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[Zanzaroth]

I've found that unless I run DA:0 at the lowest settings everything is a bit choppy. I've upgraded my ram...installed the newest drivers for everything...even reinstalled OS...nothing has worked very well.

My system specs
AMD Athlon 64 x2 5200 (2.6ghz)
Nvidia Geforce 8500 gt
3 GB ram
running windows vista

Unless my system is just starting to get old I don't really understand it...I can play another bioware game (Mass Effect 2) at pretty much max settings with no problems. Any input on what to do would be appreciated.

[Gorath Alpha]

That video card just isn't good enough. It wasn't ever intended (by nVIDIA, at least) for anything but plain old business charts, graphs, presentations, and spreadsheets. You should ignore the official minimum video cards named, because they are merely "Pie in the Sky" daydreams. A Geforce 6600 GT is going to be terrible in this game, worse than your 8500 is.

http://www.gpureview...d1=514&card2=54

social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/58/index/128343

Compare your card. instead. to the 7600 GT, the Geforce named for Vista.

www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php

The 8500 trails behind at 57%, 80%, and 54% of the performance criteria shared between them.

Windows XP Minimum Specifications
OS: Windows XP with SP3
CPU: Intel Core 2 Single (or equivalent) running at 1.6Ghz or greater
AMD 64 (or equivalent) running at 2.0Ghz or greater
RAM: 1 GB or more
Video: ATI Radeon X850 256MB or greater (either this is wrong)
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128MB or greater (or this one is wrong)
DVD ROM (Physical copy)
20 GB HD space

(Note: IMO, the practical choices for the two video cards above should be the Radeon X800 Pro, and the Geforce 6800 GS, at least)

www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php

That's the 6800 GS, instead of the 7600 GT, because Vista may in fact need more VGA power than WindowsXP does, so this time, on the three shared criteria, it is about equal on the second one, but on the first and third, gets 40% and 70% of the better card's performance. 

Gorath
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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 26 février 2010 - 03:43 .

[Zanzaroth]

Thanks for the quick reply. I think I may upgrade to the geforce 9500 GT.

[Gorath Alpha]

I don't understand the fascination with the business grade performance level. The value is always poor, whether or not the total cost is less. What is wrong with the GT240? It replaced the 9600 GT (see the "600" in there? That means Mainline Gaming or "Medium").

www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php

social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/58/index/519461

Value is the cost per frame in dollars per FPS, and the ATI cards are still sitting atop the highest value for that, but a 9600 GSO comes close, when you can still find one of those.

www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx

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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 26 février 2010 - 04:06 .

[Zanzaroth]

My "fascination" with them is the price haha. I'm a poor college student...believe me..if I had the money I would buy a nicer card. Tigerdirect has some 9500's for around $40

[Gorath Alpha]

nVIDIA doesn't choose to compete in the sub-$50 price range, so only older crap, and even worse new crap is down in that range (like the G210, roughly what you have right now). ATI has several older models that had decent performance that have fallen to that low of a price.

www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php

The only decent Geforce that I saw for that $50 price was out of stock (Geforce 8600 GTS - I have one of those in a loaner box here, a nice enough card back in its day).

Here's an HD 3650 for $35, which is a decent value
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx

Here's an HD 4650 for $47, which is a TREMENDOUSLY GOOD  value:
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx

This last isn't as good of a value as either of those, and as I said, is out of stiock anyway:
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx

If they had one, it would be $50.

Gorath

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 26 février 2010 - 04:45 .

[Gorath Alpha]

It's nine hours later. What have you decided to do?

[WillG027]

For the Advanced users try out 'Autoruns".



You can customise Windows startup, drivers, explorer etc. and get rid of what you don't need at the core level of Windows without 3rd party apps.



It can speed up your system, but I stress, only use it if you know what you're doing.

If your not sure, DO NOT use it, you WILL brick your installation/OS.