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Originally posted by Gazz@Nov 7 2007, 01:03 PM
First off, let's get an realitycheck here. Your videocard isn't new and it was already an underachiever when it first came out. Playing Hellgate London, Bioshock or Colin mcrae is going to be difficult at lowest settings and the fact that you have only 1 GB of ram and an old processor doesn't help in getting your system any faster either.
If you happened to have a 7600 I'd think about pointing you towards some tweaking tips but with this card it's more realistic to tell you to update your pc. Anyhow, try this topic for some basic optimisation.
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Sorry Gazz, but this time I do not completely agree with you. The Bioshock demo ran surprisingly well on my desktop system. And my graphics card is probably lesser than his (I got an 6200 SE turbocache). Ok, I have to admit I didn't benchmark it, but with my naked eyes I couldn't see any trouble. But Colin Mcrae will give him quite a bunch of trouble, just like most of the recent racing games. I didn't check Hellgate, but if you two wish it, I can (re)download Bioshock and Hellgate, and benchmark them with Fraps. Using the results, we can make an estimation of the performance on his machine. Except the videocard, I got about the same system (supposing he is using Windows XP). So just let me know if I can do it for you.
Edit: It's not hell on earth yet, by the way, lots of fantastic games should be running on it. For example Overlord (hilariously evil
) and Medieval 2: Total War (best RTS I ever played)