Graphics Card

tonyduggan

Hello, I'm hoping someone here can help me with this. I recently bought a pc game but it wouldnt work correctly. I got in touch with the manufacturer and was told my graphics card does not support direct X 11, and I need "at least a AMD Radeon 4000, nVidia Geforce 420 or an Intell HD 4000 or better" to run the game.

I am not great with computers, so the above is double dutch to me! Can anyone tell me is this an expensive/difficult process, to get one of the above graphics cards on a computer?

Thanks

uncle_sam_ie

How old is your PC and what are the specs?

tonyduggan

Around 5 years is my guess and what do you mean by specs? Like I said, im not the best with computers!

TerrorFirmer

What is the game?

Go to start, control panel, and system - what does it say for processor and ram?

Then find device manager under system, and let us know what it says under 'display adaptor'.

tonyduggan

Tropico 5.

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @2.67GHz

RAM: 6.00 GB

System Type: 64-bit Operating System, x64-based processor


Display Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GT 220


Hope this makes sense, thanks for your help!

You may need a new motherboard, gpu and cpu.

Gonna guess your ram is ddr2 too.

tonyduggan

All it says beside ram is 6gb. Would what you have said be expensive/worth the hassle for a game?

mordeith

tonyduggan wrote: »

All it says beside ram is 6gb. Would what you have said be expensive/worth the hassle for a game?

Depends on the game. You could pick up a 2nd hand GFX card to meet the minimum specs of the game but without knowing which game exactly it's hard to tell as the mimimum specs can still mean the game is not worth playing at the lower end of things (i.e resolution, frame rate, fx etc.)

tonyduggan

mordeith wrote: »

Depends on the game. You could pick up a 2nd hand GFX card to meet the minimum specs of the game but without knowing which game exactly it's hard to tell as the mimimum specs can still mean the game is not worth playing at the lower end of things (i.e resolution, frame rate, fx etc.)

The game is Tropico 5. It works fine until you actually start a mission. You can see the graphics are alright but theres just black lines shooting everywhere on the scene. Kind of like in this video, but mine is more lines rather than full black out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeF9xUMj0zE

TerrorFirmer

I think virtually any relatively modern 2nd hand graphics card will be fine - something like a HD6670 for around €30 would do the trick.