ok well i got my younger brother a beginners computer.. well beginners to me here are the specs COMPAQ Evo P4 1.7GHz 512MB now its got some vanta video card it in. my younger bro (hes 11) is a SIMS 2 FANATIC lol he loves it and has all the expansion packs and all that stuff. well i went ahead and installed his games (after installing xp pr0) they are SOOOOOOOOOO SLOW when you try to play them. they take forever to load and when u do get to play the game trying to move the camera around and all that stuff is like a snail. my question is what is a good video card that will run the sims 2 fast and efficentally without these slow downs. any help would be much appreciated!
Eugene, it looks like he is using a nivida 32meg or maybe a 64 meg card whether pci or agp i don't know. intheb0x, what is the model # of that evo to see what the specs are so can tell you what card might work on it as long as it is not a laptop. the card for a desktop will either be a pci or agp but not a pci/e card.
sorry guys im all unsure of this pci stuff im pretty sure its a compaq evo d500 i went through the site and looked and i couldnt find the specific one but that pretty much looks like it. also the card in there now is a nvidia vanta or vanta lt
ok well i looked up the difference in between them and im pretty sure its agp the slot if brown and its farther back on the board unlike the white slots. so now since we got that accomplished whats the best card i can get for this? thanks!
ok so i figured out this is a 4x agp card so i have to find other 4x agp cards to buy. i was looking at whatever is a good price. any ideas would be appreciated.
well i was looking so i can use a graphics card thats 4x/8x right? i was checking out this one here a good price to. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102484 any other thoughts on what to use? it will be mainly used for sims 2 but other games i sure he will want
You need to be careful with AGP 4x, because there were different voltages. Did the games run OK before? You make it sound like they did before putting XP on, in which case it just sounds like it needs more memory.
Hey guys, what do you think about 32mb nVidia GeForce 440 MX ? With this GPU I beat all of COD, and it can even play NFS:U pretty smooth.
Heyyyy, I had an MX440! 64MB, but mine was PCI, so even slower! I only ever really played Worms Armageddon and Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 on that, so I didn't have many performance problems!
ummmmmmmm i dunno what your talking about really. i jsut need to know whats the best video card. i just got this comp for a gift to someone and they want it for games. it came with no OS but a xp pro coa on it so i installed xp pro on ehre and everything is fine. i installed the sims 2 with ALL the current expansion packs so it runs slow using the crap nvidia vanta card. what do you mean by different voltages? the card in ehre now is a agp 4x
There were different versions of AGP 4x depending on how old it is, if you get the one with the wrong voltage, it'll toast the card.
this is from ati but should apply to other card manufacturers. AGP 3.3V Graphics Card Universal AGP Graphics Card AGP 3.0 Graphics Card (1.5V, 0.8V) http://support.ati.com/ics/support/KBAnswer.asp?questionID=18872
