Just a quick question

[NoTG]

Ok, I have recently bought SH4, and i will be buying a new rig in the next few weeks from Dell. Now the system that i plan on buying comes with a 256MB ATI Radeon X1300 Pro PCI Graphics card. Now i know that a 256MB Graphics card is reccomended for SH4, But my new system will come with Vista Home Premium already installed, now i know Vista is quite heavy on the system requirements, so would the Graphics card thats coming with my new system be sufficent to play SH4 on relatively high graphics with Vista?

Thanks

You can run it no above 1024 resolution with med graphics...
1 GB of RAM is recommended.
CPU anything above 2.5GHz.
Graphics card: Recommend X1600 and above.

[NoTG]

My new system will have a AMD Dual Core @2.6Ghz, 4GB of RAM and a 320GB HDD.
So its only the Graphics card that will prevent me from playing in high graphics, am i right?
Sorry, computer hardware isnt my strongest subject.

Whoa!!
Man, with proper graphic card, you could play at the maximum RESOLUTION, DETAILS and whatever.
I recommend nvidia 8800GTX as the crysis will come out soon, so that you will be equipped with DX10 beast!

[NoTG]

Originally Posted by GakunGak

Whoa!!
Man, with proper graphic card, you could play at the maximum RESOLUTION, DETAILS and whatever.
I recommend nvidia 8800GTX as the crysis will come out soon, so that you will be equipped with DX10 beast!

Yaaaay
Yes that Graphics card looks very good indeed
With a Graphics card like that will it be necessary for me to upgrade my Power Supply Unit aswell? Im not sure what my new system will come with, i imagine it will come with a standard Power Supply.

Originally Posted by NoTG

Yaaaay
Yes that Graphics card looks very good indeed
With a Graphics card like that will it be necessary for me to upgrade my Power Supply Unit aswell? Im not sure what my new system will come with, i imagine it will come with a standard Power Supply.

I think it can handle it, you should upgrade your power supply if using SLI or Crossfire, I mean, two graphics cards at once....
Must be a fortune to have this baby...
Take good care of her!

[Argus00]

@ NoTG - just MAKE SURE you download the AMD Dual Core fixes from Microsoft.

Also, memorize this tip for SH4 on any multiple core processors: start the game, CTRL+ALT+DEL, in the Task Manager right click on the game executable (sh4.exe) and set AFFINITY to ONE core only. You need to do this manually every time you start the game.

This is also needed for other games not scripted to take advantage of multiple cores (from memory: Beyond Good & Evil, Ground Control II).

Happy hunting with your new rig

Originally Posted by Argus00

@ NoTG - just MAKE SURE you download the AMD Dual Core fixes from Microsoft.

Also, memorize this tip for SH4 on any multiple core processors: start the game, CTRL+ALT+DEL, in the Task Manager right click on the game executable (sh4.exe) and set AFFINITY to ONE core only. You need to do this manually every time you start the game.

This is also needed for other games not scripted to take advantage of multiple cores (from memory: Beyond Good & Evil, Ground Control II).

Happy hunting with your new rig

I have P4 3.0 GHz with HT technology and it runs fine, why does he have to do this?:hmm:

[pocatellodave]

Originally Posted by Argus00

@ NoTG - just MAKE SURE you download the AMD Dual Core fixes from Microsoft.

Also, memorize this tip for SH4 on any multiple core processors: start the game, CTRL+ALT+DEL, in the Task Manager right click on the game executable (sh4.exe) and set AFFINITY to ONE core only. You need to do this manually every time you start the game.

This is also needed for other games not scripted to take advantage of multiple cores (from memory: Beyond Good & Evil, Ground Control II).

Happy hunting with your new rig

Hmmm,I don't do anything with the affinity command,and my puter runs SH IV pretty well.First time I have heard of that trick.I started using the shut down Explorer dealey,and I like that very much.I will try the affinity thing next mission I go on.
system
AMD 5000
dual core
4 gigs Corsair ram
Gigabyte SLI MB
2x evga 7950 GT's in SLI config
SB Audigy sound

[SingeDebile]

Originally Posted by Argus00

@ NoTG - just MAKE SURE you download the AMD Dual Core fixes from Microsoft.

Also, memorize this tip for SH4 on any multiple core processors: start the game, CTRL+ALT+DEL, in the Task Manager right click on the game executable (sh4.exe) and set AFFINITY to ONE core only. You need to do this manually every time you start the game.

This is also needed for other games not scripted to take advantage of multiple cores (from memory: Beyond Good & Evil, Ground Control II).

Happy hunting with your new rig

i never knew this... ive been using my athlon 4200 x2 normally and with my 7900gt and a gig of ram ive got everything maxed out and it runs nice (will stutter now and then but thats all)

also i installed the amd dual core optimizer... with this fix you talking about from microsoft conflict with it?