[TritonX]

Under the hood of my Rig I am running

ECS K7S5A Mother Board w/sis 735 chipset

Xtascy GeForce2 32meg.

AMD Duron 1.2 Ghtz.

60 gig. Western Digital.


When I try to set up MOHAA to run under full graphics acceleration, and run under 1024x768 res. It starts becoming sketchy and slow. but when i go back down to 800x600 its fine. I have downloaded the new drivers from Nvidia. So i want to know if you all can help me with setting up my settings right to do that. cause the same thing happens in game's like UT2k3, NOLF2 , etc. but it works fine for Half Life and all other HL Mod's

[Hellwalker]

Hate to tell ya pal, but a Duron 1.2 and GeForce2 aren't going to do 1024 x 768 in todays games. Stick with 800 x 600 or upgrade.

[TritonX]

so do you guys think i should upgrade to a geforce 4 64meg

[Hellwalker]

That's a though call. Personally I'd upgrade the cpu first and try to grab a GF4 after they release the NV30.

[TritonX]

I dont think my mom would let me upgrade my cpu. She may but i would have to do alot of begging and buy it with my own money. i would have to see. cause i just got thi thing working about six months ago. my mem was screwed up. MY NICE BROTHER GAVE ME 256MEG OF MEM AND THAT FIXED THE PROBLEM. BUT I HAVE TOO SEE. BUT THE CARD I JUST HAVE TO TELL HER THAT I AM GONNA BUY IT.

[BubbaJudge]

AMD 1700XP+ is $50

maybe a radeon 8500 for under ~$100?

also, how much ram are you running?

512mb of pc133 ~$75

[WIDOWMAKER99]

a 512 meg dimm can be had for well under $75

tho dunno if your motherboard will use 512 meg dimms ..some max out at 256 meg dimms ..and 768 meg of ram


but yea go athalon at least ..and if your main board has a duron chip in it it'll support some type of faster athalon cpu

i'd do cpu first ..an add ram ..

[WIDOWMAKER99]

and if your on a budget .. buy a new vid card useing at least the radeon 8500 64 meg version ..or wait since when the new nvidia chip comes out .. the geforce 3's will be dirt cheap


and ya cant snuff your nose at a geforce 3 they werver much better then any mx series card i ever tryed


but steer clear of the geforce 4 mx series

they are about as fast as a good geforce 2 gts ..plus they will lack vertex and pixtel shaders

and hence they are considered a direct x 7 part

the geforce 4 ti series has vertex and pixtel shaders in hardware as do the ati 8500 and beyond since they are direct x 8 parts (in otherwords the gpu handels those commands in hardware ..rather then software )