Quote: "the reason for the exisitance of forums is doing questions. you can go to excellent forums like gearslutz or uaudio.com (which deal with audio-production not games) and nobody ever will send you away for asking a question that has to do with an experience that has not yet be made by the individual person. what is the problem with this forum?"
Your correct the purpose of a forum is exactly that Here is the definition for you. I was not knocking you because you asked a question, I simply told you to do some research and then make a purchase.
Quote: "n. pl. fo·rums, also fo·ra (fôr, fr)
The public square or marketplace of an ancient Roman city that was the assembly place for judicial activity and public business.
A public meeting place for open discussion.
A medium of open discussion or voicing of ideas, such as a newspaper or a radio or television program.
A public meeting or presentation involving a discussion usually among experts and often including audience participation.
A court of law; a tribunal."
To run this program flawlessly you will need the following:
1. Source code that has the ability to Evolve (Darwins evolve)
2. any 128MB video card or better.
3. atleast a1 gig of RAM.
4. the ability to read
If you did not get the jokes for 1 and 4 stop now, sell your computer and move in to a distant cave. and stay there.
on a serious note:
There area several things that shoudl enfluence you when deciding on a video card.
1) BUS speed <---refers to how fast the data is transfered from the video card to the processor and back to the video card.
2) On board Video memory <-----remember this runs in bits. for those of you who want to do the math there are 8 bits to a byte.
3) Memory bandwidth <--important factor make sure that it is able to transfer the amount in wich you think you will need. You should never run in to a problem with a video card having to little bandwidth now-a-days.
There are motherboard issues you need to keep in mind.
The most important question is: WILL MY MOTHERBOARD SUPPORT THIS CARD?
You need to find out because not all motherboards will supprt the 512 and alot of them will not support dual 512 cards (both types dual card or dual card single expansion slot)
What type of expansion card do I want? Each one has their up and downs.
what type of chipset do you have? will this chip set support the new video card?
Ask yourself this question: Do I really need this new card?
can you sacrifice the new 512 card for a 256 and maybe a new 1 gig stick of RAM?
There are several ways to up grade your computer. though it is not always just buying the super delux 9gb video replace reality card system <--doesn't exist..sorry all of you who have digital girl friends at the end of the day she is still a .jpeg!
before you buy a card think of all of the different ways to suck performance out of yer machine.
I used an Nvidia geforce fx 5600 256mb agp for about 2 years, I never had a problem with it, the only reason I have a 512mb is because my wife bought it for me as a b-day gift.
I hope this helped you
RF
