Vista - Waheyyyyy!

Okie cokie people. I have this computer. Now i go to play games on it for Vista computers and it decides that it wants the game to be stop starty with the graffics, like on Moto GP 07 it accelerates in blocks and turns in blocks. Now i was speakin to Luckypants couple of weeks ago, and he said that it looks like my graphics are run off my RAM or summit like that...

1. Do i need to get a decent graffics card to play it?
2. What type will i be looking for, for my system?
3. What prices am i looking at?
4. Anyone got one?

Thanks in advance

Oh yeah, no posts saying buy a new comp

Hmmm. Those graphics processors arnt upto much and having to share main RAM means its basically made to run windows not a modern game. Ontop of that vista is crap and will be using most of the system RAM. If you have any less than 2GB of RAM then Id imagine it will be struggling to run windows?

Well its going to be hard to upgrade. I cant figure out if it has AGP or PCI-e graphics bus interface. If you really dont want to do that then ill tell you what youll need to upgrade this. The only problem is that on the link you have provided it doesnt say what motherboard it is... just a chipset which is actually refering to the built in graphics card (which you are correct about, uses the computers RAM.) I also dont have any idea what your Power Supply Unit (PSU) is, which is a concern as graphics cards can eat a PSU if it isnt good enough. Id need to know if it has a PCI-e 6pin connector and what Power output it has.

An upgrade might cost as much as £150 for a decent GFX card and PSU. So not much really.

It might be worth saving up and making yourself a new system. I can help you with picking out what to buy, dead simple to put together as well so you should be ok. I know you said not to say it...

Sorry I cant be any more help, I need you to look inside at what the:-
1 - Motherboard is (make and model)
2 - What the PSU is.

[Bluepete]

You could try using a USB dongle to increse the RAM. I have a Crucial 2GB dongle which Vista uses as system RAM. Seems to work and is a very cheap, first place to start. Make sure the data transfer rate is high enough if you do buy one though.

Pete

Originally Posted by BluePete

You could try using a USB dongle to increse the RAM. I have a Crucial 2GB dongle which Vista uses as system RAM. Seems to work and is a very cheap, first place to start. Make sure the data transfer rate is high enough if you do buy one though.

Pete

Hmmm. Sounds good enough for windows but with a small transfer rate it might not really help with games tbh. Worth a try saying that.

Originally Posted by BluePete

You could try using a USB dongle to increse the RAM. I have a Crucial 2GB dongle which Vista uses as system RAM. Seems to work and is a very cheap, first place to start. Make sure the data transfer rate is high enough if you do buy one though.

Pete

I can honestly say I'm speechless!!! Never expected this of you mate! You are joining the geek club now you know

Hi mate,

• 2 memory - DIMM 240-pin
• 1 ( 1 ) x PCI
• 1 ( 0 ) x processor
• 1 ( 1 ) x PCI Express x16

Looking at the specs you need to get yourself a PCI Express Graphics Card. You should be able to pick up a decent one for about a 1'er.

However, this machine probably has some sort of warranty security sticker. Start fiddling around inside and your warranty goes out of the window...

Vista is also well known for eating RAM for breakfast and 1GB of Ram is nowhere near enough. You need at least 2GB to run Vista smoothly and to run games as well.

HTH

Gordon

Originally Posted by Jamaxx

Hi mate,

• 2 memory - DIMM 240-pin
• 1 ( 1 ) x PCI
• 1 ( 0 ) x processor
• 1 ( 1 ) x PCI Express x16

Looking at the specs you need to get yourself a PCI Express Graphics Card. You should be able to pick up a decent one for about a 1'er.

However, this machine probably has some sort of warranty security sticker. Start fiddling around inside and your warranty goes out of the window...

Vista is also well known for eating RAM for breakfast and 1GB of Ram is nowhere near enough. You need at least 2GB to run Vista smoothly and to run games as well.

HTH

Gordon

Ahh I missed the PCI-e thing... lol

Originally Posted by BluePete

You could try using a USB dongle to increse the RAM. I have a Crucial 2GB dongle which Vista uses as system RAM. Seems to work and is a very cheap, first place to start. Make sure the data transfer rate is high enough if you do buy one though.

Pete

The figure you are looking for is 150 (somethings or other) I got a SD card one the other day but alas my vista did not like it because the SD reader on my laptop can not do 150 (somethings or other)

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by BluePete

You could try using a USB dongle to increse the RAM. I have a Crucial 2GB dongle which Vista uses as system RAM. Seems to work and is a very cheap, first place to start. Make sure the data transfer rate is high enough if you do buy one though.

Pete

Wrong, completely wrong.

It does not use it as sytem RAM.

It uses it to cache files off of your Hard Disk and is used because reading and writing from flash is faster than from your Hard Disk.

USB drives are too slow for main RAM useage.

Also they would be knackered in months with that many reads and writes, as the flash memory used in usb drives is only good for a couple of hundred thousand writes per sector - more than enough for use as a file storage medium, usless for memory.