GEFORCE4 TI4200 PERFORMANCE

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COMMENT - "The GeForce4 Ti4200 starts off very strongly and is playable at all resolutions using low quality settings. However when medium quality settings are used performance drops between 43% to 79%, things get even worse when using high quality settings and the GeForce4 Ti4200 is unplayable at all resolutions. We investigated the huge performance drop with using medium and high quality settings and found that the cause is the shadows option. When we turned that option off the performance increased by between 32% to 55% making even the high quality settings playable."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

St. Vith Scenario

LOW QUALITY

Texture Detail Low
Particle Density Low
Shadow Resolution Low
Water Disabled
Decals Disabled
Fog Enabled
Wire Physics Disabled
Grass Disabled

MEDIUM QUALITY

Texture Detail Medium
Particle Density Medium
Shadow Resolution Medium
Water Disabled
Decals Enabled
Fog Enabled
Wire Physics Disabled
Grass Enabled

HIGH QUALITY

Texture Detail High
Particle Density High
Shadow Resolution High
Water Enabled
Decals Enabled
Fog Enabled
Wire Physics Enabled
Grass Enabled

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COMMENT - "The GeForce4 Ti4200 started well with Xpand Rally but once again the GeForce4 Ti4200's poor shadow performance reduced it's performance at medium and high quality. The GeForce4 Ti4200 was playable at all of the resolutions using low quality, using medium quality the GeForce4 Ti4200 only offered playable performance at 800x600 and maringal playability at 1024x768 and using high quality it only offered marginal playability at 800x600."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

Fullscreen Enabled
Anti-Aliasing Disabled
Grand Canyon Level

LOW QUALITY

Bilinear
Material Quality Very Low
View Distance 20%
Water Quality Low
Car Deformations Disabled
Car Details Low
Car Envmap Quality Low
Car Shadows Low

MEDIUM QUALITY

Trilinear
Material Quality Medium
View Distance 80%
Water Quality Medium
Car Deformations Enabled
Car Details High
Car Envmap Quality Medium
Car Shadows High

HIGH QUALITY

Anisotropic
Material Quality Very High
View Distance 100%
Water Quality High
Car Deformations Enabled
Car Details High
Car Envmap Quality High
Car Shadows Very High

CONCLUSION - "Although the GeForce4 Ti4200 is showing it's age especially with modern software there is only one game we found that the GeForce4 Ti4200 was incompatible which was Starship Troopers because it's DX9 only. In this article we have benchmarked the GeForce4 Ti4200 using a total of 23 games and the only game which was not playable was Chronicles of Riddick because of the extensive use of shadows. Some of the other games which also used shadows in the medium and high quality settings also resulted in the same performance hit which is easily fixed by disabling shadows."

Using other benchmark results the GeForce4 Ti4200 was 18% faster than the GeForce 6200 Turbo Cache, 60% faster than the GeForce 5200 and 73% faster than the GeForce MX 4000!"