Chewi vs The Sickness (my graphics card)

[chewi]

So I just received Deus Ex 2 - Invisible War through my letter box after having bought it on eBay for the ultra bargainous £2.50 including postage. I almost felt sorry for the seller. Unfortunately I won't be able to play it for a little while yet. It is generally known to not run on Linux but that isn't the problem. Even on Windows, it wouldn't

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[aerothorn]

If it makes you feel better, while the GeForce 3 ain't exactly a top-of-the-line card, Invisible War (and it's half-brother Thief: Deadly Shadows) is a poorly programmed game - it is a huge system hog and runs much worse than much better looking games. I remember my old GeForce 4 Ti (what I had when it came out) ran Far Cry at high resolutions with Anti-aliasing fine, but Invisble War churned like better. So I upgraded to a Radeon 9600 Pro and invisble War...still churned like butter.

I replayed it on my new machine and it ran fine, but considering that pretty much all my machine's components weren't even availible when Invisible War came out it had damn well better.

Planescape: Torment will run fine! Weee!

[chewi]

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. There's a small chance that I'll be getting a new machine in the next few months so hopefully it'll be up to the task. It'll probably be another laptop but I'm going to make damn sure that the graphics card is a good one.

[aerothorn]

Decent graphics card are relatively cheap ATM, I think, especially with the graphics-hardcore folks waiting around for Direct-X 10 graphics cards. http://www.bensbargains.net/ is a good place to look at deals on computer tech - dunno how often they have graphics cards. www.newegg.com usually has good prices, or could use pricegrabber.com.

I was gonna recommend the Geforce 6800 (which was an upper-mid-range card back when I got this and should be relatively cheap now, though it is fully capable of handling today's games and should be good for a bit and is a bazillion times better then the Geforce 3), but seems like Newegg, at least, has only 2 questionable versions of it.

[aerothorn]

http://www.bensbargains.net/deal/4741/ Dunno what your price range is, but I think for $169 (after happy rebates and coupons) that's a pretty good deal and that card should last you for quite some time - some people think it's not SLI-capable but I can't imagine you'd care about that.

That said, pretty much all modern cards are PCI-Express - so if you have an old motherboard you won't be able to use them. And for laptops, these things are too big to fit in most of them, I think.