What is the latest FPS game?

[bukaida]

I have a p4 2.4 GHz machine with 512MB RAM and Gforce 5200fx 128MB
graphics card.What is the latest FPS game THat I can play smoothly with this configuration.I have win2000 with SP4.

[venkat1605]

U can play these games

Boiling Point - Road To Hell
Call Of Duty 2
Brothers In Arms - Earned In Blood
Serious Sam II

Well u can play all these games under medium settings

[deadman.dinesh]

well I think u can also play games like half-life 2 , doom 3, halo2, far cry & others,but under medium graphics.

[icecoolz]

well I think u can also play games like half-life 2 , doom 3, halo2, far cry & others,but under medium graphics.

Halo 2 ???? :shock: when did that come out for the PC ??? Geez dude pls dont provide wrong information. Doom3 and HL2 and others will work under very low settings if your lucky.

[venkat1605]

Hey ICECOOLZ there's no very low settings in Doom 3 & Half-Life 2.I have seen Half Life 2 play comfortably on my friend's PC , he has a FX 5200 & Doom 3 medium settings will be cozier on it alright.First know then bluff.

[deathvirus_me]

Boiling Point - Road To Hell
Call Of Duty 2
Brothers In Arms - Earned In Blood
Serious Sam II

p4 2.4 GHz machine with 512MB RAM and Gforce 5200fx 128MB graphics card

The mentioned games are latest alright ... but the hardware isn't ... and it'll be very hard to run these on the above mentioned hardware ....

[vmp_vivek]

Deathvirus is correct. If you want to play the latest games smoothly as you mentioned, then you should have atleast Geforce 6 series or ATi 9500 or more series graphics card to play. :)

[raj14]

well i own a FX5200 with a 2.66GHz P4, and Call of Duty 2 (Demo) Runs Great, Serious Sam II Doesn't and it chokes even on 640x480! as for BiA:EnB It should be playable at 800x600 seeing GearBox haven't changed Engine like hell. time for an Upgrade! :mrgreen:

[deepak_m]

Serious Sam II Doesn't and it chokes even on 640x480!

i have a p4 1.7 (overclocked to 1.75) with fx5200 and serious sam works fine even in 800x600

[deathvirus_me]

well i own a FX5200 with a 2.66GHz P4, and Call of Duty 2 (Demo) Runs Great

That depend on how u define "great" ... i hope ur talking about CoD 2 and CoD : United offensive .... coz the released demo is highly unoptimised ... it chokes even high end rigs at high settings .....

as for BiA:EnB It should be playable at 800x600

Yup ... it'll run pretty fine ....... and since the engine has been optimised more ... it should run even better than the original title .....

i have a p4 1.7 (overclocked to 1.75) with fx5200 and serious sam works fine even in 800x600

Serious Sam II ???? or Serious Sam ????


Boiling Point : Road to Hell will not run on an FX5200 unless u consider 15 fps good enough ....

[raj14]

Whatare yous aying, i Run CoD 2 at 800x600 2x AA, and the FPS was fine.

[icecoolz]

Hey ICECOOLZ there's no very low settings in Doom 3 & Half-Life 2.I have seen Half Life 2 play comfortably on my friend's PC , he has a FX 5200 & Doom 3 medium settings will be cozier on it alright.First know then bluff.

So play confortably with AA and everything turned on ? On which resoultion ? Come on man. FX5200 is a DX8 based card. Ur defenitely not gonna get water reflections in HL2 unless you know what to mod to get the water reflections. Oh and I know what I am talking abt. Perhaps u should do some research b4 talkin...Do u even know what AA is ? sheesh... script kiddies... :roll:

The world over acknowledges that the 5200 sucks and you say this...lol... I really dont know what to say....

[raj14]

hey Ice, FX5200 is a Direct X 9 card mate, it supports Direct X 9.0b, yes, while it seem Source is running with AA and AAF, the truth is it's just a hoak, it pretends to be running wit AA, but in reality it doesn't.

[icecoolz]

oops! My bad. I got mixed up with MX and the FX series :D Actually what I meant to say was that since HL2 is tied up with ATi it runs most nvidia cards (esp the 5series) with the DX set to 8.1 Unless you know which hacks to do you wont get DX9 on HL2 with a 5 series card.


And what do you mean by AA and AAF being a hoax ???? Care to tell us what your source of infromation is ??? I couldnt understand what you mean by "pretending" to. Anyways more info would be helpful :)

[deathvirus_me]

i Run CoD 2 at 800x600 2x AA, and the FPS was fine.

CoD 2 or CoD United Offensive ??? ur config plz. ....

FX5200 is a Direct X 9 card mate, it supports Direct X 9.0b, yes, while it seem Source is running with AA and AAF, the truth is it's just a hoak, it pretends to be running wit AA, but in reality it doesn't.

