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I currently have a 24 inch widescreen Dell Ultrasharp, i was wondering if a single 8800 GTX EVGA will max out Oblivion at 1900x1200, and if it cannot, is there any video card on the market that can?

(my other parts include a 250gb Maxtor HD, 2gb DDR ram, 3.0GHZ processor)

Yeah a few days I got a P.O.S computer made in 97 for free, so canthis run the first half-life?

233Mhz Pentium MMX

128MB of ram (i understand this was worshipped back in the day)

8GB hard drive with about 5GB left

ATI RAGE Pro Turbo 8MB

Win XP PRO (I upgraded this from win 2000 soon after i got it.)

So, is this PC good enough to play Half-Life 1? If so, at what settings? The only thing i'm really worried about is the proccesor.

Atomicfireball

Go get a new computer. Now. Lol but yeah those are the minimum requirements to play that game so you should be fine :D

Your CPU, if it's what I suspect it is (Intel Pentium P4), might need help in scenes with numerous NPCs/ Opponents, but that VGA is the one that surely is as close to maxing the game outside of those mob scenes, as any that now exists. Kiwi_1

yes, i was also wondering about upgrading to an intel core 2 duo, would that be worth it as well?

Hmmm...what would yield better results on my monitor? I have a 19in. Widescreen Acer LCD monitor and I am going to either get an nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS 320mb or the 640 mb version. Which of the two would work best with my current monitor???

Hmmm...what would yield better results on my monitor? I have a 19in. Widescreen Acer LCD monitor and I am going to either get an nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS 320mb or the 640 mb version. Which of the two would work best with my current monitor???

Ichalabon

Oh and the max resolution is 1440x900

amd 64 3800

1gig of generic ddr 400 ram (will replace)

7600gt 256mb

what can i expect from Age of Conan, Warhammer, and UT3?

So far, all of the displays here are standard 4:3 ratio. However, I am fairly sure that I have seen that the 320 MB GTS will hanlde the 4:3 version of what you have(1400 by 1100), and the next step would be if your display could go up around 1700 by 1100 or so, where the 640 MBs would be working. Those larger VRAM onboard amounts allow large textures to swap in and out at the very high resolutions that some of the expensive displays (and the older medium quality CRTs) can offer.

You should do a little verification, tracking some reviews, because my recollection is slightly foggy on details. If you plan to upgrade to one of those higher resolution displays soon, then the 640 could be the right one for you.

How well would a 640 MB GeForce 8800 GTS run Crysis and Gears of War? - as in, would the graphics have to be set onto a lower setting than the default?

EDIT: with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor E6700 (2.66GHz) with 4GB RAM (DDR2-667MHz dual channel) and Vista.

The last several games that I have tested here that put high demands on the hardware had their own starting points that were far from ideal. If anything, after these games chose the settings built into their launchers' software, there was plenty of upward room for tweaking the settings. The "default" is usually rather conservative, except the "Medium" one used when the launcher cannot recognize the hardware, and the game owner has a very new, but very low quality, video processor.

You should also take into consideration the recent trend for System Requirements to suddenly start scaling upward in the last few days before a new product goes gold, and they finally get around to throwing their Beta Game against some of the lower end PC components they hoped to include in thir minimums, but find that they cannot. "Recommended Levels" also may shift at the last minute, but with your VGA choice, you will be well insulated.

Could someone tell me if spiderman 3 will run in my pc:

Microsoft windows XP service pack 2

Intel pentium 4, 3.20Ghz

768 mb memory ram

Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 256mb, vertex/pixel shader 2.0

How well would a 640 MB GeForce 8800 GTS run Crysis and Gears of War? - as in, would the graphics have to be set onto a lower setting than the default?

EDIT: with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor E6700 (2.66GHz) with 4GB RAM (DDR2-667MHz dual channel) and Vista.

