Graphic Card problems

Abrams · Post by **Abrams** » 03 Dec 2006, 11:01

Um actually when creating game companies analyze what type of gfx major part of gamers have. Right now pretty much everyone is upgrading. Even i myself finally made it out of my 2.0Ghz geforce4 MX.

Pasf22 · Post by **Pasf22** » 03 Dec 2006, 11:20

Abrams wrote:Um actually when creating game companies analyze what type of gfx major part of gamers have. Right now pretty much everyone is upgrading. Even i myself finally made it out of my 2.0Ghz geforce4 MX.

THAT IS THE PROBLEM.....We have just been upgraded from the obselete pentium 1 last year...........and i just found out that our gfx card is almost obselete....and we cannot upgrade anymore

PSZeTa · Post by **PSZeTa** » 03 Dec 2006, 15:12

You didn't upgrade properly, your own fault. Not everyone wants to be stuck with the same old graphics, we want improvement.

Abrams · Post by **Abrams** » 03 Dec 2006, 21:39

Pasf22 wrote:
Abrams wrote:Um actually when creating game companies analyze what type of gfx major part of gamers have. Right now pretty much everyone is upgrading. Even i myself finally made it out of my 2.0Ghz geforce4 MX.
THAT IS THE PROBLEM.....We have just been upgraded from the obselete pentium 1 last year...........and i just found out that our gfx card is almost obselete....and we cannot upgrade anymore

Exactly my friend, you had too wide gap between your upgrades. I would say that perfect upgrade timing is from 2 to 5 years at most.

When upgrading best bet is to build a powerfull base of your PC that can be later improved. Base means your mainboard and processor. If those two are powerfull enough you can run them for a good few years even just pluggin in new gfx and memory.

More of that a half-fine budget PC would cost you about 300$ at most without monitor.
That kind of PC will run pretty much any of the modern games but at lowest settings possible.

Pasf22 · Post by **Pasf22** » 04 Dec 2006, 05:48

PSZeTa wrote:You didn't upgrade properly, your own fault. Not everyone wants to be stuck with the same old graphics, we want improvement.

tnx a lot........now i'm thinking about killing my bro for saying the word "sorry (in a very insulting intonation)" when he found out that our gfx card is not compatible in nfs carbon............and now he too busy playing RF extreme...and i can't play carbon......

Jmac- · Post by **Jmac-** » 04 Dec 2006, 08:27

Pasf22 wrote:
Abrams wrote:Um actually when creating game companies analyze what type of gfx major part of gamers have. Right now pretty much everyone is upgrading. Even i myself finally made it out of my 2.0Ghz geforce4 MX.
THAT IS THE PROBLEM.....We have just been upgraded from the obselete pentium 1 last year...........and i just found out that our gfx card is almost obselete....and we cannot upgrade anymore

GeForce4 MX series is like 4 years old, for one ...

Secondly, it's based on the GeForce2, which is 6 years old ...

It's your own fault that you bought what was 5-year-old technology a year ago ...

Jmac- · Post by **Jmac-** » 04 Dec 2006, 08:47

Abrams wrote:
Pasf22 wrote:
Abrams wrote:Um actually when creating game companies analyze what type of gfx major part of gamers have. Right now pretty much everyone is upgrading. Even i myself finally made it out of my 2.0Ghz geforce4 MX.
THAT IS THE PROBLEM.....We have just been upgraded from the obselete pentium 1 last year...........and i just found out that our gfx card is almost obselete....and we cannot upgrade anymore
Exactly my friend, you had too wide gap between your upgrades. I would say that perfect upgrade timing is from 2 to 5 years at most.

When upgrading best bet is to build a powerfull base of your PC that can be later improved. Base means your mainboard and processor. If those two are powerfull enough you can run them for a good few years even just pluggin in new gfx and memory.

More of that a half-fine budget PC would cost you about 300$ at most without monitor.
That kind of PC will run pretty much any of the modern games but at lowest settings possible.

You're not going to be able to upgrade every 5 years and continue playing the latest and greatest games ... 3 years should be a maximum ...

Abrams · Post by **Abrams** » 04 Dec 2006, 10:38

Dude, I have been running my 2.0Ghz pretty much since 2001/2002 just switching more RAM and getting the GeForce4 MX card. But still RAM was pretty much same mhz so no major improvement from it.

Theres different types of upgrade, PC upgrade and part upgrade. I chosed to just wait and upgrade PC overall and now ill just stick more stuff into it over time.

Jmac- · Post by **Jmac-** » 04 Dec 2006, 19:55

Those were both released in 2002 and you weren't playing the latest and greatest games last year with a GeForce4 MX ...

I should know as I was running a decently overclocked GeForce4 MX440 (325/500 from 270/400) in early 2005 and couldn't play some games at all and a lot of games had to be played at the lowest settings ...

Thus, my point of 3 years as a maximum IF you want to keep playing ALL of the latest and greatest games ...

Tyrant · Post by **Tyrant** » 04 Dec 2006, 23:19

BrontoX wrote:Sorry about that i wrote that in a hurry.

