If its an AGP video card, give up and buy a new system, you can get some good stuff for cheap these days.

If its PCIE, look at the NVidia 9600GT, or if you have a bit more cash, the ATi 4850. Don't listen to those chumps who have NO idea what they are talking about.

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i have a GeForce 5500 overdriven card... i havnt met a game yet that it cant handle but yea im looking to upgrade also id begetting what is it.. the new GeForce VooDoo 4's? like 1 gb of video lol

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Isnt that a PCI card?

LMAO!

Ha!

Obviously you havent tried to play Crysis yet...

Go with at least an 8 series card. They are cheap, and should handle most things.

Thats nVidia of course. I havent bought an ATI card in like 5 years, so Im not up to speed on those.

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Quote: from Neilap at 9:11 pm on June 27, 2008

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i have a GeForce 5500 overdriven card... i havnt met a game yet that it cant handle but yea im looking to upgrade also id begetting what is it.. the new GeForce VooDoo 4's? like 1 gb of video lol

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Isnt that a PCI card?  

LMAO!

Ha!

Obviously you havent tried to play Crysis yet...

Go with at least an 8 series card. They are cheap, and should handle most things.

Thats nVidia of course. I havent bought an ATI card in like 5 years, so Im not up to speed on those.

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8600GT 512mb will run the likes of World of Warcraft and Call of Duty4 with relative ease on medium gfx settings. Crysis sucks on it though.

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Depends on what resolution you are trying to play it on.

If you are just playing 1024x768, you might be able to get Crysis on High.

Now, at a good resolution, you will probably need to play it on low, but you can still play it.

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The good side about this is that you get to pick a new CPU and more RAM and such like too.

The fastest AGP video card that I can find is a Geforce 7600 GS, which should provide passable performance in things like HalfLife 2 to up to a screen resolution of 1280 by 1024 or so.

Getting a new computer is probably a more cost effective option though.

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Quote: from Tursi Askari at 5:46 am on July 7, 2008

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8600GT 512mb will run the likes of World of Warcraft and Call of Duty4 with relative ease on medium gfx settings. Crysis sucks on it though.

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Depends on what resolution you are trying to play it on.

If you are just playing 1024x768, you might be able to get Crysis on High.

Now, at a good resolution, you will probably need to play it on low, but you can still play it.

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Negative batman. At that reso we had Crysis with average fps on low settings (brothers computer). Crysis is quite demanding. Oh, and it looks sooo shit at low gfx settings.

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Quote: from drifting at 7:18 am on July 8, 2008

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Quote: from Tursi Askari at 5:46 am on July 7, 2008

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8600GT 512mb will run the likes of World of Warcraft and Call of Duty4 with relative ease on medium gfx settings. Crysis sucks on it though.

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 Depends on what resolution you are trying to play it on.  

 If you are just playing 1024x768, you might be able to get Crysis on High.  

 Now, at a good resolution, you will probably need to play it on low, but you can still play it.

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Negative batman. At that reso we had Crysis with average fps on low settings (brothers computer). Crysis is quite demanding. Oh, and it looks sooo shit at low gfx settings.

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I barely had to OC my 8600GT to play Crysis on High (XP high) at 1024x768. I had a 256mb edition.

Im sure you could squeaze it out on high without the OC if you have the 512mb edition.

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Dear god you must have had 5fps! Hes bringing it round later on today cos he managed to corrupt some system files so ill have a play with Rivatuner and do some benches.

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According to FRAPS, I had 26FPS, which is actually playable on Crysis.

Granted, I usually turn it down to medium, so I can pull about 35FPS, but you have to remember, with the Crysis blur system, you dont need nearly as many FPS to play.

I found it EXTREMELY playable, I just prefer the higher FPS over the slightly (and I mean slightly) prettier graphics.

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Low settings yeilded 19fps on the plane with 30 on the beach (dropped to 20 when looking at the flare).

What OC were you running?


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