Sammojo

gears of war should run fine because its a game built on the Unreal 3 engine. i dont know why people keep asking about crysis because the game isnt finished yet and they are not done optimising. however they said at E3 they were running it on 1x8800GTX without the settings full (but were very high) and they said it was smooth most of the time, im not sure about the rest of their pc spec at the time, but expect that it will run on your machine, although maybe not at Ultra high with all AA + AF

Could someone tell me if spiderman 3 will run in my pc:

Microsoft windows XP service pack 2

Intel pentium 4, 3.20Ghz

768 mb memory ram

Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 256mb, vertex/pixel shader 2.0

zuhair12

With these requirements, not a chance:

System requirements:

2.8GHz processor
1GB Ram
6.5GB hard disk space
DVD-Rom drive
Windows XP/2000/Vista
graphic card 256MB (GeForce 7300 or better)

Incidentally, don't believe nVidia's advertising about their FXes. None of them have native Pixel Shader Two functions, so they run any shader-heavy games extremely slowly, and the 5200 is the very slowest.

So far, all of the displays here are standard 4:3 ratio. However, I am fairly sure that I have seen that the 320 MB GTS will hanlde the 4:3 version of what you have(1400 by 1100), and the next step would be if your display could go up around 1700 by 1100 or so, where the 640 MBs would be working. Those larger VRAM onboard amounts allow large textures to swap in and out at the very high resolutions that some of the expensive displays (and the older medium quality CRTs) can offer.

You should do a little verification, tracking some reviews, because my recollection is slightly foggy on details. If you plan to upgrade to one of those higher resolution displays soon, then the 640 could be the right one for you.

Kiwi_1

Ok so you're saying that on my monitor, which has a max resolution of 1440x900 (It's an Acer 19in. Widescreen LCD monitor), the nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS 320mb will work better than the 640mb version??? But this is only because the other 320mb is not needed for my resolution right? Unless of course I bought another monitor with higher resolution settings...

My bro is about to give me one of his semi-old comps in a few weeks, and im wondering if im going to be able to run WoW on all high settings and up coming shooters, Crysis, Bioshock, etc(on normal settings).

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400 = Dual-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology

2 Gb of Ram

Video Card(s): 2x NVIDIA GeForce 8500GT 512MB

500 Gb Hard Drive

ty

Hi, I was wondering if the new pc i got will be able to run dx 10 games on high settings at a resolution of 1024 * 768

Specs

2 gb ddr2 ram at 667

320 gb seagate barracuda

windows vista premium

amd 64 x2 5000 at 2.6

8600 gt ddr3 226 mb

My bro is about to give me one of his semi-old comps in a few weeks, and im wondering if im going to be able to run WoW on all high settings and up coming shooters, Crysis, Bioshock, etc(on normal settings).

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400 = Dual-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology

2 Gb of Ram

Video Card(s): 2x NVIDIA GeForce 8500GT 512MB

500 Gb Hard Drive

ty

Gruntx10

Hmm that computer should be able to max out WoW at least. Definitely not Cyrsis and games like that but you will be able to play them :D

Hi, I was wondering if the new pc i got will be able to run dx 10 games on high settings at a resolution of 1024 * 768

Specs

2 gb ddr2 ram at 667

320 gb seagate barracuda

windows vista premium

amd 64 x2 5000 at 2.6

8600 gt ddr3 226 mb

EvanDoran

Not on =[. But It should play them on medium...

I am really wanting to play all the upcoming games(bioshock,crysis.etc )

My pc is not so good right now but would anyone recommend any updates on this-

Manufacturer:HP Pavilion 061Processor:AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.4GHzMemory:958MB RAMHard Drive:190 GBVideo Card:ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 Series Monitor:HP vs19 flat panel monitorSound Card:Realtek AC97 AudioSpeakers/Headphones:Logitech USB HeadsetKeyboard:USB Root HubMouse:USB Root HubMouse Surface:Operating System:Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.061219-0316)

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Hi, I was wondering if the new pc i got will be able to run dx 10 games on high settings at a resolution of 1024 * 768

Specs

2 gb ddr2 ram at 667

320 gb seagate barracuda

windows vista premium

amd 64 x2 5000 at 2.6

8600 gt ddr3 226 mb

Ichalabon

Not on high settings =[. But It should play them on medium...

