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Video card for Civ 4?
I have a Dimension 3000 P 4 2.8 Ghz , 512 SDRAM with a Intel Extreme Graphics 2 video card.
I am trying to install Civ 4 but it glitches (video wise) terribly. Do I need to upgrade the video card and if so to what?
Thanks in advance
tigerwolf7
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speedstep
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November 4th, 2005 14:00
If you have a tower the best card for the money is a PNY Geforce FX5500 PCI card.
It wont kill your power supply OR your wallet.
The Dell Part Number for the Video Cards is
NVIDIA VERTO FX5500 PCI 128MB PNY VCGFX55PPB VIDEO GRAPHICS CARD (A0416878)
I have used these cards with XP SP2 and GX1, GX110, 170L, and Dimension Series without issue for SMALL MINI TOWER based systems.
Its available at Best buy, COMP USA, Walmart, etc. Very easy to find card.
http://www.pny.com/products/verto/value/5500pci.asp
http://www.nextag.com/serv/main/buyer/OutPDir.jsp?search=VCGFX55PPB&node=0&x=54&y=9
Works with Farcry, World of Warcraft, Battlefield2, Doom3, HalfLife, etc.
If you install XP SP2 you dont even need to install drivers. It just works.
For Win2000 Install Directx 9.0c Redist and then install the Nvidia 56.72 WHQL drivers.
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matt
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November 8th, 2005 21:00
There is no significant performance benefit from 256 megs of ram on a 5200/5500 series card.
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tigerwolf7
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rocketgirl
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It wont kill your power supply OR your wallet.
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November 10th, 2005 20:00