Hello!

[Mister X]

This is my very first post on any type of Battlefield 2 forum! I took about a two month long break from the game (~October-Late December)I have played the game since EA launched the demo, and my first post also contains a question.

I have pretty decent HP desktop. I got it back in April-May. It came with a gigabyte of RAM, A 3.00 GHz Pentium IV, and an 80 GB hard drive. The card that I bought with it was an NVidia Geforce FX 5500. For some strange reason, my computer's motherboard did not come with an AGP slot, so I have to stick with a PCI for now. I am going video card hunting at Best Buy tomorrow, and I have a $200-$250 budget. Can any of you give me any recommendations on a decent NVidia PCI card that can allow me to run the game comfortably above 800x600 at all the low settings? (preferrably 1024x1280 at all mediums or higher, with a good frame rate)

[DeathFromAbove]

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Welcome! Well no other PCI video card is going to be better than what you have now.

[Mister X]

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This card is probably 3/4 of a year to a year old. Wouldn't something better and faster be out?

[DeathFromAbove]

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nope nothing faster in PCI unless it's PCI-e

[Mister X]

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Is it possible that my computer could be PCI-Express Compatible? I mean, it's pretty weird that it didn't come with an AGP slot in the motherboard...

[DeathFromAbove]

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What HP model is it?

[Mister X]

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HP Pavilion a1034n

[DeathFromAbove]

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Then I don't think it does but you could double check.You do know how to open the case right?

[Mister X]

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Yes.

[DeathFromAbove]

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The check if you have a slot that looks like the black one





It does not have to be black, if they all look like the white ones in the picture then you only have PCI.

[Mister X]

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The situation looks grim...I only saw 1 or 2 white slots. Is there anything I can do to boost my performance? It is a little choppy playing even on 800x600@75, with all settings to low. I am going to update my video card drivers, haven't done that in ages.

[<DV8>mrbucket]

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He means look at the board and the slots. Not colors, see how the smaller slots (white) have the bar on the right , in the middle of the slot? And the black one has the bar to the left? Black and bar to the left is PCI-E, thats what your looking for. I'm assuming you have PCI-E, mosty pc's sold now have that slot.

[DeathFromAbove]

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It says it has 3 PCI slots not AGP and doesn't say nothing about PCI-e

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?dlc=en&softwareitem=pv-29786-1&lc=en&product=460075&os=228&cc=us&docname=c00361570

[DrunkenPirate]

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I searched too and the board (PTGD-LA) has 3 tsandard PCI slots only (!!!)

[Neuway]

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well welcome to the forums :) and we hope you like it here