The roots of graphics…

I’ve come from the roots of owning a:

• S3 Virge - 1998
• S3 Trio 3d 2x - 1999
• ATI Rage 128 Pro - 2000
• S3 Savage - 2001
• GeForce 2 MX - 2002
• GeForce FX5200 - 2004
• ATI Radeon 9600SE - 2004
• GeForce 6200 - 2005
• GeForce 6600GT - 2006
• GeForce 7600GS - 2007
• GeForce 7900GS - 2007
• GeForce 9600GT - 2008 (soon) :)

As you can see most of them are not really kick-ass cards more of the low-medium end, the real thing came when I bought a GeForce 6600GT to play Quake 4 back in 2006 and has been my trusty card till it gracefully aged in the fall of 2007 which I got my 7900GS to play Bioshock (at least in medium settings) at 1024x768.

The dumbest upgrade I got was the FX5200 card thinking it would be pixel shader supporting and give good FPS in Doom 3, but hell I was wrong! I got like 15-20 FPS at 640x480 - low/medium settings. Even the ATI 9600SE was too puny to handle Doom 3, but at least i got it up to 800x600 on medium, Ah so well...some of us learn things the hard way :)

The reason for upgrade is mainly because I’m getting myself a 19” Widescreen LCD and I’m looking for decent frame rates at 1440x900. One of the really great RPG games I’ve played in a long long prolly after Diablo 2, is The Witcher, and well you can see when it comes to Act III, things start to lag big time due to the heavy use of shaders and shadows, where my FPS dips to less than 10 at 1024x768/high settings.

So hopefully I’ll be able to play a great and final Act V and epilogue and finish The Witcher in style (with good FPS)  with my spanking new 9600GT

*Update 19-03-08* I've already finished the Witcher with my current 7900GS woohoo! (expect my remarks on it soon)