WHICH CARD

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Jen Meyer

I have a Dell Dimension 4400 with a P-4 1.6g and a ATI 16mb Rage 128.
I bought my daughter a video game to play on the PC. After installing
it, I went to launch it and the screen went blank and I got the
Microsoft error message. I then checked the minimum requirements for
the game and it said "3D accelerator 32mb video card".
Any recommendations for a cheap card that will fit these requirements?
Thanks in advance.
 
The game is "Shrek 2 Team Action". I don't think it's all that
involved, though it does require the 32mb video card.
My computer does have an AGP slot.
 
jen19851 said:
The game is "Shrek 2 Team Action". I don't think it's all that
involved, though it does require the 32mb video card.
My computer does have an AGP slot.
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If it's an AGP 4X/8X slot, there are a bunch of cards for under
$50.00 USD that will run that game. Most have 128MB of ram.

Look at Nvidia 5200's. $60 bucks will move you into the Nvidia
5500/ATI Radeon 9550 class.

http:www.newegg.com used for looking up prices.

Bill
 
Jen Meyer said:
The game is "Shrek 2 Team Action". I don't think it's all that
involved, though it does require the 32mb video card.
My computer does have an AGP slot.
Click to expand...

The requirements for that game are fairly low end -
800 mhz CPU,128mb RAM, and 32mb graphics card.
There nothing specified about it needing DirectX
shaders etc ... a Radeon 9200 or Nvidia 5200 will do fine.
Just avoid models labeled SE or LE - a waste of money.
 
it says direct X 9.0b, yes it will run on a 9200, but the 5200 would
be a better choice.
 
The 9200 is not DX9 compliant so it won't show all the eye candy. Better go
with the 5200.

DaveL
 
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