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Video Card Survey
This week's questions come from our programming team. Let me stress that this is for information purposes only.
There's been some talk recently internally about ways to improve the visual quality of Istaria and one of the items that was brought up was our support of non-ATI / nVidia cards (basically, that we support Intel video cards). When players make mention of the visual quality of a game, particle and shader effects have a very large part of perceived visual impact. If we focused shader effects towards nVidia and ATI cards (and no longer tried to support basic Intel cards), we could raise the bar for visual quality, since we could take advantage of all the higher end rendering effects. While we're not really considering going in this direction, it sparked the question - how many people actually use an Intel video card and does it make sense to put development effort into those special effects?
What type of video card do you have?
Intel
nVidia
ATI
Other
Unknown
If Istaria no longer supported Intel video cards for special effects, would you upgrade your video card to see the special effects?
yes
no
undecided
N/A
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nVidia
I don't think I'd notice if you no longer supported Intel video cards.
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nVidia 8800 GTX for me
N/A for me as well.
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Main desktop - nvidia Geforce GTX 260
Main Laptop - nvidia geforce 8600 gs
Other desktop - Nvidia card
Other laptop - ATI Card
so a mix but mainly nvidia
don't use intel cards/graphics so irelevant to me
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nVIDIA gtx480
Don't care about Intel onboard graphics.
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ati radion visiontech x1300 256 meg
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NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
Not concerned about Intel
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I use Nvidia myself, and so too do the family members of mine who play with me in istaria.
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I *think* mine is ATI. I get lost in the hardware list... :-/
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same, NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
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Desktop nVidia 7600 GT
Laptop ATI HD 12xx
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PC: ATI HD58xxx
laptop: Geforce 8800gt
EEE: intel GMA blabla
I'm not sure INTEL has replacable GFX cards on the market. (they're mostly in laptops as just a chip) People with desktop computers relying on INTEL chips to do their graphics processing, might need some links to cheap upgrades, cause there are like $40 decent preforming cards available.
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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650
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Nvidia GTX 260
And pleeeease do! I would love to see visual improvements to the game. I have recently been attempting to reimpliment Dynamic Shadows that where removed from the game in the past by using my original Horizon's install (Yes, I have the disks and everything!) just to get that wonderful visual aspect back.
Visuals don't mean everything, but they sure do mean a lot and it would make the game more attractive to new people.
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Comp 1 i got ... Intel
second comp nvidia Geforce / Cuba
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