Well you would think that - but they had to change the architecture so that they could increase the VRAM. The R350 (9800/PRO) was intended for 128 Mb and the R360 (9800 XT) was intended for 256 Mb.
That change in the architecture had a negative effect on the overall performance.
painkiller isn't that intensive as one might think. I ran it complete full settings with the FX 5700 card , 2400+ XP CPU and 256mb of valueram, complete high settings, no lag.
Well you would think that - but they had to change the architecture so that they could increase the VRAM. The R350 was intended for 128 Mb (R360 (9800 XT) was intended for 256 Mb).
That change in the architecture had a negative effect on the overall performance.
yeah just like ag got me to say that previous gen ATI's outperform Nvidia....psht I think he's just brainwashing us. He must be an ATI representative or something
I played painkiller on med with a 128DDR FX5200 and 256 memory on a 1.6, but cranking everything up would bog me down pretty good. Thing about painkiller is it's more CPU and mem intensive than most other games. The only games I know that are that intensive at the time I got painkiller was Gothic 2.