I am really wanting to play all the upcoming games(bioshock,crysis.etc )

My pc is not so good right now but would anyone recommend any updates on this-

Manufacturer:HP Pavilion 061Processor:AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.4GHzMemory:958MB RAMHard Drive:190 GBVideo Card:ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 Series Monitor:HP vs19 flat panel monitorSound Card:Realtek AC97 AudioSpeakers/Headphones:Logitech USB HeadsetKeyboard:USB Root HubMouse:USB Root HubMouse Surface:Operating System:Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.061219-0316)

DJ1SLY

First Buy Windows Vista and anew support CrossFire MB. Then add 2 HD2600XT...CrossFire it....got DirectX10

Play Bioshock and Crysis no problem at all

Hi Guys, i want to get Rainbow Six Lockdown and wondering if my Nvidia Geforce2 Mx 100/200 can support it. Much appreciated.Kabeshadow

You are three months late for April first. Silly jokes we get here.

More details about

Rainbow Six: Lockdown

Minimum requirements

· Processor: 1.5 GHz

· Memory: 512 MB

· Video: 64 MB AGP or PCI-Express DirectX9 video card that supports pixel shaders and vertex shaders

· DirectX 9

Hi Guys, i want to get Rainbow Six Lockdown and wondering if my Nvidia Geforce2 Mx 100/200 can support it. Much appreciated.Kabeshadow

Sorry no

With these system specs how well do you think I'd be able to play Gears of War and Crysis:

E6420 Core 2 Duo @ 2.13Ghz

3 gigs of 667mhz Ram

nVidia GeForce 8800 640mb

Acer 19in. Widescreen LCD monitor

Will Bioshock only run on Intel Dual Cores,

or is an Athlon X2(4200+) also good enough to play it ?

My computer specifications are: 2.0GHz CPU Speed, 512mb RAM and a 128mb 3D card.

Will I be able to run lord of the rings Online well?

Will I be able to run M2TW Kingdoms at all?

Will Bioshock only run on Intel Dual Cores,

or is an Athlon X2(4200+) also good enough to play it ?

jojoman333

Yeah you should still be able to play it.

I just bought a very expensive alienware lap top yesterday, i went with alienware because i thought it would handle the things i wanted to do, gaming,music/video editing.I wanted to be able to play new computer games like oblivion. This laptop comes with windows vista, and this morning i read on the oblivion compant site that i might have some trouble with the game and all the downloads avaiable for it , like the ones on gamespot.So heres the question, am I going to have trouble with new and old games and applacations because of windows vista? I would be greatful for any advice. ActionAction44

Hmm I have vista and so far I haven't run into any problems...yet. Just look for downloads and applications that will be compatible for Vista.

My computer specifications are: 2.0GHz CPU Speed, 512mb RAM and a 128mb 3D card.

Will I be able to run lord of the rings Online well?

Will I be able to run M2TW Kingdoms at all?

Agent_13

Hmm...if you can play it than it will most likely be at the lowest settings =p. Your whole system is what is hurting you so you either need a complete overhaul on your parts or a new system altogether. I read though that you won't be able to get a new computer till 09' eh? Such a long wait Agent_13 :D

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My computer specifications are: 2.0GHz CPU Speed, 512mb RAM and a 128mb 3D card.

Will I be able to run lord of the rings Online well?

Will I be able to run M2TW Kingdoms at all?

Ichalabon

Hmm...if you can play it than it will most likely be at the lowest settings =p. Your whole system is what is hurting you so you either need a complete overhaul on your parts or a new system altogether. I read though that you won't be able to get a new computer till 09' eh? Such a long wait Agent_13 :D

Yeah, I'm gutted, my parents won't get a new one till then :( But I might be able to save up for some new parts myself. Anyway, as long as I can run lotro, I don't mind turning the settings down.

