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Originally Posted by emosun
Yea they will work. I guess you can try it , but its really a cheap unit. If the machine starts to crash or has bad artifacts in games , then change it.
Also you might want to add more ram. 384mb of ram is pretty low. We normally recommend 512 as the minimum for xp to run smoothly. And if your planning on gaming its definitly not enough. Luckly ram is a cheap thing.
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Okay, good to know I can try it and I can watch for glitches.
I totally intend to add RAM. This will handle 2Gigs and I will work on buying that as soon as some bigger challenges get resolved. The operating system on that computer is very very messed up and I am getting some help with that. I am probably going to do a clean XP Home install on that computer. First I am trying to get SP1 and SP3 installed on it to see how much that helps.
But I am not a serious gamer. I bought that 512Mb video card and a power supply to support it because with my past machines I found that once the RAM was up the max the mobo would support, getting a better video card was the least expensive upgrade that gave a LOT of noticeable improvement in performance.
I do run some circa 2001 helicopter simulations games - Commanche 4, Air Assault, and Commanche Gold. But mostly because I love to fly. Being that old, those programs are not terribly demanding on a computer.
Before those I flew and flew and flew in MS flight simulator - every version from the very first in 1981 or 82 (which was not Microsofts yet and was a black and white screen with the entire world nothing more than a square grid of mesh lines) - from that version all the way to FlightSim2002. At one point I could do instrument-only flights and runway approaches such as to San Francisco with clouds and low fog and go visual only after descending to about 200 feet.
Then I got into helicopters which are a lot more fun to fly. And I admit I enjoy some combat with them too because that forces me to work harder with my flying skills and it is a good challenge for my brain too. But I usually use the infinite ammo cheat and often I use the God cheat too. Some gamer huh?
The other Game-like thing I enjoy a LOT is orbitersim - which is a true-to-life simulation of space flight. There are no enemies or battles, just the challenges of launching into the desired orbit, docking with another thip or the ISS or going to the moon and landing. Things like that. I love orbital mechanics, the conceptual and mathematics of it and also the simulation that allows me to apply what I know. Orbitersim is free and many users have created fancy add-ons because there is a free SDK kit for that. So there are all kinds of space ships from replicas of the original moon landers and Gemini missions, the ISS, the space shuttle, cargo bays, manned space-walk units....
That program does not install anything into the registry and is not very demanding on video cards, though direct X 7 or 8 is needed. It's very well written - by a physicist named Martin Schweiger.
...anyway...
lunchtime!