As the title indicates, I'm looking at upgrading my computer's hardware for when Warhammer Online comes out. So far, I have an ATI Radeon 9100 Graphics card and 2 gig of ram that I'm satisfied with, but my computer is still pretty laggy when playing games. Should I look at upgrading the motherboard next? What would you suggest, and what procedure for doing so would you recommend?
2007-09-29 21:27:37 · 7 answers · asked by Nick C 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
It turns out that my graphics card is actually a Radeon 9250.
2007-09-30 13:11:10 · update #1
Your graphics card is VERY SLOW. Putting that same card on a new motherboard would not improve things. You need a better graphics card. A 7300GS AGP or a 7300GT AGP would do wonders to your PC.
2007-09-30 01:56:04 · answer #1 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More then likely it's the videocard.
Looking at the rest of the EA games for PC and your videocard is near the bottom of the recommendations if it's even on there.
It's an online game, so you intenet connection/speed would make a difference too.
It's nice to see someone actually put more ram in there system.
2007-09-29 21:56:03 · answer #2 · answered by knox_2004 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How big is your Hard Drive? If your hard drive is more than 75 percent filled up, your programs will take longer to execute. Further, do a disk fragmentation and clean up. 2 Gigs of RAM is really good enough and I am assuming you have a good CPU to match that amount of RAM.
Do these simple tasks first before dropping lots of money on unnecessary hardware.
2007-09-29 21:36:58 · answer #3 · answered by michaelR 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
... you at the instant are not likely to be able to enhance it, basically because of the fact that is outfitted on an historical motherboard. i will assure you that despite the fact that plenty money you spend buying out-of-production aspects that for the duration of good condition will actually build a sparkling equipment which will outperform it incredibly. we are speaking like $4 hundred, perhaps much less. to place it into perspective: you have a single-center processor with 750MHz. industry standards are for twin-center processors each and each with over 2000MHz clock speeds. you have 64MB of RAM. contemporary industry standards are for ~2000MB of RAM, minimum. you have a 30 gigabyte difficult force. the common laptop difficult force is honestly over 100GB in length. you have a CD-ROM force. maximum computers have DVD-ROM common, if no longer great-Multi (DVD burners). you have a video card with 8MB of VRAM. standards for dedicated playing cards are around 512MB in recent times. and finally... modems are no further, somewhat. once you're nonetheless applying this, I congratulate you on your staying power, despite the fact that it is time to go on. If that's actually a working laptop or laptop you contemporary in a nook someplace (and it hasn't had any utilization), i'm afraid that is woefully old.
2016-11-06 20:05:00 · answer #4 · answered by laubersheimer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Radeon 9100 isn't really a gaming card, you don't mention your cpu type but I'd say the card is probably your biggest problem.
2007-09-30 00:14:32 · answer #5 · answered by booboo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wait for the announced reccomended system specifications.
http://www.warhammeronline.com
2007-09-29 21:35:39 · answer #6 · answered by "Steve Jobs" 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
hi!
2007-09-29 21:30:41 · answer #7 · answered by mokles 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