@Quillan
Agreed! I was thinking of putting in more RAM first but the 6200 card was outdate by a long shot. I thought I should go here first. Reason, the card is tuned like lawnmower. Originally I watched Neals first movie and it looked great. Game play for Neal look smooth in his video. Most, if not all, inquired as to his system. It was not much unlike mine, I think the processor was a bit slower. Neal said he purchased a X1650 (I believe) and that was all to get his game running very well. It was at that time I thought the vid card was the way to go. It worked nicely. Now, I do have to say, once the game is loaded and rolling, my hard drive settles down, I cache all the screens and I can bounce around from screen to screen effortlessly. Sure, TC sometimes studders or I get a slowdown on VERY heavy action but it is certainly still very playable. Convoys are not issue with the system. The game can throw fog/rain/heavy seas and a convoy at me and my machine runs it very well.
As far as RAM, I wait until they are selling it for a song and they do often. That is when I get the RAM. At this point, I do not think additional RAM with the 6200 card would have satisfactorly handled the game. I'm just glad Neal posted his video and specs....definitly sent me to the store for the correct piece of hardware and at a price I could budget.
