Dervish108 Posted October 25, 2005 Share Posted October 25, 2005 64 MB 3D Graphics card with Hardware Vertex andPixel Shader (VS/PS) Capability This is what you need bare minimum for SW:BF2 and a host of other games, both SW and non-SW. I currently have an old Dell, and may not be able to buy a new PC for a few more months. I think my PC can only support AGP 4x, and the power source is 250 W. I don't care if the suggested video card is cheap and low end, if it can run on my miserable old PC, I am happy. Any ideas, folks? Does Radeon 95/9600 series or GeforceFX 5900 sound about right? The cheaper the better As long as I can run SW BF 2 with it. (As of now, I have crappy GEForce 4 MX :/ ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zerted Posted October 25, 2005 Share Posted October 25, 2005 My motherboard supports AGP 4x. When I have it set to that, I get a huge amount of screen corruption. If I restrict it to 1x everything looks good. Performance wise, I don't see any difference between 4x and 1x. Don't worry if you only have AGP 4x, its more than enough to play games. By the way, I have a GeforceFX 5900XT, 512MB of memory, and two Athlon XP 2400+ in my computer. Though I haven't played some of the latest, most graphic intensive games, it works well for everything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
master_skywalke Posted October 29, 2005 Share Posted October 29, 2005 There is a HUGE difference between AGP x1 and x4, x4 goes way faster and its bandwith is 4 times bigger then AGPx1. If you would buy a new motherboard or even new pc I recommend that it has a Pci-Express x16 (or higher) slot for the newest games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zerted Posted October 29, 2005 Share Posted October 29, 2005 There is a HUGE difference between AGP x1 and x4, x4 goes way faster and its bandwith is 4 times bigger then AGPx1. Yes, I know there is a difference between AGPx1 and AGPx4, but what I was saying: that for some reason on my system, there is not a performance different in SWBF1 between AGPx1 and AGPx4 modes in my BIOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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