jupitersolo

I have a Nvidia 6800 w/256. Looks like Company of Heroes wants something better. I'm running a 3.6 with a gig of ram. Ordered another gig ram today.

Going to stay with Nvidia card. What are you guys running?

Thanks

kgraber

Actually if you check out the forums for the game they recommend the cardForum

You may want to give it a whirl with your card and then replace it if need be.

AznImports602

AMD Turion 64 2.0Ghz
1gig of RAM
x1600 ATI 256


It runs the game quite well...

jupitersolo

Thanks, for the link. They recommended the card that I have. When I did a performance test (the one within the Company of Heroes) at the highest resolution 1600x1050 and one below is said my card was poor for fps 0.7fps was the average. So I think it's time to upgrade.

Just wondering what everybody else is using?

Ashburner

2X Sapphire 1900 XTX 512 in Crossfire mode

Crazy88

Im interested in upgrading my video card too.


I dont know what video cards will fit my system.

I dont know what video cards my system will support.




Does anyone know how to find this information?

jupitersolo

^^ If you go to http://www.crucial.com/ they have a plug-in that will tell you what you have and could use, pci, pci express , agp, etc.

I ended up going a GeForce 7900GS 256mg, I got it from newegg.com for $200.00.

blumpkin

Wait and get the nvidia 8800 series...

DirectX 10

Ken1997TL

I've got a X1600 XT that runs it perfectly

Crazy88

Thanks for the replys guys
I was trying to figure out what video card I have and I think its somewhere in this: Also what memory would my card be from this information? (I dont know jack about this kind of stuff)

Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator Driver Report


Report Date: 11/07/2006
Report Time[hr:mm:ss]: 22:00:21
Driver Version: 6.14.10.4410
Operating System: Windows XP* Professional, Service Pack 2 (5.1.2600)
Default Language: English
DirectX* Version: 9.0
Physical Memory: 1014 MB
Minimum Graphics Memory: 8 MB
Maximum Graphics Memory: 128 MB
Graphics Memory in Use: 33 MB
Processor: x86
Processor Speed: 2793 MHZ
Vendor ID: 8086
Device ID: 2582
Device Revision: 04

CLSter

Crazy88, do you have a laptop or is that the built in chip on a PC? Many laptops don't give you an option to upgrade the video card as most are built in. Tell us what type of machine you have - Brand/Model etc.


And

Go here:

Right Click on My Computer - Click on Properties - Select the Hardware Tab - Select Device Manager - click on the plus (+) symbol next to Display adapters and tell us what you see there.

Sly Raskal

iTrader: (1)

I'm running 3.6 Ghz Intel + 2G Ram + PNY 7800GT

Crazy88

I have a Dell Dimension E310 PC

I see "Intel(R) 8215G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family"

I went to www.crucial.com, and according to their site, I can upgrade my video card.

And if my computer has built in video card, how would I upgrade?



Thanks for your help

slo007

AMD Athlon 64 3500 running at 2.21 GHz
1 GB RAM
XFX 6600GT 128 MB RAM
10,000 RPM HDD

Game runs fine on this setup

slo007

It's easy: just buy a new one that fits in the slot and turn off the on-the-motherboard video through the Control Panel. My board has a built-in sound card and I turned it off, running a much better 7 channel M-Audio card.

slo007

That resolution is overkill. You really don't need to run the game at that spec... unless you have money to burn.

srika

its out.

only $650.

http://microcenter.com/byos/byos_sin...duct_id=248763

jupitersolo

They've also been recalled. I think I read it on digg.com.

jupitersolo

^^ Look like it didn't take them long to correct. Some had wrong BOM.

jupitersolo

^^ Looks like it didn't take them long to correct. Some had wrong BOM.

srika

.. better cancel my order.

srika

damn that blasted wrong BOM....

CLSter

Of course that would be a non-PCI-E(xpress) card. Not sure if there is much out there for the standard PCI motherboard the E310 has. GeForce 6200?

Crazy88

WOW

now im totally confused

SiGGy

For the $$ and performance I'd get a X1900XTX ATI Card. I paid $299 for one recently.


I play all of my games at 1680x1050 16:10, they play awesome even with everything cranked up. My HL2 with dynamic lighting enabled it is around 100FPS at this resolution. With it turned out it's 150FPS (everything else cranked up).


This is a good reference to use to compare video cards...
http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html

jupitersolo

Not money to burn, top of the line cards of there now running $600-$1000. I got a 7900GS from newegg.com for $200 and it's doing the trick, average fps is now over 30.

With a 16:9 monitor a needed something a little better than the bottom of the barrel 6800, that's almost 2 years old.

CLSter

Don't be just know that when you shop for video card you cannot get the PCI-Express cards people here are talking about. You have to stick with plain old PCI - the 6200 cards are probably the best you can do.

Crazy88

Ahh thanks for the help.

So the Dell E310 is PCI. I found a 6200 card with 256mb. Would I be able to run two of these, and would setting everything up be harder if i did that? Also do brand names matter?

btw-what does 6200 mean?

CLSter

6200 is GeForce's naming convention - never learned there reason for it. You can only set up one 6200 card so get the 256MB one. Don't worry about the brands. If you are into gaming you will need to seriously think about upgrading soon. Only the newer PCI-E with a feature called SLI or Crossfire can run two cards.

http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html

Crazy88

Ahh sorry for all my questions, but would I need a low profile card or a standard card, cuz whats already in there looks low profile.(if thats the graphic card)

srika

tons of 8800's for sale...

http://promotions.newegg.com/NVIDIA/G80/index.html

lol

Donte99TL

How do you do that?

CLSter

Good question, all I ever had to do with the integrated chip systems was install the card and plug in the monitor and the right drivers - then voila, working new video card

jupitersolo

Just looking the new cards I wonder if we could could save money if they didn't have the fancy artwork on them?

SiGGy

If you can shut it off you would do this... when your comuter boots hit "del" "f10"... whatever key to get into the BIOS Setup menu. In there you should find an "integrated peripherals" section where you can disable the internal video card.

srika

no doubt. . some of them look absolutely ridiculous.

SwervinCL

Its gotta be done through the BIOS. Just like Siggy said.