And that's a shame .... the early FX series were extremely poor at handling dx9.0b shaders i.e. sm2.0 ... HL2 runs at dx8.1 mode ... but trust me ... dx8.1 mode on the 6 series look a lot different from what i saw on the FX .....

[raj14]

Penitum 4 2.66GHz "Northwood", 640MB Ram, XFX GeForce FX5200. i was talking about CoD2, Serious Sam II was giving really poor frame rates, even on 640x480, despite Serious Engine being spectacular, it's highly unoptimized. actually, there isa Command, which let's you run HL2 in DX9 Mode, you have to modified the shortcut, i didn't tried it, since the game already plays smooth on FX5200.
@icecoolz: The GeForce FX cards default to the DirectX 8.1 rendering path, which runs faster but with fewer visual details. Specifically, there is bump mapping on fewer objects, detail objects are not drawn out to as far a distance, shadows aren't as soft, and water isn't as realistic, this the nasty trick Source Engine performs, so unless some one owns, a High End Graphics card, like X800XT or GeForce 6800x Half Life 2 will run in DX8, unless it'sa ATI Radeon Cardoffcourse, i remember seeing Half Life 2 OEM Ads with 9600XT! it's unfair, but what can gamers, do :o on the other hand, you could just try running them in DX9 and expirence a incredible performance hit :) or a better solution, just buy a new High end graphics card! :D

[teknoPhobia]

Cool down gentlemen....

first and foremost...The OS makes a huge difference...I don't see anyone talking about what OSes are being used.... Rule of Thumb... ME/98 gives almost 30-50% increased frame rates over XP on any given config... also fx series cards are DX9 but have very poor DX9 implementation so HL2 is set to default to dx8.1 mode on those cards. for example...a 6200 gives almost 75-90% of the FPS of a 5900XT in DX9 PS tests but in DX8.1 is less than 1/4th as fast.

[raj14]

It's obvious, XP is a resource hog, if we follow this rule, then, Open Source OSes, Like Suse, will obviously offer a performance boost, since it doesn'r run zillion services like XP Does, that's why every Pc Gamer should createDiffrent hardware profiles for gaming. :)

[deathvirus_me]

Penitum 4 2.66GHz "Northwood", 640MB Ram, XFX GeForce FX5200

The released demo is quite unoptimised ... nice to know it runs on your rig .... also if the rumours are correct then the final game should have a software+hardware mode for older hardware .....

there isa Command, which let's you run HL2 in DX9 Mode, you have to modified the shortcut, i didn't tried it, since the game already plays smooth on FX5200.

mat_dxlevel 90c (type in the console)

ME/98 gives almost 30-50% increased frame rates over XP on any given config

Then why does most of the newer games requires atleast XP/2000 to run ????? even when according to you u get so much better performance on older os'es like 98SE/ME ???? wake up dude .... only because XP chokes a pc with 128MB ram when u run a game doesn't mean 98SE is faster ..... wake up dude .....

that's why every Pc Gamer should createDiffrent hardware profiles for gaming.

Finally a talk of some intelligence ....

[venkat1605]

Hey Icecoolz,I used to own a FX 5200 myself 11 months ago,now i have a X850XT PE(256 MB) because my brother works in ATI.I can assure HL2 runs smooth on FX5200,since there r no changes in the engine of BIA:EnB it will go okay in 800x600.Boiling Point I agree 15 FPS,but it surely does play.And one more thing i know what AA & AF means.My brother works for ATI technologies,i get a lot info from him something which even u dont know.I am sorry for being too harsh on u.Good Day.

[venkat1605]

Hey Icecoolz, I never mentioned AA was turned on while playing DOOM 3.But everyone knows for a casual gamer the FX 5200 is god.

[icecoolz]

I feel like a parrot ... I mentioned specifically what all happens with HL2 and a 5 series card and there are posts which go further into depth as to what it does. Second. 5200 is a cheap crap alternatvie for a gamer. Talk to any gamer, look up any gaming site and they will tell you how much the card sucks. The whole 5 series was a massive flop for Nvidia. Its common knowledge. Just search for it and see what it says....

[mario_pant]

seriois sam II with minimum eye candy.... works gr8... by the way i have the same configuration as mentioned in the first post....
and i agree that XFX 500FX is a flop for nVidia...
but for me it is better than anything in my reach... at least it plays EVERYthing... even if i have to goto the least eye candt... it is AWSOME and cost effective.......

[venkat1605]

Hey Icecoolz,Shorten up man there is no need to get excited,alright i agree FX 5200 sucks,its a big flop.There is no point in arguing for an unknown guy,who only wanted to know the latest FPS games.I dont have the FX 5200 so i dont want to say anything about it.Anyway there is no need to feel like a parrot,because y r 1.

