Technical Question

[Diablo]

Hi guys,

I'm brand new to Pc gaming and need some assistance in getting pirates! to work on my cpu.

After buying Pirates a couple of weeks ago I've been having problems with the game freezing (not actually crashing) or the intergrated graphics controller has simply stopped working and i;'ve got a weird looking windows screen with only a few colours (the resolution is out too).

i have a DELL dimension 2400. I've got an intel pentium4 2.66 GHz with 512 Mb of RAM. My graphics card is an INTEL 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV (whatever that means). I've been reading on this site that there has been some problems with integrated intel graphics chips when it comes to running the game and when i use Windows XP game analyser i am told that i need to upgrade my graphics card in order for the game ot run. The problem is i don't know what i need or how i go about reconfiguring my computer so it uses the new card rather than the inbuilt one.

if anybody has any suggestions as to what make of card to consider buying (i don't want to spend a fortune on it as i can cope without the game but i've got about £100 to spend) and whether it'll work easily in my computer then that would be great. I've got a spare PCI slot so that shouldn't be a problem

Cheers

 

[skull]

Ye should also have a AGP slot fer AGP Video Card mate,GeoForce cards werk well fer me play'n SMP,GF3 an GF4 Titanium,GF5700 as well
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[Diablo]

Cheers skull,

i found this one on a website. Its a GeForce 4 Ti4200 128MB AGP and its £45

Description

Powered by nVidiaR GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP 8X GPU

Industry's only `top-to`-bottom family of GPUs and core logic products

Robust products deliver increased graphics performance

AGP 8X - watershed event for PC Industry

Lightspeed Memory Architectureâ„¢ (LMA) II Technology

NVIDIA® nfiniteFX™ II Engine

128MB `128-bit` DDR Frame Buffer Memory supported

Dual Programmable Vertex Shaders Engine

nViewâ„¢ Display Technology, provides unprecedented flexibility and control for using multiple displays

Dual 350MHz RAMDACs with crisp and clear image quality at 2048x1536 resolution at 75Hz refresh

Optional `TV-Output` support 1024x768 / 800 x 600 resolution

Accuview Antialiasingâ„¢ delivers unprecedented AA performance and quality to the mainstream market and enables high resolution, high frame rate, `full-scene` antialiasing for the first time ever in this market segment

AGP 2X / 4X / 8X support with AGP Texturing and Fast Writes

Fully accelerates Windows® XP multimedia and user interfaces, making it the ideal Windows® XP graphics solution

Guarantees forward and backward compatibility with nVIDIA® Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)

Microsoft® DirectX® 8.X Optimizations and support

Complete OpenGLR 1.3 and OpenGLR support


Do you think this will a) run the game B) be able to be integrated into my PC? also, how do i check to make sure I've got an AGP slot (I really am unbelievably new to all this!)