I think my video card sucks

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crazykid48x

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Ok so I strolled into best buy with a pocket full of cash not to long ago and I came back home with this kick ass computer. At first all is well. Everythings good and speedy. Now I noticed that for some reason some games dont work well on my computer. Text and 2d images are screwed up in some of the 3d games i wanna play. Now this is a major problem. All the games work perfectly well on my cousins older computer so I figure its a video card problem. I dont really think the card sucks, I just think its uncompatable with some games. I dont really know much about computers, but is there any software I can download or buy to make my video card work with more stuff? And also how do I check exactly what kind of card I have?
 
to check you card, right click desktop, go to properties, click settings tab, and it's under display
 
Do you know the manufacturer and model number of your computer? (it may say on the side of it).
 
start -> Run -> dxdiag

Give us the system specs you'll find there including driver/DirectX versions.
 
Sory, I really dont know much about computers. Anyway heres the info i found.

My computer is a Emachines T2825
Operating system: Windows XP home Edition
Processor: AMD athalon XP 2600+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.1 GHz
Memory: 480MB RAM
Page File: 263MB used. 860MB free
Directx Version: DirectX9.0c(4.09.0000.0904)
Video card: S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR
video card memory: 32MB
Main Driver:s3gnb.dll version:6.14.0010.0012

Sory if thats too much or not enough info.
 
How much did you pay for that computer? Hopefully not more than a couple hundred bucks.

Your video card is integrated, so yes it does lack performance. However, if it worked fine at first there is obviously something that can be fixed. Have you tried re-installing the video card drivers?
 
4W4K3 said:
Your video card is integrated, so yes it does lack performance. However, if it worked fine at first there is obviously something that can be fixed. Have you tried re-installing the video card drivers?
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Its never worked with some games but it works well with other games. One of the games it doesnt work with is 2D and I couldnt amagine it would require more performance than some of the 3D games that work perfectly well. Thats why I think its a compatability problem.
 
Depending on how much money u have depends on how good your computer will be but if u have 130 dollars to spend/load or w/e u can get a good video card such as this one: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1121824&CatId=0
and upgrading ur ram to 1 gb wouldnt hurt:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=38813

and since u say u dont know much about computers, u can buy this stuff and put it in urself it s very very very very very easy so dont go back to bestbuy and have someone put in a videocard for u for 40 bucks when it takes about a minute, same with the ram.
 
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