With these system specs how well do you think I'd be able to play Gears of War and Crysis:

E6420 Core 2 Duo @ 2.13Ghz

3 gigs of 667mhz Ram

nVidia GeForce 8800 640mb

Acer 19in. Widescreen LCD monitor

Ichalabon

Also, is it possible to change my current Vista OS from its 32-bit form to the same OS with 64-bit and be able to use the OS i replaced on a different computer???

[QUOTE="DJ1SLY"]

I am really wanting to play all the upcoming games(bioshock,crysis.etc )

My pc is not so good right now but would anyone recommend any updates on this-

Manufacturer:HP Pavilion 061Processor:AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.4GHzMemory:958MB RAMHard Drive:190 GBVideo Card:ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 Series Monitor:HP vs19 flat panel monitorSound Card:Realtek AC97 AudioSpeakers/Headphones:Logitech USB HeadsetKeyboard:USB Root HubMouse:USB Root HubMouse Surface:Operating System:Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.061219-0316)

Regent85

First Buy Windows Vista and anew support CrossFire MB. Then add 2 HD2600XT...CrossFire it....got DirectX10

Play Bioshock and Crysis no problem at all

Which Crossfire is the most reccomended

[QUOTE="Ichalabon"]

With these system specs how well do you think I'd be able to play Gears of War and Crysis:

E6420 Core 2 Duo @ 2.13Ghz

3 gigs of 667mhz Ram

nVidia GeForce 8800 640mb

Acer 19in. Widescreen LCD monitor

Ichalabon

Also, is it possible to change my current Vista OS from its 32-bit form to the same OS with 64-bit and be able to use the OS i replaced on a different computer???

Anyone? lol

my pc requirements

• p4 1.6hhz
• 2gb ram
• 80gb hd
• ati redeon 9250

so, i need to ask...can my pc running a new heavy game in 2008? now i playing the fifa 2007, .f.e.a.r. , quake 4...

still running smoothly, think i need to upgrade or change a new pc?

my pc requirements

• p4 1.6hhz
• 2gb ram
• 80gb hd
• ati redeon 9250

so, i need to ask...can my pc running a new heavy game in 2008? now i playing the fifa 2007, .f.e.a.r. , quake 4...

still running smoothly, think i need to upgrade or change a new pc?

mahbar

There has been at least one other person I believed was joking when asking a question in this thread yesterday or the day before, and now I feel the same way about this question, because I don't think a 1.4 GHz Pentium can run the game at all, certainly not "smoothly".

FEAR Minimum Specifications:

Pentium® 4 1.7 GHz or equivalent processor

If there's the slightest chance you do not really know what "smooth" means, then you already need a better PC for the 2006 games, let alone for the 2007 and 2008 crop!

How would this pc look like to play these games:

Operating systemGenuine Windows Vista Home Premium (32-bit) edit ProcessorIntel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo processor E6700 (2.66GHz) edit Memory4GB DDR2-667MHz dual channel SDRAM (4x1024) edit Graphics Card640MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS, 2 DVI, TV-Out edit NetworkingNo Modem edit Hard Drive500GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive edit Primary CD/DVD DriveLightScribe 16X DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti drive edit Secondary CD/DVD Drive16x max. DVD-ROM edit Front Productivity Ports15-in-1 memory card reader, 3 USB, 1394, audio edit TV & Entertainment ExperienceNo TV Tuner w/remote control edit Sound CardSound Blaster Audigy X-Fi, 24-bit Xtreme Fidelity edit Security SoftwareNorton Internet Security(TM) 2007 - 15 Months edit Productivity SoftwareMicrosoft(R) Works 8.0 edit SpeakersLogitech X-230 2.1 Speakers edit Keyboard and MouseHP keyboard and HP scroller mouse edit your additional options:Click "edit" to modify. NOTE: These items are in stock and will ship immediately.MonitorsHP 19-inch LCD Wide Flat Panel Monitor edit

