AHII is already costing me money..

[muckmaw]

Well, I started the upgrade today, and I thought I would share a short conversation I had with Skuzzy.

The new graphics on AHII are going to require a little more horsepower is you plan on enjoying them.

Apparently, if you want to see explosions, and tracers and many effects with the maximum realism, your going to need a higher end system.

Otherwise, you'll still run AHII but with the older or less realistic graphics. Now, if this is old news to you, please excuse me.

I am simply posting this for those who may not already be aware, like I was.

Anyway, I'm going up to 512 megs of RAM, and the GEforce II card is going to be replaced with one of 2 Skuzzy recommended. (I wrote it down somewhere, but can't find it now.) One was something like an ATI 4200 pro, or something.

[Creamo]

Now there is a man with a solid plan.

[hyena426]

One was something like an ATI 4200 pro, or something.

umm  think skuzzy was talking about the geforce 4 TI 4200?<~~really cheap right now,,and fast,, think the ati cards of choice right now are,,ati radon 9700 and 9800 i beleve,,but i hear ati cards have shutter problem's,but i dont know anyone who owns one,,so it could be hear say


im thinking of upgrading too the geforce 4 my self,,or that new geforce that just came out,,i guess its pretty dang good,,but spendy,,talking about 300 bones usa i guess,,geforce 4 ti 4200 is about 100 bucks right now

[wetrat]

hyena; do NOT buy a geforce FX. Waste of money. The radeon 97 or 9800 would be a better choice if you're going to that level. The geforce4's are still ok.

[Wilbus]

Using an ATI 9700 and never had any stutter problems with it. Love it to death actually.

Good alternative to 9700 and 9800 is 9600 or 9500 aswell, ATI has got several cards, budget and non budget right in the top at the moment.

[F4i]

just my 2 cents...I have an ATI Radeon 9700 (128mb); been very happy with it.

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I've been wondering if I'm going to have to upgrade my system RAM from 256megs to 512 megs.  (system is a P4, 2.4 Gig)  



F4i

[nopoop]

Ram is cheap. I'll have to deeps six the GeForce dinosaur in my toybox. Prolly go with radeon card.

[ChuBBs]

well it wont cost me much  cuz i already got a gig and A radeon 8500  but i am getting in about a month hopefully a  9800 with the 256 mbram. I cant wait to get that  

[hyena426]

ya,,i never tried a ati card,,they use to have such a  bad rap,,now i heard geforce gots a new super card out 256mb,,is it worth the money? as for the shutter proublem,,i just heard that from a few aces high players online,,,but i have heard the radon was a cookin hot card compared to the geforce 4 ti,,,but the ti is cheap as hell right now,,with 128mb ddr,,im sure there all a big step up from the geforce 2 im using now,,lol

[Mister Fork]

Yeah, got an Ati 9700 pro. Hasn't been without it's pains though.

Glad to see people like muckmaw are thinking finally about upgrading their 486DX40's with 16Mb of memory...

[Twist]

HTC teamed up with a PC store and worked up a deal on a killer system tweaked and tuned to play AH2, would you buy it?

I've had my system 2 years now and it has served me well, but due to the large number of posts I've read concerning the PC hardware necessary to fully enjoy AH2 and given the fact my vid card won't handle Warcraft III Reign of Chaos, it's time for something new.

I wonder if HTC will put up a list of recommended hardware? Or have they already done so and I missed it?

I've been holding out to see if this 64 bit processor from AMD would ignite the gaming world and produce a whole new generation of hardware and software. Would be such a waste to buy 32 bit stuff and have to upgrade 6 months later.

Either way, in the end, I'll probably drop a months overtime on a box and new components. Yes, partly to enjoy AH2 but mostly cuz I JUST WANT ONE

[AcId]

I have GF4 Ti 4200
Bought Homeworld2 and been playing it over the weekend on highest visual settings with no slow downs.
The rest of the system is:
PentiumŪ 4 Processor 2.66 GHz - 533 MHz FSB
8X AGP
512 MB DDR (333 MHz) Synch Dram memory, (upgradable to 4 GB w/PC2100 DDR Memory only)
Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit ethernet
40 GB 7200 rpm SMART Ultra ATA/100

All this for Free.....gawd I like working at HP

[Westy]

New Abit MB that let's me reuse my old PC133 memory as well as the vid and graphics cards? $75.00

New retail Antec case, AMD 2400+ CPU w/heatsink,fan and free shipping? $185.

Being able to finally play all the games that until now I could only look at screenshots of? Priceless!

[muckmaw]

I found the paper!

Skuzzy said, because I have a 1.9 gig machine, and would not benefit from more powerful cards, I should get either:

Nvidia TI4200 or above (Does this mean 4201?)

or

ATI 9600 Pro.

Thoughts? Comments?

Hard to install? Someone said something about discharging myself. Last time I did that, I went through a box of Kleenex.

[Twist]

Heh...box of Kleenex

I bought the 9500 a few months back and my framerates were ok here and that 'other' sim. Can't play Warcraft III though, Blizzard is promising a patch soon to fix this.

I had my sights set on a ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128 MB Graphics Card hoping I could avoid upgrades for a while. 300 bucks but the reviews on it say its worth it. If the 9600 comes close with half the ram I may reconsider.

A close friend is trying to steer me to an Nvidia board.

So hard to decide.....