Is Max Payne DirectX 7 or 8? Trying to estimate if a Radeon would be powerful for it.

[Noriaki]

Well right now I play a smattering of Quake3, Rune and HalfLife.
With Diablo2 and Starcraft mixed in as well...but those are hardly video card intensive.

A Radeon would definately fit the bill for those.

The only games I'm looking forward to in the next year or so are Warcraft 3 and Max Payne.

I'm sure that War3 will be ok on a Radeon...

And Max Payne is the other interesting title.

Think that will be happy on a Radeon?

 

[odog]

definetly DX*, if 3Dmark2001 needs it then max must(3Dmark2001 is partly based on the max payne engine)

 

[randomlinh]

damn, can you tell me where to get DirectX*!!!!

 

[pg22]

Max Payne will definitly use DirectX* over DirectX&

 

[pg22]

Oh, and anyone hear anything about DirectX( ?

 

[Noriaki]

lol

you guys leave the poor guy and his typo alone.

Thanks for pointing that out e-phex...I forgot about that 3Dmark2k1 scene.

Now the question is...does the Radeon support enough DX8 features to make it fast in Max Payne?

 

[duragezic]

Should be okay if you plan to upgrade now. I'd try and get a Radeon SE though. Wouldn't hurt!

 

[Noriaki]

I'm kinda strapped for cash....

The SE doesn't add much in the way of features does it?
It's just like an Ultra no?

 

[nortexoid]

yes it is...

your radeon should do fine for max payne...
and remember, it'll always have options to turn down details/textures/etc.

though i doubt u'll need to w/ a radeon and decent cpu

 

[Noriaki]

Duron at 1Ghz, 266Bus.
512MB PC2100 at 2-2-2.
And Radeon Vivo 64MB...probably just at 183/183

Would be my final specs.

 

[MGMorden]

I'm thinking a Radeon should do for most of the games for another 2 years. My TnT2 was still playing Quake 3, Unreal Tourney and Sacrifice and virtually all the newer games, and this was 2 or 3 years after it's initial release. To tell you the truth there's a 3dfx VooDoo Banshee in my brother's system and he still can play Q3 and UT. I wouldn't worry about the Radeon, it'll hold you over for a while (I've had mine ~4 months now, and plan on keeping at another year and a half).

 

[Killer Ape]

e-phex called it. If you can run 3DMark 2000/2001 at decent framerates then you'll run Max Payne fine (same engine). Try the Matrix-esque demo in 3DMark 2001 for a taste of what Max will be like.

Runs fine on my rig (P700@933/256MB SDRAM/GF2 64MB).Looks like your rig will be more than fine.