FEAR/Oblivion Graphic Cards

Want to know which current Graphic Cards can play FEAR and Oblivion smoothly.

I'm planing to buy IBM T60 (ATI x1400 or FireGL V5250) or HP DV9000t (GeForce 7600 512MB). Will these cards be able to play FEAR/Oblivion? If not, any mainstream laptop less than $2000 will do the job?

Finally, is the upcoming (hopefully next month) Geforce 8 series (DX10 Card) fully backward compatible to play DX9 games?

Greatly appreciate your response!!

 

With at least 1GB of ram I think that both of them will be fine. However the Hp is far better and will easily do the job.

 

Good answer.

The Everex XT5000T is currently $700 at office max and featurs the G0 7600 GPU. It is comparable in quality dispite the price. The Ge Force Go7600 can only support 256 MB of memory so the extra RAM on the graphic card in the DV9000T is of little actual value.

From what I have read here, there should be no issues with playing DX9 games on a DX10 machine. There are some issues with plahing XP games in Vista, but is is said that this should be less of a problem when the Vista drivers are mature.

 

Go7600 will play fear high settings, with certain tradeoffs (such as soft shadows off) and oblivion medium high

Did you see the sticky at the top of the page? Or just type the name of the games with the cards next to it. Results abound

 

Totally agreed, GeForce 7600 consider as mainstream card while ATI X1400 more towards the budget side. Which ironically, Lenovo/IBM consider themselves as "Premier Group" I don't really understand how Thinkpad price itself much higher price with much less configuration compare to other major good brands such as HP and Dell.

So, Go 7600 is minimum I should look for playing FEAR and Oblivion? But if I upgrade to Vista, I'll need something better than 7600. Any suggestion for ATI cards?

 

Everex XT5000T sounds great to me, cheap and good. Will look into it. Thanks!!

 

Better build quality, screen, customer service, reliability, keyboard, and the fact the thinkpad is the best selling laptop of all time.

 

I understand that quality and brand speak for itself, but for approx 1/3 premium that's too much. No wonder Thinkpad is dropping it's market share like crazy:

http://www.hereshow.ca/news_detail.asp?nid=383

 

As usual in America, the brand with the most marketing power gets the largest share of the pie. All those annoying Dell commercials with the snazzy music on TV serve one purpose, and that is to cover up its shortcomings in build quality and customer service.

From your report, it looks like Asus is leading the field in growth at 68 percent Y/Y. Asus offers performance laptops with specs exceeding that of Dell's at lower prices and better build quality, which is the primary reason for that growth. Asus has virtually no advertising in North America. Incidentally, Dell is using its relationship with Asus to pressure Asus into splitting off (a.k.a. snub) its notebook division into some unknown company.

 

My X1400 can run Oblivion rather well, with a gig of RAM you should have no problem.

 

Can you please tell me in what resolution and settings you were running with?
Thanks

 

Probably 1024x768, medium settings.

 

I've got an x1900xt, and it certainly runs Oblivion well at lower resolutions with settings pretty high. Chokes in foresty areas with high graphics settings at 1920x1200.

Have a friend who says it runs well on his nvidia 7600gt. He's probably got it at 800x600 or something (just guessing). His definition of "well" is probably anything above 20~ fps too. He did say he had the graphics options maxed though.

 

7600GT is wayyy more powerful than an X1400 and for that matter, even a 7700.

 

As much as I agree with you on the premium price of Thinkpads, you have to play around with one to actually understand. The build quality of Thinkpads are unbelievable. Mainstream NBs like Dell and HP do not hold a candle to Thinkpads when it comes to build quality, construction, keyboard, etc.

I hate to say it but my ASUS A8 is also inferior build-wise compared to a Thinkpad, although the build quality of the ASUS A8, Dell E series, HP dv series, is decent enough as long as you're not going to throw it around and mistreat it. Thinkpads are just head and shoulders above everything else.

To answer your second question, DX10 cards will be fully compatible with DX9 games.