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Well recently I decided i'm tired of slow frame rates and horrible graphics, so I have decided to upgrade my computer. I'm a lost cause when it comes to knowing the 'inside' of a computer. Is anyone able to recomend good graphics cards to run FS2K4? My current system specs are as follows, however the RAM will probally go up, as will the hard drive space.

Windows 98 2nd Edition
AMD Athlon
112.00 mbs of RAM
7gb free, 22gb used

My current graphics card is:
SiS 630/730
Chip: 730 Rev 31
16 mb memory

any help is greatly appreciated!!  :)

You didn't mention the processor speed, but from the specs you did give, sounds like a fairly old machine in computer age!!

I would suggest not even bothering with upgrading that machine and instead saving for a new one. You will be much better off and happier IMHO.

With that comp., you aren't going to be able to upgrade enough to handle todays games. Sorry.

Well the computer was upgraded to 1 ghz of speed, im' not sure what it's currently running at though.

Your SIS graphics are onboard stuff, are you sure you even have an AGP slot?

You actually have 128mb of RAM and 16mb of it is shared (alloted) to your onboard video chip.

Many older boards do not have an AGP graphics slot on the mainboard for an addon graphics card.

Half of your current RAM is running Windows and the rest is struggling to run your applications/ games.


If you don't have an AGP slot you have two choices.....

Get some more Ram if you can find something compatible (up to 768mb perhaps, some say 512 max for win '9x), then go into your BIOS and set the shared video ram as high as it will go up to 256 mb, (but it will probly top out at 64mb)

or....

don't waste any money because you need a whole new rig to do it properly.