RAdeon 9000 and directx 9


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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

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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

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).

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