8600GT DDR2 Screenshot Thread

256mb DDR2 8600MGT. ​

Vostros 1500. Paired with 2Ghz Core 2 Duo and 2gb Ram. OS: Vista Business. Drivers: 163.44

General verdict: Even with DDR2, the 8600Gt is more then enough for yesterdays games, such as Call of Duty 2, Battlefield 2, Company of Heroes etc at high settings. For the very latest games (UE3 engine) however, the limits of ddr2 are very clear, with the ddr2 model loosing out severely to the ddr3 model.

I have not tried overclocking....yet.

More shots coming soon, stay tuned. FEAR Combat, Call of Juarez, DX10 Knights of the Sea bench, and more to come later. Anything specific, just ask.

3dMark06




GPU-Z




Knights of the Sea
Found models looked quite bland but water looked incredible.

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Gears of War






Battlefield 2








Dirt










Call of Duty 4
Ran at 1280x800 medium assuming it would run like crap, to my disbelief it ran at 30-60fps. Running at 1024x768 or changing some options would result in a very good experience for those concerned with high FPS online. Pictures edited below to reflect Multiplayer at same settings, but with Glow OFF.












FEAR Perseus Mandate










Half Life 2









Counter Strike Source
Ran incredibly. Max everything at 1280x800 ultra smooth.

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Jericho









Company of Heroes










Ubersoldier II













Call of Duty 2
FPS varying from 25-45 but maintains above 25 at all times. Surprised me as assumed that a starting idle fps so low would inevitably lead to bad dips. But not so...











Call of Juarez
Seems like a cool game but visuals pretty bland. Other games look far better on medium settings and are less hardware intensive.

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Medal of Honor Airborne
8600GT DDR2 starts to feel the pain of 400mhz ram











Bioshock
As above. Did run 'OK' on higher settings but I'm somebody who likes to maintain a high average FPS. Game tends to dip in very intense situations so on higher settings while the game was playable, intense situations were choppy and thats not acceptable to me.

 

i have the same lap as u, except for the name, and i run moh:a and bioshock at 1280*800 with everything high... it probably doesn't get as many fps as urs at 1024, but both are very playable

 

I tried that and got about 18-20fps average....'playable' mostly but gets a bit too choppy for me far too often. but everyones different!

 

OS: Vista Ultimate 32bit

Oblivion

1280 x 800
Vsync On
Everything max except medium textures, HDR instead of bloom and no AA















Counter Strike Source

1680 x 1050, everything max except no AA and trilinear filtering.




Battlefield 2142

1024 x 768, since I cant select any other resolution, and If I force wide screen image gets squashed. Everything max, no AA


fps on the top left corner in red










Halflife 2

1680 x 1050 Everything max, 6 x AA, trilinear filtering







Battlefield 2

1024 x 768 anyone know how to put it in widescreen withouth making the image blurry??

Everything max, 8 x AA in first screenshot, no AA in the rest

 

BF2 has no true widescreen mode unfortunately. BF2142 doesn't either. I don't know why EA refused to implement that feature consdering widescreen is the new standard resolution.

Even with the hardware survey on Steam, which generally is a good sample of the middle end hardware, over 50% of desktop resoltions are widescreen.

Hopefully if/when EA releases a successor to BF2 (and as addictive) they will support widescreen then.

 

3300 in 3dmark06.. u didnt use default resolution right?

 

Why do you think so? I remember +3000 marks is what 8600M GT user get at default resolution.

 

World In Conflict:

Around 20 fps average, going down to 13 fps if I decide to sit my camera in the middle of a tactical nuclear explosion. I'd turn the settings down, but the framerate is fine for the type of game it is.









And settings (I play with them differently set on multiplayer, though it's essentially the same. Just rid of the bloom and put on more water reflections):

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b330/celestialcrusader/Screenshots/wicspecs.jpg

 

i get 3030 at default resolution, most people do... but he seems to get 300+ more

 

No, all cards seem to perform differently. some get 2900 while others gets 3400. All of them DDR2

 

Very smooth, a bit of slowdown during massive nukes and only if up close
World In Conflict demo

1280 x 800 and 1440 x 900, mix of high and medium settings and DX 10 rendering

 

FRom my review of the orange box ( http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=175965) - I will post a few. All done at 1680 x 1050 all settings on high, 2 x aa, v-sync enabled. Just posting a few too many post.









Team Fortress 2

 

where is the best place to get the WiC demo, legally?

 

Gamershell.com is where I got all my demos from.

 

okey dokey, because so many people use steam and fileplanet, i like gamershell.

does it take long to download?

 

Depends on your connection. They usually have plenty of servers with great bandwith and no registering blah blah to use their site. although their site looks pretty busy right now. See what you get.

http://www.gamershell.com/download_20763.shtml

 

I will, but I have to get my new computer first

 

Oh you don't have it yet? I thought you did. Enjoy it when it comes! By the way didn't get feedback from you about the TF2 review what did yo u think? Pm me or post there so we don't steal the thread. I'm deciding whether I should write more reviews for future games, its alot of work.

