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Originally Posted by Extreme Coder
I'm playing FFXII, and at some parts (like the first boss), it slows down heavily to 16-24 FPS, and the console keeps saying:
***PERFORMANCE WARNING : Destination Alpha Tested Used
Why is that so? Maybe if this Destination Alpha Test was disabled I'd get better results? :/
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Read some earlier pages, gabest is aware of this issue....it will likely be resolved/improved somewhat in the future.
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Originally Posted by Extreme Coder
Also, I have another question:
I have a GeForce 8600 GT, and right now I have the chance to sell it for a good price. Do you think that I will need to get a better GFX card to get the games running faster, or is my Athlon 64 x2 4000+ the only performance blocker?
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in short, they're both "performance blockers", if you upgrade the gpu now, the cpu might hold you back in the future, and vice versa.
might as well sell it, get a 8800gt if you can. You can upgrade the cpu later (since you're on the AM2 platform, you have a great choice of cheap cpu upgrades...even phenom if you choose)
actually, i'm in pretty much the same situation as you right now...I'll probably get one of the new G92 8800GTSs when they come out (dec. 12th), and get a phenom sometime next year, when fast speeds will be cheap
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