Alright, so I'm trying to replace an old 7600gt with a Visiontek Radeon 4850. I uninstalled the NVIDIA drivers, swapped cards, plugged in a 6 pin connector to the card, and booted with no post (no mobo beeps or anything like that). The red light on the back of the card is steadily flashing, and the fan sounds like it's going at 100%.

If I put my 7600gt back in, everything works fine. I then decided to unplug every power connector except the one to the hard drive and the cpu fan. The 4850 card now switches between full fan spin, no display mode, and sometimes weaves into the fan slowing down and showing me something (a boot screen, and if i let it sit until windows is supposed to boot, a grey screen with bars going vertically across it). I'm almost hesitant to give you that information, because I don't want power issues to be the answer. I spent money on the supply months ago fairly confident it would be powerful enough to charge a dated system with a 4850 when i bought the new card.

One last thing to note - my mobo does have onboard gpu, but in the bios it is set to "enable/peg" mode, which is the closest option you can get to disabled. I appreciate any help!

[QUOTE="crunchUK"]halo 3 and bioshock single player... and SMG single player >>>> uncharted single player. at least i think soBaurus_1

Halo 3 is not even in the same league.

Bioshock is great, that's true.

SMG (and most Wii games) are made for little children.

Which is why it won game of the year in so many places?

lowering resolution will all ways make a game look worse

markop2003

Hey guys. I hear all of these people saying "lower your resolution for crysis, play it very high 12X10".

So I did that, and the result, something sub par to my normal 1680X1050 all High. Maybe its my monitor.

22' Syncmaster 226BW.

Is this an LCD issue? Or an issue with all monitors?

spam-Robot

That's the whole point of lowering a resolution. You sacrifice some visual quality for better performance. In the case of Crysis, some people prefer a lower resolution that may look grainier, but will allow them to turn on other visual goodies like high shaders, high textures, etc..