TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:Haha a 6150LE IGP was what got me into PC gaming (and retro gaming, this was around 2011-2013 before i got smart enough upgrade […]
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SPBHM wrote:Far Cry used to run OK even on the geforce 6100 IGP when I tested it, but it was considered an advanced game back in 2004
for games like Oblivion and Lost Coast I think it's worth maybe running a test with HDR on and also with HDR off
Haha a 6150LE IGP was what got me into PC gaming (and retro gaming, this was around 2011-2013 before i got smart enough upgrade it to a GT520...) in the first place. and Yeah, Far Cry runs fine on the entire 6000 series. NVIDIA optimized there drivers to hell and back for that game. It was the Crysis of its day. Added to the battery of tests i'm going to run.
Also as far as Oblivion goes i'll likely test at Medium settings with HDR and then a 2nd with normal Bloom @ either 800x600 or 1024x768 (Again, im afraid ill low mem the cards if i go too high on the settings, especially with my 6800 and one of my 6600's being 128's. On a side note why did they even make 128MB 6800's... its like a Corvette Engine in a Volkeswagon).
Anywho i think we've got the game tests covered. What were some other era Synthetic tests? I'm open to the idea of using old tech demo's as benchmarks via FRAPS.
regarding the 128MB memory, well, it was enough at the time and it saved money, if you look in 2004 and maybe even 2005 in typical resolution most games would perform the same with both...
talking about the 6100s, I remember even trying Oblivion, with all on low 640x480 it was basically unplayable, I suppose even the 6200 TC will be a lot better; also it's funny because I had just the 6100 series for a couple of years, around early 2005 I got a little tired of buying hardware and PC gaming, so I sold basically everything and kept using a SiS IGP for a while, but soon we had cheap s754 semprons everywhere and the first 6100 IGP, so I had to get one... in 2007 I ended up upgrading to an AM2 board with the 6150SE which was a little faster but not much (this board actually I used for basic usage until maybe a month ago, when it started with random shutdowns...), but I remember Far Cry being kind of good in it, Doom 3 was horrible, I suppose Hl2 was OK with reduced settings... kind of impressive if you think it's just "half" a 6200 with no dedicated memory... but being a geforce, it was kind of OK for older games (good compatibility, unlike the typical SiS and Intel IGPs at the time).
synthetic... I really can't remember anything specific, just the basic 3dmarks (03, 05 and 06 for these cards)