What video card would you advise? I had no problems running any game at very fast rates
[QUOTE="Jd1680a"][QUOTE="f-a-d-3"]

6.5/10. Replace your video card and PSU add 1 more GB of RAM and OC that 2.2GH, (For Gaming).

9/10 (For Media)

brettakins

Remember if he does upgrade another gig of memory, he would have to get the 64 bit version of the operating system he have. It would be more cost effective he the guy just upgrade the video card. Assuming the main purpose in his PC is to game.

HP Pavilion Elite m9300z with TV/PVR

Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (32-bit)
AMD Phenom(TM) 9550 quad-core processor (2.2GHz)
Asus M2N68-LA
CONSAIR MPSU-750TX 750W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC
3GB DDR2-800MHz dual channel SDRAM plus using 8GB Flash drive w/ReadyBoost
320GB 7200 rpm SATA 3GB
GIGABYTE GV-N98XPZL-1GH GeForce 9800 GTX+ 1GB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI
LightScribe 16X max. DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti drive
Acer X223Wbd Black 22" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor

I don't know what your problem is but I can tell you I have played Mafia on my Vista 32-bit machine. Why are you unable to run it? does it crash to desktop? Freeze? Do you get to the main menu? Also did you patch the game and have you updated your graphic drivers?adrake4183

As soon as a double click it the window open up and I'll havea blank screen and it looks like it begin to load and the the window will disappear and I'm back at my desktop.

I just purchase the PC game Mafia because I heard that this was one of the greatest PC games of all time. I got it for $3 off Ebay. I installed the game with no problem but I'm unable to run it. Now this game is kinda old it came out in 2002. My rig surpasses the recommended requirements by far but as soon as I try to run the game it crashes. The game recommendation are:

Graphics: Support directx 8.1 and 128MB graphics card

Does anyone have any suggestions?

My Rig:

HP Pavilion Elite m9300z with TV/PVR

Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (32-bit)
AMD Phenom(TM) 9550 quad-core processor (2.2GHz)
Asus M2N68-LA
3GB DDR2-800MHz dual channel SDRAM Plus using 8GB flash drive with Ready Boost
320GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb
256MB NVIDIA GeForce 9300, DVI-I, VGA adapter, HDMI
LightScribe 16X max. DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti drive

[QUOTE="brettakins"]What video card would you advise? I had no problems running any game at very fast rates
[QUOTE="Jd1680a"]

Remember if he does upgrade another gig of memory, he would have to get the 64 bit version of the operating system he have. It would be more cost effective he the guy just upgrade the video card. Assuming the main purpose in his PC is to game.

wolfdogelite

what games are you running? the geforce 9300 is barely a step above integrated graphics, or is it integrated?

what card you could get depends on your budget, for~100$

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150316

for 160-180$

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130376

My motherboard supports PCI Express x16 does that mean I can use graphic card that supports PCI Express 2.0.

[QUOTE="brettakins"]What video card would you advise? I had no problems running any game at very fast rates
[QUOTE="Jd1680a"]

Remember if he does upgrade another gig of memory, he would have to get the 64 bit version of the operating system he have. It would be more cost effective he the guy just upgrade the video card. Assuming the main purpose in his PC is to game.

wolfdogelite

what games are you running? the geforce 9300 is barely a step above integrated graphics, or is it integrated?

what card you could get depends on your budget, for~100$

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150316

for 160-180$

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130376

The only game recently that I played that I had a problem with is Crysis. The gameplay isn't as smooth as I would like it to be but its descent. No its not intergrated graphics its much better than that. I do think I need another graphic card though

[QUOTE="f-a-d-3"][QUOTE="brettakins"]

My Rig:

HP Pavilion Elite m9300z with TV/PVR

Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (32-bit)
AMD Phenom(TM) 9550 quad-core processor (2.2GHz)
Asus M2N68-LA
3GB DDR2-800MHz dual channel SDRAM
320GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb
256MB NVIDIA GeForce 9300, DVI-I, VGA adapter, HDMI
LightScribe 16X max. DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti drive
Jotokey keyboard emulator -with PS2 controller

Jd1680a

6.5/10. Replace your video card and PSU add 1 more GB of RAM and OC that 2.2GH, (For Gaming).

9/10 (For Media)

Remember if he does upgrade another gig of memory, he would have to get the 64 bit version of the operating system he have. It would be more cost effective he the guy just upgrade the video card. Assuming the main purpose in his PC is to game.

My Rig:

HP Pavilion Elite m9300z with TV/PVR

Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (32-bit)
AMD Phenom(TM) 9550 quad-core processor (2.2GHz)
Asus M2N68-LA
3GB DDR2-800MHz dual channel SDRAM
320GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb
256MB NVIDIA GeForce 9300, DVI-I, VGA adapter, HDMI
LightScribe 16X max. DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti drive
Jotokey keyboard emulator -with PS2 controller