Is this the last hurrah for anyone's computer?

**Polemists** · 03-02-2009, 12:13

I personally always make horrible decisions when buying a pc on a budget. Joys of life.

Someday soon though I am going to try and find a pc that actually lasts me for two years

**Sir Beane** · 03-02-2009, 13:02

Originally Posted by Polemists

I personally always make horrible decisions when buying a pc on a budget. Joys of life.

Someday soon though I am going to try and find a pc that actually lasts me for two years

I used to be pretty good at making horrible decisions, but this time things seem to have worked out.

I finally have a PC that can play the latest games being released.

**Polemists** · 03-02-2009, 13:16

So basically everyone, if you are buying a new pc, go harass beanie and ask him his model and where he bought it

**Dead Guy** · 03-02-2009, 15:13

I'm buying an intel core i7 920 and 6gigs of DDR3 today. I'm hoping my old GeForce 8800 GT will cut it for a while longer...

**Greyblades** · 03-02-2009, 15:21

The 8800GT isn't old, you will probably have about another year with it not screwing up at least.

**Polemists** · 03-02-2009, 15:24

I want the geforce 10000 where is it?

**Dead Guy** · 03-02-2009, 15:32

I guess it's not that old, I bought it when it was fairly new about 1.5 years ago I think. Was pretty good bang for the buck. But my 3600+ AMD isn't good enough anymore... GTA IV looks hilarious, or rather tragic I guess. It lags like crazy and there are no buildings and no ground :p Love spending 50€ on a game and not even being able to play it at the lowest settings.

**Freedom Onanist** · 03-02-2009, 15:35

Don't want to bump myself and all that, but...

Has anyone got any idea why it works on windows 7 (on ultra) and not xp? All the latest drivers loaded on xp etc... A quirk of the demo?

**Greyblades** · 03-02-2009, 15:36

Well if you have the 8800gt (like i do) its not that that is causing troubles on GTA 4 its your cpu.

^^I know its not very helpful but my advice would be to dig out an old game and play it for the next 2 days. If your lucky the full game will not be affected in the way that the demo is.