Graphics problem

[Johnmcque]

Hi all,
Iv just but medieval total war 2 and now i have to upgrade my graphics card. I need a Nvidia card that has shader 1.1 or more. 256mb or 512mb i think would be best i reckon but im not sure lol. Basically i dont know much about them so can anyone recommend a particular model (links if possible). Oh its agp 8x too.

Thnx a bunch

John

 

[b1gapl]

What is your budget?

 

[Johnmcque]

Yeh srry i mean to put that in probably around up to a £100. Iv got some ideas on which are the best/ most expensive but if anyones got an actually oppinion about wats the best. Eg i go on the nvidia site and some that are listed as mainstream cards on there other sites list as gaming cards ect. I was think about goin budget and gettin a geforce 6200 i think it was for 55 pounds

 

[WorldIndustries]

I really had no idea what this game was 'til I read this thread and I did some research... This game has pretty high requirements, since it does have 3d scenes with up to 2000 characters.

I'd say you should have atleast a 256MB ATI Radeon X700Pro video card, and 1 GB of RAM if you want to run the game decent. This still won't get you max settings, of course, but it should make you happy.

 

[Ethereal_Dragon]

What are the specs of the rest of you system?

I am thinking the rest of your system might not be up to par either, if the GPU isn't shader 1.1 or higher, as that was DirectX 8.0.... around GeForce 3/4 series.

I see from a previous post that you are using a GeForce4 MX 4000, but it was never established if it is PCI or AGP 8x.

You will NEED to find this out BEFORE you purchase a new card, otherwise, you might get a piece of hardware that doesn't work with your system. Open the computer, and look at the video card.... Is it in a slot the same size as the other white PCI slots on the board, or is it in a similar sized BROWN slot that is set more towards the middle of the board?

System requirements 1.5 GHz processor, 512MB RAM, 8x Speed DVD-ROM drive, 11.0 GB of hard disk space, DirectX 9.0c, 128 MB video card, monitor must be able to display 1024x768 resolution or above.

 

[Johnmcque]

My specs,

Well i know its agp slot x8 deffinetly not pci express. Iv got amd athlon 2600+ which it says is 2.08 ghz, iv got 1 gb of ram. What actually prompted this was the fact that when i load the game it comes up with the message of couldnt find 1.1 pixel shader. I assumed this was just the graphics card so i went on the site and mine is listed without the shader. So i need a new one. Another thing is some cards have ddr2 memory for example is this also a requirment that ur pc have ddr 2??. Sorry for being a fool but im not that up on it lol.

So any help greatly appreciated

 

[Ethereal_Dragon]

That card isn't available in PCI express.... it is just plain vanilla PCI interface or AGP... PCI and PCI express are 2 physically different interfaces.

What is the model of your motherboard, so we can be sure that it is AGP....

Also, the memory type of the video card doesn't matter.

 

[Johnmcque]

Erm not sure tbh id have to find out , how do you find that info out? It says under device manager, under computer that its a ACPI UNiprocesser pc, dont know if that helps. I know theres a brown slot in there i remeber seeing it last time i opened it. However my current card is in the pci bus slot i think.

 

[Ethereal_Dragon]

Did someone build your PC, or is it an OEM like DELL, or compaq, etc. etc.?

There should be a model number on the motherboard itself somewhere.

 

[Johnmcque]

Hi , srry i never replied for a while but things changed on the graphics front , iv found my mother board manual and i have definetly got agp x8 support. Myu uncles going to get me a card he has a computer shop, but even so id like to ask how u rate the geforce 7600 i believe its the gt or gs version im not sure which one. Was going to be 6800 GT but there outta stock. So any oppnions on the 7600 , its too late now anyways lol iv ordered it but even so.


Thnx