I wonder if.... KABOOM ...... oh crap......

Where's the kaboom?? i came here expecting an explosion and there isn't one??? isn't that false advertising (posting) lol

Man, you really need to upgrade your video card. I had a 9550 not too long ago and I couldn't play squat. It's hopelessly outdated.

Whats your computer specs?

It'll help us to advise you on a new video card.

I would say update your video drivers, try Here
Found then on google though, don't take my word
But belanos is right upgrade.

Intel 740! lol

I'll go with my mobo graphics, not like I ain't got memory to spare. I have a whole 128 meg

Edit.
These stupid mobo's that say they need to steel more mem off my ram are just being greedy.

Actually i shouldn't make fun of the old intel 740 card.... I would have to credit it for being the best card for it's cost back when it was new. That card lasted me a long time too, punched well above its weight. Replaced it with a 'Savage' video card then threw the savage card in the bin and put the intel 740 back in for another year!

lesson learnt - megabites isn't everything!

That was to catch your attention . . . . . so it worked, giggity   .



I'm not looking for a new grapihc's card If I can aviod it, belive me this card is good for the games I use it for. My specs are 2 512 mb rams and a 2004 RZ Titian Motherboard with Pentium 4, I don't know what the rest are but I'II dig a pit to America to find for youes.

Those are specs?

That is like saying - I have a Dodge - when someone asks what car you drive.

You can't avoid it. That card maybe good enough for the games you have now, but anything new coming out and you probably won't be able to play it. Or at least not very well. It's pretty much reached the end of it's usefulness.

I was looking model name of your motherboard so I could determine important information about your system. One important piece of information was what type of graphics slot your computer was using. Oh well, 2004 was the year that PCI-Express was released, so its unlikely that your computer would have a PCI-E x16 slot. You probally have AGP 4x or 8x, both of which are obsolete.

Since you are not looking for a new video card, I'm not going bother helping you find one.

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I'm going to save you the trouble of digging a hole. You also don't know where I live, and you might get lost.

My specs:
-KV8-Max3 motherboard
-AMD Athlon 64 3200+ CPU
-1 GB of ram (2x 512 MB, 400 MHz)
-Radeon 9800 pro video card, AGP 8x
-2 Sata I hard drives, Totalling nearly a Terrabyte in data storage capacity.
-A capture card

Some of the parts were a bit dated when I first assembled it, while others were later upgrades. So what do you think?

Your video card is nothing to brag about either. If you want to stick with an ATI AGP, get yourself an X800. That's the best you can get for that format. Better yet, just replace everything and go for PCI-E. You could do with an upgrade to your CPU anyway, that's a bit underpowered too.

Found them, bloody hell that took a long dig:
2004 RZ Titian Motherboard
Pentium 4 800/533/400 Mhz FSB
4 CPU???  3.00Mhz, 3.01 Mhz
2 X 512 mb RAM
Radeon 9500, APG 8X/4X
90 Gig defult and 160 gig storage
Onboard SiS 964 chipset




I get it, I get it. I'm a complete noob, sheesh.
I'm just asking weather or not DA will work on my system or not.

If you're already having problems with DL, you're going to have even more of them with DA. It's a bit more demanding that the original game was. Trust me, you'd be doing yourself a favour getting a new video card. As I said, I used to have a 9550, and it made a huge difference in all my games getting a better one. Go for an ATI X800 or Nvidia 7600. Those are the best available for AGP. After that you'll need to go PCI-E, which means also replacing your motherboard, processor, and RAM.

If you're having trouble figuring out your system specs, or even wondering just what the hell is installed on your system, go grab the Belarc advisor, tells you everything you need to know.

WWW Link

Sweet, thanks mates   .

There is a gold edition demo being made. It hasn't been released yet, but when it does, you should be able to use it to test how your machine performs.

You can find it in the download section, here:
WWW Link




You'll learn in time. Don't sweat it.
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As for your system, it can probally play DA without exploding, just not very well.

Your motherboard is likely a Gigabyte GA-8ITX3 (which was their Titan line of mb), FYI.

I could not find any really useful info on it - Gigabyte's site does not even list it in the support section, although they do have news releases about it.

I would not hope for much when it come to DA, especially if DL is a slug. DA is much more demanding.

And also, P4's never were as slow as 3MHz - possibly 3GHz is what you meant.


And if you have an onboard SiS 964 video chipset, if it is not already, I would suggest that you disable it in the mb BIOS - since you have an AGP video card installed. No sense in letting the system use/expend unnecessary resources.

You also didn't mention a sound card.
As with your video, if you have both onboard sound and a sound card installed, make sure the onboard audio is disabled.

It's not that it's a slug, It's just on gigantic maps when my whole fleet is situated at a uber-military starbase that it starts going a bit scew-if, the ships move par-sec to par-sec and the frame rate slows down. I know that DA will dimand a lot of my 9550 I was just wondered if someone had a similer card and it worked.

The best you can hope for is to tweak your system to give the most resources for the game while you are playing it - and hope for the best.

Things like disabling the extra video and, if you have it, audio ports on the mb, disabling anti-virus real-time protection for the game folders, any unnecessary background processes - those sorts of things.

Other than that, more memory and a faster video card and CPU are all you can really do.

Page File! If you set your page file to about 4gig, provided you have the space, you should be able to run DA. Though like stated, it will be choppy, just in the lat part of the game zoom out to icon view and that may relieve some of the lag.

That's not really a good indication. Things get much slower towards the end of the game. Mind you that has more to do with CPU and RAM than video cards.

Somone else using that same video card may well have superior performance, 'but'....
a different computer is a different computer. meaning that even somone with an identical system to yours could have much better performance for absolutely no reason at all!

To get a genuine comparison between two systems - install Linux! because Windows operating systems can really screw with your pc performance in any manner of undefinable ways!!

Iv'e heard A LOT of good things about Lunix, can you direct me to a version that will not fuck around with the basic operation of my computer.

I heard that theres a Lunix that works in tandium with windows programs, but i'm trying to dig out the discrepences.

as far as i know, linux will totally change your computer. To install linux properly, you would be formatting your HDD