Is it time to upgrade my video card, its 9800 pro? I can still play Company of Heroes on low settings fine,and other new games like Need For Speed Carbon,Half Life2. Oh yeah I have a question why does it start to lag pretty bad when I load a big map in Company of Heroes? Is it because I have only 512mb system ram or because 128mb video ram?
2007-05-23 18:22:40 · 2 answers · asked by vetal_2007 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
The card is old. Playing on low settings is not that great. Higher settings is alot better (very pretty!). Even the low-end cards of today are far better now.
http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html
As for the load time, that will be system memory. 1gb is minimum really, 2gb is recommended. It affects the video memory when running at a high resolution and has alot of textures to load (too much for the video card). Most games are up to 256mb being used running a 1024 by 768 resolution. Higher the resolution, the more video memory it needs.
2007-05-24 11:25:07 · answer #1 · answered by computertech82 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's still a pretty decent AGP card. You could squeeze out some more performance from it through overclocking. You can also improve overall system performance by increasing RAM to 1Gb.
2007-05-24 01:44:44 · answer #2 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