3x GeForce4 Ti from Inno3D in the test: Cheaper range of models

Quake III Arena

As mentioned before, the Quake III Arena is only limited by graphics cards. Therefore, the highest percentage performance drops are to be expected here. Especially with a 3D shooter, however, a consistently high frame rate is in the truest sense of the wordvital. From this point of view, even if you are very used to suffering, you shouldn't play with graphics settings that cause less than 40fps in a simple time demo. For a really smooth game the average value should be at least 60fps, professional Quake prefer significantly higher values.

In a nutshell, 2xFSAA is no problem on all cards, but 4xFSAA should still be able to endure well to very well, deliversbut even the GeForce3 is still almost 70fps here.

Here it is getting tight for the good old GeForce3 as far as 4xFSAA is concerned, the GeForce4 cards, however, still allow smooth gaming in this setting.

Only with a GeForce4 Ti 4400 it could still be played reasonably tolerably with 4xFSAA, the rest of the field should be limited to 2x or in the case of the Ti 4200 to 3xFSAA stay.

1600x1200 with 4xFSAA is too much for a full-blown Ti 4400. 2xFSAA would still be bearable on a GeForce4. Starting points for the upcoming DirectX 9 generation become clear here: Playable FSAA even up to the very highest resolutions, the GeForce4 does a good job.

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