Due to the storms yesterday we had loads of mini power cuts last night. Everything seems to have survived although we're not sure about Josh's PC. He turns it on and can hear the hard drive whurring and "No Signal" appears on the monitor but that's it.
He has a sep graphics card which I put in...
Following on from another thread could people please give me some pointers for Graphics cards between £50-£100 CivCity is starting to run slow when I am building my Londinium Empire (I know sad isnt it)
Or if anyone is upgrading give me a shout on your older cards (I'm running a 64meg Geforce...
I am confused. No. 2 son wanted for his birthday money a game that we find even with everything turned right down and a 640 X480 resolution runs really badly. Unplayable in fact.
Looks on the forums for that game and sure enough sees everybody moaning about it and how they need minimum 3.0...
On some of their lappy graphics cards, Nvidia have Turbocache and ATI have Hypermemory. They basically do the same thing - used system to RAM to boost the amount of VRAM available.
Anyone know if this feature can be disabled??
TIA
Ok - you know the story, boy has PC, boy buys game for PC, game fails to work!! so it's Muuuuuuuuuum!!!! I'm not a complete IT numpty and can drop new cards in etc - but it's which card to get.
It appears his on-board graphics even though they are AGP are just not good enough. The game is...
geforce 4 ti4600 128mb AGP graphics card for sale...
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incredibly quick card with dual monitor support, TV out etc etc will outperform most of the current crop of cards (unless your apps demand full...
No 1 son is bugging me to upgrade card as his new game (Battlefield Vietnam) runs poorly with existing 64Mb Nvidea unless you turn resolution & effects right down. Same goes for just about all the newer stuff it seems
He "needs" a 256 MB 8x card (strange, that) but I am not sure if the...