Geforce FX 5200

Nid Xen · Post by **Nid Xen** » Sun, 22. Aug 04, 21:38

this cost me £80
still didn't fix my computer! (turns out my processor is screwed DAMN!)

but it did improve my experience on X2
is this a decent card for this kind of game?

BDC · Post by **BDC** » Sun, 22. Aug 04, 21:50

Not really. It's not decent for anything really.

StevesX2 · Post by **StevesX2** » Sun, 22. Aug 04, 21:56

I use a Creative GF FX 5200

I know its a budget card but its all I have right now.

X2 runs fine for me, 45-55 fps

I run it at 1024x768x32 with bumpmaps on

Severniae · Post by **Severniae** » Sun, 22. Aug 04, 22:18

FX5200 is basicly the baby of the FX range. its a good card if you compare to the MX range, but compared to the more recent cards, its terrible. i used to have an MSI FX5200, worked alright but was by no means spectacular. Had to run the game with bumbmaps and shadows off

Got a good Radeon card now tho - ahhhhh

Samata · Post by **Samata** » Sun, 22. Aug 04, 22:35

I suspect this will be moved to the tech forum soon....

But can you guys please tell me what you think about my card, the box calls it the following:

Geforce FX5900 XT Winfast A350 XT TDH

It seems to do alright most of the time, but I wondered how it compared to other cards?

tismtia · Post by **tismtia** » Sun, 22. Aug 04, 22:36

I dont know of any computer out there that can keep up with this game, and Ive seen some high spec models here.

I have an older machine upgraded with lots of ram and a middle of the road g-card. I have all eye candy on (except shadows--they look aweful!)/1024X768 and manage good f/s through benchmark test (63.??average).

But the benchmark test has no sceen where you are opening up on a large cluster with your PSGs or a sceen where there are 20 Xenon ships/10 other race ships all firing weapons with 12 factories and 20 transporters going about there business. I finally had to switch off eye candy for battles to keep f/s up. I even went down to less resolution......you know what?.....the game still looks good. Your not paying too much attention to graphics anyway when you are trying to take out a Xenon invasion or two.
This is a pretty game, but dont get caught up in thinking you have to leave on the eye candy to have fun. I have to admit the sound/music is amazing. I got a free upgrade on speakers with sub when i got the computer.

2.26P4
1 gig ram
Radeon 128mb

waagghh · Post by **waagghh** » Sun, 22. Aug 04, 23:01

Im runnning:

amd 2.5Mhz
1 gig RAM
Radeon sapphire 9800 pro 128mb
SB Audigy
and Klipsch 500W sound system

n bench at 80fps @ 1048 res, 32bit color depth w/ anti enabled but no shawdows. Have yet to see what a heavy battle will do to the FPS but last time a cluster pop'd in the middle of my factories the 15 or so of em all shooting at me n firing missles while they pounded my 6 factories n my 10 transports I cant say I saw much of a lag hit from it

bladeuk · Post by **bladeuk** » Mon, 23. Aug 04, 04:09

Just wait till my Galaxy 6800 Gt arrives this week...i cant wait, i wana see what this card can do, especially when overclocked

JmonkeyJ · Post by **JmonkeyJ** » Mon, 23. Aug 04, 04:25

i have an XFX 6800gt (that's how i found X2 actually, it comes with the card!) and i run 12x10 AA on, shadows off (i like the way it looks better without shadows) and on the benchmark i get 120fps! i think with shadows on it was around 75fps, but it seems to me the benchmark isn't too intensive...

the gt truly does rock...

J

BDC · Post by **BDC** » Mon, 23. Aug 04, 16:23

FX 5900 is pretty good. Still has the lousy FX range pixel shaders (so don't try and play Halo too much) but it is a nice card.

Saying Radeon 128mb doesn't really mean anything. Which core? Radeon 9200se 128mb sucks, whilst Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb rocks.

Fletch_480 · Post by **Fletch_480** » Thu, 26. Aug 04, 00:23

I have a 5200, and it is the best card i have used, however this is not saying much as the only other card i have used was a 32mb blah blah blah. I have recently tride to overclock it, and by searching the net, found out about a hidden program that comes with the card, well not so much a program more an additional tab on the Gforce properties applet ( now where did i put that link? post back if u think it will be helpful). It allowed me to detect the optimal frequencies of the card ie Overclock it. XP only. Trouble is i still was not able to have shadows on. Still, it runs fine as is.

Nuff Said.

The Space Pope · Post by **The Space Pope** » Sat, 28. Aug 04, 12:56

The FX5200 is a decent card, it'll run most games, but it lacks power a lot, I got one and I did not improve on my old MX one bit, apart from Pixel Shader 1.0, also, Deus Ex 2, the reason I got it, is unplayable with it, so instead I bought a FX5900 XT, it is only about £100 more and a twentyfold improvement, now I can use X2 on full spec with no slowdown except in battles involving more than about 50 ships. (I'm using a P4 2.53GHz) It's a pity you can't use shadows with the 5200, they are truly awesome, I think the 5900 is well worth the extra cost, at least with the games I play.

Kabacus · Post by **Kabacus** » Sun, 29. Aug 04, 01:37

AMD XP3200+
1GB 400Mhz RAM
FX 5900XT 128MB 8xAGP (Gigabyte)
1024x768x32 no shadows

Benchmark framerate: 95fps

Same machine/setup with FX 5600XT: 40fps

I luv the 5900 as it only set me back £125

Compare 3D chip specs here: http://users.erols.com/chare/video.htm

TerrorTrooper · Post by **TerrorTrooper** » Sun, 29. Aug 04, 04:20

i have an FX5600 256MB (340core/400Mem)
it cost me £180 when it first came out.

ITS CRAP!!! apart from DX9 eye candy, my old rad 9500 knocks seven shades out of it.

and my Ti4600 (one of my all time favorites) eats it for breakfast.

my FX5600 will O/C to 362 core 465 mem (with extra cooling) and its performance is "bareable" (and i use that word loosely...)

masterk · Post by **masterk** » Sun, 29. Aug 04, 19:41

I wasnt pleasantly surprised with my AOpen 6800 GT

Does very well in benchmarks but in X2 it isnt amazing. Well, i can get 1152x864 AA, Shadows and Bumpmaps at a decent frame rate.

Fletch_480 · Post by **Fletch_480** » Mon, 30. Aug 04, 13:36

Benchmark framerate: 95fps

Man! i can only dream bout getting that kinda framerate. ive benched my 5200 at 36fps max with no shadows, even after overclocking 2 l max

Does anybody know if x2 can display the framerate in game?

Post by **CBJ** » Mon, 30. Aug 04, 13:42

To show the framerate, download and install a utility called "Fraps". A quick net search should locate it pretty easily.

Carl Sumner · Post by **Carl Sumner** » Fri, 3. Sep 04, 02:56

TerrorTrooper wrote:i have an FX5600 256MB (340core/400Mem)
it cost me £180 when it first came out.

ITS CRAP!!! apart from DX9 eye candy, my old rad 9500 knocks seven shades out of it.

and my Ti4600 (one of my all time favorites) eats it for breakfast.

my FX5600 will O/C to 362 core 465 mem (with extra cooling) and its performance is "bareable" (and i use that word loosely...)

I have an FX5600 XT 128mb. As I understand it, this is a clocked down FX5900 GPU. That would mean that it had the new command functions but not as much raw speed.

It works fine for X2 except in very crowded battles. I think X2 depends a lot on the new commands in DirectX9.0, so the new GPU helps more than clock speed does.

System: P4 2.4G 533fsb, 512DDR, Win98-2nd, Creative sound bd.

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