Re: video card - direct 3d

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From: Chris Catt (cuke(nospam)_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/19/04


Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:54:13 -0000

Hi Foxy, Paul says it all really.....
ChrisC
"Paul Smith" <Paul@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "foxy" <foxy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:97B7D633-09BE-4AE4-96BE-6155B13CA7BB@microsoft.com...
>> Chris when u say a new system.Do you mean a new video card?
>
> Nah he means a new computer!
>
> Personal I think you should consider it, the system is knocking on a good
> 4 years now, and the video card is even older on the technology scale.
>
> First things first though, go to Windows Update (www.windowsupdate.com)
> grab all the updates from there and get that installed.
>
> Then check out somewhere like www.viaarena.com to look for newer video
> drivers. That *may* get things working, but like Chris said if you want
> to play modern games you *need* a new graphics card, and it wouldn't be
> much more to simply get a new system with prices like they are at the
> moment.
>
> --
> Paul Smith,
> Yeovil, UK.
> http://www.dasmirnov.net/
> http://windows.dasmirnov.net/ Windows XP Resource Site.
>
> *Replace nospam with smirnov to reply by e-mail*
>



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