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Haven't had much time yet to try it but so far (last night) no problems. Performance improvement

Will test it on my brand-spankin-new PowerBook G4 (17 incher, Christmas present to myself) forthrightly.

My initial impressions of 10.3.2 + UT2K3:

1. No big performance boost.

2. Maybe fewer crashes online... maybe.

no problems, no difference for me

g4 867
1.5 gb ram
Radeon 9800 pro 128

could you post some benchmarks with that?  i've been thinking of using ati's trade-up program to get that and trade in the geforce 2mx that came with my powermac.  i want to know how much better it will do with UT2K3.  i have a g4 867, 640mb ram, geforce2mx 32mb

sure
i'll get on that

Hmmm . . . I'm starting to wonder if UT2K3 will run adequately on my Dual 800 QS with nVIDIA GeForce TwinView AGP 1X card having 64 MB RAM.  Anybody know?  If not, please suggest an aftermarket video card for me.

I don't know about the vid card, but I would add more ram, lots of it. 64 isn't much

Dude - That's the RAM on the video card!  I have 768 MB of regular RAM.

  thought it was odd of you to only have 64 mb of ram 

Hmmm . . . I'm starting to wonder if UT2K3 will run adequately on my Dual 800 QS with nVIDIA GeForce TwinView AGP 1X card having 64 MB RAM.  Anybody know?  If not, please suggest an aftermarket video card for me.

Kirk I had 2K3 running on my Dp500 and 32mb Radeon AGP. It reminded me of the early days in UT playing on my 6400 and VooDoo 2 card.  Back then I was only getting 17 FPS, today on the DP500 I'm getting 17FPS. You can play, its just gonna be really ugly, like the early days of UT. My wife's 1Ghz PIII, 384Mb, and a PCI 64mb GF 4MX plays UT2K3 well with medium to low settings.

I don't know if you're correct on the 1X AGP. I didn't think any G4 had 1X, I thought they started at 2X. I'm almost certain you have at least 2X if not 4X one the QS. If any G4 has 1X AGP it would be mine or the generation before mine. I'll brb, I'll go look on Apple's stie and get some specs.

Ok, just what I thought your good to go Kirk, you have 4X AGP. What I don't know is if the TwinView can move the V-Ram around as needed. I think it was built with the ram split betweent the two connections. Thus giving each monitor 32mb of ram. I don't know if only one monitor is connected if the card will dedicate all 64mb to that monitor.

How are your feelings towards ebay? If I were in the market for a different v-card, I'd stop there first. Look at Radeon 9600s, 8500s or GFTi for Macs. Becareful with the 8500s tho, many peeps are flashing PC cards and selling them as Mac cards. Ask that before bidding. Pesonally I'd buy a flashed card, but not for mac prices. Hell buy your own PC 8500 and flash it your self. I don't know what your budget is maybe the 9700s or 9800s is an option if you wanna go big.

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