Building/Upgrading a PC for TS2
jsalemi:
There have been very few problems with the ATI Radeon cards, and you can easily find cards in the X1xxx series for under your price. If memory serves, the X19xxx series is the recommended top-end one, but I've had very good results with my third-party (VisionTek) Radeon X1300.
jolrei:
Quote from: jsalemi on 2007 October 15, 13:07:47
There have been very few problems with the ATI Radeon cards, and you can easily find cards in the X1xxx series for under your price. If memory serves, the X19xxx series is the recommended top-end one, but I've had very good results with my third-party (VisionTek) Radeon X1300.
I would second the support for the ATI Radeon cards. My current mobo is an ASUS thing with a built in ATI card running on an X300 chipset and it runs BV fine. Not that I suggest slumming it with a low-end card, but there are certainly less reported game-related issues with the ATI cards, as compared with the NVidia cards.
lemonfresh:
Posting here because I'm fairly certain my problem is a need to upgrade hardware...
I've got all EPs and SPs. I've purged SecuRom from my system and am running the game with YASU and a no-cd.exe. (Just say "Do Not Want!" to the patch.)
Until BV I've had no issues running the game with 3500+ AMD Athlon 64, 1GB Ram and an ATI Radeon Xpress 200... yes, even Seasons ran decently. Probably because I always play with lighting on low and shadows off.
After installing BV, the only way I can get any sort of play time is by removing all CC (except hacks) and playing small lots with minimal anything on them. With CC I still have to do all that, except that as soon as night rolls around, I get the blue-screen lag and lock. The only thing I can do by then is kill the game and start it again. I'm assuming I need more RAM and a better video card. If this isn't the case, I'd be happy to know what's going on. I keep track of my hacks and make sure they're up to date, so I very much doubt this is the issue.
My question is, due to hardware stupidity and non-awesomeness, which should be my priority? RAM or a new graphics card? I can't sink cash into both at this time, one is going to have to wait a few months. If I should go for a new graphics card first, can someone make a few recommendations? The graphics I have now are integrated/motherboard, PCI-express and I have no clue what I can and can't replace it with or if it even makes a difference. I'd prefer to be able to slap the new card in and not have to fiddle with a bunch of stuff to make it compatible (wouldn't we all) but I'll do what I must.
Raene:
Definitely the video card. All EPs and SPs with just onboard video? XD Wow. You'll probably want to look for one of ATI Radeon X1XXX type cards. I personally have a Sapphire Radeon X1650 Pro.
moonsgal:
lemonfresh, if you want to play with all of your cc and decrease loading times, upgrading your memory to 2gb will help significantly improve performance. Upgrading graphics will give better appearances and the demands in graphics from the seasons and bv eps, though onboard graphics would certainly take its toll so maybe it should be a first priority. So the choice is really what you feel is most most important.
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