Originally posted by zoohio@Oct 23 2005, 10:21 PM
Before installing the hardware, you should know the power supply for your pc. This info can be found in the manual pertaining to your pc or online.
Then I did the research from there regarding the video cards. Every video card made uses a certain amount of power to run them, so make sure that the purchase is the correct one to correspond with your power supply.
haha, funny you should mention power supplies. I FOUGHT with HP to get them to upgrade my power supply because it wasn't good enough for my standard system, and finally got them to get me a 350 watt.(the system was supplied with a 200watt which caused severe problems. but that's another story. let just say my next won't be a HP) The 1 GIG RAM I bought drained my "computer spending money" resources so a new power supply OR a new Graphics card is out of the question.
Besides, for what this thing is running, 250 should be plenty. ZT2 is about the largest thing I operate on here and never while running something else. I will have to check my graphics card settings though. It's an Nvidia as well, but I'm not sure right now what kind.
Funny though, I noticed, new games don't have the problem of being slow...but scenarios, saved games and tutorials do. Also, reinstalling didn't help.
Wildlife Enthusiast: Thanks for the suggestion. I hadn't thought of that and may give that a try as well.
EDIT#2: Checked the power settings, and it's already at "always on"
I've come to figure it's my computer, not the game. But I just don't have the resources to upgrade a system that's less than 2 years old, on a college students budget. Especially not for just a game. It does everything else I want, so I may just have to deal with the sloweness or not play the ES until I can afford a system upgrade.
Thanks for all the help everyone, esp. your zoohio. I appreciate it.
EDIT: Zoohio, 'nother question. When I check my device manager, under the "display adaptors tab" it says: "NVIDIA GeForce4 MX Integrated GPU"
Is THAT my graphics card? And since it's integrated, I can't upgrade w/out upgrading the whole motherboard, if I remember correctly. Is that right? :><