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[Adam024]

I am following up to my previous post (couldn't find it) about how my HP Desktop goes all weird during game play. Sometimes I get weird colors all over the place, other times I get odd NWN2 logos all over the place. Other times, it locks up entirely.

When it doesn't lock up, going to the menu, dropping to window mode, then back to full screen mode seems to correct the problem for awhile.

Here are the specs:
HP Pavillion a420n
Window XP Home Edition, Service Pack 2
AMD Athlon XP 30000+
2.16 GHz, 960 MB Ram
NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS

I hope that is enough info, as I don't know where else to look for info

I was looking at this graphics card- I am very limited by the fact that I have no PCI-Express slots
http://www.amazon.co..._pr_product_top

I am sure someone here knows a heck of a lot more than me- would upgrading to this or a different card make any difference?

Thanks in advance!

[Gorath Alpha]

The official minimum performance for this game requires a video card with an actual video bus, either AGP, or PCI-e, and your system doesn't qualify (GeForce 6600 GT or Radeon 9700 Pro graphics card with SM 2.0 or better).

Created about 15 hours ago

"I might add this- I have been playing the game since it was released (I think in 2006) and I am continually
finding new things that I have missed! Amazing job on this game! Love it!"

Any computer without any video bus of any kind isn't worth an upgrade. In a thrift shop, for about that same $75, USD, stateside, you can get a much better system, complete. Plain PCI has such a limited, very slow and narrow bandwidth that an old Geforce 6200 was already as much performance as it could handle, five years ago. Wasting any money on such a terrible, cheap piece of junk was already a bad choice three years ago, when the 8400 was brand new.

The game was released in the fall of 2006, and you really can have no idea at all what it's like, if that poor junker of a system (HP desktop with  no video bus) has been the only way you have interacted with it.

Go on eBay and find a used 6200 or 7300 for $8-10 plus $5 shipping, if you can't get rid of that terrible old antique computer.  ALSO, PUT THIS GAME AWAY.  Your PC isn't close to good enough to run it at all properly.  But you'd be much better off with a proper thrift shop used system that really does have some kind of actual video bus!

I found an X1300 that also was better than plain old PCI can keep up with, but you can buy it on eBay for very little, and play 2D games, and really old games, to match your really bad computer:

cgi.ebay.com/Visiontek-Radeon-x1300-PCI-Graphics-Card-/260651391166

Here's another 8400 GS, plain PC, not getting many bids yet

cgi.ebay.com/EVGA-NVIDIA-GeForce-8400-GS-256-MB-256-P2-N733-LR-PCI-E-/160468693742

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 18 août 2010 - 12:28 .

[Adam024]

What do you mean run the game properly- I wish I knew what my previous card was- the load screens lagged a bit, but I never had a problem like this before. The game has been outstanding since I got it. The play and graphics have been phenomenol

[Gorath Alpha]

There is no way that any plain old (1994 or so) PCI runs a game such as this one at anything but the coarsest of resolutions, the lowest of image qualities. and the jerkiest of animation speeds.  Period.  If, on the other hand, you blew up an AGP video slot and can't use it any more, that would explain it.  ATI's partners were offering AGP cards through the HD 4670s two years ago, and one of those would have worked fine. 

Or you have no idea what your PC has inside it at all, and it's not plain PCI, but has been PCI-e (express) all along.

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 17 août 2010 - 05:30 .