Video Card woes...?

Question

How do I know if my current video card is a certain rank? The game I want to play says you need a NVIDIA GeForce 2 class card or above. And I'm not sure if the one I have is correct...

The card I have is a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

to tell you the truth I'm not sure how new the computer is... it's my mom's. The card installed is a NVIDIA GeForce 5200, the game says and I quote "32MB 3D Graphics card with Hardware Transform and Lighting, such as an NVIDIA GeForce 2 class card or above... for further info the game is WoW

Answer 1

The NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200, is HIGHER than a NVIDIA GeForce 2 class, hence it should play it ok.

Answer 2

could you plz tell us what game and card plz
also a game should not need a geforce 2 to play (intel process have graphics in them) but we need to know If your computers is a 2004 or new it should be able to play the game.
Below is a little about geforce2.
If you don't have any clue about graphics it state that it uses directx7 this is very old and so in most cases yes any computer should beable to play this game as long as its not a very old old computer

"The first model, GeForce2 GTS (also known as NV15), was named for its texels rate of 1.6 billion per second - GigaTexel Shader. Due to the addition of a second TMU (texture map unit) to each of 4 pixel-pipelines, and a higher core-clock rate (200 MHz vs 120 MHz), the GTS's texel fillrate is 3.3 times higher than that of its predecessor, the GeForce 256 (480 Mtexel/sec.) Other hardware enhancements included an upgraded video-processing pipeline, called HDVP (high definition video processor). HDVP supported motion video-playback at HDTV-resolutions (MP@HL), although playback of high-resolution video still required a powerful CPU. The GeForce2 also introduced the NVIDIA Shading Rasterizer (NSR), which was actually a primitive form of what is known as Pixel Shaders today (The GeForce 256 also had this feature, but it was never publicly announced).

In 3D benchmarks and gaming applications the GTS outperformed its predecessor (GeForce 256) by up to 40%.[1] In OpenGL games (such as Quake III), the GTS outperformed the ATI Radeon and 3DFX Voodoo 5 cards in both 16bpp and 32bpp (true-color) display modes. But in Direct3D games, the Radeon was sometimes able to take the lead in 32-bit color modes.[2]

As studies of the architecture used for GeForce 256 and GeForce2 progressed, it was determined to be extremely memory bandwidth constrained.[3] The chips wasted memory bandwidth and pixel fillrate on unoptimized z-buffer usage, drawing of hidden surfaces, and relatively inefficient RAM controllers. The main competition for these two chips, the ATI Radeon DDR, had effective optimizations (HyperZ) that combated these issues.[4] Because of memory bandwidth constraints on the GeForce chips, they could not approach their theoretical performance potential, and the Radeon, with its significantly less-endowed pipeline count, offered strong competition simply due to greater efficiency. The later NV17 revision of the NV10 design, used for the GeForce4 MX, was far more efficient in memory management; although the GeForce4 MX 460 was a 2x2 pipeline design, it outperformed the GeForce2 Ultra.

Additionally, the state of the PC gaming software at the time, and the Generally new DirectX 7 (API), likely limited the number of games able to take advantage of hardware multitexturing capabilities (the most significant difference between GeForce256 and GeForce2). Most games emphasized single-layer texturing on surfaces, which would not benefit from multitexturing hardware found on the GeForce2 or Radeon.

Answer 3

Right-click an open area of your desktop, select Properties to open the display properties box and click the settings tab. It should tell you there what kind of monitor and graphics card you have.

A GeForce2 is not a very modern or high powered card so your game should work with most reasonably recent computers.

Answer 4

it extremely is vista, some video games won't artwork on Vista. you may examine to be certain in the event that they have released any updstes for vista to make that recreation playable or you will the two could wait till they do or in basic terms.... nicely, downgrade to XP?

Answer 5

what is your video card?

whats the game and i can help you out=)

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