Playing with 1 Gb RAM

[Jack ONeill]

Mine says "Let the application decide" rather "use application settings", but yes, that is checked.

Jack

[ADukes]

Oh just saw that it is the same 9250 card than before only with 256MB.

Then I have bad news for you: The 9250 is a DirectX 8.1 card, but the engine requires a DirectX 9 compatible card.

[Jack ONeill]

Actually that is good news because now I know what to do. There are other ATI cards that will work w/ my machine. It is easy to check if they will run the newer DirectX versions. Back to Dell then Ebay.

Time to rock and roll! Thanks.

Jack B)

[ADukes]

Compatible cards should be:
Radeon 9550 (256MB)
Radeon 9600 XT (256MB)
Radeon 9800 Pro (256MB)
Radeon 9800 XT (256MB)

[Jack ONeill]

Roger that. Thanks for the info. As an aside, just came off the Dell website - the ad for the ATI 9250 say it supports DirectX 9.0. Interesting.

Jack

[Jack ONeill]

Well, that was to good to be true. Adukes, unfortunately, all those cards are AGP slot types. I need a PCI interface card. Ah, the search is on.

Jack B)

[ADukes]

Ouch. I'm not sure but there should be a PCI version of the GeForce FX 5200.

[Marching Thru Georgia]

The world is your oyster! Virtually all cards made today are for PCI slots. You will need to determine whether you have a PCI, PCI-e or PCI-e 2.0 slot. By the way, your card is DX9 compatible. It just doesn't take advantage of all DX9 features. You might try downloading a DX9 driver for it and try the game out before buying a new card. Just make sure you have the old driver handy in case something goes wrong.

[Jack ONeill]

Gentlemen,

Thank you for all your information.

Adukes - Yes there are g-force cards available. I was told long ago to steer clear of them as they didn't do well with the TC series. Would they be ok with SOWGB?

Georgia - You are correct. My comps use the old style PCI slots. Checked the box and the card is as you say, DirectX 9 compatable. Supposedly I have directx 10 installed but will try a different download to see if it makes a difference.

Tallyho!

Jack B)

[ADukes]

The 9250 is not 100% DirectX 9 compliant, because of the limited V1.4 pixel and vertex shaders. That's probably the reason why the game doesn't work.

BTW, DirectX 10 doesn't support XP.