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Allie Genira
Registered User
Join date: 14 Sep 2008
Posts: 9
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09-15-2008 13:49
do i need to do some pc upgrades?
i have a hewlett packard pavillion a230n
2800+ 2.08 ghz amd athlon processor
512 mb
120 gb
nvidia geforce 4mx
just really sucks to crash every few minutes
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Ceera Murakami
Texture Artist / Builder
Join date: 9 Sep 2005
Posts: 7,750
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09-15-2008 13:58
Yes, you need 4 times as much RAM as you have, and most likely a better video card. The card you have now is capable of maybe 14 FPS in an empty sim, and will be dog slow anywhere that is active.
Turn all the video graphics options in Preferences to their minimum values, and you might average 10 FPS.
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Allie Genira
Registered User
Join date: 14 Sep 2008
Posts: 9
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09-15-2008 16:13
ok, but my pc has max. out of 1gb...if i add another 512mb will it be enough?
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Peggy Paperdoll
A Brat
Join date: 15 Apr 2006
Posts: 4,383
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09-15-2008 16:57
A gig of RAM will help. But it won't make your experience in SL much more pleasurable. Your graphics card is quite old and I would venture to say it has no more than 64 megs of video RAM........in order for much of anything to rezz for you in SL your system must make up the lack of video RAM with system RAM. That 1 gig will be eaten up very quickly. The minimum requirements on the website are severely outdated......those are the same requirements I read 3 years ago when I first downloaded and played SL. Though I was quite a bit higher spec'd than the minimum SL taxed my computer to the max (I had an ATI 9250 with 128 megs onboard RAM and 1.5 gigs system RAM on an XP machine). SL is very much more demanding now than then.
The game may play.......but you will have more that your fair share of problems. Sorry to be the barer of bad news.
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Qie Niangao
Coin-operated
Join date: 24 May 2006
Posts: 7,138
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09-15-2008 17:32
I guess another question is what would be the most cost-effective upgrade path. It looks to me that the machine is in the generation that supports AGP graphics cards, which won't be transferable to a new machine, if that's in the planning horizon. So, I'm not sure what other folks would advise here, but I'd just be disinclined to put too much into this box, when an SL-capable replacement wouldn't be that much more money and wouldn't be quite such a dead-end.
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Allie Genira
Registered User
Join date: 14 Sep 2008
Posts: 9
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09-15-2008 17:47
would this machine be ok?
gateway amd phenom 9600 2.30 ghz with vista home
3 gb memory
500 gb
nvidia geforce 8800 gt
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Peggy Paperdoll
A Brat
Join date: 15 Apr 2006
Posts: 4,383
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09-15-2008 17:55
That machine would be good. Just stick with Vista 32 bit. The 64 bit has had a few problems with drivers and SL. Is that "Vista Home" Vista Home Premium? If so you may have to shut off most of the bells and whistles that Microsoft thinks you need by default......but that's easy to do.
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Allie Genira
Registered User
Join date: 14 Sep 2008
Posts: 9
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09-15-2008 18:03
its 64 bit and has vista home premium....will there be issues?
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Peggy Paperdoll
A Brat
Join date: 15 Apr 2006
Posts: 4,383
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09-15-2008 18:13
Search this forum for "Vista 64 bit". There are a number of threads concerning problems with drivers for Vista 64 and SL. I know some have had no issues at all..........but a lot have. Eventually, most problems get resolved with finding a driver that will work.......not necessarily the most recent though.
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