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[Chickenaut]

Well, apparently mass effect 2 somehow forced me to upgrade my rig. My old pc is old:

amd athlon 64 3800+ (939 socket) with nvidia 7600 gt and 2 gigs of ram

, it run well mass effect 1 and mass effect 2 in windows XP, but not in windows 7 (64bit).   In windows 7 there is always a vga's artifact  both in me 1 and 2 but none in windows XP. Me2's blue lightning crash non existent on windows XP but prevalent on windows 7. Because of that, for the purposed of playing me and me 2, i made my rig as multiboot. Somehow i regreted that  i bought windows 7. So here my options :

1. I upgrades my pc now .
2. I upgrades my pc when mass effect 3  comes out.
3. I just changes my vga card to a newer series, probably to a different type ( ATI rather than NVIDIA ) but never upgrade, in hope that mass effect 3 still using the same 3d engine. 

Any suggestion? or other alternatives?

I would like to add that i also played COD modern warfare 2 in my rig. it ran perfectly in both windows xp and windows 7.

Modifié par Chickenaut, 13 août 2010 - 09:43 .

[Super ._. Shepard]

i would upgrade now

[Gorath Alpha]

The 7600 GT was a Medium card four years ago, the A64 3800 was a medium power CPU four years ago.  Only your RAM has kept pace.  These games are demanding more of an increase in performance from CPUs compared to the demands they are making on GPUs, so the CPU is further away from the Recommended Level than the GPU is.

Does that help you? 

P. S.  If you have any doubts, only Toms Hardware keeps the old CPU and "VGA" benchmark charts, so you can get some baseline data on the old hardware, although they will apply different tests to the newer hardware than was available when the old stuff was originally tested. 

Incidentally, there are always people who will wear sackcloth and ashes, whip themselves into a frenzy, and generally prefer to suffer than to enjoy things.  You should ignore such abnormal creatures. 

Here we have your video graphics card next to some comparatively current crap, which as you can see trails far behind:

www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php

Next, you can compare your card to the officially recommended card:

www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php

(Edited:  As you can see, it's a very long reach between them.  And THAT is the card that actually can "Max" the game, unlike the foolishness that follows after this, now). 


Gorath
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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 14 août 2010 - 01:12 .

[JazzyJenna]

LOL.. my rig is not much different... amd athlon 64 3200 but 3 gigs of Ram and an ATI 4350 HDMI Silent with 512 megs of ram.. at near max settings it plays very smoothly.I expect by ME3 I'll upgrade to 4 gigs of Ram and a Core2 processor. (yes my board actually supports them) Only issue I have is slower than I'd like loading.. but not bad speeds.. no sluggishness or jumpy gameplay.. fast and smooth.