PC Requirement question?????

[KappaRaider]

I have a dell dimension 2400. It has windows xp home and only 128MB of ram (yuck) Anyways, what would you all think i need to buy to run RTW? Because i tried to install it and it ran like crap and just quit on me when i went into campaign. How much RAM should i buy? and what video card should i buy?? Anything else i should get??? thanks. Noob.

[TonyJ]

Hi there and welcome

By saying it quits on you when you go into a campaign do you mean a crash to the desktop ?

If that's so, that's usually a graphics issue: what card do you currently have and are you using the latest drivers ? If it's an nvidia card, there are some issues with some newer driver releases: search the forums and you'll see lots of posts - there's a good set of stickies in the apothecary.

Hope we can all help you work it out soon

[jrutnet]

Well, I just got through my growing pains with the Dell Deminsion 2400. You probably need to upgrade your graphics board. My Dell had intergrated graphics, so changing that would be a good thing. The sound needs to be changed too. Here is what I went to for these two items.

GeForce NVidia FX5500 PCI 128 (Video Card)
Sound Blaster 24Bit sound card

While your at it, you should up your ram to at least 512MB. RTW uses a lot of Ram.

I would also direct you to check out the post at Dell for the 2400 and all the game sites for upgrade tips. It took me some time to get the hang of switching out components for dell. Oh, by the way I uped my graphics again, but the was a personal thing. The FX should be fine.