Answer to problem:
You set your GFX on quality not performance so set it on Performance

That's not a solution, because my card should run it in High settings. There's no point in running the game in the lowest settings..

And I had the MX440 before this one! That card sucks, the main reason why I bought the 6600GT, but this card just gives my problems too...

Pasf22 · Post by **Pasf22** » 05 Dec 2006, 05:44

Jmac- wrote:
Pasf22 wrote:
Abrams wrote:Um actually when creating game companies analyze what type of gfx major part of gamers have. Right now pretty much everyone is upgrading. Even i myself finally made it out of my 2.0Ghz geforce4 MX.
THAT IS THE PROBLEM.....We have just been upgraded from the obselete pentium 1 last year...........and i just found out that our gfx card is almost obselete....and we cannot upgrade anymore
GeForce4 MX series is like 4 years old, for one ...

Secondly, it's based on the GeForce2, which is 6 years old ...

It's your own fault that you bought what was 5-year-old technology a year ago ...

ITS NOT MY FAULT!!!!!!.....it's my bro's fault for buying that d*mn MX-series..........it's because it's d*mn cheap!!!!!!!!!!!..........

.....got d*mnmmit why is everybody blame me!!!!!.....

just asking.............is NBA LIVE 2007 also not compatible to the MX-series gfx card????

if it is...........i can't wait to tell them that they need to change that d*mn gfx card........

darknight788 · Post by **darknight788** » 05 Dec 2006, 05:48

whoa man slow down

whose computer is it ?

Pasf22 · Post by **Pasf22** » 05 Dec 2006, 06:32

darknight788 wrote:whoa man slow down whose computer is it ?

its our family computer......me and my bros share it..........and since most of us works.... were responsible for taking care\fix\(if possible)upgrade........ the family computer.............

darknight788 · Post by **darknight788** » 05 Dec 2006, 06:56

depending on who bought the gfx card from where bestbuy, fry's, etc they should return it and then you and your brother should both put money in on something like a 7600 GS,GT, w/e

Pasf22 · Post by **Pasf22** » 05 Dec 2006, 11:03

darknight788 wrote:depending on who bought the gfx card from where bestbuy, fry's, etc they should return it and then you and your brother should both put money in on something like a 7600 GS,GT, w/e

yes i know..........that's why i am asking if NBA live 2007 did'nt support the MX series......so they will agree on me about replacing the gfx card

Jmac- · Post by **Jmac-** » 06 Dec 2006, 06:25

Pasf22 wrote:
darknight788 wrote:depending on who bought the gfx card from where bestbuy, fry's, etc they should return it and then you and your brother should both put money in on something like a 7600 GS,GT, w/e
yes i know..........that's why i am asking if NBA live 2007 did'nt support the MX series......so they will agree on me about replacing the gfx card

It doesn't support the MX series ...

Your computer must meet the following system requirements to run this game.
The game may not run, or you may experience decreased performance on computers that do not fulfil these requirements.

OPERATING SYSTEM
- Windows XP SP2 or Windows 2000 SP4
(Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows ME and Windows XP 64bit are not
supported)

CPU
- 1.3 GHz Intel Pentium III or higher

MEMORY
- 256 MB RAM

HARD DRIVE SPACE
- 3700 MB free hard drive space

GRAPHICS
- DirectX 9.0c Compatible Video card
(see supported video cards in section 1.c)

DVD-ROM
- DVD-ROM drive

AUDIO
- Sound card with DirectSound support and DirectX 9.0c compatible driver

INTERNET
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1

DIRECTX
- DirectX 9.0c

INPUT DEVICES
- Keyboard
- Mouse

Supported 3D Graphic Accelerators

ATI Radeon 7500, ATI Radeon 8500, ATI Radeon 9000, ATI Radeon 9100,
ATI Radeon 9200, ATI Radeon 9500, ATI Radeon 9600, ATI Radeon 9700,
ATI Radeon 9800, Radeon Xpress 200, ATI Radeon X300, ATI Radeon X550,
ATI Radeon X600, ATI Radeon X700, ATI Radeon X800, ATI Radeon X850,
ATI Radeon X1300, ATI Radeon X1600, ATI Radeon X1800, ATI Radeon X1900
Intel 915, Intel 945/950,
NVIDIA GeForce3 series, NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti series, NVIDIA GeForce FX series,
NVIDIA GeForce 6200, NVIDIA GeForce 6600, NVIDIA GeForce 6800,
NVIDIA GeForce 7300,NVIDIA GeForce 7600, NVIDIA GeForce 7800,
NVIDIA GeForce 7900, NVIDIA SLI Technology.

***NOTE: Laptop versions of these chipsets may work, but are not officially
supported. The NVIDIA GeForce2/4 MX series are also not supported.
Ensure that you have the latest display driver installed from the vendorâ€™s
official website: http://www.ati.com, http://www.nvidia.com, http://www.intel.com.

Game performance is enhanced as system specification increases