Can my graphics card play combat arms.?

Question

i just purchased a Geforce 6400 gs graphics card from best buy today. and i also just purchased a gig of ram. i went to www.canyourunit.com
and it said i failed. and this is the results.


CPU
Recommended: Pentium 4
You Have: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz PASS
CPU Speed
Recommended: 2.4 GHz
You Have: 1.99 GHz FAIL: Sorry, your CPU Speed does not meet this recommended requirement. If you really want to make this product fly, click the 'We Recommend' button to check out some great computers.
System RAM
Recommended: 512 MB
You Have: 1.2 GB PASS
Operating System
Recommended: Windows XP or Better
You Have: Microsoft Windows XP Professional (Build Service Pack 22600) PASS
Video Card
Recommended: GeForce FX 5600 or better
You Have: Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller (GeForce 8400 GS) FAIL: Sorry, your video card does not meet this recommended requirement. Upgrading to a more powerful video card will make all your applications look better. Click the 'We Recommend' button to see some great options.
Video Card Features - Minimum attributes of your Video Card Video RAM: Required - 64 MB , You have - 512 MB
Video HW Rasterization: Required - Yes , You have - Yes
Video HW Transform & Lighting: Required - Yes , You have - No
Vertex Shader Ver.: Required - 2.0 , You have - 0.0
Pixel Shader Ver.: Required - 2.0 , You have - 0.0


Video Card Driver Version (DirectX)
Your driver version number is: 6.14.10.3943 Sound Card
Recommended: Yes
You Have: Realtek AC97 Audio PASS
Sound Card Driver Version
Your driver version number is: 0.0 Free Disk Space
Recommended: 2 GB
You Have: 437.2 GB PASS

as you see my graphics card did pass. it needs some more things..
so i was wondering what good graphics card i would need to play.

I have a PCI bus.
i would like to buy at local store. $100 bucks around.

thanks

Answer 1

Hmm, yes, it looks like you'll be needing a new Graphics Card.

You can go to the maximum and buy a Gaming card, but depending on how much gaming you do, that might not be nessecary.

Based on your current specs, the Game, and your budget, I think the ATI Radeon X1300 available at http://lopurl.us/savfhp could be useful for you. Amazon quotes $99 so its the price you wanted.



Also, your processor looks slightly dodgy. I myself managed to fry an Intel Pentium 4 while gaming, downloading, and listening to music on Vista Ultimate. Theres no harm in trying it out, but if you are going to be gaming a lot, especially if you upgrade to Vista or 7, you will probably need a new processor. I won't link you off to one now because by the time youu need one they may have changed etc.



Unfortunately, I can't tell you about deals from a local store as I myself live in the United Kingdom.



Hope you find my answer useful :)



EDIT: Just to let you know, when googling, I found that your graphics card probably won't be successful with Combat arms. It seems that some people have got it to work, sometimes by tweaking settings, but it may be easier to buy a new one.

Answer 2

Well Adam, you said you wanted to buy at a local store but I think If possible you should try buying at an online comp.hardware site.



Only reason being that you can get same cards online maybe a little cheaper and online sites have way more choices/options but yeah you would have to wait for it to arrive at your house.



If you can't buy a video card online for whatever reason then I would recommend trying to find one the 9600GT's not sure on the ATI cards as I have an nividia geforce series card but they do have one that's same as 9600GT I think maybe ATI radeon HD 4670 or 3870's??



I myself recently a few months ago bought a Nvidia Geforce 9600GT video card from Newegg.com. It is a very good card that can run all the latest games pretty good.



The cool thing is though that I bought it at the same exact price that you are looking to spend around ~$100 online at newegg.



Here's what I bought: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133239

Answer 3

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