G200 gaming

[rei]

going to be picking up a BH6+celeron366 to o/c, was wondering on how g200's gaming (going to try to get a g200 8mb sgram) rates and if the recent opengl icd (they DID release one finally didn't they?) improves things any.

[Nuno]

Hi there

I upgraded to a G400 a few days ago, but I must say my G200 still went well in all the games I had. Even Quake3 demo at 800x600, 16 bit, 1 notch below max textures was very playable (well, not perfect, but that is supposed to be a sample of next-gen games...). Half-Life, Quake 2 were alright, too. I have a celeron 450A.

So don´t think it´s an outdated card yet.

Just be sure to use the latest drivers (5.13)

[Maggi]

Especially the late releases of the G200 series is very OCable, hence it performs quite well.

Grab the latest drivers from here: http://www.murc.ws/Driver/Win9x/PD5/w9x_515.exe
(not 5.13)
The ICD is quite pleasant ...

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Cheerio,
Maggi

Asus P2B-S @ 112MHz FSB - Bios 1010 final
Celeron300A @ 504Mhz
128MB 7ns SDRAM
G400 DualHead 32MB SGRAM @ 201 MHz memory clock

[sixpac]

I thought the 5.15 drivers were for people
who had rrg

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[rei]

Well I got it to do 2D...how is its performance in Max or Lightwave with the new ICD? I kept reading on how the beta ICD was atrocious...

I don't think I want to get back into gaming, 20-30fps in Quake II will do!

[Tn]

G200 is great if you only do some gaming. I still can kick ass in TFC with a Marvel and 56K modem. I heard latest OpenGL does improve 3d modeling apps performance some not sure on how good though.

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