does anyone feel my pain

[Mikeus Caesar]

This is what you get when you buy pre-built computers - really frigging bad built in cards that suck, and for your average person are impossible to replace with a new card due to the software/hardware clashing.

Buy a nice shiny graphics card (if you can afford it) and find some instructions off the net on how to replace your inbuilt one.

If you can't afford it, then i'm sure even a nasty old card like the ATI Radeon 9600 would do fine.

[Lurker on the Threshold]

Thanks all for the help so far. I'm off for the next several days. I'll get more info in on Monday.