Hello, all! Mine (see My Computer) is a fine PC - does things quickly and is stable. But, obviously, it's no gaming machine. I'm no gamer either, but now and then I like to do some NFS or BIA... whatever. So, I'd really appreciate to hear some opinions on what I should configure (OS, HW as well as in-game configs; common options that is, of course) and which system parts need to be critically upgraded for me to run some newer games relatively smoothly (like 2005... maybe even some 2006 ones - and doesn't have to be High; Medium-Low will do the trick too ). I've been thinking about some new RAM as the HW update; already took down the quality levels in the nVidia drivers; in-games trying to lower the pixel shader version (ie pixel shader quality) and shadows-particles (smoke and stuff) (texture size/quality has really not such a big impact on the performance, since my GF has 256MB to store it to - the GPUs clock is more the problem) Regards, Edijs
To improve performance, you could install some more RAM if you have the slots available on your motherboard. then, you could consider upgrading your graphics card. A suitable upgrade could be an AGP Geforce 6600GT, or for better performance an ATI X800 AGP version.
