I wanna push my 6800 Ultra to the MAX!

[andydude117]

Well, I got my PowerMac G5 for Christmas with my really hardcore 6800 Ultra. The one problem is, I can't find any games (other than Unreal Tournament) that really make any use of it. I just spent (well, my parents did) $500 dollars on a video card that I won't really make good use of. I like Unreal Tournament because it really pushes the limits. It looks awesome. I don't want some RTS game that I could've run on my old ATi Radeon 9200 in my Dell.

I'm eagerly waiting for Doom III in February. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Thanks,
Andy

 

[beedubaya]

"The Chronicles or Ridd!ck," or of course, Doom 3. Far Cry is another awesome choice that will really make use of that high powered graphics card.

 

[andydude117]

I've played Far Cry before and I've heard of The Chronicles of Ridd!ck, but they're both for PC. I have a Mac.

Thanks anyway, though.

 

[beedubaya]

oh yea...i dunno about the mac.

 

[g5orbust]

World of Warcraft should be a good one (wont be too taxing, but at the highest settings, it should look really really nice.)

Halo

UT2004

 

[horndude]

try x-plane, last run I did with that the system was using 685mb or ram when running

 

[g5orbust]

Ah yes! X plane will push your graphics card hard.

 

[andydude117]

I think I'm going to get Halo. X-Plane looks awesome, but I don't wanna go and buy a joystick. Especially when they're like $80.

I remember I had Halo on my Dell, but even when I put all the settings the lowest, it looked terrible. I guess I won't have to worry about that now, lol.

Thank you for your suggestions!
-Andy

 

[horndude]

just dont forget that graphics card isnt even close to being able to do what a top of the line G5 can do, which is one of the gripes I have with Apple, high end graphics workstation price minus the specs, especially in the graphics card dept.

 

[g5orbust]

Yeah, the G5 should definitely come with a higher level stock video card.