RAdeon 9000 and directx 9

[R@\/e/\/]

hi. i had a question. i dont have much knowledge of drivers and stuff like that.

in a few days/weeks, ill be purchasing a notebook. i found a good deal - an hp zv5325ca. its specs are:

P4 w/ht 3.0ghz

80gb

512 ddr ram

128 mb ram radeon 9000 (shared).

i was wondering, are radeon 9000s compatible with directx 9 or not? plus, if i wanted to play a game like warcraft III or doom III, would i be able to play with a radeon 9000?

thx

[Mike Mayer]

I was able to play WC3 just fine on a Geforce2 MX and they're... well somewhere less than the radeon 9000 as far as speed etc.

Your 9000 will most definitely be able to play it, maybe not maxxed settings, but playable certainly so.

EDIT:

Yes yes, I know he said laptop. Still applies just the same.

[zivan56]

You probably mean the MOBILITY RADEON 9000 for the notebook, which is a DX 8.1 compliant card. I have the Mobility 9200 in my laptop, and it can play doom3 demo @ 1024x768 fine (the 9200 is the 9000 with agp 8x support.)

[DigitalN.]

I just got off of playing WC3 at 1280x1024 all high detail ;)

[Xahid]

RD9000 is good enough to play Doom3 & games (according to your specs)

& it is DX8 compatible

[advise]But Don't use LapTop as gamming machine![/advise]

[insanekiwi]

it'll work fine. i havethe 9000 pro, it's quite old but useable.

[R@\/e/\/]

would i have to download a driver for directx 9?

[yert*]

http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/winxp/r...x=11&submit.y=5

[Xahid]

would i have to download a driver for directx 9?

Always use the latest drivers, but 9000 does not support DX9 !!!

[ANova]

(the 9200 is the 9000 with agp 8x support.)

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The 9200 is based on a completely new core. The 9000 is a rebadged 8500 LE.

And yes, the 9000 will play WC3 without any problems. Doom 3 on the other hand may run a little slow.

[R@\/e/\/]

Always use the latest drivers, but 9000 does not support DX9 !!!

does that mean the dx9 wont work at all with 9000?

i have another question: the ATI Radeon IGP 345M, what kind of video card is that and what would its counter-part be in terms of memory?

thx

[paulladle]

Most DX9 coded games will just dumb down when played on a lower spec graphics card and disable the DX9 improvements. I run HL2 on my FX5600 and it gives me a decent framerate although limited to DX8 hardware functionality. However I repeat do not buy a laptop if you just want to play games as when games get more hardware hungry you won't be able to improve your graphics card to match.

[ANova]

does that mean the dx9 wont work at all with 9000?

i have another question: the ATI Radeon IGP 345M, what kind of video card is that and what would its counter-part be in terms of memory?

thx

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The 9000 is a DX8.1 card. It does not support DX9. So no, it cannot render DX9 shaders.

The Radeon IGP 345M is quite a bit slower then a 9000.

[topher1078]

However I repeat do not buy a laptop if you just want to play games as when games get more hardware hungry you won't be able to improve your graphics card to match.

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Though soon the PCI-express spec will make it to laptops and be upgradable, so that will make it easier to play games and own a laptop in the future.

[theyarecomingforyou]

Though soon the PCI-express spec will make it to laptops and be upgradable, so that will make it easier to play games and own a laptop in the future.

How will it make laptops upgradeable? I'm not questioning it, I just honestly haven't heard anything about it before.

[manni]

The 9200 is based on a completely new core.  The 9000 is a rebadged 8500 LE.

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That's wrong. Once there was Radeon 8500. And 8500 LE. 9100 is rebadged 8500 LE.

Then come 9000. Slightly slower than 8500. Then came 9200, it's 9000 with AGP 8x.

8500, 9000, 9100 and 9200 are DirectX 8.1 cards (of course you play most of the DirectX 9 games, but they doesn't support HW acceleration for DX 9 effects).

[manni]

Specs of the Radeon family