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 Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 8:45 pm
๑I bought The Cave on Steam cuz I thought:
WWWHOOOLYSHEIT MONKEY ISLAND MAKERS I GOTTA HAS
I opened the game and BAM! Lagfest. Most of my junk meets the system requirements
..I think. I don't think my graphics card does ? So tell me. Does my computer match
the requirements? If not, what do I need to upgrade? And if I DO need to upgrade,
recommend me stuff to upgrade to. Preferable from the 20-100$ range.
I'm not an avid PC gamer - I only do mmorpgs and Team Fortress. (free games, 'na mean?) Specs: Model: eMachines et1161-07Graphics/Motherboard: nvidia geforce 6150se nforce 430 (integrated) Processor: AMD Athlom(tm) Dual Core Processir 4050e - 2.10GHz RAM Memory - 3 GB DDR2 320GB HDD Capacity Minimum Requirements for The Cave: OS:Windows XP SP3 Processor:1.8 GHz dual core CPU Memory:1 GB RAM Graphics:256 MB GeForce 8800, Radeon 3850, or Intel HD 2000 Graphics DirectX:9.0c Hard Drive:1.5 GB HD space Sound biggrin irectX Compatible Sound Card
TL;DR - I have a budget computer. Help me upgrade it to run this game.Pls halp? :c
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 9:15 pm
My computers fail the graphics card test every ******** time. If you can, are you able to adjust the graphics settings? What windows version do you have? for me to get good graphics in age of empires i have to right click my task bar, go to processes, right click explorer.exe, end the task then alt+tab back into the game, and bam, it's fixed. Try workarounds before expensive upgrades.
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 9:40 pm
๑I don't really want any expensive super HD stuff.
Just a little bump above from what I have.
I run on Vista lol ..SP2
I dunno how to adjust graphic settings though D:
On the game, there's only options for shadows and stuff :<
I've tried making the game run on a lower quality and lower RAM usage,
but that only seemed to make a tiny difference. Hardly any :cEDIT: just tried ending explorer.exe, no luck :c
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:05 pm
kero-chaaan ๑I don't really want any expensive super HD stuff.
Just a little bump above from what I have.
I run on Vista lol ..SP2
I dunno how to adjust graphic settings though D:
On the game, there's only options for shadows and stuff :<
I've tried making the game run on a lower quality and lower RAM usage,
but that only seemed to make a tiny difference. Hardly any :cEDIT: just tried ending explorer.exe, no luck :c Make sure you're only running the game and it's necessary components. No music players, no programs that run in the background, no messengers. sometimes that makes the difference. It's also difficult to upgrade integrated anything, if not impossible. Another thing you can do is go to your control panel, find your device manager, and find your graphics card, right click, and update drivers.
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:16 pm
Rya Dracosin Make sure you're only running the game and it's necessary components. No music players, no programs that run in the background, no messengers. sometimes that makes the difference. It's also difficult to upgrade integrated anything, if not impossible. Another thing you can do is go to your control panel, find your device manager, and find your graphics card, right click, and update drivers.
I know I don't run anything in the background :<
My computer has slots for upgrades though:
(1/1) PCI-E x16
(2/2) PCI-E x1
(0/1) PCI
^according to the newegg information. (Same comp, nothing's changed.)
But even so, would that make a difference? D:
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:32 pm
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:01 pm
๑That works.. just found a 500w power supply. Would that work? Also how do I go about installing this? Just plug and go? lol
EDIT: Also, would I have to get a new motherboard since the one I have has an integrated chip in it? Or will this motherboard work with a plugged-in graphics card?
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:09 pm
kero-chaaan ๑That works.. just found a 500w power supply. Would that work? Also how do I go about installing this? Just plug and go? lol
EDIT: Also, would I have to get a new motherboard since the one I have has an integrated chip in it? Or will this motherboard work with a plugged-in graphics card? Should be plug and play. Usually comes with installation disk, you pop the back/side of the computer off, slide the card into the slot that it will fit in, pop the computer back together, run the installation disk and plug your monitor into the new slot, and it should just work like that. I've done it on my old 4gig computer, it had like... 3 different graphics cards >___>
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:25 pm
Rya Dracosin kero-chaaan ๑That works.. just found a 500w power supply. Would that work? Also how do I go about installing this? Just plug and go? lol
EDIT: Also, would I have to get a new motherboard since the one I have has an integrated chip in it? Or will this motherboard work with a plugged-in graphics card? Should be plug and play. Usually comes with installation disk, you pop the back/side of the computer off, slide the card into the slot that it will fit in, pop the computer back together, run the installation disk and plug your monitor into the new slot, and it should just work like that. I've done it on my old 4gig computer, it had like... 3 different graphics cards >___>
but thank you~! ^ - ^
So that graphics card, 500w power supply.. and the processor it comes with can handle it? x .x
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:31 pm
kero-chaaan Rya Dracosin kero-chaaan ๑That works.. just found a 500w power supply. Would that work? Also how do I go about installing this? Just plug and go? lol
EDIT: Also, would I have to get a new motherboard since the one I have has an integrated chip in it? Or will this motherboard work with a plugged-in graphics card? Should be plug and play. Usually comes with installation disk, you pop the back/side of the computer off, slide the card into the slot that it will fit in, pop the computer back together, run the installation disk and plug your monitor into the new slot, and it should just work like that. I've done it on my old 4gig computer, it had like... 3 different graphics cards >___>
but thank you~! ^ - ^
So that graphics card, 500w power supply.. and the processor it comes with can handle it? x .xIt should. If not, you've got a nice little upgrade anyway, and other games you play could run better, also. But that's the minimum recommended graphics card, so it should.
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:32 pm
I can also help you down the road if you need more help. :>
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 12:04 am
Rya Dracosin I can also help you down the road if you need more help. :>
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 3:04 pm
Easy, your graphics card is worse then the minimum requirement.
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 9:19 pm
The Almighty Ali Easy, your graphics card is worse then the minimum requirement. My graphics card is worse than the minimum requirement for many of the PC games I play... Yet I can still play them XD
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