graphic card help please

[koerbershawn]

ok here is my situation.....i have a dell 4500 desktop and when i purchased it i got the graphic card upgrade to nvidia geforce 2/mx 400 series so i would be able to play games such as doom 3 and half-life 2 and what not but for some reason none of these games will play on my pc......when i go to the device manager and click on display and click double click on the card it says location: pci bus 1 device 0 function 0
driver version: 5.6.7.3

can somebody please explain what is goin on here????

 

[swker98]

IMO that card is to old to play any of those games, you can try to get the latest drivers form nvidia but i doubt that will make a difference

 

[koerbershawn]

ummm....... the doom 3 system requirments say that my card should work.,...

 

[mailpup]

Didn't that card come out around 2001? Time has passed it by, I think. Doom 3 requirements call for a Geforce 3 or better. You may have misread the requirements.

 

[koerbershawn]

go to the doom 3 system req page at http://doom3.com/sysreq.asp you will see my card carely listed

 

[swker98]

* SUPPORTED CHIPSETS: ATI® Radeon(tm) 8500
* ATI® Radeon(tm) 9000
* ATI® Radeon(tm) 9200
* ATI® Radeon(tm) 9500
* ATI® Radeon(tm) 9600
* ATI® Radeon(tm) 9700
* ATI® Radeon(tm) 9800
* All nVidia® GeForce(tm) 3/Ti series
* All nVidia® GeForce(tm) 4MX series
* All nVidia® GeForce(tm) 4/Ti series
* All nVidia® GeForce(tm) FX series
* nVidia® GeForce(tm) 6800

I dont see geforce 2 there

what are your specs on the pc

 

[mailpup]

I did look there and I looked again. I see no Geforce 2 card listed. Didn't your first post say Geforce 2?

Edit: swker98 beat me to it.

 

[koerbershawn]

All nVidia® GeForce(tm) 4MX series

that is listed and i have a geforce 2/mx 400 series is that not the same as a 4mx series????

 

[swker98]

what are the rest of your computer specs
ie cpu, ram,hard drive

what happinods when you try to play the game?

 

[mailpup]

4 mx and 2 mx are not the same, no.

Edit: Okay, I give up. swker98 is too fast for me.

 

[swker98]

Edit: Okay, I give up. swker98 is too fast for me.

:haha: :haha: :haha: :haha:

lol, i have noting else to do, my gamming rig's board is out for fixing from chentech and im on a 500mhz celey with a 2gb hard drive so there isnt much for me to do, no games work exept old games that arnt worth playing :haha:
i hope i get it back soon so i can enjoy bf 2

EDIT: mailpup if you can recomend a fun game then i promace i wont post first :haha:
But the game must work on my old computer

 

[koerbershawn]

cpu 1.8 ghz
ram 256 mb ram
hard-drive 40 gb
windows xp service pack 2

well when i try to play doom 3 sometimes it starts up sometimes it doesnt... when it starts up the fps is very slow and lag everywhere sound is even laggin just terrible...........maybe if i download the driver updates???? if not what is my best choice for a new card???? i have a dell dim 4500

 

[mailpup]

swker98, that's ok, I won't hold you to your promise. Have you tried Homeworld (the original, not Homeworld 2)? If you can find it, it's cheap since it came out in 1998. A great RTS game.

koerbershawn, you could try the latest graphics driver. You've nothing to lose. However, I think the problem is simply an overwhelmed, old graphics card. What kind of budget limitation do you have for a new card?

 

[swker98]

you can try to get the latest drivers form nvidia but i doubt that will make a difference

i beat you alrdey lol :haha: :haha:

but yea the problem is most likely your gfx card,
doom 3 and HL 2 are 2 very demanding games, even if your card were to majicly play them, you woulnt want to because it would be very laggy
Just thoguht of sometihng, you do have derrect x 9c


i see you created a thred on finding a new gfx card for your dell
https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic42047.html
NOTE: IF you want to help koerbershawn finding a new card post in that thred not in this one

 

[koerbershawn]

ya i got direct x 9

 

[arielbj]

geforce 4 doom 3

some of new pcs have an integrated video that not run very well the games.

 

[imtiaz_1]

IMO that card is to old to play any of those games, you can try to get the latest drivers form nvidia but i doubt that will make a difference

my graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400, i have played both "Half life 2"
and "Doom 3". both in low res but smoothly.
here is my sys config,

Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.6GHz
Memory: 256MB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 (Microsoft Corporation)
Chip type: GeForce2 MX/MX 400
Display Memory: 64.0 MB
but there were some latest games i was unable to play with it and i think i will be unable to play most of the latest 2006 games with it.