You should get quite a long life out of it, the 9700pro is a fast card, and Microsoft have said they won't be releasing anything above DX9 for a long time, so the hardware's capabilities should be current for quite a while. :D

I agree. You've got a real work-horse of a graphics card now and it should be good to go for quite a while.

My last card was a 9700 Pro (had 3 different Nvidia cards prior to that) and the ONLY reason I upgraded to the 9800 Pro was because I FRIED the 9700 (electrolysis from the TEC water block mounting screws eat right through the card) ... otherwise I'd still be running a 9700 Pro.

If you meant to say Doom III (instead of Q3), you're right on that score as well. I've got the Doom III alpha and it ran fine on the 9700 Pro. Runs even better on a 9800 Pro but you're still Ok regardless. Q3 (Quake 3) will run on ANYTHING, by the way. It's probably one of the easiest games around for a card to render. Just doesn't take much horsepower.

Enjoy the new-found frames per second and keep the pedal to the metal. And if you want to see Nvidia's "Dawn" demo run on your Ati card, try this -

For links to both the Ati "wrapper" (to allow an Ati card to run the Nvidia demo) and the Dawn demo itself go here -
http://www.rage3d.com/articles/atidawning/

If you've already upgraded to Catalyst 3.7 drivers, you'll also need to do the following (if you're running Catalyst 3.6, skip to part 6 after installing the Dawn demo) -

1. download the Catalyst 3.6 drivers

2. run the setup but do NOT let it install the drivers. Just let it unpack them onto your hard drive and then bail out of the install script. It will install the files to (by default) C:Ati.

3. locate the "atioglxx.dl_" file and copy it over to a temp directory. You'll find this file in the ..Driver2kxp_infB_09865 directory (or something like that). If you can't locate it manually, do a search on your drive for the file name and as long as the Catalyst files installed correctly, it'll turn up.

4. open a Command Prompt window, change your default directory to the temp directory where the above file is located and type the following -
"expand atioglxx.dl_ atioglxx.dll" (leave out the double quotes). In it's compressed state it is about 2.31MB in size. Unpacked it will be roughly 4.796MB (just so you know you unpacked the right file).

5. copy the "atioglxx.dll" file over to the "..Dawnbin" directory, delete the atioglxx.dl_ file and close the command prompt window.

6. run the demo and email Nvidia a nice "thank you" note for creating such a pretty demo ;-)

Later.

Yeah i emailed ATi and thanked them for there pretty demo, which runs on FX cards without downloading any additional files...!

Ahh i got the 9700pro up and running bit of hassle as i had to formate in the end (double my frame rate tho in DOD) but its still not that good like i cant have it 1200x1600 with all AA and shit on, for a game like that i thought i could get atleast 80fps with all that shit on

ahh should have got the 9800pro my mates got one and can get all that with the AGP at 4x lol

Hmm whats the rest of your system stats? A 9700pro should be way more than enough to max the fps on an older game like DoD. Although it might take a slight penalty because the 9700 is more aimed for higher end dx9 stuff, and DoD was originally designed (being based on HL) back when Nvidia ruled the video card world.

ATi's cards have got a problem with HL1, so if you wanna play the original HL dont get one :P

I have a 9700 Pro and have been completely happy with it, no problems what so ever. I have it overclocked to 370/344. 3DMark2001 score is 18,179, better than some 9800 scores. Have heard that you can get a 9800 non pro and flash bios to a pro, but benchmarks have been comparable to my numbers, therefore, I won't upgrade. I will wait for the next generation. They do say the 9800 architecture is better and runs cooler though.

System
2500+ o/c 2.3 ghz
Asus A7N8X
Corsair twin x pc3200LL
9700 Pro
Turtle Beach
WD 80 g 8mb cache

ATI Radeon 9700 pro is a good graphic card. If you wish to overclock the graphic card you can overclock it with smooth vision 2.0. With smooth vision 2.0, I think you can overclock it to ATI Radeon 9800's speed. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Isn't smoothvision 2.0 what the radeon 9700's already have and isn't it the antialiasing/anistopic filtering technology?

And don't 9800 pro's use smoothvision 2.1 anyway?

What is smoothvision for. I have softmod MY ATI9700NP to 9800 with smoothvision 2.1. But performance with 3D2003 score less 200 point then before softmod (smoothvision 2.0).

smoothvision 2.0 = 3D Mark2003=5400

smoothvision 2.1 = 3D Mark2003=5200


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Smoothvision is the antialiasing and anisotropic filtering technology ATi uses I think.