What CPU & speed does the game recommend? And how much memory does the game
recommend?

Phil Weldon

"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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