Well i just spent 300$ on a brand new Radeon x1950 XGE AGP (256MB GDDR3 1380MHZ RAM) video card. I expected to be able to play my games at the highest quality with resolutions at 1204×768 no problem. Ive always had to spend sometimes up to an hour to configure the graphics settings to get it just right for my system. I was fed up with that and just wanted the best card i could get, so i can just put all the settings on high, and have my games run no prob. I herd that the x1950 was one of the best AGP cards out there.
Well for games such as Battlefield 2, BF2142, Splinter Cell Double Agent, and Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (along with some others), i was kinda let down. On the highest settings, with 1024×768, online is horrible for the battlefield games. Warfighter only runs good on medium textures, and double agent gets what seems to be around 30 FPS on its highest setting and 1024×768.
Now my computer has an Athlon 64 3700+ CPU, 1GB of RAM, and i keep my OS clean. I constantly defrag it, and its clean of spyware etc. Now i dont mean to complain, but for 300$ id like to be able to play these games no prob on these settings.
I expected mor eof this card. Its nice just…for 300$ i was expecting a little more. Does anyone know why im unable to run my games as well as i want? Is it just the video card? Is my hardware holding this video card back? is it the OS? Do i need to reinstall windows? Im not quite sure. An answer to this problem would be much appreciated. Thanks much.
