What games will Radeon 9600 prevent me from playing no T42?

you can play anything without it being a slideshowif you are willingto play at a lower resolution..

halflife 2 and doom 3 are not going to play at even 1024 with a lot of effects on.. fwiw..

call of duty and that generation are about as good as it gets i would thing.

hl2, far cry and doom 3 are probably limited to 1024x768 with settings either on medium or low. Rest of the older gen games will be playable at 1280x768 at medium to high.

Well, on my Gateway M505x with a MR9600 w/64meg
I play all three (FarCry, Doom3, and HL2) at 1280x800 with all the settings highest.
Only dips to about 10-12 fps on intense action sequences but most of the time I am well above 20 fps.

Daley

umm how is 20 fps playable? you need at least 30 fps for it to be smooth.

20 can be smooth depending upon what youre used to. Of course if you go from a desktop and get over 70FPS on any game you throw at it, and then you go to a desktop and get between 20 and 30 then of course it will look relatively choppy, but playability doesn't hinge on something being super smooth. I forget what movies run at, I want to say 24fps or 32fps, I forget, but it's definately not terribly high. The point is that you don't need to have super framerates to give the illusion of motion using still pictures, because that's essentially what you're dealing with, still pictures.

Personally, I would rather have the graphics card cause the slowdown. This depends on the game or app of course, but if you've ever experienced something running slowly because of lack of ram or cpu power I think you'd agree that that is worse. Nothing like pressing fire in a game and having the game hang for a second while it looks around on the hard disk for the file containing the associated sound.

Of course, this all depends on the game and how much it relies on cpu and ram vs gpu.

bottom line...
20-something fps is playable, not terribly pretty, but definately playable as long as it doesnt terribly hinder reaction time in game by not keeping the new images coming fast enough.

For me, games like Far Cry and HL2 on 1024x768 high were unplayable. 12-20fps is what I got and it felt like playing online over dial up. Just to be on the safe side, I play everything at 800x600 medium and IMHO it's a great experience visually and from the gameplay side.

that sounds about right..

Yes, I second that, having played games on the old 486s with 32MB, you will know what real pain is like, compared to all of the GHz CPUs on the market is like today. 20 FPS is not tha aweful, definitely could be better though. But not everyone is a gaming feind.