posted 08-29- 09:27 PM               

Question, Would upgrading to the new Gforce- 3, 64 meg card make a large difference? I have found it for $349.

posted 08-30- 12:39 PM               

Personally I think as long as the games you are playing right now are fast enough then save your money.

Give us the full specs on your system gunner, if your really wanting to spend some money on your system we can help you out

Keep in mind the monitor size when thinking about the font sizes in hi res.

Oh yeah and if we are talking about SDOE, why bother? Isn't your system more then fast enough to run SDOE?

I'm really hoping your not thinking of upgrading the card just for SDOE.

posted 08-30- 10:17 PM               

I mean with a pc100 bus speed there isn't much more I can think of to make this machine run faster.

There is nothing running in the background and I still get the "slide show" from time to time in IL2 during explosions and such.

I realize I have a faster machine than many but I want to get all out of it I can as cheap as I can. And I was thinking a new card would help.

posted 08-31- 12:51 AM               

Are you running everything maxed in IL-2?

I sure hope so cause if your not and your getting frame rate problems thats going to suck for us WITHOUT machines like that.

K I would say maybe get the new card.

OR maybe do a new system.

Buy a new MoBo, the sis 735 board is out for $65 US, and paired with DDR 266 ram its kicking ass. Get 2 sticks of DDR 266x256megs ram for 38 bucks a stick from crucial.

Then drop in a 1.4 gig Thunderbird.

Bang that should help out the bottem end.

That would add up to:

Mobo 65
Ram 76
1.4 106
---------
247 + taxes and shipping.

Thats pricewatch prices though, so figure a little more.

The vid card might help a little more, but pretty soon you will be out running your ram.

Now if you could so both

Oh yeah you could also sell your old board, chip and ram. I find people pay WAY too much for that stuff on ebay.

What exactly is your vid card? Like exactly.

Cause I might be in the market for a geforce 2 in october.

posted 08-31- 09:51 AM               

I ran the demo with a quick mission with 4 twin engined trnasports to each squadron ( all 4 ) plus 4 squadrons of 109's with 4 planes.

When I got into the middle of the whole lot and surrounded by gunfire, I got some stutter. This was on 1024 x 768 32bit ( I think ... this was the highest res option anyway )

I am running a Duron 700, 224 meg Ram, and a Geforce 2MX 32meg card.