Mirror's Edge with a single 9600GT! HD

Playing Mirror's Edge with highest details, VSYNC, 8xQAA, 16AF and PhysX with no lag! The lag you're seeing is from FRAPS. Played the game at 1280x720 and used FRAPS to grab full screen video. Usually play at 1440x900, and the performance is the same.

Video card is a single 9600 GT. No SLi or dedicated PhysX card. Using the Offifical WHQL Nvidia 181.22 Drivers.

System Specs:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5800+ Brisbane 3.0GHz

Crucial Ballistix 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel (4-4-4-12)

GeForce 9600 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16

COOLER MASTER eXtreme Power Plus RS-500-PCAR-A3 500W

Seagate 500 GB SATA II

Audigy SE

Vista 32 SP2 (Moving to 64-bit in a week or so since I just got the ram upgrade a few days ago.)

As you can see, it's a decent system. Not the best, but it gets the job done. :)

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Mirror's Edge
• PhysX
• PC
• Chapter 3
• NVIDIA 181.22 WHQL
• HD

[hanrinch]

what is the frequency of 9600gt? have you overclock it?

mine is 550(core)/1340(shader)/900(vra­m)

[gkio]

That seems kind of low. Are you sure it's a 9600 GT? Sounds like you have a 9400/9500 GT.

Mine's stock:

Core - 650MHz

Shader - 1625MHz

VRam - 400 MHz

Check your Stream Processors. If you don't have 64 of them, then you have what I mentioned above. The 9500 GT has 32 and the 9400 GT has 16 and they both have 128-bit memory bus. Really crappy cards.

[nissan300bhp]

basically what id like to now is, is a 9500,9600,9800gt plenty enough for physx, id think even if nvidias physx does take off, physics in games in general is going to take off, so surely having a card dedicated to the physics providing its not expensive is worth doing.

[gkio]

A 9800GTX would be enough. Batman: AA recommends that for High PhysX. Don't buy a new card just for PhysX when you have a GTS 250. Getting any of those you mentioned would be a downgrade, rofl. The GTS 250 beats those cards hands down. Seriously, why would you even buy another card just for PhysX when you already have a GTS 250?

Just get a fast single card or even get an SLi setup. But don't buy a dedicated PhysX card. It's honestly not worth the money.

[BlueBlackDiamond]

Impressive. I have a 9600 gt and the only "lag" i had was at the very last sequence when you save your sister and the copper goes down.

Have you had the same problehm?

[Avataryoutuification]

Gkio, My psu is 27 amp on the 12 v railing ( Combine) and 500 w ( It's some chinese company I think, came with the case, the companys name is CIT)

Should it work? I think recomened amperage was 26 and 350 watts for 9600, and they do over exagreate the specs so it should work ok on my power suplpy?

[MadsFilholm]

my 9800gtx+ runs at 810, 2009 1333 mhz core, shader, memory

[nissan300bhp]

am build ing new pc .ive got evga x58 sli board 3 way sli, core i7, 12 gig ddr3, and everything else so far. just the cards to get now, the x58 board can do 3 cards in sli and a dedicated physx card, they are not expensive, i mean a 9800gt for physx. i know 3 cards would be ok but if it saves me 10fps in some games having the physx card then i think its worth £80.