Talk about Black Sea...

[Dooz]

Mkay, I have 522220 Total Physical Memory which comes out to about 510 MB. I'm assuming my problems or whatnot aren't necessarily the specs of the comp, but the graphics card, which is the main problem because it's integrated and I can't un-integrate without buyin a whole new motherboard... or computer.

How much do Alienware comps run for again...?


BTW, thanks very much for all you're help everyone.

[R3dD0g]

A game like this really needs 1GB of RAM, especially considering that you're running on board graphics.

Try adding RAM, it's cheap enough and you can move it to a newer machine if you decide to go that route.

[Red Harvest]

No, you can buy a PCI card and the integrated graphics will be disabled. However, the range of PCI cards is very limited. The "upper end" of PCI graphics cards are ATi 9200's and NVidia 5200's. The 9200's are DX8 cards and have had quite a bit of trouble with RTW and are unsupported, so I can't recommend them--although at least one user has gotten it to work well. The 5200 is about the only candidate remaining.

[Dooz]

Hmmmm... these both sound like viable options. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? Say if I just add RAM instead of getting the PCI card? Or the other way around.

But the PCI method doesn't seem too helpful if their best stuff really isn't all that good...

[R3dD0g]

RAM is cheap and should be interchangeable with any machine you buy in the near future. Vid cards are not 'cheap', but the PCI card should be very reasonable.

Get a buddy to loan you some RAM for a night. It pops right in and back out.