Computer Trouble

[19Herr_Rapp86]

Having to back off of SHIV for awhile. My emachine can barely handle it! Lol. Runs SHIII no problem though, so I'll be around over there. Getting a new computer custom built soon though, so I'll be back to SHIV soon.

[WernherVonTrapp]

E-Machines?! Wow, I didn't know they still made those.;)
Good luck with the custom-made PC.:up: I'll bet you can't wait to fire that baby up.

[19Herr_Rapp86]

Oh yeah! I'm excited for it! But until then its happy hunting in the Atlantic!

[TorpX]

Hmmm...

Didn't know SH 3 was any less taxing than SH 4.

I guess it depends on how many mods you use. :hmmm:

[Rockin Robbins]

SH4 demand more from the video card or onboard video system of a computer than SH3 does. CPU power is about the same unless you have shared CPU/graphics memory, in which case you are probably going to have great difficulty running SH4.

It's amazing how modest a computer can be to run SH4 if it has a decent video card. The original computer I ran it on had a single core Athlon 3000+ CPU and an EVGA nVidia 7600GT card and ran the game fine. This is likely a much slower computer than the E-machines you are running, but I did have a (barely) adequate video card.

[Sailor Steve]

My seven-year-old single-core Pentium 4 computer runs SH4 better than it runs SH3. Of course I run SH3 modded to the hilt, and SH4 doesn't have the kind of mods I use with SH3, so that certainly has something to do with it.

I agree about the video card. My rig runs everything much better since I upgraded to an ATI 4650, which is about the best they make for an old AGP slot.

[Hylander_1314]

My seven-year-old single-core Pentium 4 computer runs SH4 better than it runs SH3. Of course I run SH3 modded to the hilt, and SH4 doesn't have the kind of mods I use with SH3, so that certainly has something to do with it.

I agree about the video card. My rig runs everything much better since I upgraded to an ATI 4650, which is about the best they make for an old AGP slot.


Whoa! I haven't seen an AGP card or slot in years! But ATI made the best AGP cards I used. I want to say that my last one was a 3896 model, or something along those lines. But they were very affordable price wise, but you did have to fiddle a bit more with them than the Nvidia cards.

I remember, I had to keep 2 sets of drivers because a couple flight sims had issues. One would work fine with a set of drivers, and the other would have artifacts in it, and vise versa.

I got real good at deleting and loading drivers with that setup!