won't support zbuffering!

[scott123]

My card won't support zbuffering

I currently have a intel R 82845G vid card.

How do I upgrade and to what?

Can't survive without AH!.....Actually I don't survive very long in aces high at the moment..LOL.

[bockko]

1st, do you have a video card, or is it built into the motherboard?
if you have a video card, you need to figure out if it is in a pci or agp slot; agp slots are brown and a different size than the pci slots. You can tell what you have by looking where your card plugs in; if it plugs in on the same plane as the keyboard and mouse, its built in.

[scott123]

Thanks bockko.I don't appear to have a plug in type card,so it must be internal:confused:

[Orig]

There are about a dozen threads in the BBS in various HTC forums about upgrading the video card.  I suggest reading some of them since your question has been answered in great detail a few times already.  Nobody has made a sticky "my integrated video card sucks help!" thread but the other threads are all within the last week or so and should be easy to find.

[Skuzzy]

The Intel graphics chip is not going to work for Aces High II.  It is a very low end chip with limited capabilites.

[koda76]

I have the same thing....(must be a dell thing)I did order a Geforce 5700 will I run into any issues installing the new Geforce card?

[scott123]

I have upgraded to a G Force  FX 200,with 128MB RAM and aces high 2 works fine now,thanks to everyone,for the support.

Installing the new card presented no problems,just followed the instructions that came with the card. thx again.

[frank3]

Lucky bastard

[koda76]

well i can answer my own question now......the Dell 2400's don't have an apg slot.........so I am in the process of building a new computer to replace one thats 6 months old................

[Sundowner]

quote:
"well i can answer my own question now......the Dell 2400's don't have an apg slot.........so I am in the process of building a new computer to replace one thats 6 months old................"

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No need to build a new computer.
Get a PCI graphics card.
I run a GF4 PCI card and works fine for AH2.

Sun

[koda76]

too late....
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I then added a Pentium 4  2.4 ghz processer and a fan
a 80 gig harddrive
a GEForce 5200 video card

[Happy1]

WOW!!  koda76    build me 1,  $99:00, I'll gladly pay $200:00
for the finished product, when it comes to computer building I'm
all thumbs     Congrats on ur latest venture  

Happy1  

[koda76]

I will have $550 in it with all of the other stuff needed, but it will at least be good for another 6 months ......

[Dingbat]

koda76

you probably could have just upgraded the MB and kept the rest of the dinky dell together

If it fit the ATX standard then you wouldn't have a problem.  Dell in most cases follow the ATX standard.

[koda76]

You know thats the story of my life....I want the biggest baddest, but just can't seem to afford it, so I end up going somewhere in the middle. My very first computer didn't even have a hard drive, My second one had an 80meg hard drive then I found out it wouldn't support half of the products out there. I have the worst luck when it comes to this. So for $99 I have something I can at least tweak. The Dell will be remanded to e-mail and surfing. and I have found over the years (intregreted anything is usually a POS).....Koda