XFX ATI Radeon 4870 - 512MB

[KleinBoontjie]

I have the following card: XFX ATI Radeon 4870 - 512MB
Have it now for a few years. It played everything, even Skyrim and The Witcher 2 at full.

Now I'm having a problem getting Rage to work. I downloaded the AMD Rage Performance drivers, created a rageconfig.cfg file, etc. Nothing worked.

So now I'm convinced that I need a new card.

What Card will you suggest to me, with a budget of R2500.

I would love to stay with AMD, been with them for years, but some people is saying that the Nvidia cards is beter now-a-days for games.

Also, I have Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit. Will the 64bit version be beter for games.

 

[NomNom]

Comparing the specs I would go with this one:
Sapphire HD6870 Toxic edition - support HDMi 1.4
R2,514.90

Rebeltech

 

[Pada]

I'd say rather go for the Gigabyte HD6870 and just overclock it to the speeds of the Sapphire HD6870 if you really need more juice.
The Gigabyte card comes with a 3 year warranty and it is slightly cheaper.

Could you perhaps tell us what the rest of your specs are:
1) CPU
2) RAM
3) PSU

Windows 7 32-bit is just limited to like 3.25GB of RAM, where as with Windows 7 x64 you can at least get access to 8GB of RAM if you have the Windows 7 Home Basic x64.

 

[Dimpie (JIGSAW)]

Rage will work with that card .... i ran rage on a 4870 1GB .... also had a problem in the beginning with 'stuttering' graphics.

The trick is to set the card to max detail ... "Mipmap = Highest Quality" ; "Wait for vertical refresh = ALWAYS ON" ; etc

Got a lot for friends/clients on ATI cards going with these settings & said game.

 

[KleinBoontjie]

Rage will work with that card .... i ran rage on a 4870 1GB .... also had a problem in the beginning with 'stuttering' graphics.

The trick is to set the card to max detail ... "Mipmap = Highest Quality" ; "Wait for vertical refresh = ALWAYS ON" ; etc

Got a lot for friends/clients on ATI cards going with these settings & said game.

Thanks, I got it working. ATI released 11.12 drivers in the last few days. Installed that and KUDOS, its working as I thought it should. Smooth sailing. Funny, I downloaded 11.11 just before that, but nothing.
So, thanks to all for suggestions on a new card, but I think I'll hang on just a little longer.

 

[zll]

Yeah. I'm still running my old 4850 (and it really sucks in some games) but I'm waiting for the mid range 7 series cards to come out from AMD. The high end range should arrive early jan, with the other cards following shortly after (I hope).