little advice

[Walter Wolf]

Could you guys recommend me solid graphic for gameplay only

ok i will tell you my computer how is look like dont laugh
Manufacturer: GBT___ Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 2.66GHz Memory: 768MB RAM Hard Drive: 20 GB Video Card: ATI Radeon 9550 / X1050 Series Monitor: SyncMaster 753DF(T)/ 783DF(T), MagicSyncMaster AQ17DF Sound Card: Realtek AC97 Audio Speakers/Headphones: none Keyboard: USB Root Hub Mouse: USB Root Hub Mouse Surface: dont know
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3, v.3282 (2600.xpsp.071227-1539) Motherboard: crap Computer Case: old crap
Dont have money to spend on new hardwares so give me a tip to get in modern computer fashion

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Height of Frustration:
A boxer trying to scratch his balls.

Height of Laziness:
A guy lying on a girl and waiting for an earthquake to do the rest.

[mwerte]

Without your motherboard model I can't even begin to speculate. You should also get some upgraded RAM while you're at it. You don't even have 1gb, most computers these days have 3ish.

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[pipsqueak]

Could you guys recommend me solid graphic for gameplay only

ok i will tell you my computer how is look like dont laugh
Manufacturer: GBT___ Processor: Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.66GHz Memory: 768MB RAM Hard Drive: 20 GB Video Card: ATI Radeon 9550 / X1050 Series Monitor: SyncMaster 753DF(T)/ 783DF(T), MagicSyncMaster AQ17DF Sound Card: Realtek AC97 Audio Speakers/Headphones: none Keyboard: USB Root Hub Mouse: USB Root Hub Mouse Surface: dont know
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3, v.3282 (2600.xpsp.071227-1539) Motherboard: crap Computer Case: old crap
Dont have money to spend on new hardwares so give me a tip to get in modern computer fashion

OK my friend, from what I can decipher from the info given, Here is my advice. If you know someone who knows how to build a computer, go for a next gen system. I am stating that because I am assuming you still have the old IDE/PATA technology with onboard AGP slot only (no PCI-E). ANy more improvement to this PC would be thorwing good money after bad because eventually you will hit a technology deadend (you are very close). Have some one with computer knowledge get you a CPU+BOARD combo with memory (Around $200 bucks)

Look for ads this thanksgiving (hoping you are in US) Look for a Quad core from staples as well I think I saw one CPU box only for $299 for this weekend. That board hopefully will give you a PCI-E slot and newer DDR-2 or DDR-3 RAM. older DDR (which you probably are using) is about twice to three times as more expensive as the new DDR's. Let me know if you have any questions.

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[Mickk]

Could you guys recommend me solid graphic for gameplay only

ok i will tell you my computer how is look like dont laugh
Manufacturer: GBT___
Prcocessor: Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.66GHz
Memory:768MB RAM
Hard Drive: 20 GB
Video Card: ATI Radeon 9550 / X1050 Series
Monitor: SyncMaster 753DF(T)/ 783DF(T), MagicSyncMaster AQ17DF
Sound Card: Realtek AC97
Audio Speakers/Headphones: none
Keyboard: USB Root Hub
Mouse: USB Root Hub
Mouse Surface: dont know
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3, v.3282 (2600.xpsp.071227-1539)
Motherboard: crap
Computer Case: old crap
Dont have money to spend on new hardwares so give me a tip to get in modern computer fashion

Ok, firstly I reformatted your list so we can read it.

Next point, that's not much worse than my rig was, main differences were I was was running a 3 GHz cpu and had 2 gig of ram.

Your *cheapest* upgrade option is to try and bring your ram up to 1 gig, 2 gig would be better.

After that get your hands on a 3ghz CPU of the same type you already have, your 'crap' motherboard should be able to handle it.

Bigger HD. Keep the 20gb hd for your OS and only your OS, put everything else (games programs etc) on the 'new' HD. Get as big as you can afford.

If the monitor still works, keep it.

The ATI video card you have is quite a good one, you *should* be able to run most games at a reasonable speed with it, just don't push the game graphics all the way to the top (that card should run Free Lancer with *everything* on)

Keyboards/Mice are pretty much the same, they just come in different sizes, if the ones you have work, hang on to them.

Computer case.... old crap? A case is a case, I had the same case through more than 4 rebuilds until recently. Do you want to get rid of it because it's old or because it's not doing the job?

What it *really* comes down to is keeping the stuff that still works or is still usable (monitor, keyboard, mouse ect) and upgrading the bits that aren't pulling their weight anymore.

If you are looking to get 'modern', it's going to cost you some dollars to do it.

Note: This is just advice and is the way I would do it if I was in your situation. If you aren't sure you can do the work yourself, take it to a computer technician and get thier advice!
If you choose to take this advice, try do it yourself and screw it up in some fashion, don't blame me.

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[Bsebastian01]

I highly sugest you get some ram.

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[Canadianguy]

This is the kind of place I see that my labtop CPU is POS compared to the rest of what is on it.
Aka, a semi-decent for when it was new GPU and 1gb RAM.

Still, to boost your performances, a good idea would be to upgrade your RAM.
Also, how can you survive with a hardrive that small, I have 60Gb and need to clear it often.

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[mith]

Like one poster mentioned, the most important thing we need is your motherboard. The name is usually printer in fairly large letters on it, so if you could come back to us with this we can best advise where to go. The reason for this is that it was still possible to get motherboards using SDRAM with that processor (one slot for DDR and another for SD on many of the micro boards from that era), and if your computer runs badly I'd possibly suspect you might have one of those.

Processor and graphics should easily run FL and many other games - the graphics card is a cheap one, but FL isn't all that demanding. Also if you're using such a small hard drive, I highly recommend setting a fixed size pagefile and grabbing a program called pagedefrag to ensure that drive seeking isn't causing a problem. If that's a 20Gb drive it's probably going to be a slow spinning drive, which could severely impact your performance.

tl;dr - find out what your motherboard is called and post back.