[bukaida]

I am not very much familier with games but if I am not mistaken SS2 is the game in which Sam starts from under a pond right?? and a special sniper rifle was provided ?? If it is so then it ran on my 865gbf inbuilt graphics quite smoothly. We even hosted a game server in which the client machines were 865 GBF with p4-2.4ghz. and they were running realy smooth(with no stopping).How was that possible?

[mandar5]

Well as far as hl2 is concerned it runs fine on my 256mb ram and ati radeon 7000ve agp card.Only sometimes it hangs for 1-2 secs especiallyin highway 17 other wise it runs fine.I think 512 mb ram is enough for hl2.I havenot played doom3 or halo so i cannot comment.Can anyone tell me what r low settings?

[icecoolz]

Hey Icecoolz,Shorten up man there is no need to get excited,alright i agree FX 5200 sucks,its a big flop.There is no point in arguing for an unknown guy,who only wanted to know the latest FPS games.I dont have the FX 5200 so i dont want to say anything about it.Anyway there is no need to feel like a parrot,because y r 1.

Hey Icecoolz, I never mentioned AA was turned on while playing DOOM 3.But everyone knows for a casual gamer the FX 5200 is god.

Hey Icecoolz,I used to own a FX 5200 myself 11 months ago,now i have a X850XT PE(256 MB) because my brother works in ATI.I can assure HL2 runs smooth on FX5200,since there r no changes in the engine of BIA:EnB it will go okay in 800x600.Boiling Point I agree 15 FPS,but it surely does play.And one more thing i know what AA & AF means.My brother works for ATI technologies,i get a lot info from him something which even u dont know.I am sorry for being too harsh on u.Good Day.

Hey ICECOOLZ there's no very low settings in Doom 3 & Half-Life 2.I have seen Half Life 2 play comfortably on my friend's PC , he has a FX 5200 & Doom 3 medium settings will be cozier on it alright.First know then bluff.

All comments made by you... talk about confilcting stuff...U dont even have a clue as to what you say and your information fluctuates so much... sheesh... First...know your stuff first. I'm chill...however I think you need some serious research work to do. Dont go around posting such information. Not only are you misleading people, ur also wasting a lot of people's times here. Think b4 you post!

[venkat1605]

Hey ICECOOLZ , i told u to stop it gag but it ain't gettin into ur head.It's useless to blah blah on some stuff worth nothin.And one more thing i am not conflicting stuff & as much as research is concerned i know my stuff

[enoonmai]

@Venkat1605: Please, no flamebait. I know a lot of people playing Doom 3 and HL2 on a FX5200, and I personally own an FX5950 Ultra and an X800 XT PE, and I can assure you that while Doom 3 may work averagely with the FX series cards, HL2 will not. Since your brother works for ATI and you have an X850 XT PE, I am sure you would KNOW that playing on those cards makes the FX series look like a load of total cr@p.

And please try to stay professional in your arguments. Calling some other member a "bluffer", especially one that's senior and merits a "Brainiac" tag isn't really something that would sit well.

[tarey_g]

I am not very much familier with games but if I am not mistaken SS2 is the game in which Sam starts from under a pond right?? and a special sniper rifle was provided ?? If it is so then it ran on my 865gbf inbuilt graphics quite smoothly. We even hosted a game server in which the client machines were 865 GBF with p4-2.4ghz. and they were running realy smooth(with no stopping).How was that possible?

the game u played was not serious sam 2 it was ,'serious sam : second encounter' . both games are different .. and serious samII needs better hardware than its predecessor ss:second encounter.

[venkat1605]

Hey ENOONMAI,I apologised to ICECOOLZ in one of my posts for calling him a bluff.Everyone makes mistakes,he told DOOM 3 & HL 2 is almost impossible(very low settings) on a FX 5200 but i have personally seen it play okay on medium settings on a FX 5200.Well he is a brainiac i agree,but that was a mistake which everyone has to agree.Anyway i APOLOGISE to him once again & i want to be in good terms with him

[enoonmai]

Well, I agree that it PLAYS on a FX 5200, no doubt about it, but at a terrible price. Even Doom 3, which is OPTIMIZED for Nvidia cards, can only play the game at 640x480, with almost all the effects turned off, if you want playable framerates. So, a D3D game like HL2 plays just as terribly. For Icecoolz, a guy who owns a 6800 GT, and is used to playing all the games at 1024x768 or higher with every effect turned on, you have to understand that playing at such low settings is worse than not playing it at all. And I tend to agree with him on this one. Take a game like F.E.A.R., you turn off the effects and there's pretty much absolutely no point to the game. In any case, I am happy that you are willing to work your differences out, which is how it should be.