The plot thickens ... I'm pretty sure this card is supposed to have 64M of
video RAM, but when I bring up its properties it's only showing 32M. I've
posted on the nvidia newsgroup for help with that one ... but that would
explain why the game ain't runnin'.

"Chris Shearer Cooper" <chrisnews@sc3.net> wrote in message
news:11lbatk6o07bv61@corp.supernews.com...
> 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
>> |
>> |
>>
>>
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