Half life can i play?

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Andrew Poyser

just wondered i downloaded a blink video yesterday and then tryed to run the
vid but it just freezes is this due the fact that i m only runing a
ge-force3 on DX8 and it needs a DX9 compatible card?

i ve just purchased a radeon 9700 pro and am still waiting for it.

TIA
 
Andrew said:
just wondered i downloaded a blink video yesterday and then tryed to
run the vid but it just freezes is this due the fact that i m only
runing a ge-force3 on DX8 and it needs a DX9 compatible card?

i ve just purchased a radeon 9700 pro and am still waiting for it.

TIA
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Andrew, BINK videos will work fine under DirectX8, and GeForce 3 card is
perfectly acceptable.
Bink vids are created with Rad Gametool's Bink Tools, which can reformat a
source video such as AVI, MPEG, MOV, etc. files, and make them into a single
executable with its own codec and viewer, allowing them to be played on just
about any machine.

While the HL2 Binks are videos of a DX9 game that will require a hefty card
to play, it doesn't mean you need those machine specs to watch the video.
Just as you wouldn't need to hermetically seal and pressurize your house to
watch Apollo 9 on DVD.
 
Smeghead said:
While the HL2 Binks are videos of a DX9 game that will require a hefty
card to play, it doesn't mean you need those machine specs to watch the
video. Just as you wouldn't need to hermetically seal and pressurize your
house to watch Apollo 9 on DVD.
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LOL.

Ben
 
Just as you wouldn't need to hermetically seal and pressurize your house to
watch Apollo 9 on DVD.
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Should have seen the set-up I had for watching Lord of the G-Strings...you'd
soon change your tune.
 
DaveW said:
The 9700 is a DX 8 card. Oops. You really wanted a 9600 Pro or a
9800 Pro for DX 9.
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Erm, not is isn't. The 9700 is definitely a Directx9 card, one of the first
I believe. Hence the reason why the Radeon 7000, 7200 and 7500 cards were
DirectX7 and the Radeon 8500 was a DirectX8. The first number of the card
was supposed to be the DirectX version it supported, although the 9000,9100
and 9200 kinda break this rule, being souped up /re-badged versions of the
8500.
 
DaveW said:
The 9700 is a DX 8 card. Oops. You really wanted a 9600 Pro or a 9800 Pro
for DX 9.
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Wrong. But thanks for playing.

Everything from 9500 up has full DX9 support. I own a Sapphire 9500, modded
and overclocked to 9700 Pro. It passes all DX9 tests and scores 5200+ in
3DMark 2003. If you don't want to take my word for it, you could always do a
little reading at www.ati.com
 
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