Thanks for this. I have had PES for the PS2 for ages but bought it yesterday for PC and whilst it loads the game runs extremely slowly.
I am going to have ago at starting with a clean boot as I have lot of hardware connected to my pc but I think it will be the GC at the end of the day.
T1000's rough guide to - Video Cards and PES3
Alot of people seem to be having problems with running PES3 on their PCs, which has given me an idea to write up a little guide on the cards that are likely to work well and those that will hardly get the game to run. I have seen many people ask a question about slowdown etc and then say they are using a card which is by no way supported by the game. So this is just a rough guide and not meant as a concise guide on video cards, so don't look into this religiously, it's just to give you an idea of what kind of performance to expect with certain bands of cards.
The lowest end cards which WILL NOT run the game This is the Conference division of graphics card.....ok it's more like a graveyard.
Anyone owning a:
RivaTNT
Matrox G400 or below,
Voodoo 3
Radeon 7500
Nvidia Geforce 2 ti/mx
or anything lower than these cards, do not even attempt to run the game, as they are totally unsupported.
I am going to divide most of the available compatable cards into 3 groups or classes, Class C-A
C class cards
Radeon 8500/9200
Nvidia Geforce 3 titanium
Nvidia Geforce 4 Mx 440
Nvidia FX 5200
These cards are the absolute bare minimum with which you can expect some performance. Even the rate of performance is not fixed as it depends on the rest of your system stats. You will probably get low quality, and low res 640x480 or 800x600 with no Anti Aliasing and or Anisotropic filtering. If you own any of these cards and are having problems go into control panel and turn down all your peformance enhancements or find the driver that gives you best peformance (it's not always the latest ones!)
B Class cards
Nvidia Geforce 4 Titanium 4200/4400 64/128mb
Nvidia Geforce FX 5600
Radeon 9500/9600 pro/9600 XT
These cards should run the game quite well, considering you have atleast 512mb of ram, and a CPU of atleast 1.6ghz. Expected resoluton would be 800x600 medium/high detail or 1024x768 low/medium. You may be able to take very basic levels of AA and AF, provided you have lots of ram and a top grade CPU.
A Class cards (The premier League)
Nvidia Geforce 4 Titanium 4600/4800
Nvidia Geforce FX 5800/5900 ultra 128mb/256mb
Radeon 9700/9700 pro 128mb
Radeon 9800/9800 pro/9800 XT 256mb
These cards shoud play the game with all the thrills on. 1024x768 res or higher, high detail with 4x/6x AA and 4/8/16x AF. Let's face it, if you have any of these cards then you are likely to have a good setup for gaming as regards to the rest of your pc. Usually if there are probs running the game with these cards then its likely to be a driver issue or something else, but not a hardware one.
Upgrading your card
This can be tricky. Do not buy into the myths spouted by certain retailers of video cards telling you anything, just to make a sale. Certain stores are over priced, over hyped and basically will con you to the heavens if you do not know a little about selecting a card. Avoid like the plague anything that is in the c class. I have been shocked to see that some of these cards are still selling at ridiculous prices. The one people get caught out with is the Geforce 4 MX. Geforce 4 sounds better than a geforce 2 or a geforce 3 right?.....wrong. It's core is still a Geforce 2 ti and is not a watered down GF4 Ti like what you can be made to believe.
The card of choice which comes just around £100 or a little over is the Radeon 9600. A great all round card with bags of peformance. This should be the target if you have a budget. If money is no obsticle...go for the beast, 9800 XT. Look around on the internet too. A few good websites for pc hardware are:
www.dabs.com/uk
www.komplett.co.uk
www.simply.co.uk
Finally, if you have any questions about anything in this guide, please post them up in this thread. BUT If you own one of those "obselete" cards.....I will have to track you down, rip the card out of your pc, throw it out of your window, then walk over to it, and press down hard with my size 8s until I hear a most satisfying crunch.
Happy PES3ing!!
T1
