Good point ... CPU is a 1.8G P4, 512M RAM, Windows says the current video
card is an NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX.

Interesting ... owner's manual says it's a G2Pro Plus-T64D, which has 64M,
and a web site I found said it has T&L (not sure what we're talking about
there - Texturing & Layering maybe?) but I can't tell if the requirement is
for _hardware_ T&L (maybe this card implements it in software) ... I'll
check back with the manufacturer, see why they think my card isn't up to
snuff ...

"Phil Weldon" <notdiscosed@example.com> wrote in message
news:sph5f.18219$q1.4730@newsread3.news.atl.earthl ink.net...
>A real big help in answering your question would be the identification of
> the card you have now that isn't up to the task. That will at least set a
> bottom end. Also, what happens when you try to install the game on the
> current system, and if it installs, what kind of performance do you get.
> A
> description of the rest of your system (at least the CPU, speed, and
> memory
> size) would also help. Not much sense in upgrading the card if the CPU
> won't do the job, and you ought to know going in if you will also need
> more
> RAM.
>
> Phil Weldon
>
> "Chris Shearer Cooper" <chrisnews@sc3.net> wrote in message
> news:11lb7m2fuc81vb4@corp.supernews.com...
> | Sorry for the cross-post, I'm really not sure which of these newsgroups
> is
> | the right place to post my question ...
> |
> | I'm trying to get Pirates running on my XP system, and apparently my
> video
> | card is too old. I'm happy to upgrade, but I really don't do any
> heavy-duty
> | graphics editing on this machine, and not enough games to make a $400
> video
> | card worthwhile. However, I don't want a piece of crap that I'm going
> to
> | have to upgrade next year, so I'm looking for that "sweet spot" card.
> |
> | The official system requirements are "64 MB Hardware T&L-compatible SVGA
> | video card".
> | I've also seen the minimum requirements described as NVIDIA GeForce 2 or
> ATI
> | Radeon 7000, with the recommended hardware being GeForce FX 5700 or
> Radeon
> | 9600.
> |
> | I've got a KT7-RAID mobo, it can take AGP 2x and 4x.
> |
> | Recommendations?
> |
> | Thanks!
> | Chris
> |
> |
>
>