 

good idea, because the pictures constantly loading gets confusing

 

I didn't enjoy WIC, as a big time fan of RTs it just didn't do it for me.

 

Yeh i can only manage 2800 3dmarks! how'd u get 3000+

 

hes got a t7250

 

It doesn't look fun, but I'm doing it for the sake of benchmarks, since the 2600HD is practically unknown

 

I get 3300 stock

 

Yeah I want to know how bad the drivers for the 2600 is. Since ati owners are outraged.

 

i also have to find the best drivers, which sounds hard

 

You wont belive it unless you see it:



And here are some screens from Sega Rally:







It is a good card if you know how to use it!!

Note: im using 165.01 moded driver + OCing

 

^ Not bad close to stock gddr3 card.

Nevermind wtf thats low, didnt notice the res that wasn't 1024 x 768. if it was 1024 x 768 then it would have been close to stock gddr3.

 

Yeah but you used 1024x640 resolution, so it's not THAT amazing!

Sorry to be a stickler guys but if you're posting screenshots, could you use fraps or the games own counter? Because screenshots by themselves are completely worthless.....thanks

 

No matter how hard we 8600mGT DDR2 owners try it's just impossible to reach that crazy GDDR3 stock memory 700mhz... But 8600mGT DDR2 is still amazing card.

 

As I'm sure we all want to see more World In Conflict, here's more from me featuring FPS(!) and a video to show what it actually looks like:

Video! (Qulity is low...oh well, you get the idea):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JEOmGDPPfds






And settings are...

 

post FPS!!!!

 

Did you happen to check the bottom left hand corner of my pictures?

 

I used that resolution because it look good for me + wide screen while 768 is 4:3

Also i think everyone should try the 3dmark06 at what he think is a good resolution for him

not increasing it to max. and while playing he dont use the same high res.

thats what i think....And i looove my 4604 score

 

opps

they're usually on top right or left so i didn't check

 

is it playable at 18fps?

 

i play it at like 10 fps.

 

yea its totally playable at anything >10 FPS.

They even have options to cap FPS at 15, 20, or 30 (in beta at least i didn't buy retail cause I didn't like WiC).

 

it's good to hear that WiC plays pretty well on high settings on a 8600 GT.... sweet. That game even brings my 8700 GT to it's knees at high settings when you got action at all once. With tanks firing, 3 tankbusters, laser guided bombs, carpet bombing, artillery firing, and an airstrike all at once is a sweet sight to see...destruction galore, I can't remember such a game where destruction is enjoyable.

 

Most definitely. It's only annoying when it gets below 15 or so for me.

 

Half Life 2

All max with 0 x AA 16 x AF @ 1680 x 1050

 

Added some new games and a proper gpu-z shot

 

Added Call of Duty 4 and the new FEAR Demo

 

Nice HavoK











With these settings

Resolution: 1280 x 800

- Pixel Shaders: High
- Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
- Physics Quality: Medium
- Texture Quality: High
- Terrain Texture Quality: High
- UI Texture Quality: Compressed
- Water Quality: High
- Shadows: On
- World Distance Detail: High
- Animation Quality: High
- Unit Track Distance: Medium
- Water Reflection Size: 256
- Fullscreen Antialias: None
- Anisotropic Filtering: None
- Framerate Cap: None
- Vsync: Off
- Full Object Geometry: On
- Windows on building: On
- Extra Object Details: On
- Destruction FX: On
- Unit Tracks: On
- Ground Scorch Marks: On
- Flowers and Bushes: On
- Grasses: On
- High Quality Terrain: On
- Craters: On
- Water Reflects Clouds: Off
- Water Reflects Units: On
- Water Reflects Props: Off (i think, whatever was default)
- Water Reflects Effects: Off (i think, whatever was default)
- Water Trails: Off (i think, whatever was default)
- Roads: On
- Clouds: On
- Z-Feather: Off
- Post Effects: On
- Soft Shadows: Off
- Bloom: Off
- Heat Haze: On
- Tree Shadows: Off
- HQ Tree Shaders: Off
- Transparency Antialiasing: Off
- Debris Physics: On
- Use DX10 Rendering: On but Off for last screenshot
- Shadows from clouds: Off






I also used a few tweaks I found thanks to SymphonyX, Odin, Ochimaru (sorry if spelt the last two wrong).

They are

Use rivatuner to set vsync to always on and prerender limit to 1
Use rivatuner to enable clamp negative minmap LOD bios, anistropic mip filter optimization, anistropic sample optimization, trilinear optimization
Use D3D overrider (once you install rivatuner you also install this) to force triple buffering
Set Vsync to off in in-game settings

 

Added one or two new pictures. Though decent enough thread to bring back to attention, given the amount of pictures from various games everyone posted...

 

How much better do the GDR3 8600GTs do? Is there a rough percentage increase?

Really great job with those pictures!