How would this pc look like to play these games:

Operating systemGenuine Windows Vista Home Premium (32-bit) edit ProcessorIntel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo processor E6700 (2.66GHz) edit Memory4GB DDR2-667MHz dual channel SDRAM (4x1024) edit Graphics Card640MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS, 2 DVI, TV-Out edit NetworkingNo Modem edit Hard Drive500GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive edit Primary CD/DVD DriveLightScribe 16X DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti drive edit Secondary CD/DVD Drive16x max. DVD-ROM edit Front Productivity Ports15-in-1 memory card reader, 3 USB, 1394, audio edit TV & Entertainment ExperienceNo TV Tuner w/remote control edit Sound CardSound Blaster Audigy X-Fi, 24-bit Xtreme Fidelity edit Security SoftwareNorton Internet Security(TM) 2007 - 15 Months edit Productivity SoftwareMicrosoft(R) Works 8.0 edit SpeakersLogitech X-230 2.1 Speakers edit Keyboard and MouseHP keyboard and HP scroller mouse edit your additional options:Click "edit" to modify. NOTE: These items are in stock and will ship immediately.MonitorsHP 19-inch LCD Wide Flat Panel Monitor edit

DJ1SLY

On High to maybe even Max :D

Hello.I recently Bought BF2 Complete Collection and but it wouldnt work. I have VISTA. I have Guild Wars and WOW on my computer and they both run fine. I've tryed a bunch of stuff but none of it seems to work. My computer has.

Windows Vista

Proccesor.Intell Celetron D CPU 3.46 GHZ

Ram: Gig And Half

a 32 bit operating system

The Video card is a Intell Graphics Media accelorator 950 up to 250 MB

And i have DirectX 10.0

Will i be able to play Ghost Recon Advanced War Fighter 2?

Counter Strike Source??????

Pc made in 2001.

My specs are as follows.

OS-XP

Processor- Pentium 4 CPU-1.70 GHZ

Video Card- NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200 (optimized for Microsoft Direct X 8.1)

Sound Card- Santa Cruz Game Port

Ram- RDRam at 256MB.

There you go. I want to know if it will run EFFICIENTLY.

Counter Strike: Source ?

Pc made in 2001.

My specs are as follows.

OS-XP

Processor- Pentium 4 CPU-1.70 GHZ

Video Card- NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200 (optimized for Microsoft Direct X 8.1)

Sound Card- Santa Cruz Game Port

Ram- RDRam at 256MB.

There you go. I want to know if it will run EFFICIENTLY.

chester706

The official requiremenmts for that game were extremely low:

System requirements

1.2GHz CPU,

256MB RAM,

DirectX 7 graphics card

Your barely-minimum RAM is going to mean a lowered performance, but Valve does tend to build in a Scale-down capability that preserves game play usability across a wide range of hardware, so it won't be a major loss of efficiency to run on such an old and obsolete PC.

[QUOTE="chester706"]

Counter Strike: Source ?

Pc made in 2001.

My specs are as follows.

OS-XP

Processor- Pentium 4 CPU-1.70 GHZ

Video Card- NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200 (optimized for Microsoft Direct X 8.1)

Sound Card- Santa Cruz Game Port

Ram- RDRam at 256MB.

There you go. I want to know if it will run EFFICIENTLY.

Kiwi_1

The official requiremenmts for that game were extremely low:

System requirements

1.2GHz CPU,

256MB RAM,

DirectX 7 graphics card

Your barely-minimum RAM is going to mean a lowered performance, but Valve does tend to build in a Scale-down capability that preserves game play usability across a wide range of hardware, so it won't be a major loss of efficiency to run on such an old and obsolete PC.

Please people don't ask if your PC can play Crysis. It is not out yet, nobody knows, so just don't ask.Wasdie

as cool as that would be I think a wave of stupid has struck everyone, thus rendering their common sense useless and disabling their ability to use google >_>