eek:

....i must say too its reeeeeeally easy to see osx video drivers arent as good when you can compare direct vista/osx :(
 
b0redom said:
Please can someone try Command and Conquer 3 under bootcamp with the 8800GS? I've just tried it with my previous rev 24" iMac, and it's very jerky at 1920x1200. Wondering if it's worth an upgrade...

Cheers...
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Have played the game at 1920 x 1200 and it runs really smoothly on auto high settings. Graphically, the game just leaps out at you compared to a lesser spec lappy that I owned previously. Running bootcamp and XP SP3.
 
Not What I expected

I'm running a new 2.8 with the 8800. Not a gamer, but running X-Plane 9.0 on both OS X and XP under boot camp.

Everything maxed at 1920 x 1200 runs at ~80 fps in OS X, but down around 30 fps in XP, with frequent stuttering.

After everything I'd read here, I expected XP performance to be better than OS X.

Question: can I update to the latest nvidia XP drivers or will that somehow mess up boot camp?
 
fishcove said:
I'm running a new 2.8 with the 8800. Not a gamer, but running X-Plane 9.0 on both OS X and XP under boot camp.

Everything maxed at 1920 x 1200 runs at ~80 fps in OS X, but down around 30 fps in XP, with frequent stuttering.

After everything I'd read here, I expected XP performance to be better than OS X.

Question: can I update to the latest nvidia XP drivers or will that somehow mess up boot camp?
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It could be because of Powermizer, which underclocks the GPU. Try disabling it in the Nvidia panel, should work on XP.
 
It's the first all-in-one I've seen from Apple that has a reasonable video card. I got it and it plays games pretty well. You're not going to get top-of-the-line performance, but it performs admirably.
 
It's the first all-in-one I've seen from Apple that has a reasonable video card. I got it and it plays games pretty well. You're not going to get top-of-the-line performance, but it performs admirably.
 
SilentCrs said:
It's the first all-in-one I've seen from Apple that has a reasonable video card. I got it and it plays games pretty well. You're not going to get top-of-the-line performance, but it performs admirably.
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Mine plays all the games I like (Call of Duty 4, Counter Strike: Source, Half-Life 2, Bioshock, etc) at 1920x1200 native res with very decent graphics settings, thank you. Oh, and it has the ATI HD2600XT so I'm not sure how you qualify the word "reasonable" but OK, whatever you say.

Do I expect my 2600 to continue to be able to play every new game that is released at fluid frame rates? No, but that's OK since gaming on the iMac is just an added bonus to what I bought it for.
 
SaSaSushi said:
Mine plays all the games I like (Call of Duty 4, Counter Strike: Source, Half-Life 2, Bioshock, etc) at 1920x1200 native res with very decent graphics settings, thank you. Oh, and it has the ATI HD2600XT so I'm not sure how you qualify the word "reasonable" but OK, whatever you say.

Do I expect my 2600 to continue to be able to play every new game that is released at fluid frame rates? No, but that's OK since gaming on the iMac is just an added bonus to what I bought it for.
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dude you have a complex about your imac.. almost every 8800 or screen thread you have a post justifying your ati card or screen.. lol let it go
 
yagru said:
dude you have a complex about your imac.. almost every 8800 or screen thread you have a post justifying your ati card or screen.. lol let it go
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ehh whats wrong if he states that 2600 is a very capable card? :confused:
 
nothing at all but theres no need to keep beating a dead horse.. especially when people arent even talking about that card.
 
yagru said:
dude you have a complex about your imac.. almost every 8800 or screen thread you have a post justifying your ati card or screen.. lol let it go
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Dude, no offense but I don't have the slightest thing against the nVidia 8800. I would switch my own iMac to one if that were possible.

What I DO have a problem with are ridiculous statements like "It's the first all-in-one I've seen from Apple that has a reasonable video card."

nothing at all but theres no need to keep beating a dead horse.. especially when people arent even talking about that card.
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Yes, he was and I was responding accordingly. No offense, but I don't need your moderation.
 
SaSaSushi said:
These guys get so defensive. I wonder why... :eek:
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To tell the truth, your original post sounded pretty defensive as well. "Reasonable" is of course relative, I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who think the GMA950 is quite reasonable too.
 
SaSaSushi got pwned like a n00b!

haha jk man ;)

I am curious to know how the 3.06 GHz iMac with the 512 MB 8800 performs compared to a 2.4 Ghz Macbook Pro with the 256 MB 8600M GT .

Any of you guys play any decent games on Macbook Pro's? Are they completely crap when it comes to trying to play First Person Shooters (as opposed to just WoW)?

Gaming is important to me although I am still battling the age old question of laptop versus desktop. I am about to buy either an MBP or iMAC in the next week as I need it for work. Would be nice to mix some pleasure in there too :)

THANKS!
 
Dartholomew said:
I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who think the GMA950 is quite reasonable too.
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haha so true :(

pwnographer said:
I am curious to know how the 3.06 GHz iMac with the 512 MB 8800 performs compared to a 2.4 Ghz Macbook Pro with the 256 MB 8600M GT .

Any of you guys play any decent games on Macbook Pro's? Are they completely crap when it comes to trying to play First Person Shooters (as opposed to just WoW)?

Gaming is important to me although I am still battling the age old question of laptop versus desktop. I am about to buy either an MBP or iMAC in the next week as I need it for work. Would be nice to mix some pleasure in there too :)

THANKS!
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Search for youtube videos of gaming on a MBP (no necessarily Penryn, Santa Rosa will do too). From what I've seen, UT3 runs great, Crysis - great on lower settings.

iMac with 8800 should be at least 2x as fast.
 
eXan said:
haha so true :(



Search for youtube videos of gaming on a MBP (no necessarily Penryn, Santa Rosa will do too). From what I've seen, UT3 runs great, Crysis - great on lower settings.

iMac with 8800 should be at least 2x as fast.
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In games this is the feeling i have. It's no comparison to 2600 in my opinion.
 
Dartholomew said:
To tell the truth, your original post sounded pretty defensive as well. "Reasonable" is of course relative, I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who think the GMA950 is quite reasonable too.
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Well, OK, how about as in will it play current games at reasonable frame rates? I would consider 30+fps reasonable, wouldn't you? :p

Now we've eliminated the GMA 950. Perhaps I should have been more specific for the benefit of the naive readers.

Thanks for your opinion though.
 
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