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treblesum81 · 05-03-08, 11:40 AM

I had not done any video card research at all since this time last year, and at the time, the resources I had available to me pointed towards the 6200AX being about the most powerful card I could put in my machine...

forthermore, it no longer matters that there are more powerfull AGP cards out there as I will not buy another AGP card when my next computer will use PCI-E. The fact is... and this may sound ever so stubbourn, but its something we should all expect... that if the minimum reqs say one thing, and you have better than that, and the recommended reqs say even more, and you have at least that, and recommended reqs are usually benchmarked for medium level settings or better, you should be able to run the game at medium level settings or better. If, on the other hand, the the recommended settings will give you low frame rates on even a low setting and you shouldn't even bother to try it with the mins because you'll be so slow that you can't do anything.... well, in that case (which this seems to be) perhaps they should have made the recs the mins and been honest about what you'll need?

Now, that may sound like nothing but whining, but its just one possibility... Truth is, I can see that some people here are able to run the program with similar setups with only minor difficulty, so thats why I really want to know what their exact option setups are (card and game) so I can try to join the rest of you in the Pacific. So, again, if you've got a similar setup to mine and you've got the game working, please don't just tell me it works, but tell me what settings you have in place so i can replicate it possibly.

05-03-08, 11:40 AM	#8
treblesum81 Frogman Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 308 Downloads: 71 Uploads: 0	I had not done any video card research at all since this time last year, and at the time, the resources I had available to me pointed towards the 6200AX being about the most powerful card I could put in my machine... forthermore, it no longer matters that there are more powerfull AGP cards out there as I will not buy another AGP card when my next computer will use PCI-E. The fact is... and this may sound ever so stubbourn, but its something we should all expect... that if the minimum reqs say one thing, and you have better than that, and the recommended reqs say even more, and you have at least that, and recommended reqs are usually benchmarked for medium level settings or better, you should be able to run the game at medium level settings or better. If, on the other hand, the the recommended settings will give you low frame rates on even a low setting and you shouldn't even bother to try it with the mins because you'll be so slow that you can't do anything.... well, in that case (which this seems to be) perhaps they should have made the recs the mins and been honest about what you'll need? Now, that may sound like nothing but whining, but its just one possibility... Truth is, I can see that some people here are able to run the program with similar setups with only minor difficulty, so thats why I really want to know what their exact option setups are (card and game) so I can try to join the rest of you in the Pacific. So, again, if you've got a similar setup to mine and you've got the game working, please don't just tell me it works, but tell me what settings you have in place so i can replicate it possibly.