help with video card please

we have a video card in the system and it still seems to run a bit slow
the video card we have is nvidia geforce4 mx 4000
with 768 ram

my moms computer we have 256 ram and radeon 7500 series can you help please thank you

will look into what ever your suggestions are just want my computer to run second life better ty

1. Give computer stats for us to help you better

2. throw away that gforce MX 400 card (not 4000 there is no such card)

3. Assuming you gave the correct Ram amount i would suggest getting at least 1 gig

4. Take the Radeon card out of mom's computer and put it in yours.

5. If you live with your parents you are a. younger than 18 and shouldnt be playing SL or b. stuck in a rut and can't afford to move out in wich case this brings me to 6.

6. Sell everything you own to get a better computer preferably with out an ATI video card since SL seems to have problems with the radeon cards.

Chears.

That ATI 7500 vid card is not supported by LL. SL will not run on anything less than an ATI 8000 series card. I've actually tried running 7000 series cards, and SL always crashed back to desktop.

If money is an issue, consider a Nvidia based 5200 card. Its faster than the MX 400 and fairly cheap these days.

Just to clear some things up.
First ATI makes Radeon they aren't seperate. Second I believe Teeny Leviathan is correct in that ATI has had long standing issues with SL. They continue to keep fixing problems but some cards simply aren't supported. If you go with either A) a card that is above the ATI 8000 series (I have an ATI Radeon 9700 and it works) or B) get an appropriate nvidia, look for 8X AGP 128MB ram or more. Your computer should have at least 512MB ram if not more. Let me quote something from the town hall the other day that might help. cory talked about both the ATI issue and the performance issue

Cory Linden: J. Our favorite technology partner: ATI
Cory Linden: We're actually hiring some folks to help ensure that ATI gets a complete bug report every week.
Cory Linden: As those of you who've been around for a while know, it has always been that right about when ATI has fixed all of their SL related issues that they release a new driver which borks us.
Cory Linden: If you have bugs, please first make sure that you have the most up-to-date drivers and then send in those bug reports.
Cory Linden: It looks like the new PCIe cards in particular have "issues" and I'll let you know more as I do
(later on)
Cory Linden: Oh, and to emphasize this, if you have ATI problems, that's high on my priority queue right now, so please enter bugs and screen shots.

(about performance)
Cory Linden: There are two primary causes of lag: viewer performance and simulator performance.
Cory Linden: Viewer performance is related to your CPU, RAM and GPU, your viewer settings, how much stuff (especially avatars with lots of attachments) is in view, your bandwidth settings, and packet loss.
Cory Linden: Simulator performance is linked to Havok performance, number of avatars, number of scripts, and packet loss to specific viewers.
Cory Linden: Attachments have ended up eating up more viewer performance (and, when they have scripts, simulator performance) than we expected. We have already fixed some of the problems and will continue to hammer down high nails.
Cory Linden: Certain viewer settings, in particular local lighting and shadows, can really slow your viewer down.
Cory Linden: 30 - 40 dancing avatars puts a lot of load on all parts of the system, especially when they have lots of attachments and scripts. Our next generation engine will greatly improve these problems, but that won't be until next year.

Or he's someone like me. Staying at my parents' house through college let me finish without taking out any loans.