Worried about my Graphics...


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Thank you all. Now for specific graphic card it is a....NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE Graphics.
Its what came with the comp.
Im gonna try to tweak advanced a little bit now, again thanks all!

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Oh Kheldarn By the way what exactly is tweakCoH?
Is it just an easier way to manage graphics? Or does it give different options altogether?
I'm sorry, but you can't expect much using intergrated graphics. If you can afford it, try to get at least a 9600. They have become rather cheap lately. (At least where I live.)


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Originally Posted by Shadowclone View Post
Thank you all. Now for specific graphic card it is a....NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE Graphics.
Its what came with the comp.
That is an "integrated" graphics chip, which was low-end even 4 years ago. It's so old that comparing it to modern cards is difficult, but to pull one number out that I can find over a wide range, texture fill rate, it's rated at 850 MT/s. The 1,000 GFLOP-class cards that seem to be the low baseline for Ultra Mode are rated around 25,000 MT/S. Your graphics are around 30 times slower than the baseline, in other words. Additionally, it's highly likely that support for at least OpenGL 3.0 will be required, and your card doesn't support that. I would estimate that there is a very high chance that you will not even be able to turn Ultra Mode on for a screenshot, and that even if you can you are going to get frame rates in the very low single digits just standing there.

This thread in the Tech forum has some more detailed info; I suggest reading it.

In your case, not only are you going to need / want a new graphics card, but there's a serious question as to what your system can take. Particularly, what sort of graphics card slot it has, and how much power your power supply can provide at +12v. There's a substantial chance your system is not even capable of upgrading to the newest or most powerful cards; it may be more effective to look at a new computer than swapping out parts.

You may want to make a post in the Tech forum with info on what you have now, and what your budget is (or continue this thread with the info).


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