can i play this game

**badbomb** · 02-13-2005, 17:33

can i buy them i staples or best buy or some other place tthat has computer iteams

**Kekvit Irae** · 02-13-2005, 17:41

www.newegg.com
Nuff' said.

**badbomb** · 02-13-2005, 17:53

ok thanks for everything guys

**Kekvit Irae** · 02-13-2005, 17:54

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduc...130-210&DEPA=1

A good card for a great price

**KukriKhan** · 02-13-2005, 18:04

Cool.

Just remember:
NOT AGP
NOT PCI-Express (those won't work in your machine).

YES = PCI

**Quietus** · 02-13-2005, 19:25

There is a Predator Mx4000 Plus on sale at CompUsa for $39.99 (PCI too, and 128 MB, after $20 mail-in-rebate) on the Sunday newspaper:

Predator MX4000

edit: didn't see badbomb's last reply.

**Kraellin** · 02-13-2005, 20:15

yes, there is a chance you could play using the integrated vid card... but not much of one. those are the cheapest, worst, type of video cards available. they are made for one purpose only... to sell computers cheaply. and it really is a case here of, you get what you pay for. i've used integrated before myself and i've seen a number of folks in the apothecary who've come in looking for help and in every case, these integrated things are a problem. the ONLY good thing to be said for them is that they can be bypassed with another plug-in video card. in your case, since you have no agp (advanced graphics processor (just a newer type of video card)) slot, you're forced to go buy a pci type (an older type of video card). thankfully, these still work. they arent as fast as the agp type, but they shld work, depending on what type you get.

i'd recommend anything from nvidia starting at a gf4 mx 400 up to a 7500 nvidia. and yes, Staples does sell these. i've seen nvidia pci 7500's at Staples before.... recently. just make sure you get a pci and not an agp, as others have already mentioned.

what will most likely happen if you try using the integrated card is that you'll have 'freezes' in the game where the entire computer will just lock up. so, you'll be back here asking how to fix this and someone will tell you to update your drivers for the card. you'll update the drivers and then have other problems, like black screens or the cut scenes or intro wont play or jagged lines across the monitor or some other woe such as this.

now, saying all that, i'd still recommend you try the integrated. maybe it will work just fine and you're likely not going to fry the computer or anything in trying. but most likely it's not going to work very well.

K.